ISBN10: 0714120499, ISBN13: 9780714120492, [publisher: British Museum Press] Softcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:9780714120492
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1992]

ISBN10: 0714120499, ISBN13: 9780714120492, [publisher: British Museum Press] Softcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:9780714120492
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1992]

British Museum, London, 2002 reprint of Date: 1992 first edition. Laminated pictorial wrappers, square 4to, 22 cm,. 72 pp, 35 colour and 28 black-and-white ills. From the blurb: "More illuminated manuscripts survive than any other artefact from the Middle Ages...This survey describes each stage of production from the preparation of the vellum, pens, paints and inks to the writing of the scripts and the final decoration and illumination of the book. The author then examines the role of the stationer or bookshop in co-ordinating book production, describes the supply of exemplars and accuracy of texts, and then follows the careers of a number of specific scribes and illuminators who emerge not as anonymous monks but as identifiable professional lay artisans. He also looks at who bought the completed books and why, and how much they paid for them. Scribes and Illuminators ends with a glimpse of how the manuscripts were read, and how the patrons regarded the craftsmanship for which they had paid. The timespan ranges from the eleventh century through the golden age of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to the luxurious manuscripts in existence at the discovery of printing. Near Fine. 1992. British Museum, London, 2002 reprint of 1992 first edition ISBN 0714120499 9780714120492 [GB]