Manuscripts from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1982 4to (25.5 cm), XII, 75 pp. Laminate boards.

Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1982 4to (25.5 cm), VII, 109 pp. Laminate boards.

Harvard University Press, 2009 8vo (22 cm), 418 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "We think of the Hebrew Bible as the Book -- and yet it was produced by a largely non literate culture in which writing, editing, copying, interpretation, and public reading were the work of a professional elite. The scribes of ancient Israel are indeed the… Read more about this item

Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1956 8vo (22.5 cm),616 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed at extremities, collector's stamp at title). In Russian. A manual of Russian paleography. Contents include the origins of Slavic writing, Russian manuscripts 11th - beginning of 19th century, description and transcription of manuscripts, methods of detecting forgeries. 20 tables and 172 illustrations.

Kyjiv: Naukova dumka, 1983 8vo (20 cm), 224 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers little rubbed, paper frayed at spine, collector's stamp on title). In Russian. Ukrainian lay manuscript books in the 18th century: collections of chronicles. A study of production of such collections, their readers and their importance as historical sources. The author identified 20 unknown manuscripts which are published here… Read more about this item

Moscow: Nauka, 1967 8vo (22 cm), front., 224 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards. In Russian. A classical manual of Russian paleography first published in limited edition in 1918-20. Contents include Slavic alphabets, materials tools used, Slavic scripts, miniatures, Russian and South-slavic manuscripts, ciphers, dating of manuscripts and methods of description of Slavic manuscripts.

Uitgeverij Van Wijnen, 2001 Oblong 12mo (13.5 x 18.8cm), 158 pp. Hardcover.

Manuscript in Cyrillic chancery hand, 21 x 17 cm, 157 ff. Untrimmed in cont. wrappers (wrappers stained and soiled, frayed at extremities). Leaves numbered in pencil in modern hand. A register of incomes and expenses of the Joseph Volokolamsk Monastery near Moscow for the year 1674.

Kraków: Wydzial Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego w Krakowie, 2010 8vo (24 cm), 318 pp. Publisher's laminated boards. Description of 80 French manuscripts from the Berlin collection, now in the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow.

London: The British Library, 1998 8vo (23.5 cm), [6], 304 pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket. English Manuscript Studies is an annual periodical reflecting the growing level of scholarly interest in manuscript sources for literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Contents of vol. 7: "Professional Scribes in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century England", by Michael Gullick; "Where were… Read more about this item

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001 8vo (23.5 cm), XIII, 555, [3] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Inscribed on the front free-leave by the author."Alan D. Crown provides a guide to the techniques used by the Samaritan scribes in copying manuscripts. He places Samaritan works in a description of their literary history and shows the more important manuscripts of each type… Read more about this item

Vienna: Carol Gerold, 1836 4to, (32 x 24.5 cm),LXXX, [2], 86 pp, 2 lithographic plates. Cont. leather backed boards, marbled paper, spine gilt (leather rubbed, small parts missing top and bottom, joints cracked at the top, corners bumped, browning of 2 leaves at the end, inscription on the front flyleaf, stamps of the Bibliothek der Gesellschaft für Pomeranische Geschichte in… Read more about this item

Ukraine: National Art Gallery of Lviv, 2016 4to (26.5 cm), 100 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. In Ukrainian and English. The catalog of an exhibition in National Art Gallery of Lviv. Described and illustrated 13 Jewish marriage contracts, 1694-1858, from the collection of Marek Reichenstein (1876-1932). Prefaced by essays on the history of the collection by S. R. Kravtsov and the… Read more about this item

Cracoviae: Sumpt. Universitatis Jagellonicae Crac., 1953 8vo (25 cm), 480 pp, 6 plates. Cont. cloth. A catalog of documents written on parchment in the collection of Jagiellonian Library in Krakow.

Warszawa: Biblioteka Narodowa, 1988 8vo (24 cm), 492; 24 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little frayed at extremities). A guide to manuscript collections in libraries and museums in Poland. In Polish with introduction in English.

Moskva: Nauka, 1984 4to (26.5 cm), 404, [4] pp, [8] leaves of plate. Publisher's boards (paper browned, waterstains at the bottom center throughout). In Russian. A catalogue of Slavonic manuscripts in USSR libraries, XI - XIII centuries. Description of 494 earliest manuscripts written in Church Slavonic followed by 11 indexes.

London: The British Library, 2002 8vo (23.5 cm), viii, 248 pp. Publishet's cloth and dust jucket. Since its inception in 1989, EMS has established itself as the foremost venue for the study of manuscript sources for British literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Aiming as much as ever to explore the possibilities of manuscript study in… Read more about this item