Author: Backhouse, Janet
Title: The illuminated page. Ten centuries of manuscript painting in the British Library.
Description: Toronto University of Toronto Press 1997 Bound, cloth with original dustjacket (protected with removable cellophane), 240pp., 23x30cm., richly illustr. in col., in very good condition. As new. ISBN 9780802043467. Illuminated manuscripts are among the richest and most revealing relics of the pre-print Western world, and are central to our understanding of medieval social and cultural history. The British Library boasts the world's finest collection of medieval manuscripts, and in this new and lavishly illustrated survey, Janet Backhouse draws on these collections to provide a comprehensive introduction to these exciting and colourful materials. The manuscripts featured include bestiaries, psalters, Bibles, books of hours, and medical and herbal collections that originated in workrooms as geographically diverse as the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria and the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem. There is also a great chronological diversity among the selected manuscripts, with examples ranging from the seventh century AD and the Lindisfarne Gospels to early Renaissance offerings. Each of the almost 220 illluminations presented are accompanied by a caption and have been reproduced in colour. Many of the immages chosen have been reproduced here for the first time.

Keywords: Middeleeuwen: manuscripten manuscripten handschriften manuscripts verluchte miniaturen miniatures manuscrits illuminées illuminated middeleeuwen middeleeuwse moyen age médiévale middle-ages medieval Mittelalter mittelalterliche british library