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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.
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- PublisherBritish Library Publishing Division
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0712348409
- ISBN 13 9780712348409
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages228
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The Illuminated Page : Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting
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