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Item Number: 130424
Title: Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art: The Morgan Library & Museum
Author: Wieck, Roger S
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781857599176
Description: London: Scala, 2014. 23cm., pbk., 80pp., 81 color illus. Summary: This book examines the importance of the Eucharist in Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Over 60 images from the Morgan Library & Museum’s famous holdings of illuminated manuscripts are used to illustrate the themes of the Institution of the Eucharist, Celebration of Mass, the Eucharist and the Old Testament, Domestic Devotion to the Eucharist, the Feast of Corpus Christi and Eucharistic Miracles. Highlights include a Preparatio ad Missam that once belonged to Pope Leo X and was kept in the Sistine Chapel sacristy before being looted by Napoleon’s troops in 1798; a Prayer Book commissioned by the queen of France, Anne de Bretagne, to aid in the instruction of her threeyear-old son, Prince Charles-Orland; and a survey of images, dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, of the Sacred Bleeding Host of Dijon, one of the most famous miraculous Communion wafers.
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