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Museum Home Education Search Lesson Plans All Curricula Looking at Illuminated Manuscripts: Lessons and Ideas for Discussion Manuscripts Bibliography
Manuscripts Bibliography

Getty Publications:

Brown, Michelle P. Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms. Malibu, 1994.

Clark, Gregory T. The Spitz Master: A Parisian Book of Hours. Los Angeles, 2003.

Hendrix, Lee and Thea Vignau-Wilberg. The Art of the Pen: Calligraphy from the Court of the Emperor Rudolf II. Los Angeles, 2003.


Marguerite Makes a Book

Kren, Thomas and Scot McKendrick. Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Los Angeles, 2003.

Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts. Los Angeles, 1997.

Robertson, Bruce and Kathryn Hewitt, illustrator. Marguerite Makes a Book. Los Angeles, 1999.

Other Resources:

Alexander, Jonathon J.G. Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work. New Haven, 1994.

Backhouse, Janet. The Illuminated Manuscript. Oxford, 1993.

Backhouse, Janet. The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library. Toronto, 1998.

De Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. London, 1997.

De Hamel, Christopher. Scribes and Illuminators (Medieval Craftsman Series). Toronto, 1992.

Diebold, William. Word and Image: An Introduction to Early Medieval Art. Boulder, 2000.

Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, 2000.

Shailor, Barbara A. The Medieval Book (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching, Vol. 28). Toronto, 1998.

Twyman, Michael. The British Library Guide to Printing: History and Techniques. Toronto, 1999.

Wieck, Roger S. Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art. New York, 1999.

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