Book-binding

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Manuscripts Book-binding

I.2. Authors & Readers Authorship and copyright are concepts too often taken …

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I. Harvard University, Houghton Library: Manuscripts from Church & Cloister The real beauty of all manuscripts, and of …

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II.2. Holy Writ Christianity is a religion of the book, and …

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II.4. Minding Time: Books of Hours There are more books of hours in the …

Manuscripts Book-binding

II.5. Love & Death: The Art of Devotion Devotional imagery presents a paradox. In theory, as …

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II.6. Public Worship In contrast to the quieter tone of the …

Manuscripts Book-binding

II.8. Secular Pleasures: Edification & Entertainment A passage in Chretien de Troyes’s romance, Yvain; …

Manuscripts Book-binding

III.Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Italian Renaissance The celebrated golden age of Italian art and …

Manuscripts Book-binding

III.4. Humanist Texts Turning to “humanist texts” implies forsaking the “medieval.”

Manuscripts Book-binding

III.5. Renaissance Liturgical Books Despite a popularly held notion that the Italian …

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III.7. Book Decoration & the Advent of Printing All books created in Europe until around 1450 …