Illuminated Manuscripts 120 illustrations

Tamara Woronowa, Andrej Sterligow

• Publisher: Parkstone International
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781781608654
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Art General
• Index: History

Those who have had the chance to hold a medieval manuscript in their hands cannot fail to have been impressed by the feeling of being in touch with a long-passed epoch. Back when a book was a true handicraft and every copy the result of a laborious process, the object was more a work of art than a volatile commercial product. The Mega Square Illuminated Manuscripts puts the reader in touch with amazing medieval illustrations and unique adornments, which document the imaginative power of their creators.

Table of contents

• Avicenna and the Translator of his Work, Represented by a Monk Below (Initial of book 3)
• St Thomas Aquinas Teaching
• First Canon Table
• The Creation of the World
• The Marriage of Paris and Helen
• Greek Ships Caught in a Tempest
• The Wooden Horse Taken into Troy
• The Trinity Enthroned (Opening Page)
• New Testament (Frontispiece)
• How St John Was Called by Christ from Earthly to Divine Marriage
• St John Kneeling before Christ
• The Annunciation
• The Descent of the Holy Ghost
• Knight
• Pawn
• Coat of Arms of René d’Anjou and Jeanne de Laval
• The Kneeling Author Presenting his Book to the Young Sovereign
• Illustration of a Battle during the Great Schism
• About the Fabled Trojan Origin of French People
• Third Battle between the Greeks and the Trojans
• Destruction of the Greek Fleet Lured by False Shore Fires
• Girart and Oriana
• Solomon Builds the Temple of Jerusalem
• Gaiete Sets off to Meet Billas
• The Festival of the Romans and the Sabines
• The Coronation of the Virgin
• Signatures of English Nobles on a Manuscript’s Page
• The Visitation
• The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels Appearing to a Knight
• Crossing a River with the Help of Pontoons and Fascines
• Galley Fleet on a River
• Miniature to the Office of the Dead
• The Apparition of the Virgin and Child to St Peter of Luxembourg
• The Annunciation
• St Antoine in the Desert
• King René Leaves for the Joust with the Duke of Alençon
• Joust between the Count Ferry of Lorraine and the Count of Eu of the House of Valois
• Trinity in Glory
• St John in Patmos
• Beehive
• Deer
• Reason, Arbitrating the Dispute between Virtue and Fortune (Frontispiece)
• Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, Receiving the Manuscript from Abbot Guillaume Fillastre on January 1457
• The Coronation of Charlemagne
• The Story of Chilperic
• The Uprising of the Counts of Flanders
• Christ in Majesty (top), the Author, Lactantius (bottom) (Opening Page of Book 1)
• The Boy Christ Engaged in a Dispute with the Elders in the Temple (top), the Author, Lactantius (bottom) (Opening Page of Book 4)
• Humanist Author in his Study (Opening Page)
• Fauvel Sets Off to Meet Fortune
• The Flight into Egypt
• The Raising of Lazarus
• Title Page Including an Image of Petrarch
• Dispute of a Shepherd and Shepherdess
• Pastoral Scene
• Nimrod in Front of the Tower of Babel under Construction
• The Trojans Founding Four Cities: Venice, Cycambre, Carthage and Rome
• The Holy Face
• Creation of the World (Opening Page)
• Creation of Eve, Temptation and Expulsion
• Exodus
• The Doge Presenting the Instructions to Angelo Gradenigo, the Captain of the Galleys Setting off for Beirut
• The Eighth Joy of Married Life
• Siege of a Fortress
• The Battle of Roosebeke
• The Creation of Eve
• The Nativity of Christ
• Score with Historiated Initial Representing the Resurrection
• The Last Judgment
• Presentation of the Manuscript to the King
• Nobleman (probably Wolfert Van Borssel) Visiting the Author (the translator?)
• Initial to the Prayer “O Gloriosa Virgo Maria”
• The Crowing with Thorns
• Mercury Explaining that a Marriage Must be Based on Love (Venus in the centre) Accompanied by the Three Graces (Frontispiece)
• The Author at Work
• Extraction of Aloe, Gold, Alum and Antimony
• A Rose and Solomon’s Seal
• Virgin and Unicorn
• The Author Comparing the Merits of Pleasure, Usefulness and Elegance
• Prowess and Nobility
• Peasant Dictating an Address to a Boy
• Messengers Ready to Take Anna’s Letter
• Enthroned Louis XII Dictacting a Reply to Hector of Troy
• Allegory Illustrating the Treatise “De la Prudence”
• Allegory Illustrating the Treatise “De la Fortitude”
• Francis I, Surrounded by his Court, Receiving Anne de Montmorency (Frontispiece)
• Jason Sets off to Capture the Golden Fleece
• Atlas Holding the Terrestrial Globe and Archimedes Measuring it with Compasses