The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books. The authors explore some of the themes and questions raised in John’s work, tackling issues of meaning, making, patronage, the book as an object, relationships between text and image, and the transmission of ideas. They combine John’s commitment to the close scrutiny of manuscripts with an interrogation of what the books meant in their own time and what they mean to us now.
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Table of Contents
Were Early Medieval Picture Cycles Recycled from Late Antiquity? New Evidence for a Lost Archetype of the Apollonius Pictus-An Illustrated Classic, Michelle P. Brown
Milanese Early Medieval Psalters: Models and Influences from West and East, Francesca Demarchi
Noli me tangere in the Codex Egberti (Reichenau, c. 977-93) and in the Gospel Book of Otto iii (Reichenau, 998-1000): Visual Exegesis in Context, Barbara Baert
The Green Tinted Souls of Dives and Lazarus in the Codex Aureus of Echternach, Maria R. Grasso
Portraits of Terence, the African, Beatrice Radden Keefe
Manuscripts Face to Face: León and the Holy Roman Empire in the Mid-eleventh Century, Rose Walker
The Two Pictures Cycles in Early Manuscripts of St Anselm’s Prayers, T.A. Heslop
Early Cistercian Manuscripts from Clairvaux, Kathleen Doyle
The Imagery of Noah’s Ark in the Mosaic Decoration of Monreale Cathedral, Mika Takiguchi
Some Observations on the Artists of the Leiden Psalter (Leiden, University Library MS B.P.L. 76A) and Their Working Practices, Emma Luker
A Portrait of Abraham Ibn Ezra (Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal MS 1186), Patricia Stirnemann and Judith Kogel
The Virgin and Child in the Map Psalter (London, British Library Additional MS 28681), Sally Dormer
Seeing and Reading the Matthew Paris Saints’ Lives, Martin Kauffmann
Extended Shelf-life: Manuscript Consolidation in an English Monastic Library, Kathryn Gerry
Domesday in Disguise, Jessica Berenbeim
From Warwickshire to New York via Canterbury: The Travels and Tribulations of the Bible of Richard of Sholdon, Frederica Law-Turner
Virgin, Devil, Bishop, King: Nicola Pisano’s Pulpit in Siena and Alfonso x’s Cantigas de Santa Maria, Deirdre Jackson
Of Venerable Teachers and Boisterous Students: Maistre Brunetto and the Arabic Aristotle, Hanna Wimmer
Lost and Found in the Meditationes Vitae Christi, Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 410, Renana Bartal
Ivory Booklets, Devotion in Cologne, Sarah M. Guérin
Gothic Ivories Unhinged, Catherine Yvard
Monks and Ants in the Presence of Death: A Re-reading of Pliny the Elder in Quattrocento Illumination, Christian Heck
The Ridware Cartulary and the Great Seal of England, Julian Luxford
Sin and Salvation in the Hours of Jean de Dunois, Richard Gameson
Harreteau and His Unfinished Book of Hours, Rowan Watson
Looking Beneath the Surface: Subterranean Space in the Kutná Hora Cantional, Lucy Donkin
A Manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Mulieribus Claris from the Library of the Benedictine Convent of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore in Milan?, Anne-Marie Eze
Bloodlines: Medicine and Cosmology in France, China, and Mexico, Jack Hartnell
