Manuscripts in the making / edited by Stella Panayotova & Paola Ricciardi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Panayotova, Stella, editor.

Ricciardi, Paola, 1979- editor.

Fitzwilliam Museum, host institution.

Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Congresses.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance--Congresses.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; illustrations (chiefly color), facsims. ; 29 cm.

Other Title:

Art and science

Place of Publication:

London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller, 2017-2018.

Summary:

This publication presents the papers delivered at the international Conference held in Cambridge in December 2016 to mark the end of the Fitzwilliam Museum's acclaimed bicentenary exhibition COLOUR: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS. It is the first of two volumes in which medievalists and scientists share the results of their research, and combine here to elucidate both the materials and techniques of production of illuminated manuscripts, as well as the artists? collaboration and their aesthetic objectives. Of the 34 papers given at the proceedings, 17 are included in the present volume covering scientific analyses of West European, Byzantine and Islamic manuscripts, Colour and Pigment Studies, Painting Techniques and Workshop Practices, as well as details of the latest scientific techniques and instruments employed for these non-invasive and non-destructive investigations into the delicate manuscripts. The texts are accompanied by over 200 illustrations as well as explanatory tables and diagrams.

Contents:

Volume 1. Western European manuscripts: The art and the pigments: a study of four insular Gospel books in the library of Trinity College Dublin / Susie Bioletti and Rachel Moss

Colour at Canterbury: the pigments of Canterbury illuminators from the tenth to the twelfth centuries / Andrew Beeby, Richard Gameson and Catherine Nicholson

Seeing red: the use of "gules" in the pictorial imagery of fourteenth-century English manuscripts / Lucy Freeman Sandler

Illuminators' materials and techniques in fourteenth-century English manuscripts / Stella Panayotova, Lucia Pereira Pardo and Paola Ricciardi

The Vadiana Rudolf of Ems: painting technique and workshop practices in early fourteenth-century Zurich / Doris Oltrogge and Robert Fuchs

Dyers, weavers and illuminators: evidence from the Florentine Ordinamenti e matricola della Compagnia di sant'Onofrio (1338) / Bryan Keene

Making the Cardinal's missal: looking anew at the circle of Lorenzo Monaco and the illuminators of Fitzwilliam MS 30 / Éowyn Kerr-Di Carlo

Fra Angelico and his circle: the materials and techniques of book illumination / Magnolia Scudieri and Marcello Picollo

The peripatetic activity of Thomas Tresswell, London stationer (fl. c.1440-1470) / Holly James-Maddocks

Colour versus gold: disgruntled digressions in a late medieval workshop / Nicholas Herman

Tours 1500 / Roger S. Wieck

Painting materials in the Fitzwilliam Book of hours: new discoveries / Paola Ricciardi and Stella Panayotova

Byzantine manuscripts: Colours and pigments in the miniatures of the illuminated Book of Job at the Monastery of St John the Theologian, Patmos / Hariclia Brecoulaki, Sophia Sotiropoulou, Vicky Kantarelou and Ioannis Melianos

Technical analysis of a Byzantine lectionary from the Ivan Duichev Centre / Nikifor Haralampiev, Joy Mazurek, Catherine Schmidt Patterson, Dafne Cimino, Jo Kirby, David Peggie and Lucretia Miu

New discoveries in the painting materials in the medieval Mediterranean: connections between manuscript illumination and glass technology during the Byzantine era, c.1100-1300 / Nancy K. Turner and Catherine Schmidt Patterson

Islamic manuscripts: The origins and modifications of the Blue Qur'an / Marcus Fraser

Colour in the Great Mongol Shahnama / Robert Hillenbrand.

Volume 2. Vision, colour and meaning: Windows, light and worldly space in Italian Annunciation imagery around 1300 / Donal Cooper

Robert Grosseteste's De iride and its Addendum in the Vatican manuscript Barb. Lat. 165: transmission, reception, meaning / Greti Dinkova-Bruun and Cecilia Panti

Seeing a pink elephant: creating meaning through colour in the Medieval bestiary / Elizabeth Morrison

The colours of Fortune / Deirdre Jackson

Illuminators' materials: Recipes and reception: late Mediaeval English colour

recipes and amateur illuminators / Mark Clarke

Looking for lichen, fooled by folium and tricked by tyrian: a brief tour and new research on purple in manuscripts / Cheryl Porter, Maurizio Aceto, Elisa Calà, Angelo Agostino, Gaia Fenoglio, Ambra Idone and Monica Gulmini

Reflecting a heavenly light: gold and other metals in Medieval and Renaissance manuscript illumination / Nancy Turner

Gold or brass, silver or tin: the analysis of metals in Medieval book illumination / Robert Fuchs

Pigmenta: materials for writing, painting and healing / Lea Olsan

The use of copper sulphates in sixteenth-century Flemish illumination: Simon Bening as a case study / Giulia Bertolotti and Paola Ricciardi

Analytical techniques: Between tradition and innovation: giving light to a visionary text in the Lorvão Beatus / Maria João Melo, Maria Adelaide Miranda, Rita Castro, João Lopes and Jorge Sarraguça

Scientific study of Cistercian illuminated manuscripts: techniques, aesthetics and religion / Catarina Miguel, Angela Nuñez-Gáitan, Maria Luisa Carvalho and Cristina Barrocas-Diasa

Mapping and identification of the pigments used in two illuminations from the Laudario of Sant'Agnese attributed to the Master of the Dominican Effigies / John K. Delaney, Kathryn Dooley, Damon Conover, Lisha Glinsman, Giorgio Trumpy and Michelle Facini

The benefits of scanning illuminated manuscripts with MA-XRF and MA-rFTIR / Stijn Legrand, Paola Ricciardi and Koen Janssens

Restoration and forgery: The Psalter-Hours of Isabelle of France in the nineteenth century / Stella Panayotova

The Spanish Forger exposed: an interdisciplinary study of two of his paintings / Christina Currie, Steven Saverwyns and Dominique Vanwijnsberghe.

Volume 1. Art & science.

Notes:

Papers delivered at the international conference held in Cambridge in Dec. 8-10, 2016, in conjunction with the Fitzwilliam Museum's bicentenary exhibition "Colour : the art and science of illuminated manuscripts" (30 July 2016-2 Jan. 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781912554133

9781909400108

1909400106

1912554135

OCLC:

1111649824

Publisher Number:

99995428170