Illuminated Page: 10 Centuries Manuscript Painting

Janet Backhouse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712348409 ISBN 13: 9780712348409

Publisher: British Library Publishing Division, 2004

The British Library houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of Western illuminated manuscripts in the world. This book offers an anthology in colour chosen from more than two hundred of them. So very comprehensive are the British Library collections that the majority of the most significant schools of illumination in medieval Europe can be represented. Furthermore, most of the manuscripts contain dozens, if not hundreds, of images, only visible to those who have the privilege of turning their delicate pages.

Review:

""Best illuminated book on the market. Every page is crammed with beautiful dear colour illustrations. Best of all it is affordable."

About the Author:

Janet Backhouse is an internationally respected manuscript expert and former Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at The British Library.