Making the renaissance manuscript : discoveries from Philadelphia libraries / Nicholas Herman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herman, Nicholas, author, curator.

Contributor:

Fisher, Janice, copy editor.

Gottschalk, Andrea, designer, typographer.

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts (University of Pennsylvania), issuing body.

University of Pennsylvania. Libraries, publishers.

Bryn Mawr College. Library, contributor.

College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library, contributor.

Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department, contributor.

La Salle University, contributor.

Lehigh University. Library, contributor.

Philadelphia Museum of Art. Department of Prints and Drawings, contributor.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, contributor.

Temple University. Library, contributor.

Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Renaissance--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Exhibitions.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Manuscripts, Renaissance--Europe--History--Exhibitions.

History.

Europe.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- ITC Isadora.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Adobe Caslon Pro.

Physical Description:

ix unnumbered pages, x-xv pages, xvi unnumbered pages, 333 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Exton, PA : Brilliant.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020.

Summary:

"Making the Renaissance Manuscript examines the making of the handwritten and hand-illuminated book during a time of great political, religious, and technological transformation in Europe. Through approximately forty loans from eight regional institutions, as well another forty items from Penn's own collections, this catalogue examines the full intellectual and artistic depth of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through a varied selection of extraordinary manuscirpts, cuttings and incunables, from the Philadelphia region." -- front cover flap.

Contents:

Lenders to the exhibtion

Note to the reader

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction: "To Hold the Renaissance in Our Hands"

Material present: collecting late medieval and early modern objects in (and around) Philadelphia

Making the renaissance manuscript: catalogue

Crafting the Codex

Authors , patrons, and bibliophiles

The humanist scribe at work

All'antica: between ornament and display

From pen to press and back again

Showcasing salvation

Devotion by design

Innovating for the liturgy

Prayer, sermon, and song

Transmitting knowledge

Recasting Roman history

Greek scholarship reborn

The trivium: grammar, rhetoric, and logic

The quadrivium

arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music

Politics, economics, and the merchant class - Tradition and innovation in medicine

Navigating a new world

Reference list

Index of manuscripts cited.

Notes:

"© 2020 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania All rights reserved" -- title page verso.

Includes half-title page.

"Published in conjunction with an exhibition in the Goldstein Family Gallery Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center On exhibit 10 February-19 May 2020" -- title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780990448761

0990448762

OCLC:

1140400060