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Medieval Book Facsimile and Manuscript Studies Guide: French Introductory Bibliography

Introductory Bibliography for French and Flemish Manuscripts

Avril, François. Manuscript Painting at the Court of France: the Fourteenth Century (New York: Braziller, 1978)

Camille, Michael. Master of Death: The Lifeless Art of Pierre Remiet, Illuminator (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996)

Cruse, Mark. Illuminating the Roman d’Alexandre: Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264: The Manuscript as Monument (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011)

Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context: Recent Research, ed. Elizabeth Morrison, Thomas Kren (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006)

Higgitt, John. The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy, and Luxury in Paris, England, and the Gaelic West (London: The British Library, 2000)

L'Estrange, Elizabeth. Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty, and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008)

Morrison, Elizabeth. Imaging the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500 (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010)

Nash, Susie. Between France and Flanders: Manuscript Illumination in Amiens (London: The British Library, 1999)

Sherman, Claire Richter. Imagining Aristotle: Verbal and Visual Representation in Fourteenth-Century France (Berkley: University of California Press, 1995)

​Stahl, Harvey. Picturing Kingship: History and Painting in the Psalter of Saint Louis (University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)

The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library’s Medieval Picture Bible, eds. William Noel, Daniel Weiss (London: Third Millennium Press, 2002)

Walker-Vadillo, Monica Ann. Bathsheba in Late Medieval French Manuscript Illumination: Innocent Object of Desire or Agent of Sin? (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008)