[EKStationers] Exhibition - 10 centuries of medieval book production

[Raffaella]

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/ci.html
and
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2005-6/camilluminations.html

July 26 –December 10, 2005. The Cambridge Illuminations:
Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West.
Cambridge is among the world's richest treasuries of
medieval illuminated manuscripts. It is also unique in
having its star objects distributed among its numerous
repositories, rather than concentrated in a single
institution. Collectively, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the
University Library, and the
Colleges of Cambridge can write the history of manuscript
production from the sixth to the sixteenth century,
representing all major schools of European illumination.
Despite frequent requests for the loan of individual
manuscripts to exhibitions outside Cambridge and several
thematic Cambridge displays in the past, this wealth of
material has never been presented to the public in its
entirety. Since the series of catalogues published by M.R.
James a century ago, no systematic study of the collections
has been undertaken. The 2005 major exhibition of
illuminated manuscripts from the all Cambridge collections
will be the first event of this scope. It will have two
venues, the University Library and the Fitzwilliam Museum.
It will
include over 150 manuscripts from all of the major centres
of
manuscript production and will cover the full range of
religious and secular texts, in Latin and the vernacular,
from the sixth to the sixteenth century. Its main purpose
will be to give delight and make the results of past and
present research available to scholars steeped in their
field, to students at the beginning of their careers, and
to
book lovers from all walks of life.