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Boenen, P.C. CATALOGUS VAN DE HANDSCHRIFTEN VAN RIJKSMUSEUM MEERMANNO-WESTREENIANUM.
'S-Gravenhage Rijksmuseum Meermanno-Westreenianum 1979 8vo stiff paper wrappers xx, 261+(1) pages
Text in Dutch. Catalogue of manuscripts in the Rijksmuseum Meermanno-Westreenianum, The Hague. Introduction, concordance, list of consulted sources, Organized by the museum's cataloguing system. Indices of authors, anonymous manuscripts, illuminators, and sellers. Wrappers lightly soiled.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 108281

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CATALOGUE DE MANUSCRITS A MINIATURES DES XIVe, XVe ET XVIe SIÈCLES
Provenant de la Bibliothèque de M. F*** Paris L. Giraud-Badin 1936 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 21, (3) pages
Text in French. Catalogue of an auction held on March 23, 1936. Lists and describes seventeen manuscripts with eight plates. Wrappers worn and soiled.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 95609

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Coy, Deborah-Irene (compiler) EUROPEAN MANUSCRIPTS IX-XV CENTURIES IN THE CHAPLIN LIBRARY AND THE WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART.
(Williamstown, MA Chaplin Library, Williams College) 1977 tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers x, 47+(1) pages, 14 plates
Exhibition of medieval manuscripts held by the Chaplin Library and the Williams College Museum of Art. Foreword by Librarian H. Richard Archer. Introduction by the compiler. Detailed descriptive information about each item in the exhibition. Selected bibliography. 14 black and white plates. Errata card laid in. Wrappers chipped at edges.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 114564

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Der Nersessian, Sirarpie L' ILLUSTRATION DES PSAUTIERS GRECS DU MOYEN AGE II.
Paris Éditions Klincksieck 1970 4to. paper-covered boards 117, (3) pages with plates
Text in French. No. V in the Bibliothèque des Cahiers Archéologiques series, published under the direction of André Grabar and Jean Hubert. Author was Professor Emiritus at Dunbarton Oaks. An examination of the Psalter at the British Museum, London, Add. 19,352. Color frontispiece, illustrating Psalm 76: 20-21. Preface by Grabar. Foreword. Includes a general description of the manuscript with a detailed examination of each folio. Bibliography, index and table of contents. 118 pages of black and white plates. Bookplate on front pastedown. Boards lightly soiled.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 109439

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Dufrenne, Suzy L' ILLUSTRATION DES PSAUTIERS GRECS DU MOYEN AGE.
Paris Librairie C. Klincksieck 1966 4to. paper-covered boards 66, (2) with plates
Text in French. No. I in the Bibliothèque des Cahiers Archéologiques series, published under the direction of André Grabar and Jean Hubert. A study of three medieval Greek psalters: Pantocrator 61, Paris Grec 20 and British Museum 40731. Preface by Grabar. Foreword and bibliography. Description of the general characteristics of each psalter, with detailed descriptive information on each folio. Two pages of color plates; sixty of black and white plates. Table of contents and photographic credits. Boards lightly soiled. Bookplate on front pastedown.
Price: $ 145.00 other currencies Order nr. 109436

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Engels, Heinz (editor) DAS NIBELUNGENLIED: A COMPLETE TRANSCRIPTION IN MODERN GERMAN TYPE OF THE TEXT OF MANUSCRIPT C FROM THE FÜRSTENBERG COURT LIBRARY DONAUESCHINGEN.
New York Frederick A. Praeger (1969) 4to. cloth, dust jacket (iv), 48, 114 pages
Text in German and English. Transcription into modern German of this medieval manuscript, orignally produced in the upper Rhine-LakeConstance region between 1220 and 1230. Introduction in English. Essay, with endnotes, by the editor in German. Facsimile of four pages of the original manuscript laid in. Dust jacket tanned, also stained and torn at lower corners.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 110106

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(Eton) Quarrie, Paul INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS
An Exhibition of Manuscripts & Printed Books held at Eton College Library, Twenty-Seventh Congress London ILAB 1984 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 48 pages
A catalog with descriptions of rare early and incunabula books in the Eton College Library. Slight shelf wear.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 96363

