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      • Nativity in the Golden Legend
        The Arts

        Nativity in the Golden Legend

        by Jacobus de Voragine

        Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine in the second half of the 13th century, The Golden Legend is a cornerstone of Christian literature. Many artists, especially between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, referred to this work when describing sacred history (such as Giotto in the Scrovegni Chapel, or Piero della Francesca in the Stories of the true cross in Arezzo). It collects about 150 biographies of Saints, with a series of chapters dedicated to the main festivities of the Christian tradition.  This volume collects the texts that are particularly connected to Christmas – The nativity of Mary, the Nativity of John the Baptist, the Annuntiation, the birth of Jesus Christ, the Holy Innocents, Epiphany – accompanied by illustrations taken from the artistic tradition belonging to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The narration - both in a historical and fairy-tale style, realistic and fantastic - can engage readers of all ages.

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      • The Book of Kells
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        The Book of Kells

        by Bernard Meehan

        This work is an invitation to dive into the secrets of the Book of Kells, a priceless treasure of the Trinity College in Dublin and one of the most famous medieval illuminated manuscripts in the world. Created in the ninth century - when Irish monasteries represented a cultural seedbed for Europe and monks devotedly copied and decorated the texts of the Gospels in sumptuous letters and designs - it has miraculously survived to our day going through a series of wars and fires for more than 1200 years, making it a venerable witness to early Christian art. This book can build on the work done during the process of making its facsimile edition, resulting in an absolutely exceptional quality of reproduction and a rigorous scientific text by Bernard Meehan, former Curator of the Manuscripts at the Trinity College Library in Dublin, bringing out all the richness of the decorations and all the importance for the history of art and of medieval civilization.

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      • The Journey of the Three Wise Men
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        The Journey of the Three Wise Men

        by John of Hildesheim

        Written in the second half of the 14th century, this book by John of Hildesheim is an outstanding document of Medieval literature and historiography. The text is accompanied by some of the most wonderful illustrations taken from the great artistic tradition dating from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and it shows the inspiration that John of Hildesheim has given to the whole Christian iconography of Christmas and to some of the most outstanding works of art. “The remarkable iconography accompanying this volume, with forty-three different representations of the story of the three wise men (from Gentile da Fabriano to Lippi, from Giotto to Botticelli, from Benozzo Gozzoli to Piero della Francesca), is an evidence of the appeal of a story in which history, devotion, theology are closely intertwined, starting from the very journey of those three figures as the symbolic guiding thread of the Gospel narration.” (Card. Gianfranco Ravasi)

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      • A Bible in Ivory
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        A Bible in Ivory

        Mediterranean art in 11th century Salerno

        by Valentino Pace

        In the late 11th century, one of the greatest historical and artistical times in Campania, in the South of Italy, a significant role was played in this sense by Alfano, the Archbishop of Salerno. He personally committed the episcopal throne inside the Cathedral, with the intention to catch the eye of anyone who entered as a symbol of the ultimate devotion. Of this work, with scenes from the Old and New Testament, only 67 ivory plaques still remain. The throne was realized in ivory, a precious material which can be considered inferior only to gold. Working with ivory required advanced skills from the artists, who had to know how to extract the thin layers from an elephant tusk before being able to delicately carve a scene. Possibly planned and executed for the Cathedral of Amalfi, it is the most extensive series of ivory panels to an artifact that predates the Gothic Era. They prove to be an artistic production that, due to the valuable nature of its material and the quality of its execution – not to mention the inherent interest of its narrative sequence –, is without comparison.

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      • Famous Women
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        Famous Women

        by Giovanni Boccaccio

        De claris mulieribus is a collection of biographies of famous women of ancient and medieval times written by Giovanni Boccaccio in 1361. Boccaccio’s first aim was to offer, especially to his female readers, a collection of short and pleasant stories with lovely invitations to virtue and whipping remarks against vice. The work became very successful between the 14th and the 16th centuries, and was translated and published all around Europe. In some manuscripts the text is accompanied by a series of illustrations. For this edition, with a selection of thirty biographies of the most famous women from history, mythology and religion, the Ms. Royal 16 G.V. from the British Library in London has been chosen, a French manuscript from the second half of the 15th century, the miniatures of which, of exceptional elegance, set the happenings within the refined atmosphere of the transalpine court.

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      • The Story of the Good King Alexander the Great
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        The Story of the Good King Alexander the Great

        Ein Ritterroman über Alexander den Großen

        by Angelica Rieger

        No figure in ancient history gave rise to so many mythical fantasies as Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). Soon after his mysterious death, legends about his adventurous life started to flourish with a rich production of codexes, the most valuable of which were beautifully illustrated by miniatures. The sumptuous manuscript that is covered in this volume contains a version of the story in prose of ‘the Good King Alexander’ – the ‘Ystoire du Bon Roi Alexandre’ in ancient French. It was acquired by the Hamilton Collection in 1882 and is currently kept in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz, under the marking 78 C 1.

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      • The Marvels of the World
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        The Marvels of the World

        Die Reisen des Ritters Jean de Mandeville

        by Jean de Mandeville

        The Livre de Mandeville (Book of Mandeville) is integrated into a composite manuscript - held today at the Bibliothèque national de France under the shelfmark Fr. 2810 - containing a number of texts about the countries of the Middle and Far East which was given the name Livre de merveilles, on account of the wonders described therein, but also because of its wonderful decorations. The author, Jean de Mandeville, refers to himself as a knight who embarked on his journey in the year 1322 and that he travelled not only to see the sites of the Holy Land, but also to countless far countries of the world and many wondrous regions. By combining seemingly familiar elements with mysterious narratives, he achieves an immediacy and freshness that would be enthusiastically welcomed by a wide readership. It is not only the enthusiastic reception of the text, but also the development of a rich iconographic programme that make the Livre de Mandeville such an impressive example of medieval world and travel literature and the most dazzling work representative of the genre.

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      • Book of the Hunt
        The Arts

        Book of the Hunt

        by Gaston Phoebus

        Written between 1387 and 1389 by Gastone of Foix, the Book of the Hunt is one of the most interesting testimonies of the cultural history of this time. The four parts of the manuscript show the naturalistic knowledge at the end of the 14thcentury, based on the direct observation of the natural world. It was used as a manual of natural history up until the 19th century. The text is complemented by 87 miniatures in large format, executed by the Master of the Bedford Hours, as well as by a great number of illuminated initial letters and floral decorations that make the pages of the manuscript one of the masterworks of French miniature. The style of the miniatures is very particular, related to those of contemporary tapestries: the horizon of the scene is kept high, thus creating an ample space for the characters; the flora is described with a singular effect of relief, obtained by juxtaposing different tonalities of colour.

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