Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms
$19.95
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Michelle P. Brown
This book offers definitions of techniques, processes, and materials used in medieval illuminated manuscripts. Presented in an easily portable format, this volume includes concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered by the museum-goer along with numerous illustrations, many of them in color.
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128 pages
6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches
64 color and 33 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-217-2
paperback
Getty Publications
Imprint: J. Paul Getty Museum
Series: Looking At
1994
Not for sale in Commonwealth and Europe except Canada
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"Highly recommended for a wide range of readers."
CHOICE
"Not only does it make lucid the most complex conventions of the illumination, but it is also a pocket history of the Middle Ages."
Magazine Antiques
