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Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts of the Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp: (Low Countries Series 15)

Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts of the Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp: (Low Countries Series 15)

Reynolds, C.
Watteeuw, L.

Hardcover

Series: Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, Book 20

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ISBN10: 9042929154
ISBN13: 9789042929159
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Jan 24 2013
Pages: 303
Weight: 3.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 9.10 Depth: 12.10
Language: English
From the 16th to the 19th century, illuminated manuscripts werecollected by the great printer-publisher Christophe Plantin and hisMoretus successors and descendants. Ranging in date from the 9th to themid-16th centuries, the manuscripts in the Museum Plantin-Moretus comefrom all over Europe, chiefly the Southern Netherlands and France with asignificant representation of 15th-century Dutch illumination. Moresurprisingly, about a quarter of the collection comes from England: manuscripts of the 10th to 15th centuries that left the country withCatholic refugees. Alongside the acknowledged masterpieces and rarities, like the Bohemian Bible of 1402, are volumes that have remainedvirtually unknown, their aesthetic appeal and historical or textualinterest often passing unnoticed in the absence of publishedreproductions. In this beautifully produced catalogue, each of the 102volumes is illustrated in colour, with more extensive coverage of the 55volumes with the most rewarding illumination. For the first time it ispossible to gauge the extent and nature of this fascinating andunder-explored collection, still housed in the building on theVrijdagmarkt in Antwerp to which Plantin moved his famous sign of theGolden Compasses in 1576.

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