#  Aesthetic & Interpretive Understanding 16: Openings: The Illuminated Manuscript 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2012 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-125491) 

 

 

 

**Jeffrey Hamburger[](/node/15)**In an age of mechanical - and now virtual - reproduction, we have lost sight of the basic visual unit that structures our experience of the book: the opening. Employing old and new technologies, this course focuses on medieval books, their decoration and their readers in the Middle Ages (ca. 300-1500), when the book as we have known it, along with allied institutions, such as the university itself, first came into being.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Courses 2014/15 and earlier ](/course-categories/past-courses)