Anglo-Saxon Textual Illustration: Photographs of Sixteen Manuscripts with Descriptions and Index

Thomas H. Ohlgren

Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1992 - Art - 576 pages

Illustrations and major decoration of sixteen Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, fully described and indexed, are reproduced here in 454 photographs, many for the first time. Manuscripts included are: the Athelstan Psalter, the Harley Psalter, the Bury Psalter, the Paris Psalter, the Boulogne Gospels, the Arenberg Gospels, the Trinity Gospels, the Eadui Codex, Pembroke College MS 301, the Bury Gospels, the Judith of Flanders Gospels (Pierpont Morgan MSS 709 and 708), the Monte Casino Gospel Book, the Hereford Gospels, the Psychomachia of Prudentius, and the Junius Manuscript.

About the author

Thomas H. Ohlgren (professor emeritis from Purdue University) has published extensively on the development of the outlaw legends of Robin Hood and on the study of Insular manuscripts.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Anglo-Saxon Textual Illustration: Photographs of Sixteen Manuscripts with Descriptions and Index; Medieval Institute publications; Volume 1 of Research in medieval culture
• Editor: Thomas H. Ohlgren
• Compiled by: Thomas H. Ohlgren
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1992
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Sep 16, 2010
• ISBN: 1879288109, 9781879288102
• Length: 576 pages
• Subjects: Art / History / Medieval; Art / Techniques / Calligraphy; History / Europe / Medieval; Literary Criticism / Medieval