Description
This book catalogues the wealthy and most commonly unstudied illumination of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Scott has made a number of 140 illuminated books with perceptive insight; she includes the ones containing the finest artistic endeavors and likewise many illuminations that accompany one of the most great masterpieces of Middle English literature. A number of the magnificent liturgical works catalogued are the Carmelite, Abingdon, and Sherborne Missals, the Bedford Hours, and the Lovell Lectionary. Illustrated editions of Chaucer, Lydgate, and Gower are included; medical, botanical, and typographical books are represented, along with works of chivalry and chronicles of the Kings of England. Presenting a fifteenth-century view of court, church, and the taste for adornment and ornamentation, this book will interest historians of art and society.