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(Grenville Library) GUIDE TO THE MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPHS, CHARTERS, SEALS, ILLUMINATIONS AND BINDINGS EXHIBITED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS AND IN THE GRENVILLE LIBRARY.
London British Museum 1899 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers. 139 pages
Revised from 1895 first edition. Chapters on Royal autographs and books, Biblical Mss., Seals, etc. Paper spine repaired. Some foxing.
Price: $ 17.50 other currencies Order nr. 75082

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(Günther, Jörn) HANDSCHRIFTEN UND MINIATUREN AUS DEM DEUTSCHEN SPRACHGEBIET.
Hamburg Dr. Jörn Günther Antiquariat 1997 large 4to. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase 288 pages
Catalogue No.5 from the bookseller, specialising in medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts and miniatures, incunabula and early printed works. Beautifully produced with vivid detail, this volume treats German-language manuscripts and miniatures from the 9th to 18th centuries. Contains 58 entries, depicted for the most part with full-page illustrations in rich color. In-depth descriptions; brief English summary provided. Entry no. 3 is a 18-page spread on the spectacular Stammheim Missal (c. 1160 - 1180). Bibliographies noted. Indices included.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 65447

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(Günther, Jörn) MITTELALTERLICHE HANDSCHRIFTEN UND MINIATUREN.
Hamburg Dr. Jörn Günther Antiquariat 1995 large 4to. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase 274, (2) pages
Catalogue No.3. from the bookseller, specializing in medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts and miniatures, incunabula and early printed works. Beautifully produced with vivid detail. Contains 56 entries, depicted for the most part with full-page illustrations in rich color. 28 manuscripts; 28 miniatures. In-depth descriptions discuss, where pertinent: text, binding, provenance, illuminations, miniatures. Bibliographies noted. Indices included. Price list for works inserted. Water stain on one side of the slipcase.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 75610

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Gupta, R. Das EASTERN INDIAN MANUSCRIPT PAINTING.
Bombay D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. (1972) small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 112 pages.
First edition. Contains ten illustrations in color and 96 in monochrome half-tone. "This is the first detailed and scholarly work on the art of manuscript painting or book illustration of the eastern regions of India, and especially of Bengal, Bihar, Cooch Bihar, Assam, and Orissa." Jacket is chipped and rubbed.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 44797

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Gutbrod, Jürgen DIE INITIALE IN HANDSCHRIFTEN DES ACHTEN BIS DREIZEHNTEN JAHRHUNDERTS.
(Stuttgart) W. Kohlhammer (1965) large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket 207+(1) pages
First edition. The initial letter in illuminated manuscripts from the 8th to the 13th century. Color frontispiece, many illustrations with some in color. Book of Kells postcard loosely inserted. Dust jacket shows wear and tear.
Price: $ 17.00 other currencies Order nr. 74508

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(Gutenberg Bible) BIBLIA SACRA.
2 volumes. Patterson Pageant Books 1961 folio red cloth as issued. not paginated.
Facsimile edition. Printed in an edition limited to 1000 numbered copies of which 996 were for sale. This edition is the first ever printed in the United States. It reproduces a copy considered by authorities to be one of the most beautifully illuminated of the forty-seven copies known to exist. It derives from the Insel Verlag edition which was based on the copy in the Koniglichen Bibliothek in Berlin, and the copy in the Standischen Landesbibliothek in Fulda. The text pages have been printed by lithography in red, blue and black. There are also about 100 illuminated pages finely printed by sheet-fed gravure. The paper used is 100 percent rag content made especially for this edition.
Price: $ 5,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 107040

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Harrsen, Meta and George K. Boyce ITALIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY
New York Pierpont Morgan Library 1953 4to. cloth, slipcase. xii, 82 pages and 78 plates.
Limited to 750 copies. Printed at the Spiral Press and containing 72 collotype and 84 other illustrations and 6 plates in color. Name in ink at bottom of free endpaper.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 38134

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Harrsen, Meta and George K. Boyce ITALIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY
New York Pierpont Morgan Library 1953 4to. cloth. xii, 82 pages and 78 plates.
Limited to 750 copies. Printed at the Spiral Press and containing 72 collotype and 84 other illustrations and 6 plates in color.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 103786

