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
16e Année, 2 volumes
Paris: Société Française de Reproductions de Manuscrits A Peintures, 1933. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, yapped fore-edge; envelope with plates loose. 78 pages, 23 plates. 16e Année, 2 volumes. The 16th year of this series of books devoted to illuminated manuscripts. Includes plates from the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris. The first volume contains descriptions by Guy de la Batut of each manuscript and its illuminations, while the second volume holds plates of the illustrations. First volume..... READ MORE about BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DE REPRODUCTIONS DE MANUSCRIPTS A PEINTURES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 92361
Milan, Italy: Edizioni d'Arte Amilcare Pizzi, (1954). 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket, later clotth clamshell box with leather cover label. unpaginated. Text in Italian. Art Publication of the National Library of Venice I. Introduction by Tullia Gasparini Leporace. Facsimile of the breviary of Domenico Grimani (1461-1523). Dust jacket chipped at edges. Spine worn. READ MORE about IL CALENDARIO DEL BREVIARIO GRIMANI
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 125313
Amsterdam: Frederik Muller & Cie. 1929. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 35, (5) pages. Auction catalogue for sale held November 22, 1929 by Frederik Muller & Cie. 112 lots, most notably a fourteenth-century illuminated Book of Hours in which the patron is portrayed worshiping the Virgin. Originally, a separate portfolio of sixty-eight reproductions was meant to accompanied the catalogue. This portfolio is not present but three of the full color plates are loosely inserted. Bears the..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE D'UNE COLLECTION DE MANUSCRITS A MINIATURES DES IXe-XVe SIECLES, COLLECTION D'UN...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 77540
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. The Property of a Gentleman, and of Important Illuminated Manuscripts Sold by Order of Miss Seymour's Trustee, and from Other Sources. 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. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE SUPERB ILLUMINATIONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE JOHN, LORD NORTHWICK (THE...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 107443
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1982. small 4to. boards. 127 pages and many plates, some of which are in color. Ink ownership stamp in corner of front cover. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF TWENTY WESTERN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE FIFTH TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY FROM...
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 6909
Bern: Hallwag, (1950). large 12mo. paper covered boards. 9, (19) pages + 19 leaves of color plates. First edition. Part of the series Orbis Pictus (Volume 8). Brief text and nineteen color illustrations of some of the most famous images from medieval illuminated manuscripts, including the Echternach Gospels, Codex Egberti, Gospels of Otto III, and Bamberg Apocalypse. Faded along spine. READ MORE about MITTELALTERLICHE MINIATUREN
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 115251
Paris, France: Éditions de la Revue Verve, (1946). folio. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 68, (2) pages. Text in French. From Vol. IV, No. 16 of Verve. Color and black and white illustrations. Concluding remarks by Edmond Pognon of the Bibliothèque Nationale. Dust jacket and text tanned at edges. READ MORE about TRAITÉ DE LA FORME ET DEVIS D'UN TOURNOI
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 130637
N.P. Pierpont Morgan Library, n.d. 8vo. 12 prints loosely inserted in envelope. unpaginated. A set of 12 reproductions of the Da Costa hours, originally made in Bruges for a king or prince of Portugal, either Manuel I of Joao III. Color illustrations with descriptive text included. READ MORE about THE DA COSTA HOURS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 132203
