An Early Slavonic Psalter From Rus, Volume 1: Photoreproduction
Cambridge Harvard University Press 1979 4to (31 cm), X, 179 pp. Publusher's cloth and dust jacket. This volume contains a photoreproduction of the surviving parts of a manuscript written in Rus' ca. 1100 A.D. The main portion is in the library of the Monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai, and a fragment is in the Leningrad Public Library. Any manuscript of this age is valuable for the information it provides about the language and culture of early Rus', but the significance of this combined codex is enhanced by the fact that it is the oldest representative of a special revision of the Psalter text which became standard in Rus' but not elsewhere in the world of the Orthodox Slavs. The volume also includes photoreproductions of portions of a mid-twelfth century Psalter from Rus' which is the second-oldest witness to this text.
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Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana
Darmstadt Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1985 4to (32 cm), 280 pp. Gilt leather in cloth slipcase. Beautifully produced history of the Vatican Library illustrated with 126 facsimiles of the most important illuminated manuscripts.
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Blgarska rkopisna kniga X-XVIII v. Katalog
Sofia Izlozhba 1976 8vo (23.5 cm), unpaginated text and 92 plates. Publisher's boards. In Bulgarian. A catalogue of Bulgarian manuscripts X-XVIII century. 280 manuscripts are described. The preface by Bozhidar Rajnov and Aksinia Dzhurova.
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British Museum. Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts. Series I
London Trustees of the British Museum 1923 4to (25.5 cm), brochure 16 pp and 50 plates. Cloth-backed boards portfolio (light shelfwear). Third edition. The 50 collotype plates are reproductions from a selection made by Sir George Warner in 1906 of the illuminated manuscripts then exposed to public view in the Grenville Library. The series was designed to cover as wide a field in the history of illumination as possible.
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De Belles Heures van Jean, duc de Berry. Inleiding en toelichting van Millard Meiss & Elizabeth H. Beatson
Uitgeveverij Het Spectrum Utrecht/Antwerpen 1970 8vo (24.5 cm), 268 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine. In cloth slip-case with pasted on reproduction. Dutch edition of a facsimile of the "Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry", an illuminated manuscript book of hours, commissioned around 1409 by the French prince John, Duke of Berry from the Limbourg brothers, the most gifted artists of their time. Along with the "Très Riches Heures", also made for Jean, the Belles Heures ranks among the great masterpieces of the Middle Ages.
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Dehemelvaart van Mohammed. Inleiding en toelichtingen van Marie-Rose Séguy
Uitgeveverij Het Spectrum Utrecht/Antwerpen 1977 4to (30 cm), 157 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine. In cloth slip-case with pasted on facsimile. A facsimile with commentaries of "The miraculous journey of the Prophet" from themanuscript Suppl. Turc, 190. Bibliothèque National, Paris.
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English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700. Volume 11. Manuscripts and Their Makers in the English Renaissance. Edited by Peter Beal and Grace Ioppolo
London The British Library 2002 8vo (23.5 cm), viii, 248 pp. Publishet's cloth and dust jucket. Since its inception in 1989, EMS has established itself as the foremost venue for the study of manuscript sources for British literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Aiming as much as ever to explore the possibilities of manuscript study in this period, Volume 11 includes significant contributions by some of the leading authorities in the field. Contents include: "Philip Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth and that False Knave Alexander Dicsone" by Peter Beal; "A New Manuscript Fragment of Sidney's Old Arcadia" by Henry Woudhuysen; "The Cultural and Textual Importance of Folger ms V.a.89" by Arthur F. Marotti; "A Feather from the Black Swan's Wing: Hugh Holland's Owen Tudyr (1601)" by Katherine Duncan-Jones; "John Mott and The Newe Metamorphosis" by Hilton Kelliher; "The foule sheet and ye fayr: Henslowe, Daborne, Heywood and the Nature of Foul-Paper and Fair-Copy Dramatic Manuscripts" by Grace Ioppolo; "The Manuscript Sources for Constantijn Huygens' Translations of Four Poems by John Donne, 1630" by Richard Todd; "The Black Poet of Ashover, Leonard Wheatcroft" by Cedric C. Brown); "Renaissance Manuscript Anthologies" by Steven W. May); "Systemizing Sigla" by Harold Love.