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Heck, Christian and Rémy Cordonnier LE BESTIAIRE MÉDIÉVAL: L'ANIMAL DANS LES MANUSCRITS ENLUMINÉS.
(Paris) Citadelles & Mazenod (2011) folio. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase, top edge gilt 619+(1) pages
First edition, limited to 2000 copies. A study of illustrations of animals in medieval illuminated manuscripts. Frontispiece, table of contents, introduction, a selection of full color illustrations of 100 animals. Endnotes to chapters I through V, list of manuscripts illustrated, bibliography, general index, acknowledgments. Ex-library copy with markings.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 116158

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Heck, Christian and Rémy Cordonnier GRAND MEDIEVAL BESTIARY: ANIMALS IN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS.
New York, NY Abbeville Press 2012 folio. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase, top edge gilt 619+(1) pages
As the 587 colorful images in this magnificent volume reveal, animals were a constant - and delightful - presence in illuminated manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages. Many proto-zoological illustrations, of great charm but variable accuracy, are found in the bestiaries, or compendiums of animal lore, that were exceedingly popular in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. But animals are depicted in every other sort of illuminated manuscript as well, from the eighth-century Echternach Gospels, with its geometrically schematized symbols of the Evangelists, to the early fifteenth-century Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, with its famously naturalistic scenes of peasant and aristocratic life.

In his insightful opening chapters, the noted art historian Christian Heck explains that the prevalence of animals in illuminated manuscripts reflects their importance in medieval thought, an importance due in part to the agricultural society of that age, in which a variety of speciesand not just docile petswere the daily companions of man. Animals also had a greater symbolic significance than they do today: in popular fables, such as those of Reynard the Fox, they held up a mirror to the follies of mankind, and on the religious plane, they were understood as an integral part of Gods creation, whose attributes and behaviors could be taken as clues to His plan of salvation.

The main part of the book explores the complex and fascinating iconography of the individual creatures most frequently depicted by medieval miniaturists. It is arranged in the manner of a proper bestiary, with essays on one hundred animals alphabetized by their Latin names, from the alauda, or lark, whose morning song was thought to be a hymn to Creation, to the vultur, which enjoyed a certain respect due to its impressive appearance, but whose taste for carrion also made it a symbol of the sinner who indulges in worldly pleasures. The selection includes a number of creatures that would now be considered fantastic, including the griffin, the manticore, and of course the fabled unicorn, tamable only by a gentle maiden.

Not merely a study of art history, The Grand Medieval Bestiary uses a theme of timeless interest to present a panorama of medieval life and thought that will captivate even the most sophisticated modern reader.

Review

"This is a huge and beautiful book that feels almost like a trip to the Cloisters between two covers." -New York Daily News

"Rarely have earnest scholarship and sheer wonder come together as comfortably as they have here. And as magical as the original artworks surely are, this unique volume is literally better than the real thing, since it allows us to ogle them closely." -Fine Art Connoisseur

"Every year I try to reserve the adjective "stunning" for one book. This is it." -The Seattle Times holiday gift guide

About the Author
Christian Heck, a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and former curator-in-chief of the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, is an authority on illuminated manuscripts.

Rémy Cordonnier, a researcher at the University of Lille, specializes in medieval iconography.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 118741

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(Heineman) THE DANNIE AND HETTIE HEINEMAN COLLECTION.
New York The Pierpont Morgan Library 1978 8vo. cloth. x, 109 pages followed by 12 pages of plates.
First edition, limited to 250 copies bound in cloth. Catalogue of this valuable gift given to the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1977. Named after the library's founder and his wife, the collection includes illuminated Mediaeval and Renaissance manuscripts, incunabula, printed books, autographed letters and manuscripts, and musical manuscripts and letters.
Price: $ 14.00 other currencies Order nr. 55942

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Herbert, J.A. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
New York Burt Franklin 1969 thick small 4to. cloth. xiv, 356 pages.
Reprint of the 1911 first edition issued by this reprint house. Virtually an encyclopedia of the hand-illuminated book. An historical account. Many illustrations.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 23337

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(Heritage Book Shop) HERITAGE BOOK SHOP THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY CATALOGUE.
Los Angeles (Heritage Book Shop) (1994) large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers with cameo cut-out showing a color reproduction. (iv), 42 pages
Catalgue 195, Heritage Book Shop, the Thirtieth Anniversary issue, with a foreword by Ben and Lou Weinstein. "In our early years of bookselling, we only dreamed of trading in items such as A.S.W. Rosenbach, H.P. Kraus and others discussed in their memoirs, yet here we find ourselves offering similar treasures." The fifty-two items include the first dated Bible, printed on vellum, Blake's Illustrations of the Book of JobShakespeare Folios, and the first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Illustrated in color.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 71781

