Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge

Brepols Publishers et Harvey Miller Publishers annoncent la publication du catalogue des manuscits enluminés du Fitzwilliam Museum et des diffèrents collèges de Cambridge :

Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge – A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges, edited by Nigel Morgan and Stella Panayotova.
Some 3,000 manuscripts are being catalogued according to their place of origin and school of illumination, dating from the sixth to the sixteenth century and covering a wide range of texts both in Latin and in vernacular languages.
The catalogue is in five multi-volume parts and will appear in the following order :
(i) The Low Countries – Germany – Bohemia – Austria – Hungary (251 manuscripts)
(ii) Italy – Spain – Portugal (circa 500 manuscripts)
(iii) France (circa 600 manuscripts)
(iv) England – Ireland – Scotland – Wales (circa 1500 manuscripts)
(v) Illuminated Incunabula (circa 100 volumes)

This publication is the first to appear in a major new series of catalogues covering all the Western medieval illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge, excluding only the separately catalogued manuscripts in the University Library. The catalogue entries, based on the most recent studies undertaken by the Cambridge Illuminations Research Project, are organised geographically by place of origin, and, within that grouping, listed chronologically. The present two-volume catalogue deals with the early manuscripts produced in the Frankish Kingdoms, the splendid, richly illustrated books from the Northern and Southern Netherlands ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, illuminations from the Meuse region, manuscripts both in Latin and the vernacular from the late eleventh to the end of the sixteenth century from Germany, and lastly an interesting group of books from Bohemia, Austria and Hungary. While the focus of the catalogue is on the illumination, all decoration and ornamentation being listed in detail, entries also include much information on codicology, on texts and on provenance, as well as the most recent bibliographical references. Every manuscript catalogued is also illustrated, generally with several images which are all reproduced in full colour.

Part I will be published in two volumes in June 2009 :
Part I – Volume one (The Frankish Kingdoms – Northern Netherlands – Germany – Bohemia – Hungary – Austria
Part I – Volume two (The Meuse Region – Southern Netherlands)
560 pages, 750 colour ills., 230 x 330 mm
ISBN 978-1-905375-9 (in two volumes)
200 euro

 
Texte de présentation (format pdf) [link]
BREPOLS website [link]
info[at]brepols.net

Ms 15677. Livre d’heures à l’usage de Rome, ca 1500.

The Fitzwilliam Museum [link]