The Lichtenthal psalter and the manuscript patronage of the Bohun family
By: Lucy Freeman Sandler.
Contributors: Zisterzienserinnen-Abtei Lichtenthal.
Publisher: Harvey Miller
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Bohun family -- Art patronage.; Lichtenthal psalter.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, English -- 14th century.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- England.; Psalters -- Illustrations.
Description: "The recent discovery of an unknown fourteenth-century English manuscript in a German Cistercian convent has brought to light an exquisite, richly illustrated psalter, which is analysed and illustrated here for the first time. Although this remarkable find in Lichtenthal Abbey, near Baden-Baden, had been identified as belonging to a group of manuscripts associated with the prominent and royally-connected Bohun family, neither its illustrations nor its relationship to other Bohun manuscripts had until now been fully explored." "In tracing the history of the Bohun family and their manuscript patronage, Professor Sandler places the Lichtenthal Psalter as a product of the 1380s in company with three other psalters of similar format, each produced by the closely knit group of scribes and artists who worked in the Bohun family residence at Pleshey Castle in Essex. She describes in detail the contents of the manuscript, its text and decoration, and offers evocative descriptions and penetrating interpretations of the meticulously depicted images that illustrate the Calendar, the Psalms, and the Office of the Cross." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-174) and index.
Genealogical tables on lining papers.