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Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

The Holkham Bible: A Facsimile
by Michelle P. Brown
This celebrated medieval picture-book tells the Biblical story, with the help of illustrations of everyday 14th-century England. It is only loosely based on the Bible and includes plenty of apocryphal episodes, for example Christ 'surfing' on sunbeams as a child. The costumes, tools, weapons and buildings in the pictures give us a near documentary-style representation of many occupations in the age of Chaucer, such as dyer, smith, carpenter and ...
Hardback. Price US$125.00

The Medieval Church in Manuscripts
by Justin Clegg
`The influence of the Church on medieval life was universal and all-pervasive. Through the wealth of medieval imagery and material provided by illuminated manuscripts, from liturgial books to books of private devotion, we can see the world of the Church in the Middle Ages in vivid detail'. Justin Clegg provides an overview of the Medieval Church in the 14th and 15th centuries, looking at spiritualism, the religious orders, religious figures, the ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$19.95, Our Price US$7.98

Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts
by Sophie Page
In the Middle Ages the art of predicting earthly events and human characteristics from the movements of the stars and planets was a scientific branch of learning with a philosophical basis. Its influence extended to natural philosophy and cosmology, medicine, agriculture, weather-forecasting and alchemy. Yet astrology was never an entirely acceptable practice, attracting both religious and scientific objections. These ambivalent medieval ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$22.00, Our Price US$7.98

Music in Medieval Manuscripts
by Nicolas Bell
Music was an important element of cultural life throughout the Middle Ages. Most of our knowledge of medieval music comes from surviving manuscripts, almost all of them connected in some way with the church. This book shows a selection from the British Library's rich manuscript collections.

The history of music writing is covered from the earliest times until the fifteenth century, and the beautiful and often entertaining pictures of ...
Paperback. Price US$21.95

Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts
by Pamela Porter
Courtly love referred to a stylised and idealistic relationship between a knight and his lady, which was motivated by the aims of chivalry and required by convention to be unrequited. Thought to have originated with the troubadours of the 11th century, courtly liasions became a popular and significant force in shaping the literature of the day. In this book, Pamela Porter, Curator of Manuscripts in the British Library, looks at courtly love ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$19.95, Our Price US$7.98

Book of Beasts: A Facsimile of MS. Bodley 764
with an introduction by Christopher de Hamel
In the Middle Ages, people believed that studying animals allowed them to read the Divine Order as written in the natural world. In image and word, medieval bestiaries illustrated beasts in stunning detail and explained their scientific nature as well as their allegorical significance.

This bestiary, dating from the mid-13th century and preserved at the Bodleian Library in Oxford since the early 17th century, is one of the finest and ...
Hardback. Price US$250.00

The Illustrated Beatus Volume I
by John Williams
Around the year 776 the monk Beatus of the monastery of Santo Toribio in Asturias compiled a Commentary on the Apocalypse, the Book of Revelation, which has survived in 32 manuscripts and fragments spanning the 9th to the 13th century. Representing the greatest single tradition of medieval Apocalyptic imagagery, this 5 volume series of books provides a thorough historical context for their origin and evolution, and is the first to offer the ...
Hardback. Price US$155.00

The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship
edited by Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir
This collection of articles, by scholars with established reputations in the field, focuses on medieval books designed for use in Christian worship, both public and private. Examples are drawn from French, Italian and Dutch work of the fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. The contributors explore the various ways in which text and imagery complement and re-enforce one another, and the importance of music and chant is also addressed. The ...
Hardback. Price US$110.00

Der Mensuralcodex St. Emmeram: Faksimile der Handschrift Clm 14274 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München
edited by Lorenz Welker, with commentary by Ian Rumbold and Peter A. Wright, and an Introduction by Martin Staehelin
The St Emmeram Codex (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14274) is one of the most important witnesses to the cultivation of international polyphonic music in Central Europe to have survived from the late Middle Ages. Among the oldest collections of polyphony from the German-speaking area, it demonstrates the widespread acceptance of progressive international styles in a part of Europe that has sometimes been characterised as a cultural ...
Hardback. Price US$439.00

Studies in Byzantine Manuscript Illumination and Iconography
by Ioannis Spatharakis
The work of Ioannis Spatharakis on Byzantine manuscript painting has resulted in the standard corpus of dated illuminated Greek manuscripts, and an important survey of the history of the portrait in Byzantine manuscripts. His numerous papers published over the last twenty years have dealt with illuminated manuscripts from the era of Iconoclasm and the Macedonian Renaissance in the eighth and ninth centuries to the productions of the Palaeologan ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$300.00, Our Price US$150.00