
Illuminated Manuscripts
By Tamara Woronowa, Andrej SterligowLength2h 3m
About this audiobook
Those who have had the chance to hold a medieval manuscript in their hands cannot fail to have been impressed by the feeling of being in touch with a long-passed epoch. Back when a book was a true handicraft and every copy the result of a laborious process, the object was more a work of art than a volatile commercial product. The Mega Square Illuminated Manuscripts puts the reader in touch with amazing medieval illustrations and unique adornments, which document the imaginative power of their creators.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Other
Length2 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 1, 2011
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Illuminated Illuminated Manuscripts Manuscripts
2to the volume.
3Canon, Ibn-Cina (Avicenna), 1343 Parchment, Latin, 42 x 26 cm, Italy
4St Jerome (Frontispiece)
5Writ over and over again in a monastery scriptorium.
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6Opening Page with Historiated Initial (probably Pope Gregory the Great)
7of light and air, their paint cracks and chips off or
8The skill and care with which the miniatures
9items whose skilful execution and expensive materials
10century from monasteries to city workshops, it
11Mark the Evangelist
12appearance of new genres, primarily landscape
13creative energy and ingenuity of miniaturists
14Opening of the Canon of the Mass
15First Canon Table
16elaborate bas-de-pages and, finally, full-page
17(or historiations) to the plot of the manuscript there
18Initial to the Book of Daniel, Daniel in the Lion’s Pit
19the whole
20pressure and finally with such force that perspiration
21Psalter (Psalterium) 1218-1242 Parchment, Latin, 21.6 x 15 cm France (Paris)
22Mâle, one of the most prominent experts on
23prayer book in the Sainte-Chapelle, the miniatures
24present-day France where the Merovingian culture
25The few works in the collection from the mid-
26A page from the Epistles of St Jerome showing
27Crucifixion (top) and Deposition (bottom)
28dispute between the advocates of Irish, Celtic and
29major phenomenon in the history of European culture.
30The Mystical Crucifixion on the Tree of Life
31first copies of Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
32The importance and uniqueness of this manuscript
33The scribes’ veneration for the Scriptures
34of illustration. Ornaments, as the principal means
35beginning of each Gospel.
36With truly boundless imagination, the craftsmen
37Angel Appearing before King Evalach
38The empire’s political and ideological program
39Signs of the Zodiac
40the wide use of gold and silver in manuscript
41laid for some of the basic artistic principles
42workshops of Aachen and other places in the
43The Marriage of Paris and Helen
44Gospels (Vienna, Weltliche Schatzkammer), which
45The manuscripts that experts group together in the
46modelling, a specific technique and silver and golden
47Because of its use of ornamental motifs from the
48The Trinity Enthroned (Opening Page)
49Adalhard (834–843) and Vivian (844–851). The
50An illumination from another Evangelistary