Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
By: Lieve Watteeuw & Catherine Reynolds ; edited by Jan Van der Stock
Contributors: Reynolds, Catherine, author; Stock, Jan van der, editor; Museum Plantin-Moretus
Series: Corpus of illuminated manuscripts -- volume 20. Low countries ser. ; -- 15; Corpus of illuminated manuscripts -- v. 20.; Corpus of illuminated manuscripts -- 15.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Paris; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9789042929159
Subjects: Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts; Medieval Manuscripts; Catalogs; Museum Plantin-Moretus
Description: In this beautifully produced catalogue, each of the 102 volumes is illustrated in colour, with more extensive coverage of the 55 volumes with the most rewarding illumination. For the first time it is possible to gauge the extent and nature of this fascinating and under-explored collection, still housed in the building on the Vrijdagmarkt in Antwerp to which Plantin moved his famous sign of the Golden Compasses in 1576--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and indexes.