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A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles: Later Gothic Manuscripts: Text and Illustrations

Title:

A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles: Later Gothic Manuscripts: Text and Illustrations

Author:

Scott, K. L.

Location:

London

Notes:

• CCCC MS 1 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 1 contains a roundel miniature image, pp. 42, 71 n .33
• CCCC MS 7 Mention of CCCC MS 7 in the context of the placing of illustrations in relation to the text field, pp. 41, 71 n. 28
• CCCC MS 61 States that the frontispiece to Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde in CCCC MS 61 (Number 58) is a composite of established themes such as processions, preaching scenes and a landscape divided by hills influenced by French and, in particular, Parisian, styles, pp. 59, 63, 78 nn.5-6
• CCCC MS 79 States that CCCC MS 79 is inscribed with the arms of a series of bishops and may have been intended to have been kept as an institutional copy of the pontifical, pp. 28, 32 States that CCCC MS 79 contains a depiction of St John the Evangelist in rose-pink robes, one of the two colour schemes most common to images of St John, the other being red-orange, pp. 54, 76 n. 17
• CCCC MS 90 Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 90 contains at f.8v a scene in which a book is presented by a Carmelite monk to the pope, pp. 32, 69 n. 13
• CCCC MS 171A & CCCC MS 171B Mention of the fact that CCCC MS 171A+B (the Scotichronicon) contains a conventional depiction of a church service accompanying the office of the dead, p. 310 Mention that CCCC MS 171 A+B, (the Scotichronicon), contains one full page miniature, p. 71 n. 5 Illustrations of the edition of the Scotichronicon as found in CCCC MS 171A+B, pls. 355-6 Mention of CCCC MS 171A+B, (the Scotichronicon), as possibly attributable to Scotland, pp. 28, 34 Mention that manuscripts such as CCCC MS 171A+B (the Scotichronicon), regional histories, tended to be more profusely illustrated than chronicles, pp. 36, 71 n. 30

Volume:

I

Reference Type:

Book

Manuscript:

cm287zk2842