(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
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
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
London: Sotheby's, 1985. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Unpaginated. A catalogue to a sale of important illuminated manuscripts and other early works, including many fine bindings. 112 entries in all. Sale of June 25th. Well illustrated, much in full color. Spine faded. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MIMIATURES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 48532
London: Sotheby's, (1984). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Fully describes 71 items. Sale of December 11. Well illustrated with descriptions of many of the items, some in color. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 35348
London: Sotheby's, 1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 264 pages. A catalogue (June 23rd) to an auction of rare manuscripts and miniatures, including the Armagnac Breviary illuminated for Jean du Roussay. Well illustrated, much in full color. Ink ownership stamp in corner of front cover. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 70282
London: Sotheby's, 1988. large 8vo. paper wrappers. 149 pages. Illustrated catalogue over 68 manuscripts and miniatures. Sale of December 6th. Ink ownership stamp in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 106007
London: Sotheby's, 1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 162 pages. A catalogue (December 1st) to an auction of rare manuscripts and miniatures. 74 lots. Ink ownership stamp in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 106008
London: Sotheby's, 1989. large 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), 244, (9) pages. Illustrated catalogue of the auction sale held December 5th. 136 lots.Ink ownership stamp in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 106030
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
Münich: Hugo Schmidt, (1923). 4to. original half vellum, printed paper-covered boards. 168 pages. First edition. With 186 illustrations of miniatures taken from early illuminated manuscripts. Includes some illustrations of early bookbindings. Covers soiled. READ MORE about EINE BAYERISCHE MALERSCHULE DES XI. UND XII. JAHRHUNDERTS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 80556
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
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
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
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
(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
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
(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
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
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
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