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(Folio Society) Brown, Michelle P. THE HOLKHAM BIBLE.
2 volumes. London The Folio Society 2007 4to. Facsimile volume half leather, decorated cloth, gilt decoration with raised bands on spine; companion volume quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, label on front board, in decorated clamshell box 42, (4) pages; 162 pages
Limited, numbered edition of 1750, with 25 lettered copies not for sale also printed. Facsimile of the "Holkham Bible Picture Book," Additional MS 47682, British Library. Acquired by the British Library in 1952, the manuscript was held previously at Holkham Hall, Norfolk (Holkham MS 666). Consists of 231 images mainly of episodes in the books of Genesis and Revelation. Original manuscript believed to have been produced in London, ca. 1327-40. Facsimile is accompanied by a companion volume that includes historical context, commentary and a bibliography. Companion volume includes 8 pages of color plates. Instructions for care of laid in the facsimile volume.
Price: $ 460.00 other currencies Order nr. 109509

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Gameson, Richard THE EARLIEST BOOKS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL: MANUSCRIPTS AND FRAGMENTS TO C. 1200.
London The Bibliographical Society, The British Library, The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury 2008 8vo. cloth, dust jacket 414 pages
An examination of the earliest medieval manuscripts housed in Canterbury Cathedral. Table of contents, preface by the author, acknowledgments, summary list of manuscripts, concordance, and introduction with endnotes. Each catalogue entry includes a physical description, description of content, information on the scribe(s), decoration, history, commentary, and bibliography. There is at least one color plate accompanying each catalogue entry. List of abbreviaitions, bibliography, and indices of manuscripts, people, and places. Back of dust jacket bent at bottom.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 114925

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Glorieux-DeGand, Thérèse, with Ann Kelders HET WOORD VAN DE KOPIIST COLOFONS VAN GEDATEERDE HANSSCHRIFTEN.
Brussels Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I 1991 tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 151+(1) pages
Text in Flemish. A study of Renaissance manuscripts in the King Albert I Library in Brussels. Foreword by Denise De Weerdt, introduction. 44 items in the catalogue. Eight color plates, black and white illustrations. Lists of plates, illustrations, and manuscripts in the catalogue. Ex-library stamp indicates this is a Library of Congress duplicate.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 115346

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Grabar, André LES MANUSCRITS GRECS ENLUMINÉS DE PROVENANCE ITALIENNE (IX-XI SIÈCLES).
Paris Éditions Klincksieck 1972 4to. paper-covered boards 102, (4) pages with plates
Text in French. No. VIII in the Bibliothèque des Cahiers Archéologiques series, published under the direction of André Grabar and Jean Hubert. A study of Greek illuminated manuscripts, from the 9th to 11th centuries, in Italian provenance. Introduction, description of manuscripts, discussion and conclusions, index, table of contents. Discussion includes topics such as regional peculiarities, contact with Carolingian works and problems related to Byzantine studies. 92 pages of black and white plates. Boards lightly soiled and bumped at edges. Bookplate on front pastedown.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 109438

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Grafton, Carol Belanger ILLUMINATED INITIALS IN FULL COLOR.
New York Dover Publications (1995) 4to stiff paper wrappers (iv), 43+(1) pages
Part of the Dover Pictorial Archives Series. Publisher's note discussing the Eastern or Byzantine origins of illumination. 548 illuminated initials, arranged alphbetically, illustrated in color.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 108801

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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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(Heine, Heinrich) ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, CONTINENTAL AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND MUSICAL MANUSCRIPTS: THE GOTTSCHALK COLLECTION OF HEINRICH HEINE AND HIS CIRCLE.
London Christie, Manson & Woods 1991 4to stiff paper wrappers 249. (5) pages
Auction, December 16, 1991, of the Gottschalk Collection. Includes manuscripts and letters German poet Heinrich Heine (1797-1856). 435 lots. Color illustrations on wrappers. Frontispiece. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Listing or realized prices laid in.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 108013

