‎ Lisa Fagin Davis, Anne-Marie Eze, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Nancy Netzer, William P. Stoneman‎
‎Beyond Words. New Research on Manuscripts in Boston Collections‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, xxxii + 361 pages, Size:228 x 304 mm, Illustrations:91 b/w, 200 col., Language: English. ISBN 9780888442215.‎

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‎Summary In the fall of 2016 an international scholarly conference accompanied the exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. The speakers were chosen because of their expertise and because they were known to have research underway pertaining to important manuscripts in the exhibition. The aim of both exhibition and conference was to provide a broad overview of the history of patronage and book production over the course of the High and late Middle Ages, to the extent that the eclectic holdings of Boston-area institutions permitted. Most of the papers delivered at the conference have been collected as essays in this abundantly illustrated volume which, while still linked to the exhibition, now has an independent purpose. Just as the essays cover a wide range of topics, all relating to the history of the book, but also, inter alia, to the history of law, liturgy, literature, and libraries as well as to devotion, theology, and art, so too the approaches adopted by the contributors are as varied as the materials they study, ranging from paleography, codicology, and provenance research to painstaking reconstructions of historical patterns of patronage and the interpretative strategies of authors and artists. What results is not simply a wealth of fascinating insights into individual illuminated books, their makers, and their readers, but also an indication of how much remains to be learned about the materials to which the exhibition served as no more than an introduction. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures Contributors Abbreviations Introduction ? JEFFREY F. HAMBURGER Monastic Manuscripts Gilbert de la Porr e: The Man and His Manuscripts ? PATRICIA STIRNEMANN Writing Culture and Society over the longue dur e: The Charters of Sawley Abbey, from Medieval Yorkshire to Present-Day Harvard, Houghton Library ? BRIGITTE MIRIAM BEDOS-REZAK Boston Public Library MS q Med. 86 in the Context of Manuscript Production in Delft ? KATHRYN M. RUDY Courtly Culture and Patronage Jean Bourdichon's Boston Hours and the Miniature-as-Object ? NICHOLAS HERMAN Rereading Boccaccio in tienne Chevalier's Les cents nouvelles (Houghton Library, MS Richardson 31) ? ANNE D. HEDEMAN Picturing and Collecting Virgil in Mid-Fifteenth Century France ? CHRISTINE SEIDEL Vicarious Entertainment for the Mature Aristocrat and Bibliophile Louis of Gruuthuse (Houghton Library, MSS Typ 129 and 130) ? SCOT McKENDRICK Court Patronage in Renaissance Italy: Hercules in Illuminated Manuscripts Given as Diplomatic Gifts ? FEDERICA TONIOLO Princes, Patricians, Prelates, and Pontiffs Illumination in Rome and L'Aquila during the Schism and in Florence during the Council: Artists and Patrons of the Calderini Pontifical (Harvard, Houghton Library, MS Typ 1) ? FRANCESCA MANZARI Niccol da Ferrara's Polistorio (Houghton Library, MS Typ 329): New Proposals on Don Simone Camaldolese and Mantuan Artistic Culture on the Eve of the Renaissance ? ADA LABRIOLA Cristoforo Cortese and the Donato Master: Venetian Liturgical Manuscripts in American Collections ? LILIAN ARMSTRONG Illuminating Law and Order in Venice ? HELENA K. SZ PE Illuminating History Kings as Kin: Picturing the English Monarchy in Houghton Library, MS Typ 11 ? ALIXE BOVEY The Shapes of History: Houghton Library, MS Richardson 35 and Chronicles of England in Codex and Roll ? SONJA DRIMMER Hannibal's Journey: Ancient History, Material Philology, Medieval Illumination ? JESSICA BERENBEIM Manuscripts in the Modern Era Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of Captain Jack Ball ? PETER KIDD Notes Index of Manuscripts General Index‎