[Libri] FW: upcoming event

[James R. Kelly]

Join us on Friday, April 18th at 5:00 PM in celebrating the publication of a
new book by Kathleen Scott-Tradition & Innovation in Later Medieval English
Manuscripts.    Based on her 2004 Lyell lectures at Oxford, Tradition &
Innovation in Later Medieval English Manuscripts establishes criteria for
genuine artistic originality in manuscript books.   Each manuscript is
assessed in detail in terms of its text, scribe(s), artists, decorative
programme & circumstances of creation & is also set in its wider contexts of
contemporary English manuscript art history by extensive reference to
related manuscripts both contemporary & earlier, in England & on the
Continent.   This ground-breaking study, by a leading historian of English
art of the fifteenth century, offers an original investigation of motives
for including pictures in manuscripts, of the role of the author in
illustration, & of the traditional & innovative nature of visual
representation in medieval manuscripts.  Kathleen L. Scott is the author of,
among other works, Later Gothic Manuscripts; Dated & Datable English
Manuscript Borders c.1396-1499; & The Caxton Master & His Patrons.   She is
also general editor of Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time
of Chaucer to Henry VIII.

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