Medieval Birds in the Sherborne Missal (British Library)
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Janet Backhouse, Medieval Birds in the Sherborne Missal. London: The British Library, 2001.
24.5 x 17.5 cm, card wraps, 64 pages, illustrated throughout.
Previous owner's small 'ex-libris' pasted to half-title-page. In very good condition.
Medieval Birds in the Sherborne Missal (2001) by Janet Backhouse is a short, richly illustrated study of one of the most spectacular English illuminated manuscripts: the Sherborne Missal.
Backhouses focus is very specific: the remarkable series of bird images painted in the manuscripts margins. The Sherborne Missal contains an unusually large and coherent cycle of bird illustrationsfar more systematic than typical medieval marginal doodles. Backhouse examines these images as both art and evidence for medieval perception of the natural world.