Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books-like today’s museums- preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. MMW 10 F 50, ff.South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands (USD $) 1460, collection of Huis van het boek, The Hague, Ms. The project Medieval miniatures from Byvanck to the RKD runs from January 2022 until the end of 2025.īook of Hours possibly made for the Lochorst family from Utrecht, c. Therefore a specialist in the field, Dr Anne Margreet As-Vijvers, has been appointed as senior curator of Medieval Manuscript Illumination as of 1 January 2022. Medieval manuscript illumination is a new subject area for the RKD.
The RKD will be collaborating with the KB – National Library of the Netherlands, eCodicesNL and Bibliotheek Rotterdam to establish the best way to create sustainable links between the portal and other initiatives for digitising and providing online access to medieval manuscripts. In addition, plans are underway to build an art-historical webportal which pools together all scholarly information about book illumination in the Northern Netherlands. Illuminated manuscripts can be relatively securely localised and dated, enabling us to create a research tool which is both up-to-date and directed towards future multidisciplinary research into relations between manuscript illumination and other kinds of artistic production. Shortly, art historians, medievalists and anyone interested will be able to examine and search through thousands of images of medieval miniatures as part of the wider history of art in the Netherlands. All the more so since illuminated manuscripts have survived in much larger numbers than panel paintings from the Middle Ages. So the Byvanck database forms a valuable addition to the RKD’s online databases. 1200 to the present, but thus far information about manuscripts has been lacking. The database RKD images contains visual documentation for the fine arts of the Netherlands from c. This is what stimulated Stichting Alexander Willem Byvanck Genootschap to hand over the Byvanck database to the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. In order that current and future generations of scholars will be able to use these precious data, the collected material needs to be made accessible online with provisions for long-term maintenance. The Netherlands is the only country in the world to have a more or less complete survey of the art of manuscript illumination produced within its territory in medieval times. The database describes not just the manuscripts, but the images which they incorporate: from full-page miniatures to small-scale marginal illustrations. Moreover, the database includes information about Northern-Netherlandish manuscripts known to be in foreign collections. 3000) illuminated manuscripts in Dutch collections to form the Byvanck database. Researchers of Stichting Alexander Willem Byvanck Genootschap have catalogued almost all (c. 1490-1500), Draiflessen Collection (Tuliba), Mettingen, Ms. Book of Hours possibly made for the Lochorst family from Utrecht, c. Together these constitute a remarkable wealth of historic objects: there are many religious works, such as prayer books and illustrated Bibles, but also classics from Dutch cultural history such as the chivalric romances and historical works written by Jacob van Maerlant.ġ. There are around 75 institutions in the Netherlands whose collections include medieval manuscripts. The images that are hidden in illuminated manuscripts are among the finest works of art to have survived from the Middle Ages.
The work was done by several craftsmen: some copied the text, others provided the colourful initials and the decorations in the margins, while the miniatures – the illustrations – were the work of specialist artists. The RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History is making available online the Dutch heritage comprising illuminated manuscripts.īefore the middle of the fifteenth century, when the art of book printing spread across Europe, each book needed to be separately made by hand. Wednesday 16 February 2022 Illuminated manuscripts – hand-written and decorated books from the Middle Ages – are precious objects which were frequently enhanced with painted and drawn images.
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