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Andrews, William Loring HEAVENLY JERUSALEM, A MEDIAEVAL SONG OF THE JOYS OF THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT, WITH ANNOTATIONS BY WILLIAM LORING ANDREWS.
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1908 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge gilt, stiff paper chemise, slipcase. xxviii, 78, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 152 copies of which this is one of the 27 copies to be printed on "Imperial Japan Paper." With engravings by Sidney L. Smith and other illustrations, rubricated initials and an illuminated copy of a page from a 15th-century musical manuscript. Chemise has spine missing. Book is in very fine condition.
Price: $ 385.00 other currencies Order nr. 55196

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(British Museum) CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. NEW SERIES.
3 volumes. London Printed by order of the Trustees 1834-1840 Folio modern cloth spine with original marbled paper-covered boards and paper cover labels. (iv),viii,168 pages and 8 leaves of plates; (ii),vi,(ii),159+(1) followed by (4) leaves of plates; (iv),234 pages.
First editions. A catalogue of the illuminated manuscripts from the Arundel and Burney collections in the British Museum. Antiquary Thomas, Earl of Arundel (1592-1646) collected more than 500 manuscript volumes many of which relate to English History. He was an early supporter of Indigo Jones and friend of Robert Cotton. The collection of Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) was acquired by the British Museum in 1818 for 13,500 pounds. His collection contains approximately 520 manuscripts many of which are early copies of Greek and Latin classics. Elaborately illustrated with hand-colored lithographs printed by J. Netherclift. The third volume provides an extensive index to the first two. The second and third volumes have a note in ink on front pastedown "Signet Library." Covers rubbed with wear along edges. Minor foxing of preliminary and end pages.
Price: $ 475.00 other currencies Order nr. 75796

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(British Museum) CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. NEW SERIES.
3 volumes. London Printed by order of the Trustees 1834-1840 Folio disbound (iv),viii,168 pages and 8 leaves of plates; (ii),vi,(ii),159+(1) followed by (4) leaves of plates; (iv),234 pages.
First editions. A catalogue of the illuminated manuscripts from the Arundel and Burney collections in the British Museum. Antiquary Thomas, Earl of Arundel (1592-1646), collected more than 500 manuscript volumes, many of which relate to English History. He was an early supporter of Inigo Jones and friend of Robert Cotton. The collection of Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) was acquired by the British Museum in 1818 for 13,500 Pounds. His collection contains approximately 520 manuscripts, many of which are early copies of Greek and Latin classics. Elaborately illustrated with hand-colored lithographs printed by J. Netherclift. The third volume provides an extensive index to the first two. Ink inscription in first volume. Edges of all three volumes chipped and torn.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 77150

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Donlevy, Alice PRACTICAL HINTS OF THE ART OF ILLUMINATION.
New York A.D.F. Randolph 1867 oblong 8vo. original cloth, title gilt-stamped on front board 58 pages with illustrations
First edition. A guidebook to illumination, this text includes the author's preface, eight chapters that discuss materials, lettering, coloring, borders, past styles and symbolism. The illustrations, drawn and designed by the author, include 32 figures, seventeen examples and five plates. Donlevy (1846-1929) was an artist, lecturer and an advocate of industrial art education whose papers are available at the New York Public Library (NYPL website). Boards loose. Spine torn. Front endpapers loose. Water stains throughout text do not impair legibility. Very scarce book.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 108484

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Dziatzko, Karl. SAMMLUNG BIBLIOTHEKSWISSENSCHAFTLICHER ARBEITEN
24 (bound in 10, of 38). Berlin A. Asher & Co. 1887-1919 8vo. cloth varied pagination
A significant collection of first editions from the important series begun by Karl Dziatzko (1842-1903), who was the first professor of library science in Göttingen University, Germany. This set includes volumes 1-17, 21, 24-25, 28, 31, and 37/38. Contains texts on various issues pertaining to printing, illuminated manuscripts, publishers, printers, etc. Some volumes with illustrations. Includes indexes. Many editions with original paper wrappers loosely inserted or bound in. Signed by W. Eames (American bibliographer, 1855-1937) on the front pastedown. Loosely inserted is a commemorative booklabel which indicates that this set came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus purchased by Oak Knoll Books at the auction sale.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 76148