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(Illuminated Manuscripts) CATALOGUE OF THE SUPERB ILLUMINATIONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE JOHN, LORD NORTHWICK (THE SECOND AND FINAL PORTION).
The Property of a Gentleman, and of Important Illuminated Manuscripts Sold by Order of Miss Seymour's Trustee, and from Other Sources. London Sotheby and Co. 1928 8vo stiff paper wrappers 34 pages
Not listed in Blogie III. Auction catalogue of illuminated manuscripts collected by Lord Northwick, Miss Seymour, and "other sources," May 21, 1928. 35 lots. Color frontispiece, black and white illustrations throughout. Wrappers lightly soiled and bent. Bookseller's stamp on front wrapper.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 107443

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(Illuminated Manuscripts) GYLLENE BÖCKER NYFÖRVÄRV OCH NYUPPTÄCKTER.
Stockholm Nationalmuseum 1987 square 8vo. decorated cloth 79+(1) pages
Text in Swedish. Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Museum in Stockholm, 1987-8 of illuminated manuscripts. Foreword by Per Bjurström. Three introductory essays with endnotes. 93 entries with black and white illustrations of many and a few color illustrations. Index and list of photographic credits. Ex-library with markings.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 114619

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(Illuminated Manuscripts) Harrsen, Meta THE NEKCSEI-LIPÓCZ BIBLE: A FOURTEENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT FROM HUNGARY IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, MS. PRE-ACCESSION 1.
Washington The Library of Congress 1949 folio. quarter leather, cloth, seal of Library of Congress gilt-stamped on front board. 99+(1) pages
Limited to 600 numbered copies. A study of a Hungarian illuminated manuscript, placing it in the context of the Bolognese School of Miniature Painting in Hungary in the 14th century and comparing it with contemporary manuscripts now at the Pierpont Mogran Library and the Vatican Library. Color frontispiece, preface by the author. Appendix, black and white illustrations and plates, index. Boards bumped at corners.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 114886

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(Illuminated Manuscripts) Pächt, Otto and J.J.G. Alexander ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY OXFORD 1: GERMAN, DUTCH, FLEMISH, FRENCH AND SPANISH SCHOOLS.
Oxford Clarendon Press 1966 4to. cloth, dust jacket xvi, 108 pages, with plates
First volume in the Bodleian's "Illuminated Manuscripts" series. A bibliography of illuminated manuscripts held by the Bodleian Library as noted in the title. Color frontispiece. 906 entries. Concordance of Bodleian shelf-marks, indices of other manuscripts cited, dated or datable manuscripts, texts and authors, illuminators and scribes, persons (mainly owners), coats of arms, and places. List of illustrations. 66 pages of black and white plates. Bookplate on front pastedown. Dust jacket fading and slightly torn at edges.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 109449

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(Illuminated Manuscripts) L' UOMO, IL LAVORO, L'AMBIENTE NELLE MINIATURE LAURENZIANE.
Firenze Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana 1976 8vo. self paper wrappers 20 pages
Text in Italian. A catalogue of manuscripts in the library, with 217 entries with introductory comments. Wrappers lightly tanned.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 115423

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(Italy) MOSTRA BIBLIOGRAFICA PER LA STORIA DELLA CHIESA IN CAMPIANA E IN CALABRIA.
(Naples) Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli 1950 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 71+(1) pages
Text in Italian. Literature relating to church history in the Italian provinces of Campania and Calabria. Introduction by Guerriera Guerrieri. 162 entries. Bibliographical notes and index. Black and white plates. Wrappers bent at edges. Some foxing in text.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 115116

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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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE COLLEGE LIBRARY OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.
Cambridge The University Press 1909 4to. cloth, gilt stamping on spine and front board xii, 59+(1) pages
Manuscripts in the College Library (distinguished from the Pepysian Library according to the introductory notes) at Magdalene. Introductory notes by the author. List of donors, owners and provenances of the manuscripts. Errata tipped in. 33 entries include information about contents. Inside hinges cracked. Light tanning.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 109454

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James, Montague Rhodes A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.
Cambridge The University Press 1913 4to. cloth, gilt stamping on spine and front board xx, 389+(1) pages
Bibliography of medieval and later manuscripts at St. John's College, Cambridge University. Preface by the author. Provides information about donors, provenances, owners, decoration, dates. Corrigenda. Descriptions of 507 manuscripts, including 272 of the medieval era. Descriptions include general information as well as detailed information about the contents of each item. Index. Light scuffing at edges. Inside hinges cracked. Light tanning.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 109452

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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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