EXAMPLES OF GOLD-EMBELLISHED ILLUMINATIONS IN MEDIAEVAL BOSNIAN MANUSCRIPTS
EXAMPLES OF GOLD-EMBELLISHED ILLUMINATIONS IN MEDIAEVAL BOSNIAN MANUSCRIPTS
Author(s): Ema MazrakSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Cultural history, Visual Arts, Bosnian Literature, Serbian Literature, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, Biblical studies, Theory of Literature, History of Art
Published by: Međunarodni forum Bosna
Keywords: Medieval Bosnian manuscripts; 14th-15th century; Nikolje Gospels; Hval’s Miscellany; Venice Miscellany; Illuminations;
Summary/Abstract: This paper presents examples from three representative mediaeval Bosnian manuscripts dating from the late 14th and early 15th centuries, with a view to identifying the distinctive features of the illuminations, the interpretation of the subject-matter and the context in which they were produced for a patron. The manuscripts in question are the Nikolje Gospels, Hval’s Miscellany, and the Venice Miscellany (hereafter: Nikolje, Hval and Ven.). Hval is the only one to bear an original date in the colophon (summer 1404); it also names the person for whom it was made, Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić (ca.1350-1416), Grand Duke of Bosnia and Duke of Split, Hval the krstjanin, the scribe, and the head of the autocephalous Bosnian Church, djed Radomir. Ven., of which, unlike Hval, neither the colophon nor any marginalia on the authorship of the text or illuminations have survived, is similar in both text and typology of the illuminations.
Journal: Forum Bosnae
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 87-88
- Page Range: 250-278
- Page Count: 29
- Language: English
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