Cultural Interplay in the Eighth Century - The Trier Gospels and the Makings of a Scriptorium At Echternach

Klappentext This is the first detailed study of the Trier Gospels manuscript and its implications for early book production. Zusammenfassung This is the first detailed study of the Trier Gospels! an important early medieval manuscript. Through an original analysis of the manuscript and its creation! Netzer sheds new light on early medieval book production! and on the cross-cultural influences among the Insular! Continental and Mediterranean worlds in the eighth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Evidence for a scriptorium at Echternach in the eighth century; 2. Text; 3. Construction of the codex; 4. Script; 5. Decorated initials; 6. Canon tables; 7. Incipit page with archangels; 8. Portraits of the evangelists; 9. Four-symbols page; 10. Tetramorph; 11. Conclusions; Appendices A-R; Plates; List of works cited by abbreviated titles; Manuscript index; Subject index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Nancy Netzer
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 27.11.2008
• EAN: 9780521090513
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09051-3
• Pages: 328
• Thème: Cambridge Studies in Palaeogra
• Catégories: Livres de conseils > Hobby, bricolage > Collections, catalogues de collections; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Antiquités