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Hindman, Sandra and Michael Camille, Nina Rowe, Rowan Watson MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION IN THE MODERN AGE: RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION.
(Evanston, IL Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 2001 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers xxviii, 329+(1) pages in addition to 32 leaves of color plates
First edition. Three hundred years ago, now treasured medieval manuscripts were scorned, neglected and left to vandals. An exhibit held at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art early in 2001, sought to explore new ideas and perspectives on the destruction and reconstitution of illuminated manuscripts in the 18th and 19th centuries in France and England and in the early 20th century in America. Although many questions remain unanswered, the research presented in this Catalogue to accompany the exhibition helps define the field of study for the future. With 159 black-and-white illustrations and 38 beautiful color plates, bibliography and index.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 63389

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(Hoelpi) MANOSCRITTI INCUNABVLI E LIBRI FIGVRATI.
Milano Libreria Antiquaria Ulrico Hoepli 1930 4to. later cloth (vi), 136 pages followed by 114 plates.
Sale catalogue of illustrated books and manuscripts. Describes 160 items. Loosely inserted is a memorial bookplate stating that this copy was purchased at the H.P. Kraus reference sale by Oak Knoll Books. Well-preserved copy.
Price: $ 76.00 other currencies Order nr. 45528

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(Hoepli, Ulrico) INVNABVLI MANOSCRITTI AVTOGRAFI LIBRI ILLVSTRATI DAL SECOLO XVI AL XIX VENDITA ALL'ASTA IN ROMA
Esposizione: dal 19 al 26 Aprile, Vendita: 27 Aprile, Ore 16,30 Milano Libreria Antiqvaria di Ulrico Hoepli 1933 4to. dust jacket over stiff paper wrappers (vi), 73, (iii) pages followed by 48 plates
Text in Italian. Blogie VI 500. Catalogue of an auction listing 116 lots. Items offered include autographs, manuscripts, incunabula, and XVIth-century to modern books. Descriptions followed by 48 plates, many of which fold out. Columbia University bookplate on inside front wrapper. Corners bumped, jacket has scattered foxing, soiled, worn, cracked at edges, lower wrapper dented, damp stains on text edges and upper edge bumped.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 95751

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Horst, K. van der, William Noel, W.C.M Mütherich THE UTRECHT PSALTER IN MEDIEVAL ART. PICTURING THE PSALMS OF DAVID.
`t Goy-Houten HES & DE GRAAF 1996 9.75 x 12.5 inches cloth 284 pages.
With authorative contributions on the historical, stylistic, and iconographic context of this masterpiece of Carolingian Renaissance by R. McKitterick, K. van der Horst, K. Corrigan, F. Mütherich, and W. Noel, and including the catalogue of the 1996 exhibition on the Utrecht Psalter at the Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht. With 267 illustrations in colour and black & white.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 170.00 other currencies Order nr. 103242

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(Hungary) Kardos T., I. Berkovits, L. Mezey DIE UNGARISCHE BILDERCHRONIK.
Budapest Corvina (1961) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 319+(1) pages.
A study of the illuminated manuscript variously known as the Bilderchronik des Markus von Kalt and as the Wiener Bilderchronik, containing Hungarian history until 1342. 33 illustrations, some in color. Jacket slightly rubbed at edges.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 48929

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(Illuminated Manuscripts) Alexander, J. J. G. and A. C. De La Mare ITALIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF MAJOR J.R. ABBEY.
New York Frederick A. Praeger (1969) thick tall 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xliv, 187 pages.
First U.S. edition. A catalogue of all the Italian manuscripts in Abbey's library. Each manuscript is illustrated by one or more black-and-white photographs and six illustrations are in color. Both bottom corners bumped, which have affected pages in the book.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 47912

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(Illuminated Manuscripts) Alexander, J.J.G. and A.C. De La Mare. ITALIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF MAJOR J.R. ABBEY.
London Faber and Faber (1969) thick tall 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xliv, 187 pages.
First edition. A catalogue of all the Italian manuscripts in Abbey's library. Each manuscript is illustrated by one or more black-and-white photographs and six illustrations are in color. With the Randeria bookplate.
Price: $ 42.50 other currencies Order nr. 71413

