Illuminating the Middle Ages: Tributes to Prof. John Lowden from his Students, Friends and Colleagues

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by  Laura Cleaver, Alixe Bovey, Lucy Donkin

Illuminating the Middle Ages
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Library of the Written Word
volume 79
The Manuscript World
Editor-in-Chief
Richard Gameson, Durham University
Editorial Board
Martin Kauffmann (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
Erik Kwakkel (Leiden University)
Kathryn Rudy (University of St Andrews)
Roger S. Wieck (The Morgan Library & Museum, New York)
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Illuminating the Middle Ages
Tributes to Prof. John Lowden from his Students,
Friends and Colleagues
Edited by
Laura Cleaver
Alixe Bovey
Lucy Donkin
leiden | boston
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This publication has been made possible thanks to a subvention from the University of Bristol.
Cover illustration: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France MS 11560, f. 8. © Bibliothèque nationale de
France.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lowden, John, honouree. | Cleaver, Laura, editor. | Bovey, Alixe,
editor. | Donkin, Lucy, editor.
Title: Illuminating the Middle Ages : tributes to Prof. John Lowden from
his students, friends and colleagues / edited by Laura Cleaver, Alixe
Bovey, Lucy Donkin.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. | Series: The manuscript world
; volume 12 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020003886 (print) | LCCN 2020003887 (ebook) | ISBN
9789004422322 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004422339 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. |
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Classification: LCC ND2920 .I43 2020 (print) | LCC ND2920 (ebook) | DDC
745.6/700902--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020003886
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020003887
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Contents
Abbreviations  IX
List of Illustrations  X
List of Contributors  XVIII
Introduction  1
1 Were Early Medieval Picture Cycles Recycled from Late Antiquity? New
Evidence for a Lost Archetype of the Apollonius Pictus—An Illustrated
Classic  4
Michelle P. Brown
2 Milanese Early Medieval Psalters: Models and Influences from West and
East  19
Francesca Demarchi
3 Noli me tangere in the Codex Egberti (Reichenau, c. 977–93) and in the
Gospel Book of Otto III (Reichenau, 998–1000): Visual Exegesis in
Context  36
Barbara Baert
4 The Green Tinted Souls of Dives and Lazarus in the Codex Aureus of
Echternach  52
Maria R. Grasso
5 Portraits of Terence, the African  68
Beatrice Radden Keefe
6 Manuscripts Face to Face: León and the Holy Roman Empire in the
Mid-Eleventh Century  77
Rose Walker
7 The Two Pictures Cycles in Early Manuscripts of St Anselm’s
Prayers  97
T.A. Heslop
8 Early Cistercian Manuscripts from Clairvaux  109
Kathleen Doyle
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9 The Imagery of Noah’s Ark in the Mosaic Decoration of Monreale
Cathedral  125
Mika Takiguchi
10 Some Observations on the Artists of the Leiden Psalter (Leiden,
University Library MS B.P.L. 76A) and Their Working Practices  139
Emma Luker
11 A Portrait of Abraham Ibn Ezra (Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal
MS 1186)  157
Patricia Stirnemann and Judith Kogel
12 The Virgin and Child in the Map Psalter (London, British Library
Additional MS 28681)  164
Sally Dormer
13 Seeing and Reading the Matthew Paris Saints’ Lives  182
Martin Kauffmann
14 Extended Shelf-life: Manuscript Consolidation in an English Monastic
Library  207
Kathryn Gerry
15 Domesday in Disguise  224
Jessica Berenbeim
16 From Warwickshire to New York via Canterbury: The Travels and
Tribulations of the Bible of Richard of Sholdon  241
Frederica Law-Turner
17 Virgin, Devil, Bishop, King: Nicola Pisano’s Pulpit in Siena and
Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria  259
Deirdre Jackson
18 Of Venerable Teachers and Boisterous Students: Maistre Brunetto and
the Arabic Aristotle  276
Hanna Wimmer
19 Lost and Found in the Meditationes Vitae Christi, Oxford, Corpus Christi
College MS 410  291
