Understanding illuminated manuscripts  -  Michelle P. Brown

a guide to technical terms

KORTE INHOUD

What is a florilegium? What is an incipit? What is batarde script? This book--part of the Museum's popular Looking at series--offers definitions of these and numerous other techniques, processes, and materials used in medieval illuminated manuscripts. Concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered by the museum-goer are presented in an easily portable format. With numerous illustrations, many of them in color, this volume will be invaluable to all readers wishing to inc...
1994 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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1994 Uitgever: British Library 127 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0712303405 ISBN-13: 9780712303408