Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1978. square 8vo. paper wrappers. unpaginated. Exhibition catalogue. Lightly soiled, else fine. Essay and catalogue by Peter W. Parshall, twenty examples each with a photograph. Very scarce. READ MORE about ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS FROM PORTLAND AREA COLLECTIONS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136593
New York & London: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1982. 4to. paperback. 123 pages, with 132 images. First paperback edition. A fine copy. Exhibition Catalogue Tours, Bourges and Rouen vied with Paris to produce these important illuminated manuscripts in the wake of the great efflorescence of the previous generation (and the Battle of Agincourt). Plummer has ordered them into 4 periods: 1420-1450; 1450-1475. 1475-1500; 1500-1530. Scarce title. READ MORE about THE LAST FLOWERING: FRENCH PAINTING IN MANUSCRIPTS, 1420-1530, FROM AMERICAN COLLECTIONS
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 136659
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
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 34 pages and 37 plates including a number in full color. Covers slightly faded. READ MORE about MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE WILLIAM S. GLAZIER COLLECTION
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 9202
London: Thomas Yoseloff, (1973). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 356 pages. First English edition. Traces the development of the illuminated manuscript; illustrated with 216 figures and 30 colored plates. Contains a bibliography of books on the subject. Near fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 9183
South Brunswick and New York: A.S.Barnes, (1973). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 356 pages. First edition. Traces the development of the illuminated manuscript; illustrated with 216 figures and 30 colored plates. Contains a bibliography of books on the subject. Jacket chipped. Ink ownership stamp at bottom of free endpaper. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 103119
New York, NY: New York Graphic Society, 1986. 4to. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. 280 pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, with fine slipcase. Stamp on front pastedown claiming that this copy has faults, however we could not find any. READ MORE about THE TOPKAPI SARAY MUSEUM: THE ALBUMS AND ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136614
with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press
(London, United Kingdom): Nour Foundation, The, 1996. small folio. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. 248 pages. with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press. First edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. Fully illustrated in color. "The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art" READ MORE about THE ART OF THE PEN. CALLIGRAPHY OF THE 14TH TO 20TH CENTURIES
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 136628
2 volumes.
Florence, Italy: Pantheon [printed in Italy for the Pegasus Press and designed at the Officina Bodoni] / New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., n.d. but 1928. 4to. cloth, spine gilt-stamped, top edges gilt. xx,(ii),132; (iv) pages, with 101 and 159 additional leaves in vols. I and II respectively. 2 volumes. First edition. In the 1920's, the Pegasus Press (or "À l'enseigne du Pégase") of John Holroyd-Reece, based in Paris, published a number of art books..... READ MORE about ENGLISH ILLUMINATION
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 130557
London: British Museum, 1967. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 56 pages followed by 16 plates. With four plates in color. READ MORE about ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS EXHIBITED IN THE GRENVILLE LIBRARY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 17087
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1981. 4to. boards. 119 pages. The illustrated version with some plates in color. Sale took plate Monday, 18th May 1981. READ MORE about WESTERN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, THE PROPERTY OF THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 6977
3 Volumes.
London, England: Sotheby's, 1992-4. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 131, (5); 91, (9); 135, (7) pages. 3 Volumes. Auctions, June 23, 1992, December 6, 1993, and December 5, 1994. 95, 75, and 99 lots, respectively. Black and white illustrations throughout each volume. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 131551
Chestnut Hill, MA: University Press of Boston College, 1999. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. First edition. The Connolly Book of Hours is a beautiful example of fifteenth-century French manuscript art preserved in the collection of the John J. Burns Library at Boston College. Comprised of gospel readings, commemorative prayers for the saints and the Little Office of Our Lady, this Book of Hours provided a wide range of topics for the decorations of..... READ MORE about REFLECTIONS ON THE CONNOLLY BOOK OF HOURS
Price: $19.95 Order nr. 63805
N.P. Collins, (1966). 12mo. paper wrappers. 26 pages of text followed by 28 plates. Reprint. The 28 plates are in color. READ MORE about IRISH ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN PERIOD
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 8018
(Philadelphia, PA): Philadelphia Museum of Art, (2001). 4to. paperback. xiv, 242 pages. First softcover edition. A fine copy. This catalogue highlights eighty of the most significant illuminated manuscripts held in public collections throughout the greater Philadelphia area that were exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from March 10 through May 13, 2001. Essays on Bibles, Psalters, Books of Hours, liturgical manuscripts, literary and secular texts, the history of collecting manuscripts in Philadelphia, and the..... READ MORE about LEAVES OF GOLD MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION FROM PHILADELPHIA COLLECTIONS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 62691
Los Angeles, CA: Getty Museum Studies on Art, (2001). square 8vo. paper wrappers. 94 pages. First edition. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE STAMMHEIM MISSAL
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 136529
London: Sam Fogg Rare Books, (1995). 4to. stiff paper wraapers. 209 pages. Catalogue 16. Bookseller's catalogue which fully describes 140 items. Well illustrated in b&w and color images. READ MORE about TEXT MANUSCRIPTS AND DOCUMENTS: 2200BC TO 1600AD
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 136709
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck u Verlagsanstalt, 1987. 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 160, (2) pages, plates. Table of contents, Foreword, introduction, index. Flemish and Burgundian illuminated manuscripts in the Austrian National Library.112 color and black and white plates follow text. READ MORE about FLÄMISCHE BUCHMALEREI HANDSCHRIFTEN UND INKUNABELSAMMLUNG DER ÖSTERREICHISCHEN NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 133282
N.P. British Museum, 1965. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages followed by 9 plates. Illustrated with four in color. Near fine. READ MORE about EARLY GOTHIC ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN ENGLAND
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 9190
London: British Museum, 1966. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 31 pages and 16 plates, some of which are in color. Includes items from the British Museum collection. A fine copy. READ MORE about ROMANESQUE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 9205
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. READ MORE about L' UOMO, IL LAVORO, L'AMBIENTE NELLE MINIATURE LAURENZIANE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 115423
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1975. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xxvi, 196 pages. Exhibition catalogue, January-June, 1975. A fine copy. A selection of single leaves and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts donated to the National Gallery by Lessing J. Rosenwald. Illustrated with 8 full page color plates and 49 figures in black and white. Foreword by John Carter Brown and Preface by Rosenwald. READ MORE about MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MINIATURES FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 72664
London, United Kingdom: V & A Publishing and Abrams, 2003. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 144 pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS AND THEIR MAKERS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136555
San Diego, CA: Laurel Glen Publishing, 1997. square 8vo. paper covered boards, dust jacket. 94, (2) pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. Very attractive throughout. Beautifully illustrated in full color. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136636
New York: George Braziller, (1977). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 126 pages. First edition. Beautifully illustrated with 48 full color plates. READ MORE about LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY CHRISTIAN BOOK ILLUMINATION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 30379
