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MANION, Margaret (1935 - 2024)

The Felton Illuminated Manuscripts in the National Gallery of Victoria

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Melbourne, National Gallery Victoria / Macmillan, 2005. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 440, extensively illustrated. Fine copy of the hardback edition, as new.

“This scholarly publication ‘The Felton illuminated manuscripts in the National Gallery of Victoria’ celebrates the Gallery’s small but distinguished collection of illuminated manuscripts and eloquently comments on the development of the handwritten and ornamented book from the twelfth century to the advent of printing in the late fifteenth century.”

Contents:

The Gospel Book of Theophanes

The Aspremont-Kievraing Hours

The Melbourne Livy

The Wharncliffe Hours

The Strozzi-Acciaiuoli Hours

Leaf of a Universal Chronicle