Codicology Compared

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This seminar will critically explore select issues in the study of codicology across Christian and Islamic traditions, particularly in the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent areas of contact. Not a chronological survey, the seminar will instead investigate topics of current art historical and historiographic significance, including: the relationships between manuscript painting and textual traditions and sources; cultures of reading; the impact of religious practice on visual programs; modes of book production and reception; histories of book collecting and provenance; the rise of the professional illuminator in relationship to changes in the locales; along with the methods and means of book production.