@Book{865310645, editor="Hamburger, Jeffrey F. and Stoneman, William P. and Eze, Anne-Marie and Davis, Lisa Fagin and Netzer, Nancy", title="Beyond words: illuminated manuscripts in Boston collections", year="2016", publisher="University of Chicago Press", address="Chicago", keywords="Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance; Illumination of books and manuscripts; Massachusetts; Boston", abstract="Published in conjunction with a collaborative exhibition of the same name held in 2016 and 2017 at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University's Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, this catalog provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. Entries by eighty-five international experts document, discuss, and reproduce more than two hundred and sixty manuscripts and early printed books, many of them little known before now. Beyond Words also explores the history of collecting such books in Boston, an uncharted chapter in the history of American taste. Of broad appeal to scholars and amateur enthusiasts alike, this catalog documents one of the most ambitious exhibitions of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts ever to take place in North America", note="edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, William P. Stoneman, Anne-Marie Eze, Lisa Fagin Davis {\&} Nancy Netzer", note="R{\"u}ckseite der Titelseite: ``This catalogue is published by the McMullen Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections at the Houghton Library, Harvard University (September 12-December 10, 2016), McMullen Museum of Art, Bosotn College (September 12-December 11, 2016), and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (September 22, 2016-January 16, 2017).''", note="Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gew{\"a}hrleistet SSG XA-DE-BW pdager DE-16", isbn="1892850265", language="English" }