Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections by Tanis, James R.; Jennifer A. Thompson - 2001

Philadelphia Pa. : Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001. First Edition. Hardback. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 242 pages; xiv, 242 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm. Summary: This volume records a remarkable collaborative exhibition that assembles for the first time eighty illuminated manuscripts of great quality, drawn from collections of eleven institutions in the greater Philadelphia area. Almost every artistic centre in medieval and Renaissance Western Europe is represented in this wonderfully diverse group of images, as well as almost every major known type of early illuminated book: Psalters, Bibles, Books of Hours, a wide variety of liturgical manuscripts, and many types of literary and secular texts. The delicate miniatures in these manuscripts did not appear alone; they were surrounded by words and are therefore… Read More