This volume is a rich resource for the study of time as represented by the signs of the zodiac and occupations of the months, documented in the comprehensive files of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University. The measurement and documentation of time has been a universal issue since the dawn of civilizationand no more so than in the medie
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This volume is a rich resource for the study of time as represented by the signs of the zodiac and occupations of the months, documented in the comprehensive files of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University. The measurement and documentation of time has been a universal issue since the dawn of civilizationand no more so than in the medie
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Index of Christian Art Dept. of Art and Archeology Princeton
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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2005
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LikeNew. Paperback. Softcover. 11" x 8.5". xxvii, [1], 216, [142] pp. Numerous b&w illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Minor bumps and scuffs to bottom edge. Near Fine. ISBN 0976820218.
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Index of Christian Art Dept. of Art and Archeology Princeton
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2005
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VG, cover shows some wear, top right corner is bumped. Bind tight, pages clean. Illustrated glossy illustrated cover. (xxvii), 216 pp, [142] pages of plates: illustrations (some color). In this volume from the Index of Christian Art, a group of scholars makes skilled use of the methodology of iconography to examine a number of significant medieval manuscripts, including the Morgan Picture Bible. Contents as follows: Introduction / Colum Hourihane--John Plummer: a reminiscence / Lucy Freeman Sandler--Provenance and place: the Morgan picture Bible / William Voelkle--The view from the roof: on the chimneys of the Morgan picture Bible / Anne-Marie Bouche--The politics and poetics of possession: Saint Louis, the Jews, and Old Testament violence / Laura H. Hollengreen--Between Saul and David: picturing rule in the Morgan Library Old Testament / Gerald B. Guest--The iconography of authority in the depiction of seated, cross-legged figures / Judith K. Golden--Heroines, wives, and mothers: depicting women in the Bible historiale and the Morgan picture Bible / Libby Karlinger Escobedo--Questions of style and provenance in the Morgan picture Bible / Alison Stones--David's written and pictorial biography in a thirteenth-century French Psalter-hours / Adelaide Bennett--The Morgan Bible and the giving of gifts between Iran and Europe / Europe and Iran during the region of Shah 'Abbabs I / Marianna Shreve Simpson--Before the betrayal: the life of Judas in a vernacular fourteenth-century Austrian manuscript / Alison L. Beringer--A new manuscript by one of the artists in the hunterian and Copenhagen Psalters / Patricia Stirnemann--The peregrinations of a thousand-year-old English gospel book (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. M.869) / Jane Rosenthal--Pregnant pages: marginalia in a book of hours (Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. M.754/British Library, Ms. Add. 36684) / Judith Steinhoff--The tree of death and the tree of life: the hanging of haman in medieval Jewish manuscript painting / Katrin Kogman-Appel.