243 - 500 MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS - FACSIMILE EDITIONS AND STUDIES
- Three vols. w. bookplate on upper pastedown. Dustwr. (sl.) soiled.
= Complete set: The late fourteenth century and the patronage of the Duke (2 vols.); The Boucicaut Master; The Limbourgs and their contemporaries (2 vols.). Arntzen/ Rainwater M182-184: "(...) monumental survey of French painting (primarily manuscript illumination) of the late 14th and early 15th centuries (...). Indispensable for reference and research. (...) Full documentation with meticulous scholarship".
- Loose(ning); endpapers and some plates sl. foxed.
Engelen, C. Le mythe du Moyen Age/ Miroir du Moyen Age. Transl. B. Boëlens van Waesberghe. Louvain, n.publ., 1990, 2 vols., 524; 358p., num. (col.) ills., orig. unif. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr., together in board slipcase, large 4to. Garnier, F. Le Langage de l'image au Moyen Âge. Signification et Symbolique/ Grammaire des gestes. Paris, Léopard d'Or, 1982/ 1988, 2 vols., 263; 39 lvs. w. 179 ills. and explanatory text; 423p., num. (col.) ills., orig. unif. wr. - AND 2 others similar.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; library stamps and sm. annots. on verso frontisp. and title-p.; lower hinge weak.
Gray Birch, W. de and Jenner, H. Early drawings and illuminations. An introduction to the study of illustrated manuscripts; with a dictionary of subjects in the British Museum. London, S. Bagster and sons, n.d. (1879), LXIII,(1),310,(2)p., 12 plates, orig. gilt green cl.
- Library stamp and annot. on title-p.; title-p. trifle foxed; hinges sl. weak. Spine-ends sl. bumped.
Lewis, S. The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora. Cambridge, Scolar Press, 1987, XVI,(2),553,(1)p., col. frontisp., 4 lvs. w. 15 (full-p.) col. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., folio.
- Dedication on first free endpaper.
AND 1 other similar.
- Bookblock broken; endpapers sl. foxed. Wrapper sunned.
Idem. La miniature Anglaise du XIVe et du XVe siècle. Ibid., idem, 1928, X,113,(3)p., col. frontisp., 100 plates, orig. wr.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Wrapper sunned.
AND 2 in w. German text on English manuscript illumination.
- Corners sl. rubbed. = Zotter 127. Rare.
AND 1 other: A. BOECKLER, Das goldene Evangelienbuch Heinrichs III (Berlin, 1933, num. plates (incl. 3 col. plates), orig. giltlettered cl., folio. Spine-ends and corners (sl.) worn).
= Facs. reprint of Cod. Ros. 3 (1), fol. 5r-15v, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VII.
- Sm. tear in dustwr. and backstrip sl. sunned.
AND 5 others, i.a. J. REIDEMEISTER, Superbia und Narziß Personifikation und Allegorie in Miniaturen mittelalterlicher Handschriften (Turnhout, 2006, full-p. (col.) ills., orig. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr., 4to) and S. ECHARD and S. PARTRIDGE (ed.), The book unbound. Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts (Toronto etc., 2004, (full-p.) (col.) ills., orig. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr.).
- Lacks dustwr.
= Reprint of the ed. London, 1951-1960. Comprises: I. The Catalogues of Manuscripts and Printed Books: their composition and distribution. II. The Family Affairs of Sir Thomas Phillipps. III. The Formation of the Library up to the year 1840. IV. The Formation of the Library from 1841-1872, with an account of the Art Collections by A.E. Popham. V. The Dispersal of the Library.
= Codices e Vaticanis Selecti (...) Volumen LXI. Facs. reprint of the richly illuminated 13th century Italian manuscript of the New Testament. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE VI.
= Cambridge Studies in Paleography and Codicology 7.
Orofino, G. I Codici Decorati dell'archivio di Montecassino. I and II,1. Rome, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca della Stato, 1994/ 1996, 2 vols., 404; (4),340p., 246 col. plates, orig. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr., folio.
= Universita' degli studi di Cassino, I. I secoli VIII-X and II, 1. I codici preteobaldiani et teobaldiani.
AND 1 other in 2 vols. w. Italian text.
= Codices e Vaticanis selecti (...) vol. LXVII. Facsimile of the late 15th century book of hours by painter and illuminator Jean Bourdichon (Codex latinus 3781 in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana).
= Facsimile of "Codex picturatus Oldenburgensis CIM I 410 der Landesbibliothek Oldeburg''. Fine set.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. = Studies of the Warburg Institute vol. 25.
Winterer, C. Das Fuldaer Sakramentar in Göttingen. Benediktinische Observanz und römische Liturgie. Petersberg, M. Imhof, 2009, 576p., 57 col. plates, 425 (full-p.) (col.) ills., orig. boards, large 4to.
= Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte 70.
Harrsen, M. The Nekcsei-Lipócz Bible. A Fourteenth Century Manuscript from Hungary in the Library of Congress, Ms. Pre-Accession 1. Washington, Library of Congress, 1949, IX,(3),99p., col. frontisp., 20 plates w. ills., textills., printed in 1500 copies orig. gilt hcalf, folio.
- Binding sl. worn along extremities.
AND 3 others, i.a. R. BUDDE and R. KIRSCHEL, Das Stundenbuch der Sophia van Bylant (Cologne, 2001, num. (full-p.) (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. mounted plate, 4to).
- One vol. sm. dam. spot on frontcover; 2 spines sl. sunned. Despite minor defects, a fine set.
= Comprises the following: Französische Schule I and II (4 vols.); Flämische Schule I and II (4 vols.); Holländische Schule (2 vols.) and Mitteleuropäische Schulen I (ca. 1250-1350), IV (ca. 1380-1400) and V (ca. 1410-1450) (6 vols.).
- Fore-edge sl. foxed. = Facsimilia Musica Neerlandica vol. I.
AND 1 other: A. PIGAFETTA, Magellan's voyage. A narrative account of the first circumnavigation. Ed. R.A. Skelton (New Haven/ London, 1969, 2 vols., map, ills., 99 col. facs. lvs., orig. unif. cl., 4to. Bindings stained).