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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Who were the medieval illuminators? How were their hand-produced books illustrated and decorated? In this beautiful book Jonathan Alexander presents a survey of manuscript illumination throughout Europe from the fourth to the sixteenth century. He discusses the social and historical context of the illuminators’ lives considers their methods of work and presents a series of case studies to show the range and nature of the visual sources and the ways in which they were adapted copied or created anew. Alexander explains that in the early period Christian monasteries and churches were the main centers for the copying of manuscripts and so the majority of illuminators were monks working in and for their own monasteries. From the eleventh century lay scribes and illuminators became increasingly numerous and by the thirteenth century professional illuminators dominated the field. During this later period illuminators were able to travel in search of work and to acquire new ideas they joined guilds with scribes or with artists in the cities and their ranks included nuns and secular women. Work was regularly collaborative and the craft was learned through an apprenticeship system. (MP)