Studies in Italian Manuscript Illumination

Jonathan Alexander is Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and a noted authority on Italian medieval and Renaissance manuscript illumination. His numerous publications include Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work, and he recently organized the exhibition The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550 at the Royal Academy of London.

• IntroductionA Virgil Illuminated by Marco ZoppoThe Provenance of the Brooke AntiphonalNotes on some Veneto-Paduan Illuminated Books of the RenaissanceA Manuscript of Petrarch's Rime and TrionfiThe Illustrated Manuscripts of the 'Notitia Dignitatum'The Illustrations of the Anonymous 'De Rebus Bellicis'Fragments of an Illuminated Missal for Pope Innocent VIIIItalian Illuminated Manuscripts in British CollectionsA Manuscript of the Gospels from Sta. Maria in Trastevere, RomeInitials in Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts: the Problem of the so-called 'litera Mantiniana'Illuminations by Matteo da Milano in the Fitzwillian MuseumThe Livy (MS 1) illuminated for Gian Giacomo Trivulzio by the Milanese artist 'B.F.'A Fifteenth-century Italian Drawing inserted in a Valturius ManuscriptMatteo da Milano, IlluminatorMarginal Illustration in Italian ManuscriptsIllumination for Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini (1442-1507)Additional NotesIndex