Illuminated Manuscripts
By Tamara Woronowa, Andrej Sterligow
Length1h 46m
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
Length1 hr 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
63Signatures of English Nobles on a Manuscript’s Page
2Avicenna and the Translator of his Work, Represented by a Monk Below (Initial of book 3)
64The Visitation
3Chronology
65The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels Appearing to a Knight
4St Thomas Aquinas Teaching
66Crossing a River with the Help of Pontoons and Fascines
5St Jerome (Frontispiece)
67Galley Fleet on a River
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6Opening Page with Historiated Initial (probably Pope Gregory the Great)
68Miniature to the Office of the Dead
7Opening Page of the Gospel According to St John (In Principio)
69The Apparition of the Virgin and Child to St Peter of Luxembourg
8Canon Table
70The Annunciation
9Matthew the Evangelist
71St Antoine in the Desert
10Mark the Evangelist
72King René Leaves for the Joust with the Duke of Alençon
11Opening of the Canon of the Mass
73Joust between the Count Ferry of Lorraine and the Count of Eu of the House of Valois
12Opening of the Canon of the Mass
74Trinity in Glory
13First Canon Table
75St John in Patmos
14Adam Naming the Animals
76Beehive
15Whale
77Deer
16Stork
78Reason, Arbitrating the Dispute between Virtue and Fortune (Frontispiece)
17Initial of the Second Book of Kings
79Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, Receiving the Manuscript from Abbot Guillaume Fillastre on January 1457
18Initial to the Book of Ezekiel
80The Coronation of Charlemagne
19Initial to the Book of Daniel, Daniel in the Lion’s Pit
81The Story of Chilperic
20Initial to Psalm 1
82The Uprising of the Counts of Flanders
21Initial to Psalm 26
83Christ in Majesty (top), the Author, Lactantius (bottom) (Opening Page of Book 1)
22Initial to Psalm 51
84The Boy Christ Engaged in a Dispute with the Elders in the Temple (top), the Author, Lactantius (bottom) (Opening Page of Book 4)
23The Annunciation with the Prophet Isaiah and James the Great (top), the Nativity with the Prophet Daniel and the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Magi (bottom)
85Humanist Author in his Study (Opening Page)
24The Announcement to the Shepherds
86Fauvel Sets Off to Meet Fortune
25The Creation of the World
87The Flight into Egypt
26Crucifixion (top) and Deposition (bottom)
88The Raising of Lazarus
27Christ Entering Jerusalem and Christ’s Arrest (top), the Washing of the Feet and the Prayer of the Calice (bottom)
89Title Page Including an Image of Petrarch
28The Mystical Crucifixion on the Tree of Life
90Dispute of a Shepherd and Shepherdess
29Marriage Supper of the Lamb (top) and Last Judgment (bottom)
91Pastoral Scene
30Account of Damnation of a Money-Lender and Salvation of a Beggar Woman to whom the Holy Virgin and Virgins Appear
92Nimrod in Front of the Tower of Babel under Construction
31Account of a Devout Monk who after his Death Appeared at Night to the Sexton of his Monastery
93The Trojans Founding Four Cities: Venice, Cycambre, Carthage and Rome
32Account of a Converted Noble Roman Woman
94The Holy Face
33Angel Appearing before King Evalach
95Creation of the World (Opening Page)
34Beginning of a Section
96Creation of Eve, Temptation and Expulsion
35Swordfish
97Exodus
36Elephant
98The Doge Presenting the Instructions to Angelo Gradenigo, the Captain of the Galleys Setting off for Beirut
37Signs of the Zodiac
99The Eighth Joy of Married Life
38The Dangers of Love
100Siege of a Fortress
39The Adoration of the Magi
101The Battle of Roosebeke
40The Presentation at the Temple
102The Creation of Eve
41The Marriage of Paris and Helen
103The Nativity of Christ
42Greek Ships Caught in a Tempest
104Score with Historiated Initial Representing the Resurrection
43The Wooden Horse Taken into Troy
105The Last Judgment
44The Trinity Enthroned (Opening Page)
106Presentation of the Manuscript to the King
45New Testament (Frontispiece)
107Nobleman (probably Wolfert Van Borssel) Visiting the Author (the translator?)
46How St John Was Called by Christ from Earthly to Divine Marriage
108Initial to the Prayer “O Gloriosa Virgo Maria”
47St John Kneeling before Christ
109The Crowing with Thorns
48The Annunciation
110Mercury Explaining that a Marriage Must be Based on Love (Venus in the centre) Accompanied by the Three Graces (Frontispiece)
49The Descent of the Holy Ghost
111The Author at Work
50Knight
112Extraction of Aloe, Gold, Alum and Antimony
51Pawn
113A Rose and Solomon’s Seal
52Coat of Arms of René d’Anjou and Jeanne de Laval
114Virgin and Unicorn
53The Kneeling Author Presenting his Book to the Young Sovereign
115The Author Comparing the Merits of Pleasure, Usefulness and Elegance
54Illustration of a Battle during the Great Schism
116Prowess and Nobility
55About the Fabled Trojan Origin of French People
117Peasant Dictating an Address to a Boy
56Third Battle between the Greeks and the Trojans
118Messengers Ready to Take Anna’s Letter
57Destruction of the Greek Fleet Lured by False Shore Fires
119Enthroned Louis XII Dictacting a Reply to Hector of Troy
58Girart and Oriana
120Allegory Illustrating the Treatise “De la Prudence”
59Solomon Builds the Temple of Jerusalem
121Allegory Illustrating the Treatise “De la Fortitude”
60Gaiete Sets off to Meet Billas
122Francis I, Surrounded by his Court, Receiving Anne de Montmorency (Frontispiece)
61The Festival of the Romans and the Sabines
123Jason Sets off to Capture the Golden Fleece
62The Coronation of the Virgin
124Atlas Holding the Terrestrial Globe and Archimedes Measuring it with Compasses
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