Parution : L. Freeman Sandler, « Penned & Painted: The Art and Meaning of Books in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts », British Library, 2022
Penned & Painted is a beautifully produced, large format book in which one of the most celebrated historians of medieval art surveys one of the world’s great collections and asks ‘what is a medieval book?’. The idea of the book was central throughout the western European and the eastern Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From the beginning, the word for ‘book’— sefer in Hebrew, biblia in Greek, and liberin Latin — was identified with...