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Title:

Beyond words: illuminated manuscripts in Boston collections / edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, William P. Stoneman, Anne-Marie Eze, Lisa Fagin Davis & Nancy Netzer.

Publisher:

McMullen Museum of ArtBoston College,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

374 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm

Subject:

McMullen Museum of Art--Exhibitions.
Houghton Library--Exhibitions.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--Exhibitions.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Exhibitions.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance--Exhibitions.
Collectors and collecting--Boston--Boston--Exhibitions.
Illumination of books and manuscripts.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance.
Massachusetts--Boston.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.

Other Authors:

Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957- editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90621629
Stoneman, William P., editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88031177
Eze, Anne-Marie, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014071080
Davis, Lisa Fagin, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99012157
Netzer, Nancy, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86071303
McMullen Museum of Art, host institution. host institution. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97011515
Houghton Library, host institution. host institution. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80097499
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, host institution. host institution. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79104331

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-359) and indexes.

Contents:

Illuminating the Charles: collecting manuscripts in Boston -- I. Harvard University, Houghton Library. Manuscripts from church & cloister: The monastic scriptorium ; Authors & readers ; Guides for good living ; Songs of praise -- II. Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art. Manuscripts for pleasure & piety: Making & meaning ; Holy writ ; Before the book of hours: the Psalter & other prayer books ; Minding time: books of hours ; Love & death: the art of devotion ; Public worship ; The rise of the professions: medicine & law ; Secular pleasures: edification & entertainment -- III. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Italian Renaissance books: The Florentine humanist book ; Italian princely libraries ; Manuscripts of the classics ; Humanist texts ; Renaissance liturgical books ; Italian books of hours ; Book decoration & the advent of printing.

Summary:

Published in conjunction with a collaborative exhibition of the same name held in 2016 and 2017 at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University's Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, this catalog provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. Entries by eighty-five international experts document, discuss, and reproduce more than two hundred and sixty manuscripts and early printed books, many of them little known before now. Beyond Words also explores the history of collecting such books in Boston, an uncharted chapter in the history of American taste. Of broad appeal to scholars and amateur enthusiasts alike, this catalog documents one of the most ambitious exhibitions of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts ever to take place in North America.

ISBN:

1892850281
9781892850287
1892850265
9781892850263

OCLC:

(OCoLC)944087154

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)