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Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts: Script As Image by Jeffrey F. Hamburger (2014, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPeeters Publishers & Booksellers

ISBN-109042930357

ISBN-139789042930353

eBay Product ID (ePID)202700995

Product Key Features

Number of Pages77 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameScript As Image

SubjectHandwriting, Book, Linguistics / General

Publication Year2014

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaDesign, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorJeffrey F. Hamburger

SeriesCorpus of Illuminated Manuscripts

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight6.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2013-388350

Series Volume Number21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal745.67

SynopsisIn the Middle Ages, writing conveyed far more than information. In contradistinction to the modern separation of image and text and, by implication, form and content, which was reified with the invention of printing, illuminated manuscripts made images out of words. In consonance with Christian doctrine, which declared that the Word had become flesh, letters painted on parchment assumed bodily presence to create effects of power and persuasion. Painted letters elicited modes of performance, oral recitation and ritual action. Far from calligraphic ornament or a medium with prescribed boundaries, medieval lettering reveals itself as a flexible instrument in which various categories of human experience and expression -- the audible, the visible, the symbolic and the figurative -- come together. Among the topics touched on by this book are display scripts, monograms, nomina sacra and carmina figurata, epigraphic inscriptions, chrysography and color, speech scrolls, relationships among author, scribe and artist as expressed through scripts, the anthropomorphic dimensions of abstract lettering, and the impact of iconic scripts on the reader.

LC Classification NumberND3320.H36 2014