This lush, three-volume slipcased set catalogues the V&A's
superb collection of Western illuminated manuscripts. Providing a
history of an art form spanning eight centuries as an integral part
of the decorative arts, it documents not only the practice of
medieval and Renaissance illumination, but also the survival of
medieval bookmaking crafts alongside printing in the
post-Renaissance period--and their revival in the 19th century. The
three volumes bring together for the first time works such as the
St. Denis Missal of 1350 and the Chambord Missal of 1844, the
Sanvito Petrarch of 1463-64 and William Morris's "Book of Verse "of
1870. Catalogue descriptions discuss each work in detail and pay
particular attention to the changing ways in which they have been
evaluated and used through the centuries.
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