The Court School of Charlemagne and its Emphasized Script
A Codicological and Art Historical Examination
James A. Harmon(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 31. December 1984
Book
Paperback/Softback
319 pages
978-3-8204-7283-7 (ISBN)
Description
Paleographical and art historical methods are used to examine the quality and preparation of parchment, page format, script, text, and particularly the ornament, structure, and placement of evangelist portraits and canonical text beginning pages within the gospel books of the Court School of Charlemagne. Each gospel manuscript is analyzed as an individual whole and as a part of the group. A new nomenclature for the different types of emphasized script is proposed and the unknown figures in the initial medallions are identified. The study presents a history of the problems of luxury manuscript production in the Court School scriptorium and their successful and rejected solutions.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Frankfurt a.M.
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations, unspecified
Weight
420 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8204-7283-7 (9783820472837)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Contents: Systems of Lining Manuscripts - Lining Systems as Coordinate Systems in Pictorial Compositions - Emphasized Script Characters and their Geneological Relationships - Initials and their Combinations - Decorative Programs - Appendices - Illustrations.