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The art & science of illuminated manuscripts: a handbook / edited by Stella Panayotova.
Fine Arts Library ND2900 .A78 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Manuscripts in the making ; 3.
- [Manuscripts in the making (HMMIMA) ; 3]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, European.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Russian.
- Art, European--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Art, European.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 528 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps ; 27 cm.
- Other Title:
- Art and science of illuminated manuscripts: a handbook
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers, 2020.
- Summary:
- "This book is designed to provide a guide for art historians, conservators and manuscript scholars to understand and support the increasingly popular cross-disciplinary research efforts focused on non-invasive scientific analyses of illuminated manuscripts. The results achieved by the research of the pioneering MINIARE research project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge led to the ground-breaking and acclaimed 2016 exhibition "COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts." This was followed by an international Conference, in which art historians, paper and book conservators, and cultural heritage scientists were brought together to share new recent research not only on manuscripts but also on painting in other media. The Conference proceedings were published in the first two volumes of the HMMIMA series (2017-2018). The present publication includes 6 Essays by way of introducing and explaining the major topics being investigated, including the range of inks, pigments and paint binders used by illuminators; parchment-making; pigment recipes; and model books. The many analytical instruments and techniques that are used to investigate manuscripts are also discussed. Then follow 58 Case Studies of manuscripts from as early as the year 700 up to c.1600. All these are fully illustrated in colour and in great detail, and should act as examples to inform scholars in libraries, museums and other cultural institutions of the benefits of adding scientific tools to the range of methods used to investigate manuscripts."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Essay 1 Introduction: The Integrated Analyses of Illuminated Manuscripts / Stella Panayotova
- Essay 2 Pigment Recipes and Model Books: Mechanisms for Knowledge Transmission and the Training of Manuscript Illuminators / Doris Oltrogge
- Essay 3 Science of the Book: Analytical Methods for the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts / Catherine Schmidt Patterson
- Essay 4 From Pelt to Painted Page: Western Medieval Manuscript Parchments / Edward Cheese
- Essay 5 Painting Materials and Techniques in Byzantine and Slavonic Illuminated Manuscripts, C.800-C.1500 / Elina Dobrynina
- Essay 6 Painting Materials and Techniques in Western Illuminated Manuscripts C.600-C.1600 / Stella Panayotova.
- Notes:
- Series information from Brepols website, viewed February 23, 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-528) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781912554591
- 1912554593
- OCLC:
- 1151887638
- Publisher Number:
- 99989752640
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