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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Scott, Kathleen L. Tradition and innovation in later medieval English manuscripts. London [England] : British Library, 2007 (OCoLC)608347695 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kathleen L Scott |
| ISBN: | 9780712349369 0712349367 |
| OCLC Number: | 76935951 |
| Notes: | "Based on Kathleen Scott's 2004 Lyell lectures at Oxford"--Jacket. |
| Description: | xiii, 194 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface vii; Introduction ix; Abbreviations and Abbreviated Titles xii; I An English Modelbook for Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla litteralis 1; 11 The Enigma of All Souls 10 33 III The Unique Pictorial 'Afterpiece' to the Abbey of the Holy Ghost in BL Stowe MS 39 61; 1V The Genealogical Genre: BL Royal MS I.B.x 87; A Gothic Episode in the Renaissance: BL Additional MS 21974, Longland's Pontifical Book of Benedictions 119; V1 Conclusions 141; Notes 149; Appendix A 178; Appendix B 179; Appendix C 184; Appendix D 185; Appendix E 186; Appendix F 190; Index of Manuscripts 191. |
| Responsibility: | Kathleen L. Scott. |
Abstract:
Examines a number of English manuscripts of the 15th and early 16th centuries which make a contribution to art history in this period. This volume offers an investigation of motives for including pictures in manuscripts, of the role of the author in illustration, and of the traditional nature of visual representation in medieval manuscripts.
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"With few exceptions, late-medieval book decoration of English execution or use has attracted very little critical attention. . . . [Kathleen] Scott is the only scholar ever to have surveyed the bulk of the surviving material, and her work in the field has been consistently of a pioneering character. "Tradition and Innovation" is thoroughly in that vein. . . . A lucid sense of what will interest a historically minded audience . . . contributes heavily to an important, readable, and handsomely produced book."--Julian M. Luxford "Speculum " Read more...
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