Les Enluminures

The Olivetan Gradual: Its Place in 15th-century Lombard Manuscript Illumination

The Olivetan Gradual: Its Place in 15th-century Lombard Manuscript Illumination

64 pages, paperback, 280 x 240 mm, 50 colour illustrations
PRICE: £15.00
ISBN: 978 1 903470 879

 

This illuminated manuscript, a gradual of large size which the whole congregation of monks could see and read as they sang in choir (just as they are shown doing in an illustration in the manuscript itself), was previously unknown to scholars and has only recently come to light. It was clearly produced for a monastery of the Olivetan order, a branch of the Benedictines with a particular reverence for the Virgin Mary – probably Santa Maria di Baggio near Milan. Read more

Towards an Art History of Medieval Rings

Towards an Art History of Medieval Rings

Toward an Art History of Medieval Rings gives a full survey of Merovingian, Byzantine, Medieval and Renaissance rings, building on the basis of a private collection of 35 rings assembled over nearly two decades. These rings range in date from around 300 to 1600 AD and are fine examples of most of the major types of ring created during this period. They include marriage rings, seal rings, stirrup rings, tart mould rings, iconographic rings, merchant rings and gemstone rings and are arranged chronologically. More