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Illuminated Manuscripts Books & Ephemera
Iskusstvo knigi: Konstantinopol' XI vek
by Lihaceva, Vera Dimitrevna
Moscow: Nauka, 1976 8vo (22 cm), 184 pp, 4 leaves of plates. Publisher's boards. In Russian. A study of the art of the book in Constantinople in 11th century.
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$68.46
La bibliothèque des Visconti et des Sforza, ducs de Milan. Supplément avec 175 planches. Publié sous les auspices de la Société internationale de Bibliophilie par les soins de Tammaro de Marinis
by Pellegrin, Elisabeth
Florence: L. S. Olschki, 1969 4to (34.5 cm), XIV, 90 pp, 172 pp (including one folding page). Publisher's cloth with a black gilt-lettered label, and slip-case (spine slightly sunned). This edition includes an iconographic supplement by Tammaro de Marinis, which serves as an addition to Pellegrin's "La bibliothèque des Visconti et des Sforza, ducs de Milan, au XVe siècle," originally published in Paris in 1955 without illustrations.
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$146.70
Gebett Buch
by Stark, Joseph
Wellrichstait (?), Germany , 1768. Full Calf. Card stock slipcase. . Very Good. As fine a folk art Gebetbuch manuscript as one is bound to find, with its artist's identity given and precisely dated to the mid-eigtheenth century. 12mo. 16 by 10 cm. Three title pages, two frontises, 213 pages paginated. 21 pages which are fully painted, or essentially so, with many other pages with substantial illustration, including ornate decorative motives, painted cameos, etc. The style is peasant Rococo,...
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$5,750.00
Miniature decoration in the Vatican Virgil: A study in late antique iconography
by Stevenson, Thomas B
Verlag E. Wasmuth, 1983 8vo (24.5 cm), 135 pp, 22 leaves of plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The Vatican Virgil may be said to hold pride of place among all the great treasures of the Vatican Library on two counts. For, despite its ruinous state - it comprises one fifth its original leaves - it is the earliest surviving copy of Virgil, as well as a unique relic of classical literary book illustration. It is just those two factors, the late date of the manuscript, vis a vis the pictorial...
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$34.23
Bibliotheca Phillippica New Series Part III: Catalogue of Forty-Two Manuscripts of the 7th to the 17th century
Sotheby & Co, 1967 4to (28.5 cm), color frontispiece, 110 pp, 32 plates on 16 leaves. Publisher's boards. Price least loosely inserted. Auction catalogue of a sale of notable early manuscripts from Continental monastic house, later in Thomas Phillipps' library. The most interesting and expensive are Scientific compendium (second quarter of 11th century, lot 86) and La Divina Comedia, Venice, 1363.
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$29.34
Stredoveka knizna mal'ba na Slovensku
by Guntherova, Alzbeta; Misianik, Jan
Bratislava: Slovenske Vydavatel'stvo Krasnej Literatury, 1961 4to (29.5 cm), 204 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Medieval manuscript illumination in Slovakia. In Slovak with summary in Russian, English, and German.
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$19.56
Meisterwerke der Buchmalerei aus Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatbibliothek Herausgegeben
by Gerog Leidinger
Hugo Schmidt, 1920. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. #145/1000cc. Oversized folio. In German. Covers worn and soiled. Spine covers starting. Most of the tissue sheets still present.
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$600.00
Illuminierte Handschriften der Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz und Handschriften vom Tanasee (Codices aethiopici, Band 1)
by Hammerschmidt, Ernst
Akademische Druck- u.Verlagsanstalt, 1977 4to (27.5 cm), 60 pp, 155 pp of plates in color. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly frayed at extremities).
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$36.68
Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta
by HENDRIX, Lee; Thea VIGNAU-WILBERG
London: Thames and Hudson, 1992. Hardcover. A fine copy, the folding case with a few scuffs and light wear. 12 x 9.75 inches. Cloth; dust jacket; recessed cloth folding case.
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$200.00
The Medici Aesop, Spencer MS 50; From the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library
by Aesop; Bernard McTigue, trans.; Everett Fahy, intro
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition, 1989. Quarto, cloth hardcover with gilt titles and decorations in dust jacket, 175 pp., illustrated in color, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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$17.00
Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450
by [METROPOLITAN MUSEUM ON ART] KANTER, Laurence B.; Barbara Drake BOEHM; Carl Brandon STREHLKE; Gaudenz FREULER; Chrisa C. MAYER THURMAN; Pia PALLADINO
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N Abrams, 1994. First edition. Fine, as new in original shrink wrap/fine. Folio. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, published to accompany the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in 1994-95. This catalogue studies five generations of manuscript painters in Florence, from the contemporaries of Giotto at the beginning of the fourteenth century...
