The author is Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History at New York University , Institute of Fine Arts, and a leading authority on English medieval manuscript illumination. This volume bring together twenty-six of Professor Sandler's studies, focusing on illustrated manuscripts produced in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly on the illuminated psalters. The marginal illustrations in these psalters are a topic of particular interest, and there are a number of iconographic studies derived from this material. A separate section deals with the illustrated encyclopedias of the period, particularly the Omne bonum.
Helen Gould Sheppard is Professor of Art History at New York University , Institute of Fine Arts, and a leading authority on English medieval manuscript illumination.
Introduction Manuscripts, Artists and Themes The Historical Miniatures of the Fourteenth-Century Ramsey Psalter Peterborough Abbey and the Peterborough Psalter in Brussels A Follower of Jean Pucelle in England; Christian Hebraism and the Ramsey Abbey Psalter An Early Fourteenth Century English Breviary at Longleat An Early Fourteenth Century English Psalter in the Escorial A Fragment of the Chertsey Breviary in San Francisco Jean Pucelle and the Lost Miniatures of the Belleville Breviary The Handclasp in the Arnolfini Wedding: A Manuscript Precedent Marginalia and Word Imagery: A Series of Marginal Illustrations in the Rutland Psalter Reflections on the Construction of Hybrids in English Gothic Marginal Illustrations A Bawdy Betrothal in the Ormesby Psalter The Study of Marginal Imagery, Past, Present, and Future; Verbal and Pictorial Play in the Margins: The Case of Stowe 49 The Images of Words in English Gothic Psalters; Devotional, Visionary and Self-Images: Face to Face with God: A Pictorial Image of the Beatific Vision The Image of the Book-owner in the Fourteenth Century: Three Cases of Self-definitionManuscript Images of Devotion and the Wilton Diptych The Chantry Chapel of Roger of Waltham in Old St Paul's Illustrated Encyclopedias and Scholarly Texts: Notes for the Illuminator: the Case of the Omne bonum Omne bonum: Compilatio and Ordinatio in an English Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Fourteenth Century; Enciclopedia The Canon Law Illustrations of the Omne bonum, an English Encyclopedia of the Fourteenth Century Index-making in the Fourteenth Century: Archbishop Arundel's Copy of the Gospel Commentary of William of Nottingham The Role of Illustrations in James le Palmer's Omne bonum John of Metz, The Tower of Wisdom; Additional Notes Index