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English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700. Volume 7. Edited by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths
London The British Library 1998 8vo (23.5 cm), [6], 304 pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket. English Manuscript Studies is an annual periodical reflecting the growing level of scholarly interest in manuscript sources for literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Contents of vol. 7: "Professional Scribes in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century England", by Michael Gullick; "Where were the Latin Classics in Twelfth-Century England?", by Rodney Thomson; "Manuscripts of Ovid in England 1100-1500", by Kathryn L. McKinley; "The 'Lost' Essex House Masque (1621): A Manuscript Text Discovered", by Timothy Raylor; "Two Francis Quarleses: The Emblem Poet and the Suffolk Parson", by Karl Josef Holtgen; "Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury's A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil: Some New Questions", by Julia Griffin; "The Letterbooks of Mary Evelyn", by Frances Harris; "A Northampton Poetic Miscellany of 1455-56", by Bradford Y. Fletcher and A. Leslie Harris; "Jesus College Oxford, MS 39: Signs of a Medieval Compiler at Work", by Edward Jones; "MS Digby 233 and the Patronage of John Trevisa's De tegimine principum", by Charles F. Briggs; "A Pattern Poem by William Browne of Tavistock: 'Behold O God in Rivers of my Tears'", by Gillian Wright; "Manuscripts at Auction: January 1995 to December 1996", by H. R. Woudhuysen.
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Getijdenboek voor Etienne Chevalier. Musée Condé, Chantilly
Het Spectrum 1971 4to (27.5 cm), 126 pp. Publisher's cloth gilt, cloth slip-case (slip-case little dusted),
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Het Book of Kells. 126 afbeeldingen in kleur en 75 illustraties in zwart-wit - Met een toelichting door Francoise Henry
Uitgeveverij Het Spectrum Utrecht/Antwerpen 1970 4to (34.5 cm), 229 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine and gilt front cover. In cloth slip-case with pasted on reproduction from the text. A facsimile edition of the Book of Kells with 126 full page color illustrations. Introduction and commentaries in Dutch.
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Heures de Turin: 45 feuillets à peintures provenant des Très belles Heures de Jean de France, duc de Berry
Torino Bottega d' Erasmo 1960 Folio (35.5 cm), XXX, 27 pp, 45 plates. Publisher's cloth. The second edition (the first 1904) of the facsimile of Turin Hours with the preface by Albert Chatelet.
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Illuminated and Calligraphic Manuscripts: An Exhibition Held at the Fogg Art Museum and Houghton Library, February 14-April 1, 1955
Cambridge, MA 1955 4to (28 cm), 45 pp, 80 plates. Printed wrappers (light shelfwear, few pencil notes in the text). Inscribed to John Rowlson by a book collector, curator, and art historian Philip Hofer (1898-1984), who in 1938 founded the Department of Prints and Graphics at Harvard University. The exhibition included about half of the illuminated and calligraphic manuscript then in Harvard, mostly collected by Hofer. Introduction by Hanns Swarzenski.
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Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 27 - March 13 [1949], organized by the Walters Art Gallery in cooperation with the Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore The Walters Art Gallery 1949 4to (28 cm), frontispiece printed in color, XIV, 85 pp, LXXX pp of plates. 233 manuscripts were exhibited in one of the first major medieval manuscript exhibitions in America undertaken primarily with a view to widen the public experience in the field.
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Kostbare Handschriften: Jubiläumsausstellung zur 400-Jahr-Feier d. Julius-Maximilians-Univ. Würzburg im Jahre 1982. Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
Reichert 1982 4to (28 cm), 164 pp. Laminated wrappers (wrappers little frayed at the top). "Precious Manuscripts", the catalogue of the exhibition to celebrate 400th anniversary of the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. 72 items described fro papyri to the end of the 16th century.
