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A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library at Holkham Hall English; Latin; Italian: Volume 1. Manuscripts from Italy to 1500 - Part 1. Shelfmarks ... Publications in Manuscript Research, CMLHH) - Tapa dura

Reynolds, Suzanne

 
9782503529004: A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library at Holkham Hall English; Latin; Italian: Volume 1. Manuscripts from Italy to 1500 - Part 1. Shelfmarks ... Publications in Manuscript Research, CMLHH)
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ISBN 10: 2503529003 ISBN 13: 9782503529004
Editorial: Brepols, 2015

Sinopsis

"The manuscript library at Holkham is among the most significant private collections in the world, yet no catalogue of its riches has ever been published. The library has two historic cores: the books of the immensely influential lawyer and parliamentarian Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) and those of his eighteenth-century successor, Thomas Coke, first Earl of Leicester (1697-1759), the builder of Holkham Hall. Sir Edward's books include works on law, heraldry, and religion, as well as an important group of literary and historical works in Middle English; his manuscripts are mainly of British origin. In contrast, Thomas Coke's library was acquired through a series of large-scale purchases on his Grand Tour of Europe (1712-18) and includes examples of the whole range of European book production, from a twelfth-century Atlantic Bible to unpublished seventeenth-century letters, drama, and poetry. The classicism that Coke expressed most obviously in the architecture of Holkham Hall also underpinned his manuscript collecting, and his collection of Latin poets and historians, many of them splendidly illuminated, is unrivalled."--Publisher's description.

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Reseña del editor

The manuscript library at Holkham Hall is among the most significant private collections in the world-yet no catalogue of its riches has ever been published. The volumes in this series will cover all the Holkham manuscripts and open up these hidden treasures to scrutiny for the first time. This first volume in the Catalogue is devoted to the heart of the collection at Holkham Hall: manuscripts made in Italy in the Middle Ages and the age of humanism. This first part of Volume 1 covers one hundred and twenty-seven Italian manuscripts: biblical and liturgical codices (notably a lavishly illuminated Book of Hours made for Lorenzo de' Medici), patristic texts, and the exceptional collection of Latin classical authors collected by Thomas Coke (1697-1759). New attributions to illuminators and significant discoveries in textual history and provenance will stimulate new research; every manuscript catalogued is generously illustrated, and a full bibliography and indices are also included. A substantial historical introduction, drawing on unpublished archives at Holkham, reconstructs in detail for the first time the formation and development of the Holkham manuscript library in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Editorial
Brepols
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
2503529003
ISBN 13 
9782503529004
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Número de páginas
413
Contacto del fabricante
brepols
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