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Illuminated Manuscripts of the Divine Comedy. [ 2 vols, complete set ]

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Wykeham Books
(LONDON, Reino Unido)

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Descripción 2 vols, cloth, 4to, 32 cm, xx, 378 pp, 74 plates with 130 ills + xxii, 539 pp, 16 plates, lls (some colour), facs. From a review by Anthony L. Pellegrini in Dante Studies: "The two volumes of Illuminated Manuscripts come in large format of generously proportioned quarto, with volume I devoted primarily to Text and volume II to Plates, for a total of some thousand pages in all. As an indication of its focal interest, one publisher s blurb claims as core of the work a catalogue of all the significant illuminated codices of the Commedia with canto-by-canto descriptions of their illustrations. Since this is essentially an art book, others will choose to emphasize the some eleven hundred miniatures themselves, displayed on 537 plates (of which 16 are in full color). Never before has such a wealth of Dante iconography been gathered in a single publication. These reproductions and the catalogue are further complemented by a very useful section of "Com parative Illustrations" consisting of 130 figures from other sources, such as illuminated manuscripts of Scripture, missals, and saints lives, the Vitae Imperatorum, Virgil s Aeneid, the Liber Jigurarum of Gioacchino da Fiore, and panel and monumental paintings, for example, by Giotto, Nardo di Cione, Francesco Traini, and Priamo della Quercia, which are extant from the period of the illuminated manuscripts of the Commedia or earlier. The central time-span is of course that from within a decade of Dante s death to the advent of printing, or more exactly, between the 1330 s (the earliest dated illuminated manuscript being that of Francesco di Ser Nardo da Barberino in 1337) and 1480, approximate date of the last illuminated manuscript (Vat. Urb. lat. 365). The Dante miniatures reproduced here were selected from over 2000, thus representing a good half of those extant and therefore constituting far more than a mere sampling. the essays serve as introductions to the catalogue and illustrations. They are all three stimulating, sometimes fascinating, certainly very informative." Minor marks to covers, otherwise Very Good. Nº de ref. del artículo: ABE-50140

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