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La Miniature arménienne. Collection du Maténadaran
Erevan Naïri 2006 4to (34 cm), 394 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Armenian miniatures from the collection of Matenadaran museum. Included 5 studies of different aspects of Armenian illumination by Lilit Zakarian, Irina Drampian, Emma Korkhmazian and Hravard Hacopian followed by a catalogue of manuscripts. 232 illustrations in color.
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Mostra della miniatura gotica Italiana
Florence Societa ""Leonardo da Vinci" 1937 16mo (14.5 cm), 16 pp. Printed wrappers (paper little browned). The catalogue of an exhibition of Italian gothic miniatures held in Florence 21 January - 10 February 1937. 94 items.
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Regards sur les manuscrits d'Autun: VIe-XVIIIe siècle (French Edition)
Ville d'Autun 1995 4to (26 cm), 150, [2] pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps (last page little stained, collector's blind stamp on the title). Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition Les manuscrits d'Autun, une redécouverte, held at the Autun municipal library 17 July - 21 octobre 1995.
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Regensburger Buchmalerei: Von fruhkarolingischer Zeit bis zum Ausgang des Mittelalters. Ausstellung der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Munchen und der Museen Stadt Regensburg
Prestel-Verlag 1987 4to (28 cm), 320 pp, including 180 plates (80 in color). Laminated wrappers. "Illumination in Regensburg: From early Carolingian times to the end of the Middle Ages." The catalogue of the exhibition in the Bavarian State Library in Munich and the Museum of the city of Regensburg. 110 manuscripts described in the catalogue arranged chronologically in 5 groups: Carolingian, Otthonian, Romanesque,13-th Century and Gothic MSS.
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Slovjans'ki rukopysy XI - XIV st. u fondach viddilu rukopysiv central'noji naukovoji biblioteky Akademiji nauk Ukrainskoji RSR
Kyjiv Naukova dumka 1969 8vo (21.5 cm), 152 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers little rubbed). In Ukrainian with summary in German, French and English. Slavic manuscripts from 11th - 14 th century in the Library of Ukrainian Academy of Science. General survey and detailed description of the external aspect, writing and contents of 28 Slavonic manuscripts and fragments of Kyjiv collection, some unpublished before. Illustrated with 31 photographs, which reproduce 31 manuscripts.
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The Benedictional of St Aethelwold: A Masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon Art
The British Library 2002 4to (29 cm), [4], 26, [2] pp, 119 ff of facsimile. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "The Benedictional of St Aethelwold, a book of ceremonial blessings made for St Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester from 963-984, is one of the most lavishly decorated manuscripts to have survived from Anglo-Saxon England. This beautifully produced facsimile reproduces the complete manuscript in full colour (with special gold), and to actual size, for the first time. In his introduction Andrew Prescott explores the historical and liturgical context of this remarkable manuscript, and provides translations of some of the blessings." (from the publisher's synopsis)
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The Bible as Book. The Manuscript Tradition. Edited by John L. Sharpe and Kimberly van Kampen
London The British Library 1998 4to (25.5 cm), xi, 260 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Proceedings of the annual Hereford Conferences sponsored by the Scriptorium: Center for Christian Antiquities. The central aim of this innovative volume is to examine the many ways in which the Bible, as a manuscript, was given shape and identity by different communities of believers. The scope, both chronologically and culturally, is vast, beginning with an examination of the methodology of the scribes who produced the Dead Sea Scrolls, and concluding with new evidence for the propagation of the Scriptures some fifteen centuries later, at the dawn of the age of printing. Leading scholars from different disciplines have been brought together to investigate the many ways in which scribes and craftsmen created cultural artifacts which enhanced their reader's veneration for the holy texts and which, for literate and non-literate believers alike, often became sacred objects in their own right.
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The Grimani Breviary: Reproduced from the illuminated manuscript belonging to the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice
Thames & Hudson 1972 4to (28.5 cm), 276 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine and gilt front cover. In cloth slip-case. A facsimile of 110 miniatures from the Grimani Breviary, a masterpiece of Flemish Renaissance manuscript illumination. Purchased around 1520 by the Venetian Cardinal Domenico Grimani (1461-1523), it consists of 1670 pages, of which around 120 are full-page miniatures of both sacred and secular subjects. Introduction by Mario Salmi and commentaries for each miniature by Giorgio E. Ferrari.
