Lenders to the exhibtion -- Note to the reader -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: "To Hold the Renaissance in Our Hands" -- Material present: collecting late medieval and early modern objects in (and around) Philadelphia -- Making the renaissance manuscript: catalogue -- Crafting the Codex -- Authors , patrons, and bibliophiles -- The humanist scribe at work -- All'antica: between ornament and display -- From pen to press and back again -- Showcasing salvation -- Devotion by design -- Innovating for the liturgy -- Prayer, sermon, and song -- Transmitting knowledge -- Recasting Roman history -- Greek scholarship reborn -- The trivium: grammar, rhetoric, and logic -- The quadrivium -- arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music -- Politics, economics, and the merchant class -- Tradition and innovation in medicine -- Navigating a new world -- Reference list -- Index of manuscripts cited.
Summary:
"Making the Renaissance Manuscript examines the making of the handwritten and hand-illuminated book during a time of great political, religious, and technological transformation in Europe. Through approximately forty loans from eight regional institutions, as well another forty items from Penn's own collections, this catalogue examines the full intellectual and artistic depth of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through a varied selection of extraordinary manuscirpts, cuttings and incunables, from the Philadelphia region"--Front cover flap.
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