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Exhibition Review
Cambridge illuminations. Cambridge
11/2005 | 1232 | 147
Pages: 767-768
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Reviewer:
Kauffmann, C.M. (Kauffmann, C.M.)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain / Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, Great Britain
places:
Cambridge / England
print:
Illuminations
subjects:
Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / Medieval / Collections, Public
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West | institution: Cambridge University Library , institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
47. St Mark with his symbol, from the book of Cerne, fol.12V. Mercia, c.820-40. Illumination on parchment, size of folio 28.5 by 22.5 cm. (University Library Cambridge, MS L1.I.10; exh. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Western art unattributed:
48. Moses with Aaron expounding the Law to the people of Israel; Moses expounding the Law of the unclean beasts, from the Bury Bible, fol.94. c.1135. Illumination on parchment, size of folio 52.4 by 35 cm. (Corpus Christi College Cambridge, MS 2; exh. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Western art unattributed:
49. Chaucer addressing an aristocratic audience, from Chaucer's Troilus and Creseyde, fol. I. c.1415-25. Illumination on parchment, size of folio 31.4 by 22 cm. (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 61; exh. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Western art unattributed:
50. Imago ecclesiae (diagram of the hierarchy of the Church), from Gilbert of Limerick's De Statu ecclesie, fol.238. Durham, c.1190. Illumination on parchment, size of folio 29.5 by 20 cm. (University Library, Cambridge, MS Ff.I.27).
Western art unattributed:
51. 'Throne of mercy' (Trinity, with patrons), from the Clifford-Pabenham Hours, fol.28V. c.1315. Illumination on parchment, size of folio 24.8 by 17 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, MS 242).