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The Illuminations of the Potocki Psalter from the Wilanów Collection. Edited by Halina Tchorzewska-Kabata [Polish & English]
Warszawa Biblioteka Narodowa 2004 4to (28 cm), 124 pp. Publisher's laminated boards and dust jacket. In Polish and English. Included studies "The Potocki Psalter: The Illuminations of the National Library Manuscript rps 18003 from Willanow collection" by Katarzyna Plonka-Balus and "Research results and affects of conservation tratment" by Maria Woaniak. Together with: A newly-found miniature from the Potocki Psalter. Warszawa: Biblioteka Narodowa, 2005. 80 (22 cm), 20 pp, laminated wrappers. In Polish and Endlish.
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The Illuminations of the Potocki Psalter from the Wilanów Collection. Edited by Halina Tchórzewska-Kabata
Warszawa Biblioteka Narodowa 2004 4to (28 cm), 124 pp. Publisher's laminated boards and dust jacket. In Polish and English. Included studies "The Potocki Psalter: The Illuminations of the National Library Manuscript rps 18003 from Willanow collection" by Katarzyna Płonka-Bałus and "Research results and affects of conservation treatment" by Maria Wozniak.
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The Life Of St Edmund King And Martyr: John Lydgate's Illustrated Verse Life Presented to Henry VI
The British Library 2004 8vo (25 cm), [6], 23, [3] pp, 120 ff of facsimile. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities, small tears bottom on fold and top of the spine). "On Christmas Eve 1433, the young King Henry VI arrived at the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, one of the largest religious foundations in fifteenth-century England. To cement the abbey's relationship with the king, abbot William Curteys conceived the idea of commemorating Henry's visit with a 'life' of the Anglo-Saxon king, St Edmond, the patron saint of the abbey. It is hard to overstate the importance of the resulting manuscript, both as a monument to the development of the English language, and for its illustrations - 120 images, forming narrative sequences integrated to form a coherent visual parallel to the text and with a careful fidelity to detail. The completed manuscript that was presented to the young king remained in his library until after his deposition, and although it left royal hands for a time, it reappears in the inventories of the library of Henry VIII. It was acquired by The British Library in 1742. In both the number and quality of its illustrations and in the degree of integration, The Life of St Edmond, King and Martyr is unsurpassed." (from the publisher's synopsis)
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The Medici Aesop: Spencer Ms 50, from the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library. Introduction by Everett Fahy
New York Harry N. Abrams 1989 4to (28.5 cm), 175 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "Aesop's animal fables spring marvelously to life in the tiny, jewel-like miniatures adorning the 15th-century illuminated Florentine manuscript splendidly reproduced here in 151 color illustrations. Rendered by a rare books curator at the New York Public Library, the translation of the hand-lettered Greek texts startles with its pithiness just when it threatens to sound too literal. The manuscript, now held by the New York Public Library, may have belonged to Piero de' Medici, the Renaissance Florentine autocrat who was banished and later drowned. Fahy, a scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, identifies the probable illustrator as Gherardo di Giovanni, a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli, who painted frescoes and panels."
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The Medici Aesop: Spencer Ms 50, from the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library. Introduction by Everett Fahy
New York Harry N. Abrams 1989 4to (28.5 cm), 175 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Aesop's animal fables spring marvelously to life in the tiny, jewel-like miniatures adorning the 15th-century illuminated Florentine manuscript splendidly reproduced here in 151 color illustrations. Rendered by a rare books curator at the New York Public Library, the translation of the hand-lettered Greek texts startles with its pithiness just when it threatens to sound too literal. The manuscript, now held by the New York Public Library, may have belonged to Piero de' Medici, the Renaissance Florentine autocrat who was banished and later drowned. Fahy, a scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, identifies the probable illustrator as Gherardo di Giovanni, a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli, who painted frescoes and panels."
