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Title Illuminating the book : makers and interpreters : essays in honour of Janet Backhouse / edited by Michelle P. Brown and Scot McKendrick
Publication Info London : British Library ; Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1998
Location Call Number Status
 Watson Library Stacks  ND2980 .I44 1998    REQUESTABLE
 Cloisters Library  ND2980 .I44 1998  Reading Room  MISSING
Description 314 p. : ill., facsims. (some col.), port. ; 26 cm
Series British Library studies in medieval culture
Contents Preface / Michelle P. Brown and Scot McKendrick -- Memoir: Janet Backhouse: Colleague and Friend / Pamela Porter and Shelley Jones -- Ch. 1. Sarah and Hagar: Laughter and Tears / Ruth Mellinkoff -- Ch. 2. Pictorial and Verbal Play in the Margins: The Case of British Library, Stowe MS 49 / Lucy Freeman Sandler -- Ch. 3. The Master of Francois de Rohan: A Familiar French Renaissance Miniaturist with a New Name / Myra D. Orth -- Ch. 4. An unknown manuscript made for Philip the Good / Nicole Reynaud -- Ch. 5. The 'Large Letters' of the Litlington Missal and Westminster Abbey in 1383-84 / Pamela Tudor-Craig -- Ch. 6. Two Illuminated Guild Registers from Bedfordshire / Richard Marks -- Ch. 7. Sir Thomas Wriothesley and his Heraldic Artists / Ann Payne -- Ch. 8. Jean Fouquet and Italy: '... buono maestro, maxime a ritrarre del naturale' / Mark L. Evans -- Ch. 9. Illumination for Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini (1442-1507) / Jonathan Alexander -- Ch. 10. Landscape as Leitmotif: A Reintegrated Book of Hours Illuminated by Simon Bening / Thomas Kren -- Ch. 11. Some New Observations on the Farnese Hours in the Morgan Library (M.69) / William M. Voelkle -- Ch. 12. The 'Rogers' Leaf of the Hours of Etienne Chevalier / Christopher de Hamel -- Ch. 13. 'Her moost lovyng and fryndely brother sendeth gretyng': Anne Boleyn's Manuscripts and their Sources / James P. Carley -- Ch. 14. Sir Robert Cotton, Collector and Connoisseur? / Michelle P. Brown -- App. The Published Writings of Janet Backhouse / Andrew Prescott
Summary "Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters is published in honour of Janet Backhouse, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at The British Library, who retired in 1998 after a 35-year career at the British Museum and Library." "Many eminent scholars and colleagues have contributed essays reflecting Janet's own research interests, particularly in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, and in the interaction between English collectors and continental book producers."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
"The published writings of Janet Backhouse": p. 299-305
Notes Includes article "Some new observations on the Farnese hours in the Morgan Library (M.69)" by William M. Voelkle (p. 233-248).
Subjects Backhouse, Janet.
Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Themes, motives
Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting
Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens.
Marginalia -- Themes, motives
Additional Authors Backhouse, Janet.
Brown, Michelle (Michelle P.)
McKendrick, Scot.
Voelkle, William M.
Series British Library studies in medieval culture.
Material Type Festschriften.
ISBN 0802044115
OCLC 39270242