The Art of the Book

Bernard Muir is Reader in Medieval Language and Literature in the English Department, University of Melbourne. His publications include The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry (Exeter) and A Pre-Conquest English Prayerbook (Boydell).Margaret Manion is Professor Emeritus, Department of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne. Her publications include a facsimile edition of The Wharncliffe Hours (Thames & Hudson); Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections (with Vera F. Vines) (Thames & Hudson).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
LIST OF PLATES AND FIGURES
Introduction
Margaret M. Manion
1 The Early Insular Prayer Book Tradition and the Development of the Book of Hours, Bernard J. Muir
2 Women, Art and Devotion: Three French Fourteenth-Century Royal Prayer Books, Margaret M. Manion
3 Books for a Dominican Nuns' Choir: Illustrated Liturgical Manuscripts at Saint-Louis de Poissy, c.1330-1350, Joan Naughton
4 The Illustrated Office of the Passion in Italian Books of Hours, Bronwyn C. Stocks
5 An Unusual Image of the Assumption in a Fourteenth-Century Dominican Choir-Book, Margaret M. Manion
6 The Dominican Liturgy of the Assumption: Texts and Music for the Divine Office, John Stinson
7 A Centre for Devotional and Liturgical Manuscript Illumination in Fifteenth-Century Besancon, Vera F. Vines
8 The Master of Jacques de Besancon and a Fifteenth-Century Parisian Missal, Hilary Maddocks
9 Marginalized Jewels: The Depiction of Jewellery in the Borders of Flemish Devotional Manuscripts, Kate Challis
10 Devotional Objects in Book Format: Diptychs in the Collection of Margaret of Austria and her Family, Dagmar Eichberger
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX