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Illuminated Manuscripts

Book 2 — INDEX

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Ada-Codex at Trèves, 57, 67 Alcuin and his coadjutors, 72 Andreas Joannes, 175 Anglo-Celtic illumination, 59 Anne of Bohemia, 163 — of Brittany, 214 — — her portrait, 217 Antonio and Francisco de Holanda, 231 Arundel Psalter, 157 Athelstan Gospels, 67 Avignon Bible, 175 Bamberg Bible, 69 Bedford Offices, 222 Beham Prayer-book at Aschaffenburg, 241 Benedictionals, 149 Bernward, St., of Hildesheim, 93 Berry MSS., 141 Bible of Charles the Bald, 68 Bibliography, 277-285 Bobbio, an Irish foundation of Columbanus, 53 Boccaccio at Munich, by Fouquet, 211 Bohemian illumination, 163 — MSS. at Prag, 190 Book-form, its antiquity, 9 Bourdichon, Jean, 215, etc. Brentel, F., and the Prayer-book of William of Baden at Paris, 241 Brera Graduals at Milan, 181 Brothers of the Common Life, 194 Bruno, St., of Cologne, 93 Byzantine illumination, 24 — — its subdivisions, 31 Byzantium, rebuilding of by Justinian, 26 Cambiaso, Luca, of Genoa, 230 Carolingian illumination, 62 Celtic illumination, 36 Charles IV., the Emperor, 163 “Château d'Anet” and its style, 221 Choir-book of Sts. Ulrich and Afra at Augsburg, 192 Christine de Pisan and her works, 142-147 Chronicle of Jerusalem at Vienna, 203 Cistercian foundations, 74 Cluny and Citeaux, 81 Codex, what, 17 Collegium Carolinum at Prag, 190 Colour-scheme of Fouquet, 212 Compendium of Theophilus, 104, 105 Convenevole da Prato, poems of, 175 Cunegunda, the Empress, 90 — her Passionale, 189 Debonnaire, Louis le, 65 Decretals, the, what they were, 176, etc. Decretum Gratiani, 177 Delisle, M.L., on Franco-Saxon illumination, 63 Dinteville Hours, 223 Dioscorides at Vienna, 22 Drolleries and grotesques, 157 Durandus, Rationale of, 180 Dutch illumination, its charateristics, 199 Emmeram Gospels, the, 112 English illumination, 149-153 Escorial choir-books, 228 “Explicits” of monastic MSS., 79 Exultet roll, what, 172 Famous abbeys for book-work, 78 First English styles, 59 Flemish illuminators, 201 Fouquet, Jean, and the school of Touraine, 210, etc. Franconian illumination, 93 Frankendorfer Evangeliary at Nuremberg, 192 Frederick II., “Stupor Mundi,” his work on hawking, 186 Freemasons, who they were, 125-127 French illumination, 139 — Renaissance illumination, 208-225 — — its gradual development, 208 Gerard David of Oudewater, 201, 205 German colouring (early), 154 — illumination, 186-194 Glass-painting, 128 Glockendon, A., and his work, 193 — N., at Nuremberg, 241 Gold and silver writing, etc., 27 Golden age of illumination, 123 Gothic architecture, its origin, 121 — illumination, 110 Grandison Psalter, 169 Greek and Roman illumination, 19 Grimani Breviary, 205-206 Grisaille, 207 Guilds (or gilds), 131 Handwritings, classification of, 13 Hartmut, Abbot of St. Gallen, 95 Hendrie, R., translator of “Theophilus,” 106 Henry II., the Emperor, 90 — VII. of Luxembourg, the Emperor, 189 Herrade von Landsberg, the abbess, 114, 120 Hildesheimer Prayer-book at Berlin, 192 Hoefnagel, G., and the Missal of Archduke Ferdinand at Vienna 242 “Hortus Deliciarum,” its style, 114, 115 Hours of Anne of Brittany, 217 — of Claude Gouffier, 221 — of Francis I., 222 — of Frederick III. of Aragon, 183 — of Henry II. at Paris, 224 — of Marie de Clève at Paris, 211 Hrosvita, poetess and copyist, 87, 88 Illuminating, antiquity of, 3 Illumination defined, 3 — not spoiled by the invention of printing, 239 — since the invention of printing, 239-243 Initial, development of, 56 Irish