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Western Illuminated Manuscripts: a Catalogue of the Collection in Cambridge University Library Paul Binski and Patrick Zutshi Frontmatter More Information
Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84892-3 - Western Illuminated Manuscripts: A Catalogue of the Collection in Cambridge University Library Paul Binski and Patrick Zutshi Frontmatter More information WESTERN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS Cambridge University Library’s collection of illuminated manuscripts is of international signifi cance. It originates in the medieval university and stands alongside the holdings of the Colleges and the Fitzwilliam Museum. Th e University Library contains major European examples of medieval illumination from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, with acknowledged masterpieces of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance book art, as well as illuminated literary texts, including the fi rst complete Chaucer manuscript. Th is catalogue provides scholars and researchers easy access to the University Library’s illuminated manuscripts, evaluating the importance of many of them for the very fi rst time. It contains descriptions of famous manuscripts – for example, the Life of Edward the Confessor attributed to Matthew Paris – as well as hundreds of lesser-known items. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the catalogue contains descriptions of individual manuscripts with up-to-date assessments of their style, origins and importance, together with bibliographical references. PAUL BINSKI is Professor of the History of Medieval Art at Cambridge University. He specializes in the art and architecture of medieval Western Europe. His previous publications include Th e Painted Chamber at Westminster (1986), Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets (1995), which won the Longman History Today Book of the Year award, and Becket’s Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England, 1170–1300 (2004), winner of the 2006 Historians of British Art Prize and the Ace-Mercers 2005 International Book Prize. -
Nicholas Love’S “Mirrour of the Blessed Life of Jesu Criste”
Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities DOCTORAL DISSERTATION PÉRI-NAGY ZSUZSANNA VOX, IMAGO, LITTERA: NICHOLAS LOVE’S “MIRROUR OF THE BLESSED LIFE OF JESU CRISTE” PhD School of Literature and Literary Theory Dr. Kállay Géza CSc Medieval and Early Modern Literature Programme Dr. Kállay Géza CSc Members of the defence committee: Dr. Kállay Géza CSc, chair Dr.Karáth Tamás, PhD, opponent Dr.Velich Andrea, PhD, opponent Dr. Pődör Dóra PhD Dr. Kiricsi Ágnes PhD Dr. Pikli Natália PhD Consultant: Dr. Halácsy Katalin PhD i Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................................................. IV LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................ V LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ................................................................................................ VI INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................. 7 I. THE MIRROUR AND THE ORTHODOX REFORM: AIMS ................................................................ 7 II. SOURCES: THE TEXT OF THE MIRROUR AND THE TWO ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS ........... 16 CHAPTER I. BACKGROUNDS: LAY DEVOTION, LOLLARDY AND THE RESPONSE TO IT 20 I. 1. LAY DEVOTION AND THE MEDITATIONES VITAE CHRISTI .................................................... 20 I. 2. LOLLARDY ........................................................................................................................ -
“This Translation—The First Into English—Of the Life of Jesus Christ By
“This translation—the first into English—of The Life of Jesus Christ by Ludolph of Saxony will be welcomed both by scholars in various fields and by practicing Christians. It is at the same time an encyclopedia of biblical, patristic, and medieval learning and a compendium of late medieval spirituality, stressing the importance of meditation in the life of individual believers. It draws on an astonishing number of sources and sheds light on many aspects of the doctrinal and institutional history of the Church down to the fourteenth century.” — Giles Constable Professor Emeritus Princeton University “Milton T. Walsh has taken on a Herculean task of translating The Life of Christ by the fourteenth-century Carthusian, Ludolph of Saxony. He has more than risen to the challenge! Ludolph’s text was one of the most widely spread and influential treatments of the theme in the later Middle Ages and has, until now, been available only in an insufficient late nineteenth-century edition (Rigollot). The manuscript tradition of The Life of Christ (Vita Christi) is extremely complex, and Walsh, while basing his translation on the edition, has gone beyond in providing critical apparatus that will be of significant use to scholars, as well as making the text available for students and all interested in the theology, spirituality, and religious life of the later Middle Ages. His introduction expertly places Ludolph’s work in the textual tradition and is itself a contribution to scholarship. Simply put, this is an amazing achievement!” — Eric Leland Saak Professor of History Indiana University “Walsh has done pioneering work unearthing the huge range of patristic, scholastic, and contemporary sources that Ludolph drew upon, enabling us to re-evaluate the Vita as an encyclopedic compilation, skillfully collating a range of interpretations of the gospel scenes to meditational ends. -
