The British Library houses one of the world's great collections of illuminated manuscripts, and Janet Backhouse has drawn on this resource to make a selection of examples that span over 800 years of medieval book production. She begins whit the Lindisfarme Gospel an continues with a representative cross-sectin that reveals the remarkable diversity an wealth-aesthetic an artefactual- to be found in medieval manuscripts.
With an concise introductory text, informative captions and full-colour reproductions, this is the perfect introduction to an endlessly fascinating subject.