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The Visual World of the Hungarian Angevin Legendary (Central European Cultural Heritage)
Bela Szakacs Zsolt
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Description for The Visual World of the Hungarian Angevin Legendary (Central European Cultural Heritage)
Hardcover. The manuscript known as the Hungarian Angevin Legendary, made for Hungarian royal patrons, is an extraordinary relic of medieval book illumination. Dispersed in four countries and six collections, the 142 richly gilded leaves recount the legends of fifty-eight saints at varying length. Series: Central European Cultural Heritage. Num Pages: 330 pages, 42 color illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Dispersed in two continents, four countries and six collections; many of its pages were cropped, cut into four, or lost forever; its history, origin, commissioner and audience are obscure; still, in its fragmented state it presents fifty-eight legends in abundant series of images, on folios fully covered by miniatures, richly gilded, using only one side of the fine parchment; a luxurious codex worthy of a ruler; a unique iconographic treasury of medieval legends; one of the most significant manuscripts of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom – these are all what we call the Hungarian Angevin Legendary.
Dispersed in two continents, four countries and six collections; many of its pages were cropped, cut into four, or lost forever; its history, origin, commissioner and audience are obscure; still, in its fragmented state it presents fifty-eight legends in abundant series of images, on folios fully covered by miniatures, richly gilded, using only one side of the fine parchment; a luxurious codex worthy of a ruler; a unique iconographic treasury of medieval legends; one of the most significant manuscripts of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom – these are all what we call the Hungarian Angevin Legendary.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Central European University Press
Condition
New
Series
Central European Cultural Heritage
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9789637326257
SKU
V9789637326257
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About Bela Szakacs Zsolt
Béla Zsolt Szakács (PhD 1998) is head of the Department of Art History at Pázmány Péter Catholic University and associate professor in the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU. He is contributing member of the Cultural Heritage Program at CEU as well. He was instrumental in launching a CEU research project focusing on the visual resources of medieval East Central ... Read more
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