This book is the commentary volume to the facsimile edition of the Budapest Concordantiae caritatis manuscript from 1413 (Central Library of the Hungarian Province of the Piarist Order, CX 2).

The Budapest Concordantiae caritatis possesses an almost inexhaustible wealth of images created by a collective of seven artists whose personal styles represent at least two distinct regions of medieval Europe and who used a great variety of models originating from both the 14th and the early 15th centuries. The manuscript thus provides an extraordinary opportunity for studying the circulation of visual ideas between ages and among artists. Allowing insight into the workshop of seven painters, the manuscript invites us to study the conception of images, and, as a result, to glimpse art works in their complete, multi-layered historicity. ... Addressing his work to poor clerics having no access to well equipped libraries and compiling it for the benefit of simple laymen, Ulrich von Lilienfeld aimed to cover a whole universe of knowledge: everything that seemed to be important for the understanding of the divine plan of salvation. - [Author]

Language: English

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