Beyond words illuminated manuscripts in Boston collections

Published in conjunction with a collaborative exhibition of the same name held in 2016 and 2017 at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University's Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions...

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Körperschaften:	McMullen Museum of Art (Herausgebendes Organ), Houghton Library (Gastgebende Institution), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Gastgebende Institution)
Weitere Verfasser:	Hamburger, Jeffrey F. (HerausgeberIn), Stoneman, William P. (HerausgeberIn), Eze, Anne-Marie (HerausgeberIn), Davis, Lisa Fagin (HerausgeberIn), Netzer, Nancy (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:	eng
Veröffentlicht:	Chicago University of Chicago Press 2016 Chestnut Hill, Mass. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College 2016
Schlagworte:	Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance > Illumination of books and manuscripts > Ausstellungskatalog > Houghton Library > McMullen Museum of Art > Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum > Illuminierte Handschrift
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Zusammenfassung:	Published in conjunction with a collaborative exhibition of the same name held in 2016 and 2017 at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University's Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, this catalog provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. Entries by eighty-five international experts document, discuss, and reproduce more than two hundred and sixty manuscripts and early printed books, many of them little known before now. Beyond Words also explores the history of collecting such books in Boston, an uncharted chapter in the history of American taste. Of broad appeal to scholars and amateur enthusiasts alike, this catalog documents one of the most ambitious exhibitions of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts ever to take place in North America Illuminating the Charles: collecting manuscripts in Boston -- I. Harvard University, Houghton Library. Manuscripts from church & cloister: The monastic scriptorium ; Authors & readers ; Guides for good living ; Songs of praise -- II. Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art. Manuscripts for pleasure & piety: Making & meaning ; Holy writ ; Before the book of hours: the Psalter & other prayer books ; Minding time: books of hours ; Love & death: the art of devotion ; Public worship ; The rise of the professions: medicine & law ; Secular pleasures: edification & entertainment -- III. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Italian Renaissance books: The Florentine humanist book ; Italian princely libraries ; Manuscripts of the classics ; Humanist texts ; Renaissance liturgical books ; Italian books of hours ; Book decoration & the advent of printing
Beschreibung:	Rückseite der Titelseite: "This catalogue is published by the McMullen Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections at the Houghton Library, Harvard University (September 12-December 10, 2016), McMullen Museum of Art, Bosotn College (September 12-December 11, 2016), and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (September 22, 2016-January 16, 2017)."
Beschreibung:	374 Seiten Illustrationen 32 cm
ISBN:	1892850265 1-892850-26-5 9781892850263 978-1-892850-26-3 9781892850287 978-1-892850-28-7