Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1972. square 4to. cloth, dust jacket, cardboard slipcase. 135 pages. First U.S. edition. An excellent history of the early developments in the book from the time of the Pharaohs to the Middle Ages, with a particular emphasis on Persian and Islamic books. Well illustrated. Near fine. READ MORE about ORIGINS OF THE BOOK: FROM PAPYRUS TO CODEX
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 19299
Memphis, TN: Brooks Museum of Art, 1984. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 104 pages. Published in conjunction with exhibition of 16th century painting and calligraphy in Suchou, China. Frontispiece. Table of contents, list of lenders, preface and essay by the author, chronological index, bibliography, index of artists. Color and black and white illustrations. READ MORE about THE LITERATI VISION: SIXTEENTH CENTURY WU SCHOOL PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 119948
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
New York: George Braziller, (1978). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 118 pages. First edition. Color illustrations. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE DECORATED LETTER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 23726
(New York): Todtri Book Publishers, (1999). 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 128 pages. First edition. General overview of the different periods of history and their focus on illuminated manuscripts. Fine condition. READ MORE about ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 78032
Oxford, England: Bodleian Library, (1970). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages, plates. Bodleian Picture Books Special Series No. 1. Preface by J.J.G. Alexander, description of plates, select bibliography, index of manuscripts. 36 black and white plates. READ MORE about ANGLO-SAXON ILLUMINATION IN OXFORD LIBRARIES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 131766
New York: George Braziller, (1978). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 118 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Color illustrations. READ MORE about MANUSCRIPT PAINTING AT THE COURT OF FRANCE, THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY (1310-1380
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 136681
Ithaca (NY): Cornell University Press, 1981. small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 96 pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. Origins and making, and later history of the Lindisfarne Gospels (8th century), with a chapter comparing the illumination of the Lindisfarne Gospels to that of several more or less contemporary manuscripts and to some decorative metalwork of the same era. The 66 illustrations include color photographs of all of the major illuminated pages..... READ MORE about THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 53729
Oxford: Phaidon in Association with the British Library, (1981). small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 96 pages. First edition. Origins and making, and later history of the Lindisfarne Gospels (8th century), with a chapter comparing the illumination of the Lindisfarne Gospels to that of several more or less contemporary manuscripts and to some decorative metalwork of the same era. The 66 illustrations include color photographs of all of the major illuminated pages of the manuscripts..... READ MORE about THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 62267
Oxford: Phaidon, (1979). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 80 pages. First edition. With 70 illustrations including 28 in color. Near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about THE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 9198
Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library.
Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto, (1998). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 240 pages. Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library. First North American edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. Chronological survey of illustrated manuscripts from 7th-17th century Europe and the Middle East in the British Library. Color illustrations for each entry. READ MORE about THE ILLUMINATED PAGE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 76973
Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 8vo. paper wrappers. 64 pages. First Canadian edition. A fine copy. READ MORE about MEDIEVAL RURAL LIFE IN THE LUTTRELL PSALTER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136553
N.P. n.p., n.d. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 37+(1) pages. Introduction by Dr. Johannes Maas. One color plate and many in black and white. READ MORE about BAMBERGER APOKALYPSE, MINIATUR DER REICHENAUER SCHULE UM DAS JAHR 1000 AUS DER BAMBERER...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 45377
with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press
(London, United Kingdom): Nour Foundation, The, 1999-2009. small folio. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. 272, 300 pages. with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press. First edition. Both parts. A fine set in fine jacket. Fully illustrated in color. "The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art" READ MORE about THE DECORATED WORD: QUR'ANS OF THE 17TH TO 19TH CENTURIES. PART ONE & TWO
Price: $600.00 Order nr. 136627
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. 8vo. boards, slipcase. 32 beautiful illuminations in facsimile. With 32 full color plates showing this beautiful book. With an introduction by James J. Rorimer. Slipcase lightly worn, else fine condition. READ MORE about THE BELLES HEURES OF JEAN, DUKE OF BERRY, PRINCE OF FRANCE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 9185
London, United Kingdom: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2005. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 413 pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUMINATIONS: TEN CENTURIES OF BOOK PRODUCTION IN THE MEDIEVAL WEST
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 136605
(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..... READ MORE about THE ILLUMINATED NAPLES BIBLE (OLD TESTAMENT), 14TH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 103755
Oxford: Bodleian Library, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 12 pages followed by 25 plates. Bodleian Picture Book No. 1. Cover slightly soiled. Minor wear and soiling. Very small black ink mark (?) on title page which leached through the text, but not the plates. READ MORE about ENGLISH ROMANESQUE ILLUMINATION
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 102192
New York: Institute of Fine Arts/New York University, (1966). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 63+(1) pages. Exhibition catalogue for 30 manuscript miniatures collected by the art dealer Mortimer Brandt, from the German school, Augsburg (c.1235-1250) to the Italian school, Rome (c.1566-1573). Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about THE MORTIMER BRANDT COLLECTION OF MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATIONS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 69305
Nachfolger: Karl Robert Langewiesche, (1959). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 80 pages. Profusely illustrated including many in full color. Covers soiled; some internal soiling. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE BUCHMALEREI DER GOTIK
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 9188
London: Methuen & Co., (1920). 12mo. cloth, top edge gilt. xiv, 290 pages. Later printing. Colored frontispiece and 20 other illustrations. Part of the "Little Books On Art" series edited by Cyril Davenport. Near fine. READ MORE about ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 136702
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, (1994). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 127+(1) pages. First edition. Definitions of techniques, processes, and materials used in medieval illuminated manuscripts. Presented in an easily portable format, this volume includes concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered by the museum-goer along with fifty-six color and thirty-one black-and-white illustrations. Fine condition. READ MORE about UNDERSTANDING ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, A GUIDE TO TECHNICAL TERMS
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London: British Library Publishing, 2006. 8vo. paper wrappers. 96 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Setting the Luttrell Psalter within its medieval society and culture, this work traces its history, inspiration and creation, highlighting its artistic models, originality and innovation. Exploring its patronage, purpose and audience, it unravels the likely point and meaning of the Luttrell's imagery and domestic drama. READ MORE about THE WORLD OF THE LUTTRELL PSALTER
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 136549
Dresden: C.C. Meinhold & Söhne, 1906. 4to. half cloth with paper-covered boards, original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. vii, 469 pages. First edition. Contains tipped-in colour frontispiece and many black-and-white photographic illustrations. Covers differentially faded and split along upper hinge but binding still reasonably sound. READ MORE about DIE MALEREIEN IN DEN HANDSCRIFTEN DES KÖNIGREICHS SACHSEN
Price: $110.00 Order nr. 80558
16e Année (Exercice 1932), 2 volumes (bound periodical and packet of loose plates)
Paris: Société française de Reproductions de Manuscripts a Peintures, 1933. 4to. stiff paper wrapper, envelope (for plates). (v), 78 pages and 23 plates. 16e Année (Exercice 1932), 2 volumes (bound periodical and packet of loose plates). This issue of the Bulletin features an article by Guy de la Batut about the principle illuminated manuscripts of the Mazarin Library. It also contains a bibliography of publications (including sale catalogues) issued from 1929 through 1932 related to..... READ MORE about BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DE REPRODUCTIONS DE MANUSCRIPTS A PEINTURES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 79819
