Publisher's description and from the back cover:
The "Troyes Mémoire", a late fifteenth-century manuscript preserved in the archives of the town of Troyes, France, is the sole surviving example of the written instructions used in designing tapestries during the Middle Ages. It is unique in its presentation of detailed information on how patrons and church officials communicated complex iconographic material to the medieval artists commissioned to paint cartoons for tapestries. It is here translated into English for the first time, with full introduction and extensive notes. The volume also includes a translation of another richly informative document from medieval Troyes: the Account Books of the Church of Sainte-Madeleine, which introduces us to the actual people who worked together, between 1416 and 1430, to produce a set of tapestries for the town's oldest church. They shed important new light on an era when tapestry represented a supreme form of art.

Contents:
page IX List of illustrations
XI Acknowledgments
XIII Foreword
XV Preface
1 Introduction
61 Translator's Notes
69 The Mémoire
177 Appendix: Excerpts from the Account Books of the Church of Sainte Madeleine of Troyes
181 Glossary
185 Bibliography
191 Index