"Among the first works of art produced after Iconoclasm was defeated in 843, three Byzantine Marginal Psalters that have survived provide a rare glimpse into the world of scholarship and religious and political debate that occupied some of the leading intellectuals in Constantin…
In this volume three stories from Persian poem the Khamseh - "Khosrow and Shirin," "Layla and Majnum," and "The Seven Princesses" - have been told with abridgement in prose. They are augmented by color reproductions of Persian miniatures based on an early 16th manuscript dated 1…
The twenty-seven illuminations catalogued in this volume--part of a series cataloguing the more than two thousand works of art in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art--include illustrations for manuscripts and early instances of small paintings on parch…
"The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books. The authors explore s…
"The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books. The authors explore s…
Beginnings and Initials: Text, Image, and Sound -- Miniatures and Marginalia: A Visual Grammar and Syntax -- Faltering Images: Iconography between Reading, Error, and Confusion -- The Reading of the Lectionary: Recitation, Inspiration, and Embodiment -- The Sound of the Lectiona…
In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript painting (ca. 1470-1500), this book reveals that pictures could function as the painter’s delegate, charged with the task of centring …