E-Catalogue 12
♦ MUSINSKY RARE BOOKS ♦ E-Catalogue 12 I. Mystical Allegory IV. Art & Design V. World II. Sammelbände Chroniclers III. Pillars of the VI. The Reading Church Journal of a Russian Countess No. 4 telephone: 212 579-2099 email: [email protected] www.musinskyrarebooks.com I. MYSTICAL ALLEGORY A carpet of “medieval textuality” 1) BONAVENTURA, pseudo- [i.e., HENRICUS DE BALMA and JACOBUS MEDIOLANENSIS]. Libro intitulato Stimulo de amore. Composto per el seraphico doctore sancto Bonauentura. Venice: Antonio di Zanchi da Bergamo, 2 October 1501. 4to (209 x 152 mm). [86] leaves. Gothic types in two sizes, double column, white on black woodcut initials. Title with chipped corner and staining from erased inscriptions, a single wormhole decreasing through the first half of text block, a few other small filled wormholes at beginning, occasional faint marginal dampstaining. Later (18th-century?) carta rustica. Provenance: two early deleted Italian ownership inscriptions on title-page; William O’Brien (1832-1899), 20th-century booklabel; bequeathed to the Jesuits at Milltown Park. $2950 First complete edition in Italian, and the first to be printed in Italy, of an important Franciscan mystical text which circulated widely in manuscript and print for nearly three centuries. Known in approximately 500 Latin manuscripts, far more than Bonaventura’s Meditationes vitae Christi, this was an extremely popular devotional work, with translations appearing in Middle High German, Middle Low German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Swedish, Danish, and English. Although most manuscripts attributed it to Bonaventura, the original Stimulus Amoris was the work of the thirteenth-century Franciscan friar Giacomo da Milano. His text is a series of spiritual exercises for meditation, leading to a progressive emotional engagement with the Passion, the goal being a mystical identification with Christ (DBI). -
Roodenburg 2014 Empathy in the Making
bmgn - Low Countries Historical Review | Volume 129-2 (2014) | pp. 42-62 Empathy in the Making Crafting the Believer’s Emotions in the Late Medieval Low Countries1 herman roodenburg The article addresses affective piety as it developed in the late medieval Low Countries – the new, sentiment-laden devotion concentrating on the humanity and vulnerability of Christ, on his nativity but especially his Passion, the physical cruelty he suffered in his last days on earth. Views on the late Middle Ages, as if they still knew a ‘childlike’ universe, one in which the emotions and the senses were given free rein, have been rightly discarded by Barbara Rosenwein and other scholars, but her own cognitive approach threatens to overlook the bodily and sensory dimensions of emotions. An embodiment approach would offer a wider and more promising perspective. Discussing the numerous Netherlandish passion narratives and passion paintings, their cruel and blood-drenched imagery is situated within older medieval traditions of meditation and artificial memory. To illustrate the period’s religious ‘pathopoeia’, the shaping of the believers’ embodied emotions, part of the argument focuses on a relatively unknown Passion narrative by the fifteenth-century Franciscan Johannes Brugman. Empathie in de maak. Religieuze emoties en retorica in de laat-middeleeuwse Nederlanden In deze bijdrage richt ik me op de affectieve vroomheid in de laat-middeleeuwse Nederlanden – de nieuwe, emotioneel geladen devotie die zich concentreerde op de menselijkheid en kwetsbaarheid van Christus, op de geboorte maar meer nog op het lijdensverhaal, alle fysieke wreedheid die hem in zijn laatste dagen werd aangedaan. Opvattingen als zouden de late Middeleeuwen nog een ‘kinderlijk’ universum hebben gekend, een universum waarin de emoties en de zintuigen nog alle ruimte kregen, zijn door Barbara Rosenwein en andere onderzoekers terecht terzijde geschoven. -
Eschatology and Discernment of Spirits: the Impact of Peter of John Olivi’S Remedia Contra Temptationes Spirituales (14Th-15Th Centuries)1
Eschatology and Discernment of Spirits: The Impact of Peter of John Olivi’s Remedia contra Temptationes Spirituales (14th-15th Centuries)1 In the last years of his life, between 1292 and 1298, the Franciscan Peter of John Olivi wrote a series of short devotional texts, known as Opus- cula, aimed at the religious edification of the laity. Olivi’s perspective was strongly eschatological: in his opinion, the imminence of the end of time made lay religious experience more authentic than that of the clergy, which would eventually oppose the final evangelical renewal. Among the twelve surviving Opuscula, the most eschatologically ori- ented is titled Remedia contra temptationes spirituales. The Remedia are characterized by a cautious and rigorous judgment on spiritual gifts, such as visions and raptures. According to Olivi, these phenomena are particularly difficult to discern when the Antichrist is approaching and “some will renounce the faith by paying heed to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons” (I Tim 4, 1). Following this apocalyptic per- spective of discretio spirituum, the Remedia are divided into two parts: the first includes twelve remedies against spiritual temptations, whereas the second puts forward four remedies against corrupt teachers and their doctrines. This structure, however, is not fixed. The work is transmitted by a huge number of manuscripts, and is often attributed, as we will see, to other authors (Bonaventure, Venturino of Bergamo), or forms part of larger works (such as Ludolph of Saxony’s Vita Christi or Vincent Fer- rer’s Tractatus de vita spirituali). Accordingly, its structure remains fluid from version to version. -