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$100.00
The Cloisters Apocalypse. An early fourteenth-century manuscript in facsimile
by [METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART] Florens DEUCHLER; Jeffrey M. HOFFELD; Helmut NICKEL
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. First edition. Fine. 2 volumes, folio. Vol I: color facsimile. Vol II: text. Original tan linen, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine; original printed board slipcase. FIRST EDITION, printing in facsimile and providing an in-depth scholarly examination of one of then only four illuminated manuscripts in the Met's collection. The manuscript was sold to the museum by H.P Kraus in 1968 and remains one of its most celebrated treasures.
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$75.00
A Medieval Mirror: Speculum humanae salvationis, 1324-1500
by Wilson, Adrian; Wilson, Joyce Lancaster
University of California Press, 1984 4to (35 cm), 230 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: 'The Speculum humanae salvationis', or 'Mirror of Human Salvation,' occupies a unique place in the history of the book. It is the only medieval work that exists in manuscripts, in bookblock editions of the mid 15-th century, and in sixteen later incunabula. The popularity of the medieval typological system, in which events of the Gospels are prefigured in the Old Testament,...
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$68.46
Legenda aurea
by VORAGINE, Jacobus de
Italy (Venice?), 1300. Italy (Venice?): 1300. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Small quarto (8 x 5 9/16 inches; 203 x 142 mm.). 281 leaves, plus one blank leaf at front and two blank leaves at end (fols. 279 and 281 apparently conjoint with two blank vellum leaves, fol. 280 on a stub between the foliated leaves). Apparently complete. Two columns of thirty-four lines. Written by two Italian scribes in black ink in gothic bookhands between four verticals and thirty-five horizontals ruled in faint brown,...
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$125,000.00
![Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 27 - March 13 [1949], organized by the Walters Art Gallery in cooperation with the Baltimore Museum of Art](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/234/504/1547504234.0.b.jpg)
Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 27 - March 13 [1949], organized by the Walters Art Gallery in cooperation with the Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore: The Walters Art Gallery, 1949 4to (28 cm), frontispiece printed in color, XIV, 85 pp, LXXX pp of plates. Publisher's cloth backed boards. 233 manuscripts were exhibited in one of the first major medieval manuscript exhibitions in America, undertaken primarily with a view to widen the public experience in the field.
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$36.68
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
by De Hamel, C
Phaidon, Oxford, 1995 reprint of 1994 second edition. Cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. 272 pp, colour ills. From the blurb: "Medieval manuscripts are counted among the greatest glories of Western civilization. With their gold and painted decoration and their charming miniatures, they have always had immense appeal, and images from them can be seen everywhere - from greeting cards and wrapping paper to expensive facsimiles. This entertaining and authoritative book is the first to provide a general introduction...
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$36.00
The Wharncliffe Hours: A Fifteenth Century Illuminated Prayerbook in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria Australia
Thames & Hudson, 1981 12mo (19 cm), 96 pp. Publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, gilt-lettered front board and spine, cloth slip-case (minor shelf-wear). An introduction and commentaries by Margaret Manion. 12 facsimile pages reproduced in color and gold.
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$61.12
A Selection of Manuscripts and Miniatures
by Günther, Jörn
Hamburg: Dr. Jörn Günther Antiquariat, 2003 4to (33.5 cm), [54] pp. Laminated wrappers (collector's stamp top of title). 54 entries.
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$12.22
The Grimani Breviary: Reproduced from the illuminated manuscript belonging to the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice
Thames & Hudson, 1972 4to (28.5 cm), 276 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine and gilt front cover. In cloth slip-case. A facsimile of 110 miniatures from the Grimani Breviary, a masterpiece of Flemish Renaissance manuscript illumination. Purchased around 1520 by the Venetian Cardinal Domenico Grimani (1461-1523), it consists of 1670 pages, of which around 120 are full-page miniatures of both sacred and secular subjects. Introduction by Mario Salmi and commentaries for each miniature by...
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$85.58
Deutsche Buchmalerei der Gotik
by Boeckler, Albert
Königstein im Taunus: Langewiesche, 1959 4to (26.5 cm), 80 pp. Printed wrappers and dust jacket. An illustrated essay on German gothic book illumination by German art historian Albert Boeckler (1892-1957), from 1946-1956 the head of the manuscript department of the Bavarian State Library in Munich.
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$9.78
The Bedford Hours (The British Library)
by Backhouse, Janet
The British Library, 1990 4to (27.5 cm), 64 pp, 51 plates. Laminated wrappers (wrappers slightly toned, inscription on the half-title). From the blurb: "The Bedford Hours is one of Britain's major treasures. An outstanding example of late medieval manuscript art, it was written and illuminated in the early 15th century for John, Duke of Bedford, younger brother of King Henry V, and his wife, Anne of Burgundy. The principal artist of the leading Parisian workshop in which it was produced takes...
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$11.00
THE DECORATED LETTER
by Alexander, J. J. G
George Braziller. Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0807608947 . E--Wear and rubbing to covers. Binding sound. Text clean of highlighting, underlining or other pen/pencil marks. A Little Store that's BIG on Service. Tracking on every package. .
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$12.95
