Summary Opening Manuscripts, inspired by Elly Miller's passion for manuscripts and her commitment to their study, shines a light on the many ways in which medieval manuscripts can be understood. From the physical unfolding of the parchment to discussions of iconography, dating and influences, over time and across countries, each of the volume's nineteen richly illustrated essays by distinguished scholars in the field asks us to explore a different aspect of the illuminated manuscript. It is a splendid tribute to Elly Miller (1928-2020), the driving force behind Harvey Miller Publishers, who championed medieval art for over half a century. From 1970 to the end of her life, her role as publisher, not only commissioning but also personally editing and designing, was fundamental to the development of the scholarly study and wider appreciation of handwritten and illustrated books of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.? TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Introduction 'A Passion for Manuscripts' by Elly Miller, with a foreword by Tamar Miller Wang Paul Binski The Chronology of Matthew Paris's Illustrated Saints' Lives Christopher de Hamel The Patron of the Lambeth Bible Charlotte Denoël Adémar of Chabannes' Biblical Drawings in Notebook Leiden VLO 15: From the Mystery of Incarnation to Liturgical Drama Kathleen Doyle Opening Up Representations of Saints in English Folded Almanacs Richard Emmerson Visual Signification in the Liber floridus 'Christ between Ecclesia and Synagoga' Joanna Fronska The Images of Gratian: The Author's Portrait and Historical Evidence Gerald Guest Turning to the Masses in the Très Riches Heures Deirdre Jackson Portal to Heaven: The Virgin Mary as Gatekeeper in Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria Susan L'Engle Construing Character and Social Status: Visual Interpretations by Medieval Readers of Roman Law Julian Luxford The Carthusian Miniatures in the Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry James H. Marrow The Gaudechon Hours: An Unpublished Manuscript Illuminated by the Masters of Zweder van Culemborg Michael A. Michael Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Vat. Lat. 4757: An Early Fourteenth-Century English Illuminated Vademecum Nigel J. Morgan The Virgin and Child with a Bird in English Art c.1250-c.1350: Passion Symbolism or the Playing Christ Child Lucy Freeman Sandler Pictorial Typology and the Bedford Hours Kathryn A. Smith Opening the Space of the Parchment Roll: Imaging Interiority in Two English Copies of the Septenarium pictum Patricia Stirnemann The Souvigny Bible and the Holy Sepulchre Jenny Stratford A Tudor Treatise on Illumination and Three Antiquarians: Humfrey Wanley, Elizabeth Elstob and George Ballard Federica Toniolo Double Openings Commemorating the First World War: Nestore Leoni and the Revival of Illumination in Italy Roger Wieck The Last Solomon: Lost and Found Index of Manuscripts and Works of Art Cited List of Images