The Tickhill Psalter and Related Manuscripts. A School of Manuscript Illumination in England during the early Fourteenth Century
Color frontispiece with lettered heavy tissue guard, 112 plates. 232 pp. 1 vols. Folio
1940 · New York
by Egbert, Donald Drew
New York: New York Public Library, 1940. One of only 400 numbered copies. Color frontispiece with lettered heavy tissue guard, 112 plates. 232 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Cloth. Bookplate. Fine. One of only 400 numbered copies. Color frontispiece with lettered heavy tissue guard, 112 plates. 232 pp. 1 vols. Folio. A fabulous study of 8 English illuminated manuscripts of the early 14th century. The importance of these manuscripts rests in the evidence they provide of the "transition from the theocracy of the Gothic Middle Ages toward the secular individualism and the naturalism" of the Renaissance. This gradual change, of course, is reflected in illuminated miniatures because the monkish craftsmen were finally being replaced by lay professionals. The Tickhill Psalter, for example, was undoubtedly illuminated by a group of travelling professional artists. (Inventory #: 54886)