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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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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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(Illuminated Manuscripts) DISPOSITIVES D'OEUVRES D'ART
Five boxed sets Paris Unesco 1963 8vo. plastic boxes
Five plastic boxes containing 150 color slides from the former collection of H.P. Kraus. Each box with 30 color slides and a descriptive pamphlet in French, English, and Spanish with historical background and description of each slide in each series. With Unesco, Series 4, which contains Iranian illuminated manuscripts from c. 1410-1596; Series 14, which contains slides of 12 Czech illuminated manuscripts from c. 1085-1364; Series 17, which contains slides of 6 Ethiopian illuminated manuscripts c. 1350-1450; Series 18, which contains slides of 11 Turkish illuminated manuscripts from c.1200-1730; Series 24, which contains slides of Austrian Medieval wall paintings from c. 1089-1280. All of the slides have faded and turned pink.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 76027

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(Illuminated Manuscripts) REPRODUCTIONS FROM ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS.
5 volumes. London British Museum 1923, 1923, 1925, 1928, 1965 small 4to. cloth-backed board wrapper enclosing text and plates. Each volume contains 16 preliminary pages and 50 full-page plates.
Third edition of the first three volumes and first editions of the 4th and 5th. Wear to slipcases. With the Randeria bookplate in each volume.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 26338

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(Illuuminated Manuscripts) Morgan, Nigel EARLY GOTHIC MANUSCRIPTS, 1190-1250. With 1250-1285.
A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles. 2 volumes. (New York) Harvey Miller Publishers 1982, 1988 tall 4to. cloth, dust jackets. 276; 374 pages.
First U.S. editions. With 330 illustrations in the first volume and 462 illustrations in the second volume with some in color. Jacket spines faded; chipped around edges.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 102980

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(Incunabula) Delisle, Léopold CATALOGUE DES LIVRES IMPRIMÉS OU PUBLIÉS À CAEN AVANT LE MILIEU DU XVIe SIÈCLE
2 volumes. Caen H. Delesques 1903-1904 8vo. later full cloth, leather spine labels, original paper wrappers bound in xiv, 354+(2); cxxxii, 178+(2) pages, plates
First edition. (Besterman, 5094). A two-volume catalogue of the printing and incunabula in Caen, followed by discussions of printers, booksellers, and noteworthy libraries. Includes 403 bibliographical references. Delisle (1826-1910) was a curator of the manuscripts collection in the Bibliothèque Impériale, and is admired for his scholarship in illuminated manuscripts and early printed books. Elaborately illustrated with engravings illustrating the early printings in Caen. Wear to spine labels. Text in French. Bookplate on front pastedown indicates that this book came from the reference library and stock of H. P. Kraus.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 76167

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James, Montague Rhodes A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.
7 volumes. Cambridge The University Press 1909-1913 4to. stiff paper wrappers variously paginated
A bibliography of the collections of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, England. Each volume contains a note by the author, a short list of manuscripts described therein, and a listing of addenda and corrigenda. Each entry contains information on location within the library, a description of the manuscript, collation and a listing of its contents.
Part 1: Nos. 1 to 100.
Part 2: Nos. 101 to 156.
Part 3: Nos. 157 to 250.
Part 4: Nos. 251 to 350.
Part 5: Nos. 351 to 450.
Part 6: Nos. 451 to 538.
Part 7 contains a preface by the author, table of contents, introduction. an appendix to the introduction, tables of the "numberings of the manuscripts in the various catalogues," a list of manuscripts with "pictures or noteworthy decorations," a list of sources of manuscripts, addenda and corrigenda, Prefatio (in Latin), and a general index.
Wrappers tanned around edges, with some tearing along spine.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 109468

