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This handsomely produced publication is the first of a two volume set exploring an outstanding collection of leaves and miniatures from medieval manuscripts. Brimming with beautiful illustrations, this welcome contribution to medieval scholarship covers a period from the late 9th to the late 15th centuries and incorporates new discoveries in this still growing field. The turbulent times when Napoleon’s troops were sweeping over Europe under the banner of secularization, seeking to suppress ecclesiastical influence within the sphere of political power, had disastrous consequences especially for ecclesiastical libraries, which were broken up and looted. The Italian religious houses had their cultural treasures destroyed or moved out of context and spread all over the world to satisfy a growing market for medieval art. These fatal years (1796–99) coincide with a major interest in early Italian painting, when French and English connoisseurs joined their Italian colleagues in a systematic study of early Italian art, producing fundamental studies on the subject. Essentially the deplorable practice of breaking up manuscripts and liturgical books was not all that different from the inglorious process of dismembering giant medieval altarpieces, whose single pieces were made available to a growing market and, consequently, dispersed among different collections. Thus, in the present day, one of the major tasks of the art historian is the attempt to reassemble these fragments and present them in virtual reconstructions, reconstituting their original context. By doing this, scholars create the foundation for any further art-historical analysis of a work of art. This task is one of the important objectives in cataloguing the present collection. The miniatures and single leaves in the McCarthy collection, which has been formed in the past two or three decades – between 1990 and today – are manifestly the fruit of the destructive, but at the same time a conservational effort. Even though assembled in relatively recent years, the McCarthy collection stands in line with many similar anthologies of miniature in private or public hands. However, by contrast to other similar collections, the McCarthy collection has not limited its focus just on one school of European illumination, the Italian centres of illumination, but aims to present a vast panorama of this sophisticated art, which, to use Dante’s words, was called ‘illumination’ (‘... quell arte ch’alluminar chiamata è in Parisi’; Purgatorio, XI, 79–80).

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine. --- Manuscrits à peintures italiens --- Manuscrits à peintures byzantins --- McCarthy, Robert --- Art collections --- Italy. --- 091 <017.2 MCCARTHY, ROBERT> --- 091.31 --- 091.31 Verluchte handschriften --- Verluchte handschriften --- 091 <017.2 MCCARTHY, ROBERT> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Private verzamelingen--017.2 MCCARTHY, ROBERT --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Private verzamelingen--017.2 MCCARTHY, ROBERT --- Manuscrits à peintures français. --- Manuscripts, European --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, European --- Manuscrits à peintures espagnols --- Manuscrits à peintures anglais --- Manuscrits à peintures flamands --- Catalogs. --- Manuscrits à peintures italiens --- Manuscrits à peintures byzantins --- Manuscrits à peintures espagnols --- Manuscrits à peintures anglais --- Manuscrits à peintures flamands

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This is the first comprehensive and in-depth study of the earliest figural painting ever to have been produced in Flanders on a continual basis. Most of the manuscripts are Psalters, but Bibles, a Breviary, a Missal, a Netherlandic life of a saint, and yet other texts occur. Three main categories of illuminator are distinguishable: those working in Bruges, in Ghent, and, at least in part, for the circle of the counts of Flanders. The principal chapters and the catalog segments are organized around their individual contributions. An arrangement in time and place of the total body of work was obtained through a lengthy and rigorous process of comparison of figural, ornamental and writing styles, codicological and textual features. Several distinctive Flemish patterns of Psalter iconography have emerged; these are presented in tabular form with accompanying commentaries. A surprising amount of information about the early owners of the books, mostly well-to-do members of the laity, was yielded in the analysis for the manuscript catalogs.

Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Painting --- anno 1200-1299 --- Flanders --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic --- Enluminure flamande --- Enluminure médiévale --- Enluminure gothique --- manuscripten --- illustraties --- geschiedenis --- miniaturen --- middeleeuwen --- 12de eeuw --- 13de eeuw --- Vlaanderen --- Brugge --- Gent --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Painting, Medieval --- Painting, Flemish --- Painters --- History --- Manuscrits à peintures flamands --- Manuscripts --- 091 "12" --- 091.31 <493> --- 091.31 "04/14" --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--13e eeuw. Periode 1200-1299 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--België --- Verluchte handschriften--Middeleeuwen --- 091.31 "04/14" Verluchte handschriften--Middeleeuwen --- 091 "12" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--13e eeuw. Periode 1200-1299 --- Enluminure médiévale --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Flanders (County) --- 13th century --- Illumination of books and manuscripts [Medieval ] --- Illumination of books and manuscripts [Flemish ] --- Bruges (Belgium) --- Ghent (Belgium) --- illustratie --- middeleeuwen, middeleeuwse geschiedenis (historisch tijdvak) --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval - Belgium - Flanders --- Manuscripts, Medieval - Belgium - Flanders --- Painting, Medieval - Belgium - Flanders --- Painting, Flemish - 13th century --- Painters - Belgium - Flanders - History - To 1500 --- Mss enluminés et à peintures --- manuscripten. --- illustratie. --- geschiedenis. --- miniaturen. --- middeleeuwen, middeleeuwse geschiedenis (historisch tijdvak). --- 12de eeuw. --- 13de eeuw. --- Vlaanderen. --- Brugge. --- Gent.

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Book history --- Charles the Bold --- Prayer books --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Livres de prières --- Enluminure flamande --- Enluminure médiévale --- Illustrations. --- Illustrations --- Charles, --- Lathem, Lievin van, --- Spierinck, Nicolas, --- Art patronage. --- J. Paul Getty Museum. --- Gebetbuch Karls des Kühnen --- 091 <73 LOS ANGELES> --- 091:243 --- 091:264-13*2 --- 091.31 <435.9> --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--LOS ANGELES --- Gebedenboeken--(handschriften) --- Getijdenboeken--(handschriften) --- Verluchte handschriften--Groothertogdom Luxemburg --- 091.31 <435.9> Verluchte handschriften--Groothertogdom Luxemburg --- 091:264-13*2 Getijdenboeken--(handschriften) --- 091:243 Gebedenboeken--(handschriften) --- 091 <73 LOS ANGELES> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--LOS ANGELES --- Livres de prières --- Enluminure médiévale --- Gebetbuch Karls des Kühnen --- Books of prayer --- Prayer-books --- Devotional literature --- Liturgies --- Painting, Medieval --- Flemish illumination of books and manuscripts --- Charles the Bold, --- Burgundy, Charles, --- Bourgogne, Charles, --- Karel de Stoute, --- Karl der Kühne, --- Charles le Téméraire, --- Charles le Hardy, --- Charles le Hardi, --- Spiericnk, Nicholaus, --- Spierinc, Claeis, --- Spierinc, Claes, --- Spierinc, Clay, --- Spierinc, Nicolas, --- Spierinck, Claes, --- Spierinck, Nicholas, --- Spierinck, Niklas, --- Laethem, Lieven van, --- Lathem, Lieven van, --- Lieven, --- Van Lathem, Lievin, --- Getty (J. Paul) Museum. --- Getty Museum --- JPGM --- Museo J. Paul Getty --- Prayer book of Charles the Bold --- Livre de prières de Charles Téméraire --- Charles le téméraire (duc de bourgogne ; 1433-1477) --- Lathem, lievin van, fl. 1454-1493 --- Spierinck, nicolas, fl. 1455-1499 --- J. paul getty museum (los angeles, calif.) --- Gebetbuch karls des kühnen --- Livres d'heures --- Manuscrits à peintures flamands --- Manuscrits ms. 37 --- France --- Bourgogne (france) --- 15e siècle --- 15e sièce