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The Brussels Horloge de Sapience: Iconography and Text of Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS. IV 111
With an Edition of the Declaration des Hystoires and a Translation by K.V. Sinclair
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The book discusses principally the iconography and text of a mid 15th century copy of the mystical treatise Horloge de Sapience in the most sumptuously illuminated ms. known of the text.
Each of the 36 illuminations is discussed in turn, with reference to their pictorial traditions, to the French textual matter and to a unique contemporary commentary, called the Déclaration des hystoires.
The Déclaration is one of the earliest essays in the history of art criticism to survive. The study is rendered useful for teachers and scholars by an English translation of the text of the Déclaration, which enables the reader to see the illustrations through the eyes of a 15th century critic.
Each of the 36 illuminations is discussed in turn, with reference to their pictorial traditions, to the French textual matter and to a unique contemporary commentary, called the Déclaration des hystoires.
The Déclaration is one of the earliest essays in the history of art criticism to survive. The study is rendered useful for teachers and scholars by an English translation of the text of the Déclaration, which enables the reader to see the illustrations through the eyes of a 15th century critic.
'Il s'agit d'un beau livre consacré aux illustrations du ms. de Bruxelles Bibl. Roy. MS. IV 111, trésor unique et témoignage sans égal des oeuvres parisiennes du milieu du 15e siècle.'
Gilles Roques, Revue de Linguistique Romane, 1991.
'Der auÃerordentlich kostbaren Aufmachung in Einband, Schrift und Bild...entspricht die inhaltlich wie formal hohe Qualität insbesondere des umfangreichen Haupttextes...'
Louise Gnädinger, Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, 1994.
âMonks publiziert die, meist mehrteiligen, Miniaturtafeln dieser Handschrift und erklärt sie in bewundernswert gründlicher Art.'
Bernhard Gallistl, Mediaevistik, 1993.
Gilles Roques, Revue de Linguistique Romane, 1991.
'Der auÃerordentlich kostbaren Aufmachung in Einband, Schrift und Bild...entspricht die inhaltlich wie formal hohe Qualität insbesondere des umfangreichen Haupttextes...'
Louise Gnädinger, Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, 1994.
âMonks publiziert die, meist mehrteiligen, Miniaturtafeln dieser Handschrift und erklärt sie in bewundernswert gründlicher Art.'
Bernhard Gallistl, Mediaevistik, 1993.
students and scholars of art-history and codicologists.|Peter Rolfe Monks has spent many years as a practising artist in Australia. He was educated in England, New Zealand and in universities in the U.S.A. (MA Northwestern) and Australia (Ph.D. Melbourne). He has written several articles on mid 15th century French manuscript illumination. His current project is surveying unrecorded artists and illuminations of 15th century French schools and his general interests lie in the field of art criticism, medieval and modern.