![]() ![]() ![]() A select group of manuscripts will be on display during the symposium preview. On the Edge exhibit will be on view from May 21 – Augat the Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Gallery. Lucy Freeman Sandler, Professor of Art History Emerita, New York University will give the keynote speech of symposium, “Outer Limits: Marginal Illustrations in Gothic Manuscripts.” Please contact for questions or comments. The papers at the On the Edge symposium explore the margins of medieval art and life. Please contact for questions or comments. Lucy Freeman Sandler, Professor of Art History Emerita, New York University will give the keynote speech of symposium, Outer Limits: Marginal Illustrations in Gothic Manuscripts. ![]() This may mean simply the addition of coloured inks or the penwork embellishment of important ‘capital’ letters in the text, but might equally mean the inclusion of illustrations, diagrams, pictures or initials. Images in the Margins (Medieval Imagination) by Margot Nishimura Hardcover 20.95 Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms, Revised Edition (Looking At) by Michelle Brown Paperback 19.95 Images in the Margins (Medieval Imagination) Margot Nishimura 50 Hardcover 14 offers from 17. The papers at the On the Edge symposium explore the margins of medieval art and life. University life is defined not only by cutting edge research, but also by superstitions, protests, scavenger hunts, streakers in sneakers, social groups, and dance marathons. Most medieval manuscripts are decorated in some way. The serious and the playful also converge at the university. Camille’s groundbreaking work brought light to the confluence of the serious and the playful, the sacred and the profane in medieval manuscripts and architecture. Whereas the primary illuminations were often illustrations of the text or scenes from the lives of saints, quite often the margins were filled with whimsies, such as a donkey playing a lyre or. A section of the book, Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts, is highlighted in the video below which explores the surprising number of snails appearing inthese texts. As Anika Burgess of Atlas Obscura explains, on medieval pages, marginalia can run from the decorative to the downright bizarre. Honoring the twentieth anniversary of Michael Camille’s Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art, the On the Edge symposium will accompany a special preview of the exhibit of the same name that pairs marginalia in illuminated manuscripts with photographs of life at the University of Chicago. In 1962, historian Lilian Randall published a book on the illustrations found in the margins of illuminated manuscripts. Keynote: Lucy Freeman Sandler, Professor of Art History Emerita, New York University, “Outer Limits: Marginal Illustrations in Gothic Manuscripts” University of Chicago, Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Libraryġ100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 ![]()
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