Illuminated legal texts rank high among the most splendidly
decorated medieval manuscripts. Their historical and artistic
significance has largely escaped even specialists in art and legal
history. The long-recognised discrepancy between the importance of
the material and its relative inaccessibility, as well as the rich
Cambridge collections, provided the incentive for an exhibition at
the Fitzwilliam Museum. With the intention to bring this splendid
material to the attention and the understanding of a wider
audience, this catalogue offers introductory essays on the making
and use of medieval legal manuscripts, detailed descriptions and
analysis of representative examples, and rich illustrative
material, aesthetically pleasing and thought-provoking. This
catalogue offers introductory essays on the making and the use of
medieval legal manuscripts in Cambridge collections, in order to
call attention to the illuminated legal texts as splendidly
decorated medieval manuscripts. ..".the handsome catalogue,
Illuminating the law, with its generous quota of colour plates,
does splendid justice to a small exhibition at the Fitzwilliam
Museum (...), in which unexpected delights are found in apparently
dry legal textbooks." (A. Payne in The Art Newspaper, December
2001).
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