Description
This lush, three-volume slipcased set catalogues the V&A’s very good selection of Western illuminated manuscripts. Providing a history of an art form spanning eight centuries as an integral a part of the decorative arts, it documents not only the practice of medieval and Renaissance illumination, but in addition the survival of medieval bookmaking crafts alongside printing within the post-Renaissance period—and their revival within the 19th century. The three volumes bring together for the primary time works such as the St. Denis Missal of 1350 and the Chambord Missal of 1844, the Sanvito Petrarch of 1463–64 and William Morris’s Book of Verse of 1870. Catalogue descriptions discuss every work in detail and pay particular attention to the changing ways during which they have got been evaluated and used during the centuries.