Christine de Pizan's Lady Reason and the Book in Beinecke MS 427
| Autor: | Christine McWebb |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Florilegium. 18:83-96 |
| ISSN: | 2369-7180 0709-5201 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/flor.18.007 |
| Popis: | Johan Huizinga describes the waning Middle Ages as an epoch saturated with symbols and images. The numerous cathedrals and monuments from this period confirm the point, with their multitude of allegorical scenes depicted in murals and on pillars inside and out. The same can be said of those illuminated manuscripts so lavishly and carefully done that they transmit the message of the text on a pictorial level. During the Middle Ages, the image seemed to occupy a central role with regard to the perception of a given manuscript. In fact, the prestige of a manuscript was often tied to the quality and quantity of the illuminations and miniatures it contained, pointing to the wealth of the patron who commissioned it. The value and the popularity of a specific work can thus be judged, to a certain extent at least, by the number and the quality of its miniatures. A case in point, for instance, is the second manuscript "edition" of Christine de Pizan's collected works dating, as has been proven, from between 1410 and 1415, British Library, MS Harley 4431, prepared for Isabeau de Baviere, one of Christine's patrons. This manuscript is today one of the British Library's treasures, with twenty-nine individual works in prose and poetry, as well as one hundred and thirty miniatures of sumptuous quality. |
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