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(Illuminated Manuscripts) Alexander, Jonathan J. G. THE FARNESE LECTIONARY.
Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary Modena Franco Cosimo Panini 2008 folio red velvet binding (silver ferrules, clasp strips and coat of arms), clamshell case 64 pages, 6 plates
One of 550 copies. The majestic liturgical book known as the Lezionario Farnese, produced in Rome shortly after the mid-sixteenth century for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, represents a high point for the art of illumination. Given its size the work is of monumental proportions and the wealth of embellishments, we may consider the Lectionary a codex of exceptional merit. Splendid embellishments By commissioning this truly sumptuous work, Alessandro Farnese brought into being a codex which, for hundreds of years, served as one of the Missals used by the Popes and princes of the Church during the solemnities held at the Sistine Chapel. In its splendid full-page illuminations and wonderful gilded frames adorned with putti, masks and floral motifs we note the influences of the grand art of the Renaissance and, in particular, the work of Michelangelo and Raphael. A widely acclaimed illuminator With its impressive embellishments, the Lezionario Farnese represents one of the masterpieces of Giulio Clovio (1498-1578), the most widely acclaimed illuminator of the late sixteenth century. Clovio was praised by the Florentine historian, Giorgio Vasari, in the second edition of his Lives of the Artists, as the Michelangelo in little. Vasari cites the Farnese Book of Hours and the Lectionary as the most important of the works of Clovio, who, after leaving his native Croatia in 1516, achieved great renown as an illuminator. The Neo-Gothic binding The original binding went missing with the arrival of Napoleons troops. The codex was then re-bound in 1809-1810 in a red velvet Neo-Gothic cover of considerable beauty and refinement (the work of the London binders, Benjamin II and James Smith). We may note the wrought and gilded silver ferrules and clasps and, on the front cover, the polychrome porcelain coats of arms of the Towneley family, the last owners of this work. Patronage The Lectionary was a commission from Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589), the grandson of Pope Paul III Farnese (who ordained Alessandro as cardinal at the age of fourteen). In the early 1540s, Clovio entered the service of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, considered by historians the most important patron and connoisseur of the arts of mid-sixteenth century Rome. Clovio served the cardinal for the rest of his life, and bequeathed his fine collection of codices and artworks to his patron.

The Commentary: The work is accompanied by a book with commentary, edited by Jonathan J. Alexander, with writings by Jonathan J. Alexander, Nicholas Barker, Elena Calvillo and Clive Wainwright.

Facsimile with accompanying commentary with clamshell box.
Price: $ 17,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 105362

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(Illuminated Manuscripts) Amiranashvili, S. GRUZINSKAIA MINIATIURA (GEORGIAN MINIATURES).
Moscow Izkusstvo 1966 4to cloth, paper illustration on front board, dust jacket 71, (3) pages, with 126 plates
Text in Russian with summary and descriptions of illustrations also in English. Part of the "Memorials of Ancient Arts" series. A study of miniatures and illuminated manuscripts, from the 9th to the 17th century, and their role in providing insight into the study of medieval Georgian art. Endnotes and bibliography. Black and white illustrations tipped in text. 126 color and black and white plates. Listing of text illustrations and plates. Slip case worn at edges.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 108112

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(Illuminated Manuscripts) Bange, E. F. EINE BAYERISCHE MALERSCHULE DES XI. UND XII. JAHRHUNDERTS.
Münich Hugo Schmidt, (1923) 4to. original half vellum, printed paper-covered boards. 168 pages.
First edition. With 186 illustrations of miniatures taken from early illuminated manuscripts. Includes some illustrations of early bookbindings. Covers soiled.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 80556

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(Illuminated Manuscripts) THE BECK COLLECTION OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS.
London Sotheby's 1997 large 8vo. cloth, paper cover label. 261, (13) pages.
Auction catalogue of one of the most refined and unusual private collections of illuminated manuscripts, including two 9th-century Bible fragments as well as a fascinating group of secular texts. Extremely detailed; well-illustrated.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 51761

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(Illuminated Manuscripts) Bise, Gabriel. THE ILLUMINATED NAPLES BIBLE (OLD TESTAMENT), 14TH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT.
(New York) Crescent Books n.d. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket, patterned endpapers. 124, (2) pages.
Reprint of the first English edition, distributed by Crown Publishers (NY). About 90 selected miniatures from codex 1911 in the National Library of Austria, a Bible produced in Naples by several scribes and four illuminators around 1360. A popular rather than a scholarly work. Each reproduction is accompanied by a narrative text by G. Bise giving the Biblical story as the picture shows it. Notes place the illumination in the mss. and identify the artist. Ink inscription on free endpaper.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 107025

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