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Maryland
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Folger call number: ND3356.5 .M68 2002
Folger holdings ID: 115480
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Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Md., Oct. 27-Dec. 29, 2002 Exhibition centered around an incomplete manuscript of Old Testament illustrations, possibly commissioned by Louis IX of France and produced in Paris ca. 1250. Ms. is preserved in the Morgan Library under the shelfmark M.638 Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-216) and index
Contents
Preface / Roger S. Wieck -- Foreword / Gary Vikan -- Portraying the past, illuminating the present: the art of the Morgan Library Picture Bible / Daniel Weiss -- The Morgan Picture Bible and the art of narrative: Picturing the Bible in the thirteenth century / C. Griffith Mann -- Picturing the world in the thirteenth century / Kelly M. Holbert -- Louis IX, the Picture Bible, and the culture of crusading. The politics of war: France and the holy land / Jonathan Riley-Smith -- The art of war: thirteenth-century arms and armor / Stephen N. Fliegel -- The rituals of war: departure for crusade in thirteenth-century France / William Chester Jordan -- The reception of the Morgan Picture Bible: the first iconographer of the Morgan Picture Bible / William Noel -- Shah ʻAbbas and his Picture Bible / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- Catalogue of the exhibition / Cathleen A. Fleck and Richard A. Leson: The Morgan Library Picture Bible on exhibition -- Catalogue and checklist -- Bibliography -- Index
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associated with: Pierpont Morgan Library
associated with: Noel, William
associated with: Weiss, Daniel H
associated with: Louis IX, King of France, 1214-1270