«Credere Virginem in Corde Per Fidem». Images of Mary in the Libri Carolini
«CREDERE VIRGINEM IN CORDE PER FIDEM». IMAGES OF MARY IN THE LIBRI CAROLINI Diego Ianiro References to the Virgin Mary are quite rare in the writings produced at the court of Charlemagne before 794.1 With the doubtful exception of marian sermons gathered in the homiliary of Paul the Deacon, among the works released between the Admonitio generalis (789) and the Council of Frankfurt (794) it is possible to find several mentions of the Mother of God only in the Libri Carolini.2 Paul’s homiliary was in fact commissioned by Charlemagne, as it is clearly stated in its prefatory letter known as Karoli epistola generalis,3 in a period that cannot be determined with precision: in recent scolarship it ranges approximately from 786, the year before Paul’s return to Monte Cassino, to 796/799,4 the alleged date of his death. Moreover, as the homiliary still awaits a 23RD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF BYZANTINE STUDIES, BELGRADE 23 AUGUST 2016. Thematic Sessions of Free Communications: New Feasts, New Sermons: The Cult of Mary on the Eve of Iconoclasm, in Byzantium and Beyond (Faculty of Philology, Room 11 - 15.30) 1 The amount of bibliography about Latin mariology in Early Middle Ages can be overwhelming; for this reason a reasoned selection of reference works could be useful here. On Carolingian mariology cf. L. SCHEFFCZYK, Das Mariengeheimnis in Frömmigkeit und Lehre der Karolingerzeit, Leipzig 1959 (Erfurter theologische Studien, 5); I. SCARAVELLI, Per una mariologia carolingia: autori, opere e linee di ricerca, in Gli studi di mariologia medievale: bilancio storiografico, Atti del I convegno mariologico della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini (Parma, 7-8 November 1997), ed. -
''Was There a Carolingian Italy?'' Politics Institutions and Book Culture
”Was there a Carolingian Italy?” Politics institutions and book culture François Bougard To cite this version: François Bougard. ”Was there a Carolingian Italy?” Politics institutions and book culture. Clemens Gantner; Walter Pohl. After Charlemagne: Carolingian Italy and its Rulers, Cambridge University Press, pp.54-82, 2020, 9781108840774. 10.1017/9781108887762.007. halshs-03080753 HAL Id: halshs-03080753 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03080753 Submitted on 16 Jul 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. [paru dans: After Charlemagne: Carolingian Italy and its Rulers, éd. Clemens Gantner et Walter Pohl, Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2020, p. 54-82.] François Bougard ‘Was there a Carolingian Italy?’ Politics, institutions, and book culture* ‘The Carolingians in Italy’ is a literary myth. In order to account for the installation of the Franks on the Italian peninsula, our manuals have clung to a received vulgate. They assert that Pippin the Short and then Charlemagne allied themselves with the papacy, at the pope’s request, in order to stave off the Lombard threat against the Exarchate of Ravenna and defend the interests of the Holy See. But at the end of the tenth century, south of Rome, the story included other elements. -
Studies in Late Medieval Wall Paintings, Manuscript Illuminations, and Texts, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47476-2 BIBLIOGRAPHY
CODA PARTICIPATING IN SYMBOLS OF DEATH Like Nicholas Love’s Mirror, The Somonyng of Everyman is adapted from a Continental text, in this case from the Dutch Elckerlijc. As reading matter designed to appeal to the merchant and artisan classes in an urban setting, Everyman invokes neither pastoral nor monastic contemplation but rather invites participation through an imaginative confrontation with Death and subsequent pilgrimage leading to entry into the grave. The study of Everyman in terms of participation in the symbols of death and dying can serve as an appropriate capstone to the present volume, hence originally intended to be a final chapter. The essay can be accessed at https://works.bepress.com/clifford_davidson/265. © The Author(s) 2017 111 C. Davidson, Studies in Late Medieval Wall Paintings, Manuscript Illuminations, and Texts, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47476-2 BIBLIOGRAPHY Alexander, Jennifer. “Coventry Holy Trinity Wall Painting.” EDAM Newsletter 11 no. 2 (1989): 37. Alkerton, Richard. [Easter Week sermon, 1406.] British Library, Add. MS. 37677. Allen, Hope Emily, ed. English Writings of Richard Rolle. 1931; reprint, Oxford: Clarendon (1963). ——— and Sanford Brown Meech, eds. The Book of Margery Kempe. EETS, o.s. 212. London: Oxford University Press (1940). Anderson, M. D. The Imagery of British Churches. London: John Murray (1955). Arbismann, Rudolph. “The Concept of ‘Christus Medicus’ in St. Augustine.” Traditio 10 (1954): 1–28. Ashley, Kathleen, and Pamela Sheingorn. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Sainte Anne in Late Medieval Society. Athens: University of Georgia Press (1990). Aston, Margaret. England’s Iconoclasts I: Laws Against Images. Oxford: Clarendon Press (1988). Augustine of Hippo, St. -
