Tradition and Innovation in Later Medieval English Manuscripts
This volume examines a number of English manuscripts of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries that never been previously studied and all of which make a unique contribution to art history in this period.
Based on Dr Scott?s 2004 Lyell lectures at Oxford, it establishes criteria for genuine artistic originality in manuscript books and fully contextualize her analyses. Each manuscript is assessed in detail in terms of its text, scribe(s), artists, decorative programme and circumstances of creation and is also set in its wider contexts of contemporary English manuscript art history by extensive reference to related manuscripts both contemporary and earlier, in England and on the Continent.
This ground-breaking study, by a leading historian of English art of the fifteenth century, offers an original investigation of motives for including pictures in manuscripts, of the role of the author in illustration, and of the traditional and innovative nature of visual representation in medieval manuscripts. Included are numerous colour plates.
Kathleen L. Scott is the author of Later Gothic Manuscripts (2 vols, 1996) and Dated and Datable English Manuscript Borders c.1396-1499 (2002). She is also general editor of Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII.
Table of Contents
An English Modelbook for Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla litteralis
The Enigma of All Souls
The Unique Pictoial 'Afterpiece' to the Abbey of the Holy Ghost in BL Stowe MS
The Genealogical Genre: BL Royal MS I.B.x
A Gothish Episode in the Renaissance: BL Additional MS 21974, Longland's Pontifical Book of Benedictions
Conclusions
?a significant addition to our knowledge of English illumination during the fifteenth century.?
Bulletin Codicologique 2008, 2
