Dated & Datable English Manuscript Borders C. 1395-1499 - Couverture souple

Scott, Kathleen L.

 
9780712347426: Dated & Datable English Manuscript Borders C. 1395-1499

Synopsis

Apart from illustrations, borders are the most important - and most frequent - element of decoration in late medieval English manuscripts. Borders alter in style at a quicker chronological pace than the work of scribes, and systematic analysis and comparison allow a researcher more accuracy in dating a manuscript than other means. At the same time, a sense of the hierarchy of borders is advantageous to the scholar who is seeking to understand the medieval response to a given text. Yet up until now borders have received little detailed study, this work offers a presentation of a century of English manuscripts, illustrated with 50 key images.

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Apart from illustrations, borders are the most important - and most frequent - element of decoration in late medieval English manuscripts. Borders alter in style at a quicker chronological pace than the work of scribes, and systematic analysis and comparison allow a researcher more accuracy in dating a manuscript than other means. At the same time, a sense of the hierarchy of borders is advantageous to the scholar who is seeking to understand the medieval response to a given text. Yet up until now borders have received little detailed study, this work offers a presentation of a century of English manuscripts, illustrated with 50 key images.

Revue de presse

Immensely useful guide to daateable late medieval English manuscript boarders, written by one of the leading experts ...We are left only wanting more from this handbook. --Bibliographical Society of America

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ISBN 10 :  0948170123 ISBN 13 :  9780948170126
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