2 Volumes.
Dublin, Ireland: Hodges Figgs & Company, 1958. folio. cloth, spine gilt-stamped. xliv, 216; viii, 66 pages. 2 Volumes. Foreword by A. Chester Beatty, preface by the author, list and chronological table of manuscripts, list of plates, introduction on the history of Armenian art, bibliography, general index, index of manuscripts. First volume includes detailed descriptive information. Second volume includes color frontispiece and 67 black and white plates, with list of plates and errata. Covers and spines..... READ MORE about THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY: A CATALOGUE OF THE ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $550.00 Order nr. 130535
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1948. 4to. later quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards. 10 pages, plates. Items offered for sale by Quaritch. Foldout frontispiece and nine black and white foldout plates. 17 lots, with detailed descriptive information about each. Boards stained and warped. Endpapers foxed. Text undamaged. READ MORE about DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE MINIATURES FOUR MANUSCRIPTS AND TEN PRINTED BOOKS OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 114520
Five boxed sets
Paris: Unesco, 1963. 8vo. plastic boxes. Five boxed sets. Five plastic boxes containing 150 color slides from the former collection of H.P. Kraus. Each box with 30 color slides and a descriptive pamphlet in French, English, and Spanish with historical background and description of each slide in each series. With Unesco, Series 4, which contains Iranian illuminated manuscripts from circa 1410-1596; Series 14, which contains slides of 12 Czech illuminated manuscripts from c. 1085-1364; Series..... READ MORE about DISPOSITIVES D'OEUVRES D'ART
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 76027
Oxford: Bodleian Library, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 10 pages followed by 22 pages of plates. First published 1954. Number 10 of the Bodleian Picture Books Series. With an index of the 22 black-and-white plate pages. Edges lightly tanned, minor soiling. READ MORE about ENGLISH ILLUMINATION OF THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 102293
Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1965. small square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 60 pages. A catalogue for an exhibition of Italian paintings, sculpture, textiles and illuminated manuscripts, honoring the well-known art historian and teacher on his seventy-fifth birthday. Well illustrated; with introduction and bibliography. Light wear to covers. READ MORE about EXHIBITION OF ITALIAN PANELS AND MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES IN...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 47931
(Akron, OH): by the author, (2000). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 158 pages. Table of contents, preface, essay by Jonathan J.G. Alexander. suggestions for further reading. Includes Bibles, Italy and Spain, France and Flanders, literary manuscripts, and later manuscripts. Color illustrations throughout. Price list laid in. READ MORE about IMPORTANT ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 130779
Hamburg: Maximilian Gesellschaft, 1961. 4to. cloth, gilt-stamped decoration on front board. 39, (3) pages. Text in German. A study of the development of book production during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and the beginning of the Gothic script. Notes in margins of pages. Includes listing of manuscripts in the Austrian National Library. 44 plates in both color and black and white. READ MORE about DIE LEHRBUCHER MAXIMILIANS I UND DIE ANFANGE DER FRAKTURSCHRIFT
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 109447
(Paris, France): Editionis "Verve" n.d. folio. cloth, front cover gilt-stamped. unpaginated. Introductory comments by Henri Malo, Conservator of the Condé Museum. Color plates. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges. Portions of text separated from covers. READ MORE about FOUQUETS OF THE CONDE MUSEUM AT CHANTILLY: ETIENNE CHEVALIER'S BOOK OF HOURS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 130731
Chicago: Newberry Library, 1969. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. 24 illuminated manuscripts are illustrated and described in detail. Some illustrations are in color. Acquisition date in ink in corner of front cover. READ MORE about FRENCH AND FLEMISH ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS FROM CHICAGO COLLECTIONS
Price: $13.00 Order nr. 6243
(Houston, TX): University of Houston, Special Collections, 1969. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (12) pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Foreword by Edward G. Holley, then Director of Libraries. Description of a small 13th century Bible. Includes comments on the illustrations by Art Department Chair Peter W. Guenther. Endnotes. Two color tipped in photographs and black and white illustrations. READ MORE about GWYSANEY MANUSCRIPT NUMBER FOUR
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126757
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. READ MORE about GYLLENE BÖCKER NYFÖRVÄRV OCH NYUPPTÄCKTER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 114619
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958. 4to. cloth, slipcase. x, 86, (2) pages followed by 90 plates. First edition of this beautifully produced catalogue printed at the Spiral Press in an edition limited to 850 copies of which only 750 copies were offered for sale. catalogue describes in depth 64 items. Well illustrated with 90 plates in black and white and seven plates in color, some of which are tipped-in. Slipcase rubbed along edges..... READ MORE about CENTRAL EUROPEAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE PIERPONT MORGAN
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 43800
(Hannover, Germany: Scherrerdruck, 1989). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 54 pages. Text in German. Introduction by Dietrich H. Hoppenstedt, chair of the foundation. The work of Heinrich der Löwe (1129/30-1195). 21 color plates. READ MORE about HEINRICH DER LÖWE UND SEIN EVANGELIAR--EINE AUSSTELLUNG DER NIEDERSÄCHSISCHEN SPARKASSENSTIFTUNG
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 126147
Warwickshire: Frank Hammond, n.d. small 8vo. paper wrappers. (8) pages and 2 plates. A sale catalogue describing this one item. READ MORE about HIGDEN'S POLYCHRONICON, AN IMPORTATN ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT OF THE EARLY PART OF THE FIFTEENTH...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 9194
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
