Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts A Guide to Technical Terms

Name: Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts A Guide to Technical Terms
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ISBN: 9780892362172

ISBN-10: 0892362170

ISBN-13: 9780892362172

Edition: 1994

Authors: Michelle Brown

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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 increase their understanding and enjoyment of illuminated manuscripts.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/28/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Michelle Brown is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee and Fellow at the Indiana University Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and author of The Culture of Punishment: Prison, Society, and Spectacle .