CAMBRIDGE ILLUMINATIONS: TEN CENTURIES OF BOOK PRODUCTION IN THE MEDIEVAL WEST; ED. BY PAUL BINSKI

by Paul Binski

"Cambridge is the depository of one of the greatest collections of illuminated manuscripts in the world. The present volume is published to accompany the exhibition of some two hundred spectacular Cambridge treasures - from the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Cambridge University Library, and the individual College libraries - covering a unique array of outstanding but rarely seen illuminated books." "The Catalogue spans over ten centuries of book production, from the significant sixth-century Gospels of St. Augustine, to the great Romanesque Bibles such as the Bury and Dover Bibles, the exquisite...

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