British Museum, London, 2002 reprint of 1992 first edition. Laminated pictorial wrappers, square 4to, 22 cm,. 72 pp, 35 colour and 28 black-and-white ills. From the blurb: "More illuminated manuscripts survive than any other artefact from the Middle Ages...This survey describes each stage of production from the preparation of the vellum, pens, paints and inks to the writing of the scripts and the final decoration and illumination of the book. The author then examines the role of the stationer or bookshop in co-ordinating book production, describes the supply of exemplars and accuracy of texts, and then follows the careers of a number of specific scribes and illuminators who emerge not as anonymous monks but as identifiable professional lay artisans. He also looks at who bought the completed books and why, and how much they paid for them. Scribes and Illuminators ends with a glimpse of how the manuscripts were read, and how the patrons regarded the craftsmanship for which they had paid. The timespan ranges from the eleventh century through the golden age of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to the luxurious manuscripts in existence at the discovery of printing. Near Fine.

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Bookseller: Wykeham Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BIBLIO-57995
Title: Scribes and Illuminators
Author: De Hamel, C
Format/Binding: Laminated pictorial wrappers, square 4to, 22 cm,
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0714120499
ISBN 13: 9780714120492
Publisher: British Museum, London, 2002 reprint of 1992 first edition
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2002 reprint of 1992 first edit
Pages: 72 pp, 35 colour and 28 black-and-white ills
Keywords: De Hamel, Christopher British, Museum 0714120499
Bookseller catalogs: Illuminated Manuscripts;

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