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MONUMENTA PALAEOGRAPHICA VINDOBONENSIA
Karabacek, Josef Ritter
DENKMÄLER DER SCHREIBKUNST AUS DER HANDSCHRIFTENSAMMLUNG DES HABSBURG-LOTHRINGISCHEN ERZHAUSES. Two parts.

- Leipzig : Karl W. Hiersemann 1910 - folio - text and plates housed in a portfolio, cloth spine and tips with paper-covered boards, and cloth edges with paper-covered boards for the housing - (iv),68 with 26 loose plates;(iv),73 with plates 27-46 - Order Nr. 100258 - Price: $ 250.00

Written in German. Edited by Rudolf Beer. Two parts bound separately. A Memorial of the Art of Writing from the Manuscript Collection of the "Habsburg-Lothringischen Erzhauses". Part One contains plates of facsimiles of fragments of Hilarius Pictaviensis "De Trinitate" and a tract, "Contra Arianos", as well as plates of the Golden Psalter of King Charlemagne. Part Two contains plates of facsimiles of "Bobbienser Mischhandschrift: Patristische und grammatische Schriften, zum Teil auf reskribierten Blättern mit klassischen, biblischen und apokryphen Texten" as well as the Sacraments of Pope Gregory I, or Gregory the Great. The text explains and expounds upon these manuscripts. Part One has the text bound regularly, whereas the text of Part Two is comprised of 10 loose sets of folio sheets folded into quarters, therefore being split into 8 pages per section. Part One: Lightly soiled, corners and spine head lightly bumped, small tear at spine foot and small rubbed areas along left side of spine, cracks and tears in the folds of the portfolio. Part Two: Corners bumped, edges slightly dented, small tear at the foot of the right side of spine, large tear throughout left side of spine, light soiling, cracks and tears in the folds of the portfolio, soiling on inside of spine cloth.

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MATRIX 15. Limited to 950 copies. Filled with tipped in plates, photographs and samples of private press items. Some of the articles in this issue are "Letters are Things: The Wood-engraved initials of Eric Gill" by Sebastian Carter, Fiona MacCarthy on William Morris, Ruari McLean on "Typography and Parsons," Ward Ritchie on "Paul Landacre and the Ward Ritchie Press, Henry Morris on his Bird & Bull Press, John Dreyfus on Fernand Baudin, and many others including an index to Matrix 11-15.