Cambridge: n.p., 1955. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 45, (3) pages followed by 80 plates. With an introduction by Hanns Swarzenski and a foreword by William A. Jackson. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about ILLUMINATED & CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPTS, AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE FOGG ART MUSEUM &...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 76623
Baltimore: The Walters Art Gallery, 1949. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 85 pages and 80 plates. An exhibition catalogue. Wrappers slightly faded. READ MORE about ILLUMINATED BOOKS OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 9197
Baltimore: The Walters Art Gallery, 1949. 4to. cloth-backed boards with original cover laid down on cloth as issued. xiv, 85 pages and 80 plates. An exhibition catalogue. Some foxing. READ MORE about ILLUMINATED BOOKS OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 47070
Stuttgart, Germany: Belser Verlag, (1991). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 252 pages. Contents, foreword by Vogler, afterword by King, chronology, general bibliography, authors' addresses, photographic credits, index of persons and places. 34 color plates, 68 black and white illustrations. Contributors include Dieter Geuenich, Ivo Auf der Maur, Johannes Duft, Walter Berschin, Christoph Eggenberger, Peter Ochsenbein, Stefan Sonderegger, Heinz Horat, Hans Martin Gubler, and Rosamond McKitterick. READ MORE about THE CULTURE OF THE ABBEY OF ST. GALL
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 130852
(Rotthalmünster, Germany): Heribert Tenschert, 1998. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 480 pages. Text in German, with English summaries to all items at the beginning of each description. Foreword by Tenschert, table of contents, introduction by the author, index of authors, translators, and editors. Contributions by Gaudenz Freuler, Johannes Gottfried Mayer, Kurt Ruh, Karin Schneider, John Sharpe, and Heribert Tenschert. Color illustrations throughout. Commentary on illuminated manuscripts from across Europe. READ MORE about LEUCHTENDES MITTELALTER NEUE FOLGE II: DREIUNDDREIßIG MITTELALTERLICHE HANDSCHRIFTEN AUS BYZANZ,...
Price: $140.00 Order nr. 130784
Wellingborough: Thorsons Publishers Limited, (1990). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 143+(1) pages. First edition. The complete guide for the ambitious calligrapher, covering subjects such as decorative borders, historiated initials, designing illuminated charts, and decorative maps. Illustrated and indexed. READ MORE about ILLUMINATION FOR CALLIGRAPHERS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 126295
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1955. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xx, 190, (2), 10, (2) pages, with 44 illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition of illuminated manuscripts, with a preface by André Malraux. Frederic Goff's copy with his name and acquistion date in corner of front free endpaper. READ MORE about LES MANUSCRITS A PEINTURE EN FRANCE DU XIIIe AU XVIE SIÈCLE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 47992
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1977. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. unpaginated. Text in German. Publisher's foreword, introduction by Willibrord Neumüller and Kurt Holter. Color plates with gilding of the four gospel writers and their symbols. Dust jacket soiled and chipped at edges. READ MORE about MARKUS UND DER LÖWE: DIE EVANGELISTEN UND IHRE SYMBOLE IM CODEX MILLENARIUS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 130558
Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary
Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2008. 8vo. morocco binding adorned with silver and enamel work and semi-preciuos stones, clamshell case. 274, 247 pages. Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary. One of 980 copies. This extremely refined masterwork of the Italian Renaissance (1503) was commissioned by Bonaparte Ghislieri, who belonged to a leading family of Bologna. Also Bolognese was the calligrapher, Pietro Antonio Sallando (a grammarian at the city's university and a renowned calligraphy master). A treasury of..... READ MORE about IL LIBRO D'ORE DI BONAPARTE GHISLIERI
Price: $11,250.00 Order nr. 105364
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, (1957). 4to. cloth, slipcase. 96 pages of text and 108 pages of color and monochrome plates. History with many illustrations of this early Luxemburg illuminated manuscript. Text based on the German text by Dr. Metz. Light sunning to edge of slipcase, else fine. READ MORE about GOLDEN GOSPELS OF ECHTERNACH, CODEX AUREUS EPTERNACENSIS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 37631
Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Vaticana, 1950. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 90, (2), i-xxi, (2) pages. First edition. Italian illuminated manuscripts from the 15th century were the focus of this 1950 exhibition at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. 160 of the Vatican's most precious books were on display. All are Catalogueed here and many are pictured in black & white. 2 color reproductions. Indexed. In Italian. Indentation in front cover and first few pages. READ MORE about MINIATURE DEL RINASCIMENTO. CATALOGO DELLA MOSTRA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 62883
N.P. Printed for the Subscribers, 1927. 8vo. quarter parchment. (xiv) pages followed by 18 plates. With portrait of Herbert and one plate in full color. With four page greeting to Herbert loosely inserted. READ MORE about MINIATURES FROM A FRENCH HORAE, BRITISH MUSEUM ADD. MS. 16997, FIFTEEN TH CENTURY. REPRODUCED IN...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 24857
