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A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges - Part Four: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales. Volume One: Insular and Anglos-Saxon Manuscripts (Hardcover)
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A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges - Part Four: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales. Volume One: Insular and Anglos-Saxon Manuscripts (Hardcover)
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This publication is the first volume to appear in the catalogue
series devoted to the British Isles and covers Insular and
Anglo-Saxon manuscripts produced between c. 700 and c. 1100 AD.
This was a period in which Britain witnessed a great blossoming of
cultural awareness and artistic craftsmanship. Under the reign of
King Alfred towards the end of the ninth century England
experienced a renewed impetus for scholarly activity, and as a
result the production of books intensified greatly. By the early
tenth century, influenced and inspired by new trends and ideas from
Continental Europe, English art began to flourish, and manuscript
illumination especially made a great impact with the high quality
of its figure style and decorated initials, and with its elegance
of script and mise-en-page. Cambridge is fortunate in having a
significant collection of manuscripts from this period, and the
ninety-seven works catalogued and richly illustrated here are
amongst the finest surviving examples of Anglo-Saxon decoration.
Included here are the fragmentary yet striking remains of a once
magnificent early eighth-century Northumbrian Gospels, while an
early tenth-century copy of Bede's Life of St Cuthbert contains a
full-page image of King Aethelstan offering a book to St Cuthbert,
that may be the earliest presentation scene surviving in England.
In another tenth-century manuscript, Amalarius of Metz's Liber
officialis, one may see the fullest repertoire of ingenious
interlace and zoomorphic initials-the high-point of Anglo-Saxon
drawing skills. In yet another Gospel book, from the early eleventh
century, a de luxe manuscript resplendent with gold, one can find
all the characteristic features of Anglo-Saxon iconography and
style, including exuberant frame ornamentation, as well as examples
of drapery with agitated fluttering hemlines, the hall-mark of
Carolingian-inspired draughtsmanship. In addition to the detailed
catalogue of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts produced in England, Ireland
and Wales, the volume also includes an Addenda to the previously
published Part One of this series, listing thirteen Frankish
manuscripts from the eighth to the tenth century that had not been
catalogued before. Among these is the well-known copy of Hrabanus
Maurus' De laudibus sanctae crucis whose place of origin and
circumstances of production still remain to be established. Every
manuscript catalogued is illustrated in full colour, mostly with
several illustrations, and frequently with special detail images.
There is also an exhaustive bibliography and the catalogue is fully
indexed including a comprehensive iconographic index.
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