Sherborne Missal

by Janet Backhouse

The Sherborne Missal is one of the finest examples of early book painting. It was commissioned for the Benedictine Abbey of Sherborne in Dorset by Richard Mitford, Bishop of Salisbury 1396-1407, and Robert Bruyning, Abbot of Sherborne 1385-1415. The scribe was a Benedictine monk named John Whas, and the chief illuminator was John Siferwas, a Dominican friar and a leading artist of the 'International Gothic' period. Siferwas' work is very much in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802047432
• ISBN13: 9780802047434
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.5" x 12.5"