Illuminated Ornaments: Selected from Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Sixth to the Seventeenth CenturiesWilliam Pickering, 1833 - 18 pagine "In the same vein, Beckwith comments: the first of many British 19th-century studies of illuminated manuscripts, such books opened the public's eyes to the aesthetic and historical value of manuscript arts. The format was a model for 19th-century studies of the history and methods of illumination, a landmark in the diffusion of information about manuscript arts and their history and made a significant contribution to Victorian bibliomania. This may in fact be the very first book on illumination and its history to have color plates, and can certainly be said to have had a profound influence on early Victorian taste in and appreciation of illuminated manuscripts."--Abebooks. |
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15th cent argent arms artist azure beautiful Bodleian Library book of Joshua border and initial border of flowers Borders from Latin British Museum British Museum Royal Burgundy capital letters Chancery Lane Charles Charles the Bald coat commencement containing copy Decameron Dibdin double columns Duke Duke of Burgundy earl Edward elegant Elizabeth of York emblasoned England engraved examples executed fac-simile from Latin figures folio volume France Francis Douce Gospels Greek gules Hanrott Harl Harleian collection Harleian Library Henry initial letters introduced king large folio large illumination letters and fac-simile London Pub Ludovico Maria Sforza Madeley Madeley Wellington magnificent manuscripts miniatures Missal monastery painting period Pickering Chancery Lane plate pofsefsion portraits prefixed present preserved printed on vellum Psalter purple quarterly royal library Saxon Sforza sixth century specimen style translation Valerius Maximus Virgin W. Y. Ottley written and illuminated written on vellum
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Pagina 3 - ... period of remote antiquity ; and although there are no instances of its use in the Egyptian papyri, yet it is not unreasonable to believe that the Greeks acquired from Egypt or India the art of ornamenting manuscripts thus, which they, probably, conveyed to the Romans.
Pagina 12 - France, in which appear large initial letters of purple, red, and gold, containing figures of men and animals, and terminating in spiral scrolls, which extend along the upper and lower margins of the volume — often supporting small groups or single figures of dogs, hares, apes, &c.
Pagina 8 - MSS. of other nations. The most convincing proof of the skill of the artists of this school may be seen in the celebrated Durham Book of the eighth century, from which a specimen is given in the present work. Similar to this must have been the copy of the Gospels seen at Kildare, in the twelfth century, by Giraldus Cambrensis, supposed to have been written in the sixth century. The traveller speaks of it with rapture, and describes its paintings and ornaments, ' tarn delicatas et subtiles, tarn actas...
Pagina 5 - England at the close of the seventh century, when Wilfrid, archbishop of York, enriched his church with a copy of the Gospels thus adorned; and it is described by his biographer, Eddius (who lived at that period or shortly after), as 'inauditum ante seculis nostris quoddam miraculum,' — almost a miracle, and before that time unheard of in this part of the world.
Pagina 5 - Manuscripts written in letters of gold on white vellum, are chiefly confined to the 8th, 9th, and 10th centuries. Of these, the Bible and Hours of Charles the Bald, preserved in the Royal Library, at Paris, and the Gospels of the Harleian collection, No. 2788, are probably the finest examples extant. In England the art of writing in gold seems to have been but imperfectly understood...
Pagina 8 - ... of knots in a diagonal or square form ; sometimes interwoven with animals, and terminating in heads of serpents or birds. So highly esteemed was this branch of learning and art in combination, that the attention of men of science was directed to the method of preparing gold for the gold writing, and we possess more than one of their receipts. For example :
Pagina 15 - Julio Romano, and Julio Clovio, and the numerous libraries formed during the latter half of the preceding century gave a stimulus to the success of these distinguished men. Miniature painting received a new degree of lustre and dignity from its having been practised by artists who were also renowned for works executed on a grander scale. Of these artists the one who rose to the highest degree of eminence as an illuminator of missals, and who seems never to have been surpassed, was Julio Clovio. His...