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The Rohan Book of Hours. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (MS. latin 9471)
Thames & Hudson 1970 4to (29.5 cm), 247 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and gilt front cover, top edge gilt. In cloth slip-case with mounted reproduction from the text. A facsimile of the "Grandes Heures de Rohan", now Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. Latin 9471, an illuminated manuscript painted by the anonymous artist known as the Rohan Master, probably between 1418 and 1425. The manuscript is decorated with 11 full page, 54 half page, and 227 small miniatures. Introduction by Millard Meiss. Introduction and commentary by Marcel Thomas.
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: A Manuscript in the British Library. Introduction and Commentaries on the Plates by Josef Krasa
New York George Braziller 1983 8vo (23 cm), 132 pp. Hardcover in publisher's slipcase. Introduction, reproductions of 28 plates with commentaries and selected bibliography.
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Vita Mathildis, celeberrimae principis Italiae. Carmine scripta a Donizone Presbytero qui in Arce Canusina Vixit. A cura di Luigi Simeoni
Bologna Nicola Zanichelli 1930 4to (32 cm), LXIV, 127 pp, 3 plates. Cont. vellum backed boards. Fine copy. Rerum italicarum scriptores, Vol. V, part II.
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Italian Renaissance illuminations
Chatto & Windus 1977 4to (28 cm), 120 pp. Laminated wrappers. 19 black-and-white illustrations and 40 illustrations in color. Excellent introduction to the Italian Renaissance illuminations.
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Norman Illumination at Mont St Michel 966-1100
Oxford Clarendon Press 1970 4to (28 cm), XXIV, 266 pp, 55 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the publisher's description: "Mont St. Michel was refounded as a Benedictine community in 966, and a series of manuscripts survives from its scriptorium which makes it possible to trace the development of scripts and illumination for the next 100 years. Important experiments were made, the study of which contributes to our understanding of the origins of Romanesque book painting. The scriptorium was eclectic, using Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon, Ottonian and north French models, but from these it produced its own innovations which were important for the future."
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A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles. 6 vol. in 9 [complete set]
London Harvey Miller 1978 6 parts in 9 volumes 4to (33.5 cm), 219 pp; 243 pp; 235 pp; 276 & 374 pp; 72 pp, [64] ff of plates & 231 pp; 296 pp & 433 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spines (without dust jackets, bindings little rubbed and scratched, binding of vol. 3 little creased bottom of spine, number stumped on front free end-paper of vol. 2). Complete set comprising: 1. Alexander, J. J. G. Insular Manuscripts 6th-9th Century (1978); 2. Temple, E. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066 (1976); 3. Kauffmann, C. M. Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190 (1975); 4. Morgan, N. J. Early Gothic Manuscripts, 1190-1285, 2 vols, 1982-88; 5. Sandler, L. F. Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1385, 2 vols, 1986; 6. Scott, K. L. Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, 2 vols, 1996. "Conceived originally as a revision of Eric Millar's English Illuminated Manuscripts (1926-28), the scope and plan of this series has altered somewhat. We have retained the idea of listing the most important illuminated manuscripts of each century but aimed at describing each in the greater detail than Millar did." (from the Preface).
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Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work
Yale University Press 1992 4to (28 cm), VIII, 214 pp. Laminated wrappers. A classical survey of European manuscript illumination from the fourth to the sixteen century. Illustrating his discussion with examples from all over Europe, Jonathan Alexander discusses the social and historical contexts of the illuminators' lives, considers their methods of work, and shows the range and nature of their visual sources and the ways in which they were adapted, copied or created anew.
