Earliest Irish and English Bookarts: Visual and Poetic Forms before A.D. 1000

TitleEarliest Irish and English Bookarts: Visual and Poetic Forms before A.D. 1000
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1994
AuthorsStevick, Robert David
Number of Pages282 pp.
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
CityPhiladelphia, PA
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780812232202
Annotation

Contents:
The topic and how it took shape: Soiscel Molaise, main panel
Simple uses of "the two true measures of geometry"
Reconstructing a form from major fragments
Early sets of forms developing "the two true measures"
Another reconstruction and some page designs
Simple forms starting from the golden ratio
Forms starting from two golden rectangles
Another form starting from two golden rectangles
Some other forms employing the golden ration
Two other forms developed from a modular plan
A form created from roots of two
Some other sets of forms
Some forms based mainly on arithmetical proportion
An early and a late set of forms
Understanding the forms

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