Western Illuminated Manuscripts (manuscripts In The National Art Library, V&a, From The Eleventh To The Early Twentieth Century)

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By (author) Rowan Watson; By (author) Watson Rowan

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This catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the V&A”s National Art Library provides a history of an art form over eight centuries. It documents not only the practice of medieval and Renaissance illumination, but also the survival of medieval book-making crafts alongside printing in the post-Renaissance period.

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This catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the V&A”s National Art Library provides a history of an art form over eight centuries.

It documents not only the practice of medieval and Renaissance illumination, but also the survival of medieval book-making crafts alongside printing in the post-Renaissance period -and their revival in the nineteenth-century. Its three volumes bring together for the first time works such as the St Denis Missal of 1350 and the Chambord Missal of 1844, the Sanvito Petrarch of 1463-64 and William Morris”s Book of Verse of 1870. Catalogue s discuss in detail each work, and pay particular attention to the changing ways in which they have been evaluated and used through the centuries.

Biographical note:
Rowan Watson is a Senior Curator in the National Art Library, part of the Word & Image Department at the V&A. He is the author of Illuminated Manuscripts and their Makers (V&A 2003) and co-author of Blood on Paper (V&A 2008).