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The visual world of the Hungarian Angevin legendary / B�ela Zsolt Szak�acs.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Central European cultural heritage ; 1.Publisher: Budapest : Central European University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9786155225000
  • 6155225001
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Visual world of the Hungarian Angevin legendary.DDC classification:
  • 745.6/709439 23
LOC classification:
  • ND3385.M3 S93 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- A circle of saints -- Analysis of the legends -- Analysis of the image types -- Conclusions.
Scope and content: "Dispersed in two continents, four countries and six collections; many of its pages were cropped, cut into four, or lost forever; its history, origin, commissioner and audience are obscure; still, in its fragmented state it presents fifty-eight legends in an abundant series of images, on folios fully covered by miniatures, richly gilded, using only one side of the fine parchment; a luxurious codex worthy of a ruler; a unique iconographic treasury of medieval legends; one of the most significant manuscripts of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom--these are all what we call the Hungarian Angevin Legendary"--Provided by publisher.
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"Dispersed in two continents, four countries and six collections; many of its pages were cropped, cut into four, or lost forever; its history, origin, commissioner and audience are obscure; still, in its fragmented state it presents fifty-eight legends in an abundant series of images, on folios fully covered by miniatures, richly gilded, using only one side of the fine parchment; a luxurious codex worthy of a ruler; a unique iconographic treasury of medieval legends; one of the most significant manuscripts of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom--these are all what we call the Hungarian Angevin Legendary"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- A circle of saints -- Analysis of the legends -- Analysis of the image types -- Conclusions.

Print version record.

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