TY  - BOOK
ED  - Hamburger, Jeffrey F.
ED  - Stoneman, William P.
ED  - Eze, Anne-Marie
ED  - Davis, Lisa Fagin
ED  - Netzer, Nancy
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016//
TI  - Beyond words: illuminated manuscripts in Boston collections
PB  - University of Chicago Press
CY  - Chicago
KW  - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
KW  - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance
KW  - Illumination of books and manuscripts
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Boston
AB  - 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
SN  - 1892850265
LA  - English
N1  - edited by Jeffrey  F. Hamburger, William P. Stoneman, Anne-Marie Eze, Lisa Fagin Davis & Nancy Netzer
ID  - 865310645
ER  -