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(Heineman).

THE DANNIE AND HETTIE HEINEMAN COLLECTION.

New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978. 8vo. cloth. x, 109 pages followed by 12 pages of plates. First edition, limited to 250 copies bound in cloth. Catalogue of this valuable gift given to the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1977. Named after the library's founder and his wife, the collection includes illuminated Mediaeval and Renaissance manuscripts, incunabula, printed books, autographed letters and manuscripts, and musical manuscripts and letters. READ MORE about THE DANNIE AND HETTIE HEINEMAN COLLECTION

Price: $14.00 Order nr. 55942

Herbert, J.A.

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1969. thick small 4to. cloth. xiv, 356 pages. Reprint of the 1911 first edition issued by this reprint house. Virtually an encyclopedia of the hand-illuminated book. An historical account. Many illustrations. READ MORE about ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 23337

Hindman, Sandra and Michael Camille, Nina Rowe, Rowan Watson.

MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION IN THE MODERN AGE: RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION.

(Evanston, IL: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, 2001. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xxviii, 329+(1) pages in addition to 32 leaves of color plates. First edition. Three hundred years ago, now treasured medieval manuscripts were scorned, neglected and left to vandals. An exhibit held at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art early in 2001, sought to explore new ideas and perspectives on the destruction and reconstitution of illuminated manuscripts in the..... READ MORE about MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION IN THE MODERN AGE: RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 63389

(Hoepli, Ulrico).

INVNABVLI MANOSCRITTI AVTOGRAFI LIBRI ILLVSTRATI DAL SECOLO XVI AL XIX VENDITA ALL'ASTA IN ROMA.

Esposizione: dal 19 al 26 Aprile, Vendita: 27 Aprile, Ore 16,30
Milano: Libreria Antiqvaria di Ulrico Hoepli, 1933. 4to. dust jacket over stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 73, (iii) pages followed by 48 plates. Esposizione: dal 19 al 26 Aprile, Vendita: 27 Aprile, Ore 16,30. Text in Italian. Blogie VI 500. Catalogue of an auction listing 116 lots. Items offered include autographs, manuscripts, incunabula, and XVIth-century to modern books. Descriptions followed by 48 plates, many of which fold out. Columbia University bookplate on inside front wrapper. Corners..... READ MORE about INVNABVLI MANOSCRITTI AVTOGRAFI LIBRI ILLVSTRATI DAL SECOLO XVI AL XIX VENDITA ALL'ASTA IN ROMA

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 95751

(Hunt, Richard William). De La Mare, A.C. & B.C. Barker-Benfield.

MANUSCRIPTS AT OXFORD: AN EXHIBITION IN MEMORY OF RICHARD WILLIAM HUNT (1908-1979), KEEPER OF WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AT THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY OXFORD, 1945-1975, ON THEMES SELECTED AND DESCRIBED BY SOME OF HIS FRIENDS.

Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1980. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. x, 155 pages. Filled with illustrations. Ownership inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. READ MORE about MANUSCRIPTS AT OXFORD: AN EXHIBITION IN MEMORY OF RICHARD WILLIAM HUNT (1908-1979), KEEPER OF...

Price: $30.00 Order nr. 31786

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Alexander, Jonathan J. G.

IL LEZIONARIO FARNESE.

Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary
Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2008. folio. red velvet binding (silver ferrules, clasp strips and coat of arms), clamshell case. 64, 183 pages. Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary. One of 550 copies. The majestic liturgical book known as the Lezionario Farnese, produced in Rome shortly after the mid-sixteenth century for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, represents a high point for the art of illumination. Given its size the work is of monumental proportions and the wealth of embellishments..... READ MORE about IL LEZIONARIO FARNESE

Price: $17,500.00 Order nr. 105362

(Illuminated Manuscripts).

ANGLO-SAXON ILLUMINATION IN OXFORD LIBRARIES.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Backhouse, Janet.

THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts).

BAMBERGER APOKALYPSE, MINIATUR DER REICHENAUER SCHULE UM DAS JAHR 1000 AUS DER BAMBERER STAATSBIBLIOTHEK (BIBL. 140).

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Bange, E. F.

EINE BAYERISCHE MALERSCHULE DES XI. UND XII. JAHRHUNDERTS.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Boase, T.S.R. (preface).

ENGLISH ROMANESQUE ILLUMINATION.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Bober, Harry.

THE MORTIMER BRANDT COLLECTION OF MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATIONS.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Boeckler, Albert.

DEUTSCHE BUCHMALEREI DER GOTIK.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Bruck, Dr. Robert.

DIE MALEREIEN IN DEN HANDSCRIFTEN DES KÖNIGREICHS SACHSEN.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts).

BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DE REPRODUCTIONS DE MANUSCRIPTS A PEINTURES.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts).

BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DE REPRODUCTIONS DE MANUSCRIPTS A PEINTURES.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts).

IL CALENDARIO DEL BREVIARIO GRIMANI.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts).

CATALOGUE D'UNE COLLECTION DE MANUSCRITS A MINIATURES DES IXe-XVe SIECLES, COLLECTION D'UN AMATEUR SUISSE.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts).

CATALOGUE OF THE SUPERB ILLUMINATIONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE JOHN, LORD NORTHWICK (THE SECOND AND FINAL PORTION).

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts).

CATALOGUE OF TWENTY WESTERN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE FIFTH TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY FROM THE LIBRARY AT DONAUESCHINGEN, THE PROPERTY OF HIS SERENE HIGHNESS THE PRINCE FURSTENBERG.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Cetto, Anna Maria.

MITTELALTERLICHE MINIATUREN.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts). D'Anjou, René.

TRAITÉ DE LA FORME ET DEVIS D'UN TOURNOI.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts).

THE DA COSTA HOURS.

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

(Illuminated Manuscripts). De Marchi, Andrea.

IL LIBRO D'ORE DURAZZO.

Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary
Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2008. 8vo. velvet binding with precious stones and gilded silver, clamshell case. 201, 336 pages. Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary. One of 980 copies. The Libro d'Ore Durazzo, which takes its name from its last owner, is a small masterpiece by the painter and illuminator, Francesco Marmitta. This remarkable work is in two ways quite different from all other devotional codices for private use. One is the use of purple parchment..... READ MORE about IL LIBRO D'ORE DURAZZO

Price: $9,000.00 Order nr. 105363

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Der Nersessian, Sirarpie.

THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY: A CATALOGUE OF THE ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPTS.

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

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