Renaissance Manuscripts: The Sixteenth Century: 4 (Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France) - Image 1

£201.80

Harvey Miller Renaissance Manuscripts: The Sixteenth Century: 4 (Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France)

Name: Renaissance Manuscripts: The Sixteenth Century: 4 (Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France)
Brand: Harvey Miller
Price: 201.8 GBP
Availability: InStock

Renaissance

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£202 today · previous high £202 · all-time low £202

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 62 days • 62 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 62 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £202 (62 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £202 - £202

Price levels: 1 different prices over 62 days

Description

This publication is the first comprehensive survey to establish the importance of Renaissance manuscript illumination in the history of sixteenth-century French art. Although illustrated printed books were circulating freely by the beginning of the sixteenth century, patronage of manuscripts became all the more special to the ruling elite, and commissions from the court, aristocratic circles and the higher clergy resulted in a surge of artistic creativity that produced a wide range of outstanding illustrated works from devotional books to translations of classical and humanistic texts. While continuing the tradition of French figurative art, ornamentation became a major element in the style of the period, with frames and borders becoming a significant feature of the aesthetic impact of the illuminated page. One hundred manuscripts have been chosen for this survey to represent the artistic excellence of French book production of the period, as well as to demonstrate the stylistic relationships between artists and between books that may be seen to form distinct groups. Many years of research enabled the author to identify the hands of individual illuminators, both named and anonymous, and to connect these to a particular artistic milieu or regional group. Moreover, not only are the stylistic aspects of the manuscripts analysed, but entirely new information regarding authorship, patronage and historical context are revealed here of hitherto unstudied material. The author, Myra Orth, completed her catalogue and introductory texts shortly before her sad death some years ago. Since that time, a number of scholars - specialists in French manuscripts studies of the period - have helped to update the literature that has more recently appeared relating to the manuscripts catalogued and to the individual artists and workshops discussed. Present locations of manuscripts that may have changed ownership since Dr Orth's submission of her work have also been noted. To accompany the detailed catalogue, the publication includes a corpus of 360 illustrations that offers a significant visual conspectus of manuscript illumination of the period. In addition to the introductory text, the author also provides brief biographies of Artists and Scribes, Authors and Translators, and Patrons and Dedicatees.

Product Specifications

Brand: Harvey Miller
Format: hardcover
Pack Size: 2 items
ASIN: 1872501303
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Renaissance
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 25 March 2016
Listed Since: 10 December 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

Harvey Miller Renaissance Manuscripts: The Sixteenth Century: 4 (Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320: 1260-1320. Part One: 3.1 (A survey of manuscripts illuminated in France)

Gothic Manuscripts: 1260-1320. Part Two

Women and Writing, c.1340-c.1650: The Domestication of Print Culture (Manuscript Culture in the British Isles)

Manuscript Illumination in Lyons (1473-1530) (Ars Nova): 3

Routledge - Book and Text in France, 1400-1600: Poetry on the Page

A Cultural History of Ideas in the Renaissance (The Cultural Histories Series)

Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England (Material Readings in Early Modern Culture)

The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: Texts, Owners and Readers (Manuscript Culture in the British Isles)

Judaeo-Christian Intellectual Culture in the Seventeenth Century: A Celebration of the Library of Narcissus Marsh (1638–1713): 163 (International ... internationales d'histoire des idées, 163)

Bio-bibliographisches Repertorium (Bio-bibliographisches Repertorium: Band 1)

Oxford College Libraries Fasc I: All Souls - Lincoln: 8 (Index of Images in English Manuscripts from Chaucer to Henry)

Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge, Part Two 2 Volume Set: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula (Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula in Cambridge)

Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England (Variorum Collected Studies)

Medieval Texts and Images: Studies of Manuscripts from the Middle Ages: 32 (Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World)

The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500 (Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture)

Visual Translation: Illuminated Manuscripts and the First French Humanists (Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies)

Routledge Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing Book

Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain (Material Texts)

Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments: The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Merton College, Oxford: with a description of the Greek Manuscripts by N. G. Wilson

Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor (Stanford Text Technologies)

Fra Francesc Moner’s Bilingual Poetics of Love and Reason: The «Wisdom Text» by a Catalan Writer of the Early Renaissance: 173 (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures)

Piety in Pieces: How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts

Edexcel GCSE History: Medicine in Britain, c1250-present Complete Revision and Practice (Exams from 2026) (Oxford Revise: History)