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| Genre/Form: | Illustrations |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Stahl, Harvey. Picturing kingship. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2008 (OCoLC)609195112 |
| Named Person: | Louis, King of France |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Harvey Stahl |
| ISBN: | 9780271028637 0271028637 |
| OCLC Number: | 137324988 |
| Description: | xiv, 371 p., [72] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: the manuscript and its history -- The physical manuscript -- The artists and their paintings -- Constructions and readings -- Psalters and the Old Testament -- A royal program -- Conclusion: the King and his psalter -- Appendixes: Description -- Legends -- The calendar (folios 79r-84v) -- Text signatures and catchwords -- Concordance of attributions -- The previous binding and its textile covering -- Prefatory miniatures: working groups with physical variables -- Bibliography. |
| Responsibility: | Harvey Stahl. |
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"Harvey Stahl's posthumous study of the St. Louis Psalter promises to take its place as one of the finest monographs ever published on a medieval illuminated manuscript. The psalter provided the backbone of the liturgy and the primary vehicle of private prayer and study before the Book of Hours. One of the best-known manuscripts of the entire Middle Ages, St. Louis's psalter is also, astonishingly, among the least studied. Stahl's monograph considers all aspects of the manuscript, from its codicology to its content. Above all, he expands our notion of the expressive and visual capacity of thirteenth-century illumination, which too often is dismissed as stylized mannerism. This is a glorious book on a glorious manuscript." - Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University" Read more...
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- Psalters -- Illustrations.
- Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts -- Illustrations.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, French.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic -- France.
- Psautier de saint Louis.
- Louis -- IX, -- King of France, -- 1214-1270.
- Bibliothèque nationale (France)
- Geïllustreerde handschriften.
- Psalters.
- Paris -- Bibliothèque Nationale de France -- Psalter -- Ms. lat. 1025.

