1980, ISBN: 0394739604

[EAN: 9780394739601], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1980], THE CONTINENTAL BACKGROUND OF LATIN AND LEARNING -- ISLAND TRADITIONS FORTY COL… More...

[EAN: 9780394739601], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1980], THE CONTINENTAL BACKGROUND OF LATIN AND LEARNING -- ISLAND TRADITIONS FORTY COLOUR PLATES, INCLUDING ENLARGEMENTS DETAILS, SELECTED FROM GOSPELS SCRIBES THEIR TEXTS ILLUMINATION ARTISTS HISTORY MANUSCRIPT. INTRODUCTION TO BOOK KELLS EIGHT PLATES PRELIMINARIES 6TH CENTURY AELIUS DONATUS ANGLES SAXONS ANGLO-SAXON ANIMALS AUTEM BEDE BEGINNING MATTHEW BENEDICTINE BIBLE BISHOPS ARMAGH DURROW BREVES CAUSAE BRITAIN BRITONS CANON TABLES CANTERBURY CAROLINGIAN CASSIODORUS CHI-RHO CHRIST CHRISTIAN CODEX AMIATINUS COLOURS COLUMBAN MONASTERIES CONTINENT CULTURE DECORATED CAPITALS PAGES DEVELOPMENTS DIOCESE DUBLIN EARLY ECCLESIASTICAL ECHTERNACH ENGLAND ENLARGED DETAIL ESTABLISHED EUROPE EXPERTISE FOLIOS FOUR EVANGELISTS GAUL HIGHLY ILLUSTRATED INFLUENCES INSULAR MAJUSCULE MANUSCRIPTS IONA IRISH CHURCH MONKS JARROW JOHN LETTERS LICHFIELD LINDISFAME LINDISFARNE LINES LUKE PI MIDDLE AGES MILE HENRY MISSIONARIES MONASTIC COMMUNITY SCHOOL NORTHUMBRIA OLD ORNAMENTAL TEXT BEGINS PAGAN PAINTING POPE PORTRAIT PRODUCED ROMAN ROME SCHOLAR SCHOLARSHIP SCRIPT SCRIPTORIUM SECOND ST GALL JEROME PATRICK STYLE SURVIVED SYMBOLS USSHER VIVARIUM VULGATE WORDS WRITING WRITTEN, 96 p. : illustrated (chiefly color.) ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0394739604 (pbk.); 9780394739601 (pbk.); 0394739639 LCCN: 80-7973 ; LC: ND3359.K4; Dewey: 745.6/7/0941822 ; OCLC: 6378391 ; color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Contents : Introduction to the Book of Kells -- Eight colour plates selected from the preliminaries -- The continental background of Latin and learning -- The island traditions -- Forty colour plates, including enlargements of details, selected from the Gospels -- The scribes and their texts -- The illumination and the artists -- The history of the manuscript. ; "The Book of Kells is the most spectacular of a group of manuscripts created in Ireland and northern Britain between the seventh and tenth centuries, a period when Irish monasticism was in the vanguard of Christian culture. It is a masterpiece of medieval art--a brilliantly illuminated copy of the four Gospels with full-page illustrations of Christ, the Virgin and the Evangelists and a wealth of smaller decorative painting. The strange, half-surrealist imagination displayed in its pages, the impeccable technique and the very fine state of preservation make it an object of endless fascination. The editor has chosen the most important of the large illustrations plus a series of enlargements showing the almost unbelievable minuteness of the detail--arabesques, interlaced patterns, weird and witty monsters and grotesqueries. He has also provided a scholarly analysis of these exuberant inventions, the artists, the text and the writing, and a full account of its historical background."--From publisher description : FINE, Books<