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![Das Buch vom erfüllten Leben. Le Livre du Chastel de Labour. [ 2 Bände. Faksimile und Kommentarband, complete set ]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/080/266/1357266080.0.b.jpg)
Das Buch vom erfüllten Leben. Le Livre du Chastel de Labour. [ 2 Bände. Faksimile und Kommentarband, complete set ]
by Bruyant, J. ; König, E. ; Bartz, G
Faksimile Verlag Luzern, Lucerne, first edition, 2005. Limited edition of 980 facsimile copies numbered in Arabic numerals. Facsimile bound in red velvet with four gilded silver fittings by Steinbrener of Schärding, with accompanying commentary volume in red cloth, 8vo, presented together in a plexiglass case, 22 cm,. Facsimike: 73 folios with 46 miniatures and 74 painted initials; commentary: 411, [1] pp, ills (some colour). A very fine facsimile of the only illuminated manucript of Jacques...
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$1625.00
Expositio in epistolas Pauli, illuminated manuscript on parchment, in Latin with frontispiece miniature possibly by a son of Jean Budé
by HAIMO OF AUXERRE
A BEAUTIFUL ILLUMINATED COPY OF THE COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL BY HAIMO OF AUXERRE COMMISSIONED BY Jean II Budé. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in Latin, France, Paris, c. 1460-1480 and c. 1500. Dimensions 278 x 105 mm. 193 folios, catchwords, guide words, numerous small initial in red and blue, TEN LARGE DECORATED INITIALSin blue or red and gold accented with foliage and flowers, LARGE FRONTISPIECE MINIATURE with acanthus leaf border and bas-de-page the arms of Jean Budé. BINDING: Late...
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$125000.00
Les Plus Beaux Manuscrits Français a Peintures du Moyen Age de la Bibliothèque Nationale : Arts et Métiers Graphiques. No. 60. 1 Novembre 1937
by Peignot, C. ; Lejard, A. ; Arts et Métiers Graphiques
Arts et Métiers Graphiques, original journal, November 1937. Printed wrappers, 4to,. 82, [8] pp, colour ills. The contents include: Julien Cain : Les Manuscrits a Peintures dans L'art du Moyen Age Français; Philippe Lauer : Les Manuscrits Carolingiens; Émile-A. Van Moé :Les Manuscrits sous les Capetiens; Louis Gillet : Les Manuscrits aux XIVe et XVe Siecles; Maurice Raynal : L'enluminure Romane et L'imagination Plastique Française; Émile-A. Van...
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$19.00
The Apocalypse in Latin. MS. 10 in the Collection of Dyson Perrins. With an Introduction by Montague Rhodes James
by JAMES (Montague Rhodes) Editor
Oxford: Printed by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press, 1927. First edition, folio (365 x 275mm), 67pp., followed by 41 collotype plates reproducing the entire series of 82 illustrations, coloured frontis., cont. half morocco, a little rubbed, t.e.g. Contents: Illustrated Apocalypses in General. The Pictured Apocalypses: History and Grouping. Other Cycles of Apocalypse-Pictures. Text of the Perrins MS. Description of the Perrins Apocalypse.
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£510.63
Illuminated Manuscript Miniature depicting the Mass of St. Gregory
by [ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF]
c.s.xv(ex)/s.xvi(in). Very Good. VIVID DEPICTION OF ICONIC SCENE FROM THE LIFE OF GREGORY THE GREAT. This richly-illustrated manuscript leaf from a late medieval book of hours depicts the miraculous Mass of St Gregory, during which Christ appeared to the congregation during a Mass of which Gregory the Great was the celebrant. The folio begins with the conclusion of the Collect for St. Nicholas, with the bottom of the page announcing the following section "De sancto gregorio" [On Saint Gregory]. The...
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$2900.00
A Fifteenth Century Italian Plutarch (British Museum Add. MS 22318)
by Charles Mitchell
Thomas Yoseloff, 1961. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . 18 pages of text + 10 color plates. Ex-library with typical marks, light wear, pages yellowed; a sound binding; good shape. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 178123. .
