NY Public Library : Splendor of the Word
An exhibition of Mediaeval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts in the NYPL.
Venue :
D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library (Main Branch)
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
New York
Dates :
Friday 21 October 2005 – Sunday 12 February 2006
Entry to the exhibition is free.
Exhibition :
Selected manuscripts from the NYPL collection displayed with spreads and bindings. A hundred examples from the collection of religious, scientific, literary, teaching, and history books, in a variety of languages (Latin predominating) and calligraphic and scribal styles, with most of the manuscirpts in a variants of Blackletter, and some in Chancery and Humanist Antiqua. Illuminations range from early Mediaeval to late Flemish, from stylized to naturalistic.