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James, Montague Rhodes THE WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE.
4 volumes. Cambridge The University Press 1900 4to. cloth; title, author's name, volume and Cambridge arms gilt-stamped on spine xxvi, 549+(1); xxviii, 428; xxxii, 532; xvi, 17 plates, 40 pages
A bibliography of the manuscripts in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge University. Those manuscripts are kept in three cases, designated B (theological), R (historical, miscellaneous and oriental), and O (a collection donated by Robert Gale in 1738). Volume 1 includes class B, entries 1-417; Volume 2, class R, entries 418-1024; Volume 3, class O, entries 1025-1506. Volume 4 includes a description of the plates, addenda to the manuscripts (Porson manuscripts in class C), general addenda and corrigenda, 17 black and white plates and a general index. Each volume includes a preface by the author, a table showing the numbering of the manuscripts in the Catalogi Manuscriptorum Angliae and the library's shelf-marks, a list of donors and corrigenda. All entries include descriptive information, the shelf-mark, and contents. Boards faded; front board of Volume 2 bumped. Text very lightly tanned.
Price: $ 950.00 other currencies Order nr. 109460

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Koehler, Wilhelm (editor) DIE KAROLINGISCHEN MINIATUREN.
5 volumes in 6 with 5 plate volumes Berlin Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 1963 4to.; plate volumes folio. cloth, editor and title stamped on spine; decorative stamping on front boards xii, 434, (2); xii, 349+(1) with plates; 100, (4); 176; 121+(1); 212, (2) pages
Text in German. Reprint of 1930 edition. A thorough and exhaustive study of miniatures produced during the Carolingian era of medieval European history. Volume 1 (in 2) covers the School of Tours. Volume 2 the Court School of Karls des Grossen (Charlemagne). Volume 3 the Vienna Coronation Gospels and the Metz manuscripts. Volume 4 the Court School of Lothar (795-855) and individual manuscripts from Lotharingia. Volume 5 the Court School of Karl des Kahlen (Charles the Bald) (823-877). Each volume includes a foreword, bibliography, a directory of manuscripts, index of names and places and a directory of "figurative representations in the manuscripts." Each text volume accompanied by a volume of black and white plates. Bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Some of the plate volumes are damaged at bottom of spine.
Price: $ 2,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 109427

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LAPIDARIO DEL REY D. ALFONSO X. CODICE ORIGINAL.
(Madrid Imprenta de la Iberia, á cargo de J. Blasco 1881) 4to. modern half calf with brown cloth covered boards, five raised bands. xx, (x), facsimile, 83 pages.
The facsimile edition of the Lapidary contained in the first 94 sheets of the ms. H.I.15 of the Library of El Escorial (Madrid), at original size (29,1 x 40,2 cm), on parchment paper printed in colors in reproduction of its 638 full-coloured miniatures and initial letters in the original. The first book to come out of Alfonso's workshop, in 1253, was written by Alfonso X the Wise. It is the first book written in Castilian prose, or early Spanish, and the first relevant scientific book written in the Iberian Peninsula and in Europe. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 1,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 107225

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Leroquais, Abbé V. LES PONTIFICAUX MANUSCRITS DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES PUBLIQUES DE FRANCE.
4 Volumes Paris (Protat Frères) 1937 4to. original stiff paper wrappers with glassine wrapper; fourth volume is a cloth-backed board portfolio containing the plates. (iv),cliv,304; (iv),462; (iv).161,(2); xiii pages + 140 leaves of plates in black and white
First edition. A multi-volume work surveying pontifical manuscripts held in the public libraries of France (Besterman 3572). An introduction (over 150 pages long) helps establish for the reader the significance of pontifical manuscripts. After defining the term "pontifical" as a liturgical book containing all the rituals and ceremonies, culled from a variety of predecessor sources and collated together into one convenient book, that might be performed by a bishop, with the exception of the Mass and the Divine Office, the introduction proceeds into specific investigation of the arrangement of such books, the different types of ceremonies contained therein (e.g., ordinations for those distributing communion during the Mass, for readers, exorcists, acolytes, subdeacons, deacons, and priests; episcopal consecration; and dedication of churches), ways to identify and date such a book, and typical decoration. The descriptive catalogue of the 233 pontifical manuscripts from the ninth through the eighteenth centuries (beginning in Volume One and continuing through the end of Volume Two) offers in-depth informative entries arranged according to place of location. A separate section in Volume Two deals with those books that are not properly called "pontificals" (sacramentaries, breviaries, missals, etc.), but that contain similar kinds of information. Volume Three contains a table of contents, in the form of a list of manuscripts, arranged alphabetically according to present location; a list of churches and abbeys thought to be the places of generation for the manuscripts; and a general index. The portfolio, numbered volume four, illustrates many of the volumes discussed in the preceding volumes in its 140 black and white plates. Overall, a compendious and complete work for its chosen subject matter and date of creation. Printed on laid paper. Bottom of spine of volume one is partially chipped away. Bookplate. Unopened copy.
Price: $ 2,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 109425

