Dispersed in two continents, four countries and six collections; many of its pages were cropped, cut into four, or lost forever; its history, origin, commissioner and audience are obscure; still, in its fragmented state it presents fifty-eight legends in abundant series of images, on folios fully covered by miniatures, richly gilded, using only one side of the fine parchment; a luxurious codex worthy of a ruler; a unique iconographic treasury of medieval legends; one of the most significant manuscripts of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom – these are all what we call the Hungarian Angevin Legendary.
- Series title page
- title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword to the Series
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I.1. Posing the question
- I.2. Research History
- A survey of the professional literature
- The naming of the codex
- The origins of the codex – stylistic aspects
- The commissioning and further history of the codex
- Observations on content: iconography and hagiography
- I.3. Calculation of the Surviving Material
- The Vatican Library
- The Hermitage
- The Morgan Library and other American collections
- The page in the Louvre
- I.4. An assessment of the original material
- I.5. Reconstruction of the legends
- Notes
- A Circle of Saints
- II.1. Missing Sections
- Missing quires
- Saints missing from fragmentary quires
- II.2. Sequence of images
- The guiding principle: the hierarchical order of saints
- The secondary principle: the calendarsystem of saints
- II.3. Distribution – the selection process
- II.4. Hierarchy of Saints
- II.5. A Look Around: Other Collections
- Notes
- Analysis of the Legends
- III.1. Jesus, Mary and St John the Baptist
- III.2. Apostles and Evangelists
- The first group of Apostles: the Greater Apostles
- St James the Greater
- The second group of apostles: the lesser apostles and the evangelists
- III.3. Martyrs
- The first group of martyrs
- Three deacons: Stephen, Lawrence and Vincent
- Three military saints: Christopher, George and Sebastian
- Sts Cosmas and Damian
- The second group of martyrs
- Martyr bishops: Donatus, Stanislaw, Gerhard and Thomas Becket
- III.4. Confessors
- The first group of confessors: popes, Church Fathers, bishops
- St Sylvester
- St Gregory the Great
- St Ambrose
- St Augustine
- St Jerome
- St Martin
- The Second Group of Confessors: the Holy Kings of Hungary
- St Emeric, the prince
- St Ladislas, the king
- The third group of Confessors: the monastic saints
- St Francis in the Hungarian Angevin Legendary
- The four folios of the cycle of St Francis
- The textual tradition: The Hungarian Angevin Legendary’s place in the history of the sources
- The visual tradition: The Hungarian Angevin Legendary’s place in the iconography of St Francis
- The visual system of the codex: The place of the cycle of St Francis in the Hungarian Angevin Legendary
- The Fourth Group of Confessors
- Three bishops: Brice, Remy, Hilary
- Two hermits: Giles and Paul
- Two novel-like heroes: Alexis and Eustace
- III.5. Female Saints and Virgins
- Notes
- Analysis of the Image Types
- IV.1. Images of Public Life
- Ordination scenes
- Images of scholarly life
- Scenes of conversion
- The world of idols
- Tests of faith
- Images of baptism
- Liturgical scenes
- IV.2. Images of the Virtuous Life
- IV.3. The World of Miracles
- IV.4. Images of Suffering
- IV.5. Images of the Last Rites
- Notes
- Conclusions
- V.1. The process in which the codex was created
- V.2. Analysis of the Tituli
- Word usage in the tituli
- Misunderstandings and reinterpretations
- V.3. Characteristics of the image types
- Construction of the image types
- The monotony of image types
- Historia, imago, devotional image
- V.4. The Lessons of the Program
- The poetics of the cycles
- The focal points of the program
- Program and commissioner
- V.5. The idea of the codex
- The codex, as an article of value
- Image and text
- Work and audience
- Notes
- Tables
- Critical Transcription of the tituli of the Hungarian Angevin Legendary
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations and References
- Index
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