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Beasts Factual and Fantastic is the first in the Medieval
Imagination series of small, affordable books that will draw on
manuscript illuminations from the Middle Ages and early
Renaissance. Each volume will focus on a particular theme or
subject as represented by medieval artists. Often, as in the case
of the imaginary beasts that readers will encounter in this volume,
artists depicted that which they did not see or know, but which was
nonetheless shaped by the prevailing beliefs, fears, and
rudimentary science of the time. In other cases, manuscript
illuminators recorded what they indeed did see--which, centuries
later, reveals much about the world in which they lived. This
inaugural volume features vivid and charming details from the
wealth of manuscripts in the collections of the J. Paul Getty
Museum and the British Library, along with a lively text; together
both word and image provide an accessible and delightful
introduction to the imagination of the medieval world. Future
volumes in this series will cover such topics as costumes,
portraiture, and marginalia, among others.
This is an illustrated volume that presents a selection of the
manuscripts, herbals, and printed botanical texts from the Rare
Book Collection at Dumbarton Oaks. Representing pivotal works in
the intellectual history of Europe from the 16th to the 20th
centuries, these drawings, books, and manuscripts are among the
most significant materials conserved in the Rare Book Reading Room.
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