Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms

by Michelle P. Brown

Book Overview

What is a florilegium? What is an incipit? What is batarde script? This book--part of the Museum's popular Looking at series--offers definitions of these and numerous other techniques, processes, and materials used in medieval illuminated manuscripts. Concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered by the museum-goer are presented in an easily portable format. With numerous illustrations, many of them in color,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892362170
• ISBN13: 9780892362172
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"