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A selection of manuscripts from the Museum’s collection elucidates these steps and the techniques used.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.getty.edu\/exhibitions\/making-medieval-manuscript\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Making of a Medieval Manuscript\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn view at the Getty Center through March 14, 2027\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-prayer-book-of-charles-the-bold-978-0892369430","title":"The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold: A Study of a Flemish Masterpiece from the Burgundian Court","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Antoine de Schryver\u003cbr\u003e Preface by Thomas Kren\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn January 1469, the accounts of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy record a payment to the scribe Nicolas Spierinc for having written \"some prayers for my lord.\" Seven months later, the same accounts note a payment to the illuminator Lievin van Lathem for twenty-five miniatures plus borders and decorated initials in the same manuscript. In this seminal study, the late Antoine de Schryver argues that the documents refer to the prayer book of Charles the Bold now in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Ms. 37)—one of Charles's most splendid commissions from the greatest era of Netherlandish Burgundian book painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDe Schryver's in-depth research opens a window onto the careers of Van Lathem family members, who served three rulers of the Burgundian Netherlands over forty years, and Nicolas Spierinc, the most inventive and brilliant scribe of Charles's court. This volume reproduces all of the book's miniatures and some of its elegant calligraphic pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAntoine de Schryver was professor of art history, University of Ghent, The Netherlands. Thomas Kren i\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003es former associate director for collections and former senior curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. 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Often, as in the case of the imaginary beasts that readers will encounter in this volume, artists depicted that which they did not see or know but which was nonetheless shaped by the prevailing beliefs, fears, and rudimentary science of the time. In other cases, manuscript illuminators recorded what they indeed did see—which, centuries later, reveals much about the world in which they lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume features vivid and charming details from the wealth of manuscripts in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library, along with a lively text; together both word and image provide an accessible and delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Morrison is associate curator of manuscripts at the J. 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Each volume focuses on a particular theme and provides an accessible, delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn astonishing mix of mundane, playful, absurd, and monstrous beings, called marginalia, are found in the borders of English, French, and Italian manuscripts from the Gothic era. Unpredictable, topical, often irreverent, like the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e cartoons of today, marginalia were a source of satire, serious social observation, and amusement for medieval readers. Through enlarged, full-color details and a lively narrative, this volume brings these intimately scaled, fascinating images to a wider audience. It accompanied an exhibition that was on view at the J. 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