Norman. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. Articles by Werner on Coronation Gospels of Henry the Lion, Bouwsma on abstract calligraphy, Olds on Ramsey Psalter, etc. READ MORE about CALLIGRAPHY IDEA EXCHANGE Volume II, No.1
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133741
London: Sotheby and Co., 1929. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 70 pages + fold-out illustrations. Sale held March 21-22. 395 lots. Catalogue includes illuminated manuscripts, French illustrated books and fine old and modern bindings. Contains black-and-white fold-out illustrations of manuscripts and book bindings and a full color frontispiece. From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemorative booklabel loosely inserted. Wrappers chipped along edges. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, FINE OLD AND MODERN...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 102426
(Indianapolis, IN: Center for the Calligraphic Arts, 1984. 4to. self paper wrappers. 13+(1) pages. Volume 1, number 5. Index, brief articles on various aspects of calligraphy. READ MORE about JOURNAL FOR THE CALLIGRAPHIC ARTS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134270
(Indianapolis, IN: Center for the Calligraphic Arts, 1986. 4to. self paper wrappers. 18 pages. Volume 3, number 2. Index, brief articles on various aspects of calligraphy. Final leaf clipped off. READ MORE about JOURNAL FOR THE CALLIGRAPHIC ARTS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134271
(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..... READ MORE about LAPIDARIO DEL REY D. ALFONSO X. CODICE ORIGINAL
Price: $1,500.00 Order nr. 107225
Luzern, Switzerland: Faksimile Verlag, n.d. folio. facsimiles laid in folder. unpaginated. Prospectus for this expensive facsimile including 2 leaves. Text in English, French and German. Two color, gilt-illuminated facsimiles from the memoirs of Marco Polo. One is Fol. 86v, Boucicaut Master, Trading Scene from the Gulf of Cambay, describing trading centers on the return voyage from China. The second, Fol. 88v, Boucicaut Master, The Island of Madagascar. Laid in folder. READ MORE about MARCO POLO
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 109469
Farnborough: Gregg Reprint, 1971. 4to. cloth. 352 pages. Reprint of the 1953 first edition. READ MORE about SCRIPTORIUM ... INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MANUSCRIPT STUDIES. TOME V11. 1953
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 80563
Farnborough: Gregg Reprint, 1971. 4to. cloth. 352, (2) pages. Reprint of the 1954 first edition. READ MORE about SCRIPTORIUM ... INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MANUSCRIPT STUDIES. TOME V111. 1954
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 80564
New York, NY: The New York Public Library, 1914. small 4to. cloth. variously paginated. Multiple books bound in one volume. Also includes Frank Weitenkampf,The Fifteenth Century: The Cradle of Modern Book Illustration (1938); Edward S. Harkness, Livre du Petit Artus (1928); Seymour de Ricci, A List of Medieval Manuscripts in the New York Public Library (1930); The Mural Painting by Edward Laning in the New York Public Libaray (1942); Walter Allen, The Four Corvinus Manuscripts..... READ MORE about THE SPENCER COLLECTION OF MODERN BOOK BINDINGS
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 131375
London: Sotheby's, 1986. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 156, (8) pages. A catalogue (December 2nd) to an auction of rare manuscripts and miniatures. 74 lots. Well illustrated, much in full color. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 70303
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc, (1979). small 8vo. paper wrappers. xii, 180 pages. Sixth edition. A selection of bibliographies and reference works which are actually used by modern scholars. Indexed. READ MORE about SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 122874
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xxviii, 78, (2) pages. First edition, limited to 152 copies. With engravings by Sidney L. Smith and other illustrations, rubricated initials and an illuminated copy of a page from a 15th century musical manuscript. Tanning to the endpapers which is common. Else fine. READ MORE about HEAVENLY JERUSALEM, A MEDIAEVAL SONG OF THE JOYS OF THE CHURCH TRIUMPH ANT, WITH ANNOTATIONS BY...