Vatican City: Vatican Library, 1950. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, color cover label. 96, (2) pages followed by 31 plates in black and white. With an 18 page introduction by Anselmo Maria Albarada. Well annotated descriptions 160 items. Some foxing of covers. READ MORE about MINIATURES OF THE RENAISSANCE, CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 40151
Southport, CN: Laurence Witten Rare Books, 1983. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 96 pages. A sale catalogue of fifty-two important early manuscripts, including many illuminated books of hours, breviaries, missals and an unusual illuminated English prayer scroll dating from 1430. Well illustrated, with many plates in full color. Price list loosely inserted. Ink ownership inscription in corner of title page. READ MORE about A MIRROR OF MANUSCRIPTS, SPECULUM MANUSCRIPTORUM
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 45274
(Budapest, Hungary): Helikon Kiadó, 1989). 8vo. cloth, paper spine and illuminated cover labels bound in portfolio. unpaginated. Text in Hungarian and Latin. Facsimile, in color, of a medieval illuminated manuscript, in Latin, in the collections of the Hungarian Museum in Budapest (National Library Latin Codex 221). Accompanied by a guidebook in Hungarian by Zoltánné Soltész. portfolio torn at bottom of spine. Guidebook tanned. READ MORE about MISSALE
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 125296
New York: The Viking Press, (1965). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 176 pages. First U.S. edition. Well illustrated history. Some cover soiling. READ MORE about MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT PAINTING
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 8286
Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary
Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2009. Large Miniature. Bound by hand (gilded silver binding covers and spine), clamshell case. 30, 333 pages. Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary. One of 980 copies. With its extraordinary binding and highly elaborate illumination work, while very small, this precious Book of Hours must be considered an absolute masterpiece. The Commentary: The work is accompanied by a book with commentary, edited by Pier Luigi Mulas, with writings by Marco Collareta, Jean-Baptiste..... READ MORE about IL LIBRO D'ORE TORRIANI
Price: $8,750.00 Order nr. 105361
(Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: D.S. Brewer for the Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral, 1993). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxxiv, 158 pages, plates. Table of contents, preface and acknowledgments, list of plates, introduction, appendix, addenda, index of manuscripts, general index, index of incipits, plates. Contribution on the bindings by Michael Gullick. Black and white frontispiece. Color and black and white plates follow text. Three post cards laid in. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL LIBRARY
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 130620
London: Faber and Faber, (1945). 8vo. cloth. x, 22 pages followed by 22 pages of plates. In the twelfth century a series of large bibles was produced in England, the best known of which is now in Winchester Cathedral. Forty-four illuminations and drawings from this magnificent work are here reproduced, with an introduction, information on the six artists, and notes concerning each plate. Minor fading to spine. Covers lightly soiled. Minor foxing to preliminary pages..... READ MORE about THE ARTISTS OF THE WINCHESTER BIBLE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 47921
London, England: Sotheby's, 2002. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 82 pages. Auction, June 18, 2002. Lots 33 and 34 of an auction of illuminated manuscripts. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about THE ORACLES OF LEO THE WISE AND THE PONTIFICAL OF FERRY DU CLUGNY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 133652
Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary
Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2011. small 8vo. full velvet, all edges gilt, metal book casing, enamel designs, leather slipcase. 235, 223 pages. Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary. Towards 1485, Lorenzo de 'Medici commissioned the most successful miniature painters of Florence for which they were to create three luxurious Books of Hours to be allocated to his daughters as wedding presents. Of these little books, the first, now housed in Monaco, was given to Lucretia, who..... READ MORE about ORE MEDICI ROTHSCHILD
Price: $11,500.00 Order nr. 108859
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..... READ MORE about ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY OXFORD 1: GERMAN, DUTCH, FLEMISH, FRENCH AND...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 109449
Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vi, 32, (2) pages. Illustrated. Name in ink in corner of title page. READ MORE about SAINTS, SCRIBES, AND SCHOLARS, AN EXHIBITION OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT S AND EARLY PRINTED BOOKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 31438
Foreword by Frederick B. Adams, Jr.
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1964. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 84 pages followed by 32 plates. Foreword by Frederick B. Adams, Jr. Limited to 1750 copies. Illustrated. Name in ink. Covers faded. READ MORE about THE BOOK OF HOURS OF CATHERINE OF CLEVES
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 9554
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1968. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 52 pages followed by 57 plates. With a full color frontispiece. Spine faded. READ MORE about THE GLAZIER COLLECTION OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 9981