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$7.50
Books of hours and their owners
by Harthan, John P
London: Thames and Hudson, 1988 4to (31 cm), 192 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "Of all the precious illuminated manuscripts that survive from the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Books of Hours form the largest single category: the personal prayerbooks of a devout and status-conscious society. Their content come from the official service books of the Church, but they were not made under priestly control, and they therefore reveal a unique combination of sacred and...
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zł120.00
The Medici Aesop : Spencer MS 50 from the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library
by Aesop
New York : Abrams , 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 175 p. : col. facsims. ; 29 cm. Subjects: Medici, Piero de' 1416-1469. Medici Aesop. Fables, Greek Manuscripts Facsimiles. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian Italy Florence. Genre: Fables. Language: English.
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$40.25
Book of Hours
by BOOK OF HOURS
Paris, 1400. BOOK OF HOURS. Use of Paris) In French and Latin, illuminated manuscript, on parchment France, Paris, c. 1400-1410 15 large miniatures by the Master of the Bible Historiale MS fr. 159 (as described by Les Enluminures) This beautifully executed and unusual Parisian Book of Hours was painted at the time of the Duke of Berry. The "realism" seen in the illuminations represents a special moment in Parisian art, one exemplifying its northern origins. The miniatures are attributed to one of...
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$350000.00
The Nekcsei-Lipocz Bible: A Fourteenth Century Manuscript from Hungary in the Library of Congress, Ms. Pre-Accesion 1
by Meta Harrsen
The Library of Congress, 1949. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 12x17. Covers edgeworn. First few pages partially detached.
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$75.00
Clair de Lune and Other Troubadour Romances by Michael West; pictured by Evelyn Paul with music by Alfred Mereer
by [PAUL, Evelyn] WEST, Michael
Coventry: Printed by W.W. Curtis at the Cheylesmore Press for George G. Harrap, 1913. Paul, Evelyn. A splendid collection of French medieval romances in a decorated edition using ornaments and designs from the illuminated manuscript tradition. Small quarto, original gilt-decorated cloth with pictorial onlay, decorated title page, full-page colour plates and numerous smaller mounted colour plates throughout, generously decorated using Medieval ornament, previous owner's neat inscription on illustrated...
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A$150.00
Koptische Buchmalerei : Illuminationen in Manuskripten des christlich-koptischen Agypten vom 4. bis 19. Jahrhundert
by Cramer, M
Verlag Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen, first edition, 1964. Cloth, gilt cover-decoration and silver cover-titles, 4to, 27 cm,. 134, [30] pp, 18 plates, 155 other ills, (some colour). From the blurb: "Der 1963 erschienenen Veröffentlichung von Klaus Wessel über die 'Koptische Kunst' in der Spätantike Ägyptens schließt sich diese Materialsammlung zur koptischen Buchmalerei an. Die Verfasserin stellt den ornamentalen Schmuck und die Miniaturen koptischer Handschriften...
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$32.00
![Herzog René von Anjou, Livre du couer d'amours espris ("Buch vom Liebentbrannten herzen") : Miniaturen und text. [2 volume set : text and plates ]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/735/308/1419308735.0.b.jpg)
Herzog René von Anjou, Livre du couer d'amours espris ("Buch vom Liebentbrannten herzen") : Miniaturen und text. [2 volume set : text and plates ]
by Smital, O. ; Winkler, E. ; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Druck und verlag der Österreichischen staatsdruckerei, Wien, first edition, 1926. 2 vols, half vellum, gilt Arms of René I, duc d'Anjou on covers, 35 cm,. 117 pp, 23 plates + 208, [5] pp. The text and plates volumes only ; the set was originally issued also with an atlas (reproducing miniatures from Boccaccio's Teseide, ms. 2617, Nationalbibliothek, Vienna) - the atlas is not present here. Plates 1-19 included in vol. 1 are reproductions of the miniatures in the Paris mansuscripts...