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 39458
New York, NY: Paragon Book Gallery, (1976). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 207, (3) pages. Translated from the original German edition by Barbara Crook and Patricia L. Victorson. The Götze collection of Japanese calligraphy. Foreword by the collector, editors' preface, table of contents, name and subject index, chronological table. Wrappers lightly tanned. READ MORE about BRUSH AND INK: THE HEINZ GÖTZE COLLECTION
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 120113
Paris: Brepolis, (1992). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 72 pages. First French edition. Paul Binski provides a study of the medieval artist. Of utmost concern to the author are the working methods of the artists, their compositional decisions, and their identities. J. Le Goff provides a preface. 71 illustrations in black-and-white and color. Indexed. READ MORE about LES ARTISANS DU MOYEN AGE. LES PEINTRES
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 59428
Reports addressed to the Trustees of the British Museum on the Age of the Manuscript
London: Williams and Norgate, 1874. folio. stiff paper wrappers. (vi)14 pages followed by 3 full-page plates. Reports addressed to the Trustees of the British Museum on the Age of the Manuscript. The report is on an illuminated manuscript over which there had been some controversy as to its age. The Trustees of the British Museum had asked for a report from several distinguished scholars to resolve the matter. This copy had been in the University..... READ MORE about THE UTRECHT PSALTER
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 87731
Pelham: Bridgman Publishers, (1936). 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 79 pages. Second edition. Three page introduction followed by plates of alphabets. Cary is well known for his collection of books on the history of printing now at RIT and also for his Village Press. Jacket soiled. READ MORE about MODERN ALPHABETS
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 31043
(London: John Roberts Press), n.d. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. A brief introduction. Scarce. READ MORE about GOLD IN MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 50751
New York: Dover Publications, 1982. 4to. paper wrappers. 32 pages. A selection of the unique and distinctive pages from this classic book. Full color throughout. Covers show fading along hinge. READ MORE about BOOK OF KELLS, SELECTED PLATES IN FULL COLOR
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 33959
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1913. small 4to. faux leather with gilt stamp on front cover. 209 pages with 90 illustratons. Bound Xerox of this title. Eleven chapters on all aspects of the development of the alphabet. READ MORE about THE STORY OF THE ALPHABET
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 121383
Westminster: J. B. Nichols, 1895. slim 4to. original stiff paper wrappers. 12 pages. Reprinted from Archaelogia Vol. LIV. Two plates. Chipped around edges. READ MORE about ON A M. S. PSALTER FORMERLY BELONGING TO THE ABBEY OF BURY ST. EDMUNDS. COMMUNICATED TO THE...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 82632
Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries.
Westminster: Nichols and Sons, 1895. 4to. original paper wrappers. 14 pages. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries. Reprint from Archaeologia, Vol. XIV, pp.411-424. With nine photographic plates. Chipped along spine with cover partially detached. READ MORE about ON A MS. PONTIFICAL OF A BISHOP OF METZ OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 82633
New York: Dover, (1982). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 603, (15) pages. A reprint of the 1953 edition. Diringer examines the book from its origins as clay tablets in 3500 B.C. to the introduction of printing. With 200 illustrations. Ink ownership inscription in corner of half-title. READ MORE about THE BOOK BEFORE PRINTING ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND ORIENTAL
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 2141
London: Faber & Faber, (1967). thick 8vo. cloth. 514 pages. Revised edition. "Virtually an encyclopedia of the hand-illuminated book." An historical account. Many illustrations including some in color. READ MORE about THE ILLUMINATED BOOK, ITS HISTORY AND PRODUCTION
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 53617
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, (1962). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 261 pages. First U.S. edition. Part of the series entitled Ancient Peoples and Places. History of writing well illustrated with examples from the author's collection. 78 photographs and 49 line drawings. READ MORE about WRITING
Price: $17.00 Order nr. 16876
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..... READ MORE about L' ILLUSTRATION DES PSAUTIERS GRECS DU MOYEN AGE
Price: $145.00 Order nr. 109436
