The First Presentation Miniature in an English-Language Manuscript
- Author / Editor
- Coleman, Joyce.
The First Presentation Miniature in an English-Language Manuscript
- Published
- Joyce Coleman, Mark Cruse, and Kathryn A. Smith, eds. The Social Life of Illumination: Manuscripts, Images, and Communities in the Late Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 403-37
- Description
- Explores the argument that the lack of Chaucerian presentation miniatures suggests that Chaucer did not write for wealthy patrons. Identifies the first presentation miniature in an English-language manuscript as the 1409 incipit image in John Trevisa's "Governance of Kings and Princes," reviews the history of presentation miniatures in French-language manuscripts, and shows that, in both languages, presentation miniatures seem to be reserved for "serious" literature, such as national chronicles and translations of learned Latin material.
- Alternative Title
- Social Life of Illumination: Manuscripts, Images, and Communities in the Late Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies