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Table of Contents:

• Pt. 1. The History and Creation of the Macclesfield Psalter
• 1. A Web of Interpretations
• A. Colourful Fabric of Life and Thought
• Emotion
• Italianism and Classicism
• The East Anglian School of Illumination
• 2. The Making of the Macclesfield Psalter
• Parchment and Structure
• Page Design, the Script and the Scribe
• 3. The Texts
• The Calendar and Litany
• The Prayer Suscipere dignare
• The Psalms
• The Canticles
• The Office of the Dead
• The Confession Prayer, Confiteor tibi domine, and Other Prayers
• 4. The Owners of the Macclesfield Psalter
• The Original Owner and his Confessor
• Later Provenance
• 5. The Decoration

• Order and Hierarchy
• The Artists
• 6. Moving Pictures
• Traditional Iconography
• The Omnivorous Marginalia
• Literary Conceits
• The Dynamics of Reading
• Topical Images
• Classicizing Motifs
• Pt. 2. The Macclesfield Psalter
• Reproduction of the Manuscript
• 1. Description of the Macclesfield Psalter
• 2. Comparative Table of Calendars in the Stowe Breviary and the Gorleston, Douai and Macclesfield Psalters
• 3. The Psalms and Canticles
• 4. The Pigments of the Macclesfield Psalter by Spike Bucklow
• 5. The Conservation of the Macclesfield Psalter by Robert Proctor.

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Contributors:

Panayotova, Stella

Fitzwilliam Museum

Languages:

English
Latin

Language Notes:

Text in English and Latin.

Subjects:

Macclesfield psalter

Illumination of books and manuscripts, English

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval — England

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval

England

General Notes:

"With a complete reproduction at the original size of the 14th-century prayer book in the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and 95 colour details."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-351) and index.

Physical Description:

352 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

BX2033.A35 M33 2008

ISBNs:

9780500238523 (hbk.)
0500238529 (hbk.)

OCLC Numbers:

227016435