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The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550
Prestel 1994 4to (30 cm), 280 pp. Laminated wrappers. The catalogue of an exhibition at Royal Academy of Art, London, 27 October 1994 - 24 January 1995 and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 15 February - 7 May 1995. "This book documents the first comprehensive exhibition of Italian Renaissance illuminations from collections in Europe and the United States. 137 manuscripts, printed books with hand-painted illustrations and single pages are illustrated in full color, ranging from small prayer books to large choir books, and from Greek, Roman, and Italian literature to collections of fables and historical treatises. Many of these volumes were commissioned by powerful wealthy, and discriminating patrons who included members of the ruling Italian families as well as cardinals and popes and many of whom were also prominent bibliophiles. Among other fascinating issues, the mechanics of patronage, patterns of production, and formation of libraries are discussed in three essays and in the catalogue entries - the latter divided into eight thematic sections - written by noted specialists in the history of Renaissance manuscripts and books. And, of course, we are introduced to the artists themselves - their working habits, characteristic styles, and interrelationships." (from the publisher's description)
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Chudozhestvennyj princip illjustrirovanija gruzinskoj rukopisnoj knigi XI-nacala XIII vekov [Principe artistique de l' illustration du manuscrit à miniatures géorgien du XIe au début du XIIIe siècle]
Tbilisi Mecniereba 1973 4to (30 cm), 174 pp, 55 plates. Hardcover in dust jacket (dj rubbed and worn at extremities, corners bumped). In Russian with 5 page summary in French. An Artistic Principle of Illustration of a Georgian Manuscript Book: the 11th - beginning of 13th cc. The author attempted to prove that Georgian miniatures followed the evolution of Byzantine art while also influenced by local traditions.
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Splendours of Flanders: Late medieval art in Cambridge collections
Cambridge University Press 1993 4to (29.5 cm), XIV, 240 pp. Laminated wrappers. The book records an important exhibition of late medieval Flemish art in Cambridge collections, held at the Fitzwilliam Museum from July to September 1993. Included are paintings, sculpture, tapestry and coins from the Fitzwilliam Museum and Queen's College, and illuminated manuscripts and printed books from Cambridge University Library, fromGirton, Gonville & Caius, King's, Peterhouse and Trinity Colleges, and from the British Library and Holkham Hall. Many of the manuscripts belonged to famous libraries of the Burgundian Netherlands, and all the leading illuminators then active in Flanders are represented.
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Pelgrimstekens op perkament: originele en nageschilderde bedevaartssouvenirs in relgieuze boeken (ca. 1450-ca. 1530) (Nijmeegse kunsthistorische studies)
Orange House 2009 8vo (23 cm), 624 pp. Laminated boards. "The traces of pilgrimage on parchment" a study of pilgrimages' souvenirs in illuminated manuscripts. In Dutch with 15 pages summary in English.
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Manuscript painting at the court of France: The fourteenth century (1319-1380)
Chatto & Windus 1978 4to (28 cm), 120 pp. Laminated wrappers. 13 black-and-white illustrations and 40 illustrations in color. Excellent introduction to the manuscript painting at the court of France in the fourteenth century.
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Manuscrits enlumines d'origine italienne. 1, VIe-XIIe siècles
Paris Bibliotheque Nationale 1980 4to (30.5 cm), XXII, 105 pp, 8 plates in color, 56 plates in b&w. Publisher's cloth (small stain top center). 157 manuscript of the Italian origin 6-12 century are described. The first volume in this Manuscrits enlumines d'origine italienne series.
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Les très belles miniatures de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique
Bruxelles et Paris Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire 1913 Folio (37 cm), [6], VIII, 6 pp, 56 plates. Loose in cloth backed folder.
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The Bedford Hours (The British Library)
The British Library 1990 4to (27.5 cm), 64 pp, 51 plates. Laminated wrappers (wrappers little faded, inscription on the half-title). From the blurb: "The Bedford Hours is one of Britain's major treasures. An outstanding example of late medieval manuscript art, it was written and illuminated in the early 15th century for John, Duke of Bedford, younger brother of King Henry V, and his wife, Anne of Burgundy. The principal artist of the leading Parisian workshop in which it was produced takes his name, the 'Bedford Master' from his English patron. Expertly planned and professionally executed, the Bedford Hours is celebrated for the enormous range of its pictorial scheme, with many superb large miniatures in brilliant colours, and almost 1250 exquisite marginal details. Here Janet Backhouse examines the overall design of the Hours, discussing the historical background to its production and ownership, with 60 colour and black-and-white plates showing full pages and details beautifully reproduced from the manuscript."