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Millet, Gabriel RECHERCHES SUR L'ICONOGRAPHIE DE L'ÉVANGILE AUX XIVe, XVe, ET XVIe SIÈCLES D'APRÈS LES MONUMENTS DE MISTRA, DE LA MACÉDOINE ET DU MT-ATHOS.
Paris Éditions E. de Boccard. 1960 8vo. cloth, dust jacket lxiv, 809, (3) pages
Text in French. 2nd edition. Reprint of 1916 edition, published in the Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome. Author was a member of L'Institut. A study of iconography in manuscripts of the Gospels in the 14th-16th centuries. Introduction by the author, bibliography, table of contents. Addenda and corrigenda. Indices of mosaics and frescoes, icons, miniatures, sculptures, painters, iconographers and a general index. List of illustrations. 670 black and white illustrations. Bookplate. Dust jacket torn at edges and lightly soiled. Edges lightly soiled.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 109463

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(Phillipps, Sir Thomas) BIBLIOTHECA PHILLIPPICA, MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS, NEW SERIES. PARTS I-XI
London Sotheby & Co. 1965 - 1976 small 4to. boards.
The illustrated version of these catalogues, including many plates in full color. Some fading.
Price: $ 152.00 other currencies Order nr. 25352

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(Press of The Woolly Whale) Morris, William. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ORNAMENTED MSS. OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
New York Press of the Woolly Whale 1934 large 8vo. quarter vellum, embossed paper over boards, top edge gilt. (vi), 20, (2) pages.
One of "a modest number of copies (beside four on vellum) have been printed" by this famous press to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Morris's death. Printed on Morris' Albion Hand Press th was used to print his Kelmscott Chaucer (The Press of the Wooly Whale, 27). It also tells of the travels of that press up to 1934. The illustration of the Press used on the embossed covers and as a head ornament on the first page of text, was carefully drawn by Warren Chappell. Melbert Cary wrote an acknowledgement at the beginning of the book. Slight foxing of vellum at spine ends. Still protected with remnants of glassine wrappers.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 20004

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Swarzenski, Hanns. DIE LATEINISCHEN ILLUMINIERTEN HANDSCHRIFTEN DES XIII. JAHRHUNDERTS IN DEN LÄNDERN AN RHEIN, MAIN UND DONAU.
2 volumes. Berlin Deutscher Verein Für Kunstwissenschaft 1936 folio half vellum with paper-covered boards (viii), 188 pages; (xii), 202 plates with 1096 illustrations
First edition. An examination of the art of the 13th century divided in its study by regional schools with particular attention to stylistic similarities and departures with particular attention to the Upper, Middle, and Lower Rhein regions as well as the schools of Regensburg and Salzburg. Includes supplementary tables of the annual festivals of the 13th century and their dates. With bibliography and index. Loosely inserted is a commemorative book label which indicates that this set came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus purchased by Oak Knoll Books at the auction sale.
Price: $ 950.00 other currencies Order nr. 75794

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Todd, James Henthorn REMARKS ON ILLUMINATIONS IN SOME IRISH BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS.
N.P. n.p. n.d. folio stiff paper wrappers 16 pages and 4 separate plates.
Vestutal Monumenta, Vol. VI. Part of a series of antiquarian papers published between 1718 and 1906. Plates XLIII-XLVI of medieval Irish manuscripts. Includes color illustrations from the Book of Kells, Garland of Howth and the Psalter of Ricemarth. Author was a Fellow of Trinity College and Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Dublin. Author's essay includes general descriptive information, in addition to analysis of each plate. Wrappers tanned, soiled and torn along spine.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 109471

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