Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms (Looking At)

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What is a florilegium? What is an incipit? What is batarde script? This book–a part of the Museum’s popular Looking at series–offers definitions of those and a large number of other techniques, processes, and materials utilized in medieval illuminated manuscripts. Concise and readable explanations of the technical terms so much steadily encountered by the museum-goer are presented in an easily portable format. With a large number of illustrations, many of them in color, this volume might be invaluable to all readers wishing to extend their figuring out and delight in illuminated manuscripts.

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