art, 40 Isabella Breviary (Brit. Mus.), 207 Italian copyists, 183 — illumination, 171-185 — libraries, 182 Kells, the Book of, 57 Lala of Cyzicus, a lady, the first miniaturist on record, 4 Lancastrian illumination, 166 Landscape background, origin of, 200 Lombardic illumination, 173 — writing, 14 Lothaire, Evangeliary of, 69 Louis of Taranto and his Order of the Holy Spirit, 178 — XII., 215, etc. Louise of Savoy and her MSS., 224 Louterell Psalter, 158 Luxeuil founded by Columbanus, 53 Maas-Eyck Evangeliary, 198 Mazarine Bible, 240 Manual of Dionysius, a Greek text-book, 100 Manuscripts referred to, 244-276 “Mater Verborum” of Conrad of Scheyern, 117 Mathilda, the Empress, patroness of copyists, 87 Matilda, the Countess, 98, 172 Médard, St., of Soissons, Gospels of, the finest Carolingian MS. known, 70 Melreth Missal, 169 Merovingian writing, 14 Miniature, the term explained, 4 Missal of Albert of Brandenburg, 192 — of Estevam Gonçalvez Neto, 234 — and Prayer-book of Albert of Brandenburg, 240 Monastic illumination, 71-83 — scriptoria, 149 Monte Cassino and La Cava, 173 Munich Library and a notable MS., 91-92 — Missal of Henry II., 111 National styles of illumination, 134-138 Netherlandish illumination, 195 — — its characteristics, 196 — foliage ornament, its relation to wood-carving, 202 New Minster, Winchester, 150 Nicholaus of Bologna and his work at Prag, 181 Niedermünster MS. at Munich, 119 Othonian illumination, 84-92 Papyrus, 8 — late use of, 10 Parchment, origin of term, 8 Paris Josephus, Fouquet's masterpiece, 211 Passionale of Cunigunda, 189 Perréal, Jean, 214 Portuguese Genealogies (Brit. Mus.), 236 — MSS., 233 Poyet, Jean, 219 Prayer-book of William of Bavaria at Vienna, 193 Psalters. See Arundel, etc. Pulcheria, the Empress, 101 Queen Mary's Psalter, 158 Rahn, Dr., on Carolingian illumination, 62 Romance of Gérard de Roussillon at Vienna, 204 Royal Library at Brussels and its treasures, 203 — mottoes, 220 Ruskin Book, the, 133 Sacramentary of Gellone, 53-55 Salzburg Missal at Munich, 192 Sandoval Genealogies, 235 Saracenic taste in Sicily, 188 School of Fontainebleau, 220 — of Zwolle, 199 Schools of Bruges, Dijon, Paris, and Tours, 209 — of Maestricht and Liége, 202 Scorza, G.B., of Genoa, 230 Scriptoria, 76 Semi-barbaric illumination, 49 Sicilian illumination, 187 Silvestro, Don, 180 Similarity of English and French illumination in the thirteenth century, 156 Sintramn of St. Gallen, 93 “Sol Gallicus” (Brit. Mus.), 225 Sources of English fifteenth-century illumination, 161 Spanish and Portuguese illumination, 226-238 — illuminators, 227, etc. “Splendor Solis” (Brit. Mus.), 241 St. Alban's scriptorium, 152 St. Gallen, monastery of, founded, 63 St. Swithun's, Winchester, 151 Stefaneschi, Cardinal, patron of Giotto, 173 Stowe Missal, 236 — — its colour-scheme and ornamentation, 237-8 Style no proof of provenance of MSS., 137 Tenison Psalter, 156 Theophano, the Empress, 89 Torre do Tombo at Lisbon and its MSS., 231 “Trésor des Histoires” (Brit. Mus.), 212 Tuotilo, 39, 93, 94, 104 Vaast, St., of Arras, Evangeliary, 69 Valentina of Milan, Duchess of Orleans, 213 Valerius Maximus (Brit. Mus.), 213 Vatican MSS., 20 Vellum, etc., 6 Venetian “Ducali,” 242 Versailles Livy, etc., at Paris (Fouquet), 211 Vienna Genesis, 21 Vine-stem style of illumination, 184 Visigothic writing, 14 Volume, origin of term, 16 Wattenbach on writing quoted, 15, 17, 18 Wenzel Bible, 191 Wilhelm v. Oransse, 165, 167 Winchester work, earliest example of, 61 Writing, its antiquity, 11

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