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The illuminated manuscript
Oxford Phaidon 1979 4to (29 cm), 80 pp, 70 plates (28 in color). Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (small scratch to the front of dj, internally fine). Inscribed by the author to John Rowlands, his bookplate. The seventy manuscripts represented in this book, from Lindisfarne Gospels to the Diogo Homem's Atlas (mid 16th century), span almost nine hundred years of European art history. The technicalities of manuscript production are clearly explained. But it is the illuminations themselves and their variety both in style and content that are so amazing.
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Monumenta Palaeographica Vindobonensia. Denkmäler der Schreibkunst aus der Handschriftensammlung des Habsburg-Lothringischen Erzhauses. Lieferung 1 und 2 [complete set]
Leipzig Karl W. Hiersemann 1910 2 folders folio (41 cm), booklet [4], 68 pp, 26 chromolithographic plates; [4], 73, [3] pp, plates 27-46. Cloth portfolios (folders little foxed). 2 manuscripts are described in each part. In the first part included what is now ÖNB Cod. 2160 (the Vienna Hilarius papyrus codex) and ÖNB Cod. 2160 (Charlemagne's psalter). The second part contains ÖNB Cod. 16 ( 5th - 6th century greek MS) and ÖNB Cod. 958 (9th century Sacramentary).
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L'Epistolario Miniato Di Giovanni Da Gaibana [2 Volume Set]
Vicenza Neri Pozza 1968 2 volumes 4to (29 cm), [12], 127 pp, 24 pp of plates; [104] ff. Publisher's cloth and dust jackets, in slip-case. A study and a facsimile of the Epistolario (1259) written by Giovanni da Gaibana, a scribe and possibly an illuminator, who worked in Padua in the second half of 13th c. The Epistolario is one of the most remarkable works of an Italo-Byzantine tradition of Gothic illumination in Italy.
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O Illuminowanych Rękopisach Polskich [Illuminated manuscripts in Poland]
Warsaw Druk. P. Laskauera i W. Babickiego 1900 4to (25.5 cm), VI, 159, III pp, 14 plates. Cont. cloth, gilt-lettered spine (binding little stained, collectors' stamp and blind stamp. In Polish. A rare study of illuminated manuscripts in Poland by Polish art historian Mathias Bersohn (1824-1908). After extensive introduction described are manuscripts from the Wrocław City Library and from the various monastic libraries, mostly in Kraków.
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La miniature française aux XVe et XVIe siècles
Paris G. Van Oest 1930 Folio (36.5 cm), front with tipped in facsimile, [8], 128, [4] pp, 100 plates. Publisher's wrappers and dust jacket (dj little stained and frayed at the spine, spine sunned). A study of French illumination in the 15th and 16th centuries. Preface by comte A. de Laborde. 173 illustrations.
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Das goldene Evangelienbuch Heinrichs III
Berlin Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft 1933 Folio (42.5 cm), 92, [2] pp, 3 color and 219 halftone illustrations on unnumbered plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered front board and spine (binding little rubbed, small defect of cloth bottom of the front joint, paper little toned inside).
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Deutsche Buchmalerei der Gotik
Königstein im Taunus Langewiesche 1959 4to (26.5 cm), 80 pp. Printed wrappers and dust jacket. An illustrated essay on German gothic book illumination by German art historian Albert Boeckler (1892-1957), from 1946-1956 the head of the manuscript department of the Bavarian State Library in Munich.
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Illuminated manuscripts: the book before Gutenberg
London Thames and Hudson 1988 4to (31.5 cm), 199 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "Gutenberg's invention of printing with movable type in the middle of the 15th century changed forever the form of the book. Though it was one of the great advances in human history, the process effectively brought to an end the production of the illuminated manuscript book. Now with a wealth of spectacular illustrations -- 149 in colour -- "Illuminated manuscripts" unfolds over thousand years of the story of the book before printing." (from the publisher's synopsis)
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