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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item Number: 106878 Title: Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550) Author: Wijsman, Hanno Price: Euro 125 ISBN: 9782503525587 Record created on 04/21/2010 Description: Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. 24cm., hardcover, 717pp., 43 b&w illus. Summary: Th is interdisciplinary study presents a two-part survey of the production and ownership of luxury manuscripts in the late-medieval Netherlands. Part I analyses a corpus of 3,700 illustrated manuscripts produced between 1400 and 1550 in the Low Countries. Th e result is a cornucopia of information about many aspects of manuscript production: chronological, geographical and gender distribution, the genres of texts, the languages used, the dimensions of books, the number of illustrations, and the relationship between the making of hand-written and printed books. Part II examines the libraries of the pre-eminent owners of illustrated manuscripts in the Netherlands: the ducal family and the noble elite. Th e great bibliophile Philip the Good set an example of book collecting that was emulated by the nobles of the court, creating a typical ¿Burgundian¿ fashion in book ownership by which a small elite demonstrated a well defi ned group identity. Luxury Bound charts this new vogue in books and reading, an important aspect of cultural change in the late-medieval Low Countries. (Burgundica, 16) Size: 24 Cm.

Edizione: edition originale.