Historical introduction to the collection of illuminated letters and borders in the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher: Printed for H.M. Stationery Off. by Eyre and Spottiswoode
Published: 1901
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Prefatory remarks 3; title: I. Illumination under the early Roman Emperors 7; title: II. Application of illumination to Christian art 12; title: III. Byzantine miniature art 17; title: IV. Celtic and other early styles 35; title: V. Carolingian illuminations 54; title: VI. The Winchester school, or "Opus Anglicum" 78; title: Appendix on Handwritings 83; title: VII. Othonian and other contemporary monastic work 92; title: The rise of Gothic illumination 105; title: VIII. French illumination and its offshoots 112; title: IX. German illumination 124; title: X. Italian illumination 139; title: XI. English illumination 154; title: XII. Netherlandish illumination 163; title: XIII. Illumination since the invention of printing 171; title: List of recent works on illumination 179; title: LIST OF PLATES; title: 1. Gothic initial P. French, 12th cent.; title: 2. Page from a Bible. French (Artois), 14th cent.; title: 3. Page of a missal. French (St. Denis, near Paris), c. 1400.; title: 4. Page of a book of hours. French (Toms ?), 15th cent.; title: 5. Page of a book of psalms and canticles. German, 12th cent.; title: 6. Initial P. German (Rhenish), c. 1280.; title: 7. Page from a choir-book. German, c. 1380.; title: 8. Frontispiece from a choir-book. German (Augsburg), 1494-95.; title: 9. Page of a missal. Italian (Florence), 15th cent, (1st half).; title: 10. Page of a lectionary. Italian, 15th cent.; title: 11. Page from a choir-book. Italian (Florence), 15th cent.; title: 12. Page of Pliny : De naturali historia. Italian, c. 1470.; title: 13. Altar-card attributed to Gr. Clovio. Italian, c. 1550.; title: 14. 2 initials B in a Bible, Winchester Cathedral. English, 12th cent.; title: 15. Unfinished initial L, in same Bible as 14. J (2nd half).; title: 16. Page of a service-book, Worcester Cathedral. English, early 14th cent.; title: 17. Page from a choir-book. Netherlandish (Zwolle ?) c. 1400-1450.; title: 18. Page of a book of hours. Netherlandish, 15th cent.; title: 19. Page from Livy : Historiarum decades, printed at Rome, 1469.; title: PI. 1, 2, 6-8, 11, 17, 18 are reproduced from cuttings, and PI. 3-5, 9, 10, 12, 18 from manuscripts in the National Art Library. The altar-card illustrated in PI. 13 also belongs to the library. PI. 14-16 are from official photographs.