Miniature Painting in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

Buchthal, Hugo

Verlag: At the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1957

Beschreibung

4to (32.5 cm), XXXIV, 163 pp, 155 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly discolored and frayed at extremities, two closed tears). With liturgical and palaeographical chapters by Francis Wormald. "While the architecture and sculpture of the Crusaders in Palestine have been frequently studied, miniature painting in the Crusading Kingdom has so far remained practically unknown. This book offers a complete survey of a new field. Illuminated manuscripts produced in the scriptorium of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, and at St. Jean d'Acre. some of them commissioned by the Latin Kings themselves, are here for the first time brought together, and the influence of different western and Byzantine schools of illumination in Palestine is traced. This group of manuscripts, which were all produced between c. 1140 and 1290, reflects the changing fortunes of the Latin Kingdom, and is at the same time singularly consistent; it includes some of the finest surviving medieval work, and will take a distinguished place in the history of Latin book illumination." (from the blurb). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006228

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Miniature Painting in the Latin Kingdom of ...

Verlag: At the Clarendon Press, Oxford

Erscheinungsdatum: 1957

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good