Author: Hourihane, Colum,; Plummer, John
Title: Between the Picture and the Word : Manuscript Studies from the Index of Christian Art
Description: Princeton, N.J. Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University ; University Park, PA, 2005. Softcover. Illustrated glossy illustrated cover. (xxvii), 216 pp, [142] pages of plates : illustrations (some color). In this volume from the Index of Christian Art, a group of scholars makes skilled use of the methodology of iconography to examine a number of significant medieval manuscripts, including the Morgan Picture Bible. Contents as follows: Introduction / Colum Hourihane -- John Plummer: a reminiscence / Lucy Freeman Sandler -- Provenance and place: the Morgan picture Bible / William Voelkle -- The view from the roof: on the chimneys of the Morgan picture Bible / Anne-Marie Bouche -- The politics and poetics of possession: Saint Louis, the Jews, and Old Testament violence / Laura H. Hollengreen -- Between Saul and David: picturing rule in the Morgan Library Old Testament / Gerald B. Guest -- The iconography of authority in the depiction of seated, cross-legged figures / Judith K. Golden -- Heroines, wives, and mothers: depicting women in the Bible historiale and the Morgan picture Bible / Libby Karlinger Escobedo -- Questions of style and provenance in the Morgan picture Bible / Alison Stones -- David's written and pictorial biography in a thirteenth-century French Psalter-hours / Adelaide Bennett -- The Morgan Bible and the giving of gifts between Iran and Europe / Europe and Iran during the region of Shah 'Abbabs I / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- Before the betrayal: the life of Judas in a vernacular fourteenth-century Austrian manuscript / Alison L. Beringer -- A new manuscript by one of the artists in the hunterian and Copenhagen Psalters / Patricia Stirnemann -- The peregrinations of a thousand-year-old English gospel book (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. M.869) / Jane Rosenthal -- Pregnant pages: marginalia in a book of hours (Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. M.754/British Library, Ms. Add. 36684) / Judith Steinhoff -- The tree of death and the tree of life: the hanging of haman in medieval Jewish manuscript painting / Katrin Kogman-Appel. VG, cover shows some wear, top right corner is bumped. Bind tight, pages clean .

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing, Hourihane ; Book Illumination ; ;


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