Illuminating the Middle Ages
Tributes to Prof. John Lowden from his Students, Friends and Colleagues
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 79
- Library of the Written Word - The Manuscript World, Volume: 79
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 some of the themes and questions raised in John’s work, tackling issues of meaning, making, patronage, the book as an object, relationships between text and image, and the transmission of ideas. They combine John’s commitment to the close scrutiny of manuscripts with an interrogation of what the books meant in their own time and what they mean to us now.
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Laura Cleaver, Ph.D. (2008), University of London, is Ussher Lecturer in Medieval Art at Trinity College Dublin. Her most recent monograph is Illuminated History Books in the Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1272 (Oxford, 2018).
Alixe Bovey, Ph.D. (2000), University of London, is Head of Research at The Courtauld Institute of Art. She has published widely on medieval manuscripts and is currently working on a project on giants.
Lucy Donkin, Ph.D. (2005), University of London, is a lecturer in History and History of Art at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on sacred space, and she is co-editor of Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West (Oxford, 2012).
Alixe Bovey, Ph.D. (2000), University of London, is Head of Research at The Courtauld Institute of Art. She has published widely on medieval manuscripts and is currently working on a project on giants.
Lucy Donkin, Ph.D. (2005), University of London, is a lecturer in History and History of Art at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on sacred space, and she is co-editor of Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West (Oxford, 2012).
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List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction
1 Were Early Medieval Picture Cycles Recycled from Late Antiquity? New Evidence for a Lost Archetype of the Apollonius Pictus—An Illustrated Classic
Michelle P. Brown
2 Milanese Early Medieval Psalters: Models and Influences from West and East
Francesca Demarchi
3 Noli me tangerein the Codex Egberti (Reichenau,c.977–93) and in the Gospel Book of Otto
III
(Reichenau, 998–1000): Visual Exegesis in Context
Barbara Baert
4 The Green Tinted Souls of Dives and Lazarus in the Codex Aureus of Echternach
Maria R. Grasso
5 Portraits of Terence, the African
Beatrice Radden Keefe
6 Manuscripts Face to Face: León and the Holy Roman Empire in the Mid-Eleventh Century
Rose Walker
7 The Two Pictures Cycles in Early Manuscripts of St Anselm’s Prayers
T.A. Heslop
8 Early Cistercian Manuscripts from Clairvaux
Kathleen Doyle
9 The Imagery of Noah’s Ark in the Mosaic Decoration of Monreale Cathedral
Mika Takiguchi
10 Some Observations on the Artists of the Leiden Psalter (Leiden, University Library MS
B.P.L.
76A) and Their Working Practices
Emma Luker
11 A Portrait of Abraham Ibn Ezra (Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal MS 1186)
Patricia Stirnemann and Judith Kogel
12 The Virgin and Child in the Map Psalter (London, British Library Additional MS 28681)
Sally Dormer
13 Seeing and Reading the Matthew Paris Saints’ Lives
Martin Kauffmann
14 Extended Shelf-life: Manuscript Consolidation in an English Monastic Library
Kathryn Gerry
15 Domesday in Disguise
Jessica Berenbeim
16 From Warwickshire to New York via Canterbury: The Travels and Tribulations of the Bible of Richard of Sholdone
Frederica Law-Turner
17 Virgin, Devil, Bishop, King: Nicola Pisano’s Pulpit in Siena and Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria
Deirdre Jackson
18 Of Venerable Teachers and Boisterous Students: Maistre Brunetto and the Arabic Aristotle
Hanna Wimmer
19 Lost and Found in the Meditationes Vitae Christi, Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 410
Renana Bartal
20 Ivory Booklets, Devotion in Cologne
Sarah M. Guérin
21 Gothic Ivories Unhinged
Catherine Yvard
22 Monks and Ants in the Presence of Death. A Re-reading of Pliny the Elder in Quattrocento Illumination
Christian Heck
23 The Ridware Cartulary and the Great Seal of England
Julian Luxford
24 Sin and Salvation in the Hours of Jean de Dunois
Richard Gameson
25 Harreteau and His Unfinished Book of Hours
Rowan Watson
26 Looking Beneath the Surface: Subterranean Space in the Kuntá Hora Cantional
Lucy Donkin
27 A Manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio’sDe Mulieribus Claris from the Library of the Benedictine Convent of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore in Milan?
Anne-Marie Eze
28 Bloodlines: Medicine and Cosmology in France, China, and Mexico
Jack Hartnell
Index of manuscripts
General index
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction
1 Were Early Medieval Picture Cycles Recycled from Late Antiquity? New Evidence for a Lost Archetype of the Apollonius Pictus—An Illustrated Classic
Michelle P. Brown
2 Milanese Early Medieval Psalters: Models and Influences from West and East
Francesca Demarchi
3 Noli me tangerein the Codex Egberti (Reichenau,c.977–93) and in the Gospel Book of Otto
Barbara Baert
4 The Green Tinted Souls of Dives and Lazarus in the Codex Aureus of Echternach
Maria R. Grasso
5 Portraits of Terence, the African
Beatrice Radden Keefe
6 Manuscripts Face to Face: León and the Holy Roman Empire in the Mid-Eleventh Century
Rose Walker
7 The Two Pictures Cycles in Early Manuscripts of St Anselm’s Prayers
T.A. Heslop
8 Early Cistercian Manuscripts from Clairvaux
Kathleen Doyle
9 The Imagery of Noah’s Ark in the Mosaic Decoration of Monreale Cathedral
Mika Takiguchi
10 Some Observations on the Artists of the Leiden Psalter (Leiden, University Library MS
Emma Luker
11 A Portrait of Abraham Ibn Ezra (Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal MS 1186)
Patricia Stirnemann and Judith Kogel
12 The Virgin and Child in the Map Psalter (London, British Library Additional MS 28681)
Sally Dormer
13 Seeing and Reading the Matthew Paris Saints’ Lives
Martin Kauffmann
14 Extended Shelf-life: Manuscript Consolidation in an English Monastic Library
Kathryn Gerry
15 Domesday in Disguise
Jessica Berenbeim
16 From Warwickshire to New York via Canterbury: The Travels and Tribulations of the Bible of Richard of Sholdone
Frederica Law-Turner
17 Virgin, Devil, Bishop, King: Nicola Pisano’s Pulpit in Siena and Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria
Deirdre Jackson
18 Of Venerable Teachers and Boisterous Students: Maistre Brunetto and the Arabic Aristotle
Hanna Wimmer
19 Lost and Found in the Meditationes Vitae Christi, Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 410
Renana Bartal
20 Ivory Booklets, Devotion in Cologne
Sarah M. Guérin
21 Gothic Ivories Unhinged
Catherine Yvard
22 Monks and Ants in the Presence of Death. A Re-reading of Pliny the Elder in Quattrocento Illumination
Christian Heck
23 The Ridware Cartulary and the Great Seal of England
Julian Luxford
24 Sin and Salvation in the Hours of Jean de Dunois
Richard Gameson
25 Harreteau and His Unfinished Book of Hours
Rowan Watson
26 Looking Beneath the Surface: Subterranean Space in the Kuntá Hora Cantional
Lucy Donkin
27 A Manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio’sDe Mulieribus Claris from the Library of the Benedictine Convent of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore in Milan?
Anne-Marie Eze
28 Bloodlines: Medicine and Cosmology in France, China, and Mexico
Jack Hartnell
Index of manuscripts
General index
The book will appeal to academics and post-graduate students. It will be of interest to university libraries, and manuscript collections. Its subjects are art history and medieval history.