Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 303 Seiten, Format (B × H): 233 mm x 314 mm, Gewicht: 1665 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 303 Seiten, Format (B × H): 233 mm x 314 mm, Gewicht: 1665 g
Reihe: Corpus of Illuminated Manuscri
ISBN: 978-90-429-2915-9
Verlag: PEETERS PUB
From the 16th to the 19th century, illuminated manuscripts were
collected by the great printer-publisher Christophe Plantin and his
Moretus successors and descendants. Ranging in date from the 9th to the
mid-16th centuries, the manuscripts in the Museum Plantin-Moretus come
from all over Europe, chiefly the Southern Netherlands and France with a
significant representation of 15th-century Dutch illumination. More
surprisingly, about a quarter of the collection comes from England:
manuscripts of the 10th to 15th centuries that left the country with
Catholic refugees. Alongside the acknowledged masterpieces and rarities,
like the Bohemian Bible of 1402, are volumes that have remained
virtually unknown, their aesthetic appeal and historical or textual
interest often passing unnoticed in the absence of published
reproductions. In this beautifully produced catalogue, each of the 102
volumes is illustrated in colour, with more extensive coverage of the 55
volumes with the most rewarding illumination. For the first time it is
possible to gauge the extent and nature of this fascinating and
under-explored collection, still housed in the building on the
Vrijdagmarkt in Antwerp to which Plantin moved his famous sign of the
Golden Compasses in 1576.