1 Catholic Transtemporality Through the Lens of Andrea Pozzo and The
1 Catholic Transtemporality through the Lens of Andrea Pozzo and the Jesuit Catholic Baroque A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Fine Arts of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts Emily C. Thomason August 2020 © 2020 Emily C. Thomason. All Rights Reserved. 2 This thesis titled Catholic Transtemporality through the Lens of Andrea Pozzo and the Jesuit Catholic Baroque by EMILY C. THOMASON has been approved for the School of Art + Design and the College of Fine Arts by Samuel Dodd Lecturer, School of Art + Design Matthew R. Shaftel Dean, College of Fine Arts 3 Abstract THOMASON, EMILY C, M.A., August 2020, Art History Catholic Transtemporality through the Lens of Andrea Pozzo and the Jesuit Catholic Baroque Director of Thesis: Samuel Dodd Andrea Pozzo was a lay brother for the Order of the Society of Jesus in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries who utilized his work in painting, architecture, and writing to attempt to create an ideal expression of sacred art for the Counter- Reformation Catholic Church. The focus of this study is on Pozzo’s illusionary paintings in Chiesa di Sant’Ignazio di Loyola in Rome as they coincide with his codification of quadratura and di sotto in su, as described through perspectival etchings and commentary in Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum. This thesis seeks to understand the work of Pozzo in context with his Jesuit background, examining his work under the lens of Saint Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises, as well as the cultural, political, and religious climates of Rome during the Counter-Reformation era. -
Conventions and Institutions
1 Conventions and Institutions Benedictine Rule Monastic orders existed in Ireland and Wales in the fifth century, first arrived in England in the sixth and seventh centuries, and in the eighth century the Rule of St. Benedict (480–ca. 550), Benedict’s set of codes for behavior, also came to be known in the British Isles. Receiving additional impetus after 1066 and then again with the arrival of orders of canons and friars in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the monastic orders had their maximum numbers at the beginning of the fourteenth century, declined with the pestilence later in the century, then recovered significantly. From their inception many monastic houses received large endowments, were powerful landholding institutions, and were deeply and directly involved in the economic, legal, and social lives of all of society’s strata in both imme- diate and extended geographical areas. William Caxton (ca. 1422–92) began his career as a merchant. In the 1440s he went to Bruges, Cologne, and Ghent where he began his career as a printer and translator. He returned to England in 1476 with movable type and proceeded to publish over one hundred titles in the remaining sixteen years of this life, including several of Chaucer’s, Gower’s, Lydgate’s, and Malory’s works as well as his own translations. Six English translations of the Benedictine rule survive from the eleventh century to 1516. None of the translations is dependent on each other, nor is any direct French or Latin source known. Caxton’s edition from about 1490 also contains Heinrich Suso’s Horologium sapientiae and other texts, and it, like several manuscript versions, is addressed to both men and women. -
The Recently Discovered Beneventan Illustrated Beatus in Geneva in Its South Italian Context
Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture Volume 3 Issue 4 2012 Apocalypses New: The Recently Discovered Beneventan Illustrated Beatus in Geneva in its South Italian Context Roger E. Reynolds Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal Part of the Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture Commons Recommended Citation Reynolds, Roger E.. "Apocalypses New: The Recently Discovered Beneventan Illustrated Beatus in Geneva in its South Italian Context." Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 3, 4 (2012). https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol3/iss4/1 This Feature Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture by an authorized editor of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Reynolds Apocalypses New: The Recently Discovered Beneventan Illustrated Beatus in Geneva in its South Italian Context1 By Roger E. Reynolds, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies During the past quarter century very few full or virtually full manuscripts written in the Beneventan script of southern Italy and Dalmatia have been discovered and reported. Most of the manuscripts reported since Lowe’s magisterial work2 on the script have been libelli, stray folios, fragments, and offsets.3 But two extraordinary full or virtually full manuscripts have recently come to light and have been reported. The first of these was put on auction a few years back by Sotheby’s in London.4 In their sale catalogue, the manuscript, described as coming from a private collection, was dated to the fifteenth century and the sale price was estimated at about GBP 4,000.