Renana Bartal
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Contents vii
20 Ivory Booklets, Devotion in Cologne  309
Sarah M. Guérin
21 Gothic Ivories Unhinged  326
Catherine Yvard
22 Monks and Ants in the Presence of Death: A Re-reading of Pliny the
Elder in Quattrocento Illumination  341
Christian Heck
23 The Ridware Cartulary and the Great Seal of England  352
Julian Luxford
24 Sin and Salvation in the Hours of Jean de Dunois  369
Richard Gameson
25 Harreteau and His Unfinished Book of Hours  395
Rowan Watson
26 Looking Beneath the Surface: Subterranean Space in the Kuntá Hora
Cantional  414
Lucy Donkin
27 A Manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Mulieribus Claris from the
Library of the Benedictine Convent of San Maurizio al Monastero
Maggiore in Milan?  435
Anne-Marie Eze
28 Bloodlines: Medicine and Cosmology in France, China, and
Mexico  446
Jack Hartnell
Index of Manuscripts  469
General Index  476
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Abbreviations
BAV Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
BL British Library
BM Bibliothèque municipale
BnF Bibliothèque nationale de France
BSB Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
CCCM Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Medievalis
CCSL Corpus Christianorum Series Latina
CSCO Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium
CSM Cantigas de Santa Maria
JWCI Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica
MVC Meditationes Vitae Christi
ÖNB Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
PL Patrologia Latina
SC Sources Chrétiennes
TNA Kew, The National Archives
V&A Victoria and Albert Museum
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Illustrations
1.1 The Apollonius Pictus manuscript, Hungary, National Széchényi Library,
Budapest, COD. Lat. 4, f 3v Image courtesy of the National Library of Hungary
and the Hungarian Digital Image Library.  5
1.2 The Holy Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai, Arabic NF 8, f. 15r. Image courtesy of
The Community of the Holy Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai, and of the Sinai
Palimpsest Project.  7
1.3 Drawing of Apollonius and his daughter, Tarsia, the Holy Monastery of St
Catherine, Sinai, Arabic NF 8, f. 15v. Image courtesy of The Community of the
Holy Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai, and of the Sinai Palimpsest
Project.  8
1.4 The Milan Annunciation ivory, Milan, Castle Sforzesco, Avori 14. Image courtesy
of the Sforzesco Castle Museum, Milan.  9
1.5 The Holy Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai, Arabic NF 8, f. 15v. Image courtesy
of The Community of the Holy Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai, and of the
Sinai Palimpsest Project.  11
2.1 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana MS Vat. Lat. 83, f. 76v. © Vatican
Library.  21
2.2 Munich, Bayeriche Staatsbibliothek Clm 343, f. 88v. © Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek München.  24
2.3 Munich, Bayeriche Staatsbibliothek Clm 343, f. 181v. © Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek München.  29
2.4 Munich, Bayeriche Staatsbibliothek Clm 343, f. 12v. © Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek München.  30
2.5 Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, inv. 1927,21. © Foto: Kunstgewerbemuseum der
Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Fotograf/in: Arne
Psille.  32
3.1 Noli me tangere, Codex Egberti, Trier, Stadtbibliothek MS 24, f. 91r. © Trier,
Stadtbibliothek.  40
3.2 Chairete, detail from a now lost sarcophagus. Source: Antonio Bosio, Roma
sotterranea novissima (Rome, 1651).  42
3.3 Noli me tangere, miniature from the Gospel Book of Otto III, Munich,
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 4453, f. 251r. © Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
München.  45
3.4 Noli me tangere, detail from the doors of Bernward of Hildesheim for the
Church of St Michael in Hildesheim. © Bildarchiv Foto Marburg.  50
4.1 The rich man and Lazarus, Codex Aureus of Echternach c. 1030–45. Nüremberg,
Germanisches Nationalmuseum Hs. 156 142/KG1138, f. 78r. © Germanisches
Nationalmuseum, photo: Monika Runge.  53
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