The making and meaning of the Liber Floridus

a study of the original manuscript, Ghent, University Library MS 92

The Liber Floridus (1121), composed, written and illustrated by Canon Lambert of Saint-Omer, is the earliest illustrated encyclopedic compilation of the Latin West. Its autograph (Ghent, University Library, MS 92), a masterpiece of Romanesque book art and one of the most complicated manuscripts ever made ...

Illuminated manuscript in Cambridge

Part Three: France. Volume 1: c. 1000 - c. 1250

This volume contains an impressive range of texts, from Horace (Cat. 17) and Ovid (Cat. 61) to the earliest known copy of the Collectio Lanfranci (Cat. 5) and Gerard of Cremona’s translations of Rasis’ works (Cat. 93). The bulk, however, consists of Bibles of ...

Gothic manuscripts

Part 2: 1260-1320

The period c. 1260-1320 marks the emergence and the flowering of what has come to be known as the ‘courtly style’ in French painting, whose dynamic vitality is manifest throughout the region we now call France. By the end of this period French art had ...

Jean Pucelle

innovation and collaboration in manuscript painting

This book focuses on the works and legacy of Jean Pucelle, a French 14th-century artist. Jean Pucelle (fl. ca. 1319-d. 1334) was one of the most prominent artists of the first half of the fourteenth century, an influential illuminator who worked closely with a number ...

Book of Hours reconsidered

For over three hunderd years, more Books of Hours were made than any other type of book, even the Bible. From c. 1225, when the first Books of Hours began to appear, to 1571, when during the Counter-Reformation Pope Pius V prohibited the use of ...

Flora

the Erbario Miniato and other drawings

Treatments for a serpent bite, cracks between fingers and a fall from a height are among the hundreds of natural remedies found in this remarkable collection of early botanical drawings. The Erbario Miniato, an early 17th-century herbal, and the drawings from a companion volume (now ...

The illustrated Beatus

a corpus of the illustrations of the commentary on the Apocalypse.Vol. 5: The twelfth and 13th centuries

Iluminating the law

medieval legal manuscripts in cambridge collections

The illustrated Beatus

a corpus of the illustrations of the commentary on the Apocalypse.Vol. 1: Introduction

Around the year 776, the monk Beatus of the monastery of Santo Toribio compiled a commentary on the Apocalypse from the extensive library of patristic exegetical literature. This is the first publication to provide a thorough historical context for the origin and evolution of the ...