Accompanying DVD contains full-color digital images of the pages of the manuscript London, British Library Egerton 3277. Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-366) and indexes.
Contents:
I. Introduction. The Bohuns and their Manuscripts -- Scribes and artists in the Bohun household -- The Bohun style. -- II. The Egerton Psalter and Hours. The Commission and the history of the Manuscript -- The artists -- The Programme of Illustration: Form and content. -- III. Analytical description. I. Historiography and bibliography. One hundred and fifty years of the study of the illuminated book in England: The Bohun Manuscripts from the nineteenth century to the present. -- II. Artist, patron and society. Political imagery in the Bohun Manuscripts -- Lancastrian Heraldry in the Bohun Manuscripts -- Bared: The Writing Bear in the British Library Bohun Psalter -- Gone fishing: Angling in the Fitzwilliam Bohun Psalter -- 'Written with the finger of God': Fourteenth century images of scribal -- Practice in the Lichtenthal Psalter. -- III. Modes of Psalm Illustration in the Bohun Manuscripts. The illustration of the Psalms in fourteenth-century English Manuscripts: Three Psalters of the Bohun family -- Worded and wordless images: Biblical narratives in the Psalters of Humphrey de Bohun -- Word imagery in English Gothic Psalters: The case of the Vienna Bohun Manuscript (ONB, cod. 1826*). -- IV. Devotional imagery in the Bohun Manuscripts. The Anglo-Norman Office of the Cross of the Lichtenthal Psalter -- Mary de Bohun's Livret de saintes in Copenhagen -- The Last Bohun Hours and Psalter.
Summary:
"Illuminators and Patrons in Fourteenth-Century England is a richly illustrated study of one of the treasures of the British Library, MS Egerton 3277, a psalter and book of hours made for Humphrey de Bohun (d. 1373), the vastly wealthy earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, who employed two or more illuminators to work on the manuscript in his own castle at Pleshey, Essex. The interaction between the Bohun patron and the Bohun artists is a major focus of the book. Along with a detailed commentary on the manuscript's more than three hundred pictorial subjects from the books of Kings of the Old Testament, the Gospel of Luke, and the Acts of the Apostles, the book includes twelve essays linking the British Library manuscript with others illustrated by the same artists for members of the Bohun family in the second half of the fourteenth century. The book is accompanied by a DVD reproducing every page in images that can be enlarged by the viewer to show the smallest details of the illustrations."--Publisher's website.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.