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$416.00
Les Heures d'Anne de Bretagne, Bibliothèque Nationale (Manuscrit Latin 9474). Texe par Émile Mâle, Légendes par Edmond Pognon
by BOURDICHON (Jean)
Paris: Éditions Verve, 1946. Folio, coloured frontis., 30 tipped-in coloured plates, orig. decorated boards, d.w. slightly torn.
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£48.38
The golden age of English manuscript painting, 1200-1500
by Marks, Richard
London : Chatto & Windus, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Previous owner's bookplate. Physical description; 119 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. Subjects; Geschichte 1200-1500. Illumination of books and manuscripts England.
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$21.79
A Spanish Apocalypse: The Morgan Beatus Manuscript
Geroge Braziller, 1991. Hardcover. Fair/Very good. Ex-libris, with standard markings. Spine shaken. As-Is.
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$50.00
Insular and Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts. An Iconographic Catalogue c. A.D. 625 to 1100
by OHLGREN, Thomas H., compiler and editor
New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc, 1986. First edition. Fine. Folio. 48 black-and-white illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. FIRST EDITION, with indices of manuscripts, authors and titles, places of origin and provenance, dates, and iconographic contents. The contributors comprise Cart T. Berkhout, William I. Bormann, Mildred O. Budny, John C. Contreni, Helmut Gneuss, Robert M. Harris, John Higgitt, John B. Friedman, Louis Jordan, Lister Matheson, Ann...
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$175.00
Illuminated Manuscript Leaf with Miniature depicting the Flight into Egypt from a Book of Hours c. 1490
by ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
likely France: np, 1490. first edition. framed. Very Good. STUNNING DEPICTION OF THE ICONIC FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. In the story of the Flight into Egypt, King Herod has sent an army to kill the infant Jesus. In this striking depiction of the iconic scene, the Virgin, draped in a blue robe lined with gold, sits on a donkey holding the infant Jesus. Joseph stands beside his family guiding them to safety while Herod's menacing army quickly approaches from the top left of the composition, creating narrative...
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$4900.00
![[Illuminated Manuscript] The Order of the administration of the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/975/068/1118068975.0.b.jpg)
[Illuminated Manuscript] The Order of the administration of the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion
Full Calf. Very Good. N.d., mid-19th century. 4to. 24.5 by 19 cm. 172 pp. 20 full page illuminated decoration. 28 decorated capitals. Decorative letters and vignette illustrations throughout, although the decoration is concentrated near the front. While textually the manuscript is complete, the illuminator probably intended to carry forward his artistry but for whatever reason, didn't carry through fully with his objective. Still, the decoration that is contained herein is lushly beautiful...
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$3000.00
The Crown Haggadah
by Orly Reshef
n.p.: Ronny Rausnitz, 1995. In ENGLISH and HEBREW. Hardcover in presentation box; set includes one hardcover book, one bookmark, and 12 stiff paper coasters. Book, bookmark, and coasters are in Fine / As New condition. Box housing the set is in Very Good condition; box shows moderate shelf and handling wear with bumping and abrasion. Overall, a gorgeous set. Scarce. Photo is of the copy for sale.
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$125.00
Romancero
by Heredia, José-Maria de. Text Écrit , Enluminé et Historié par Malatesta (Manuscript created and illuminated by Malatesta)
Paris, 1906. Full Morocco. Slipcase with marbled paper pastedown and morocco edges. Dust jacket with morocco spine and morocco edges. . Fine/Fine. Gorgeous illuminated and calligraphic manuscript on vellum leaves, magnificently bound. Supposedly this showcase manuscript was on display at the Exposition Universelle de Bruxelles in 1910! The manuscript is written in French, and based on a Spanish tale. 4to. 29.5 by 22.5 cm. 21 vellum leaves, including blanks, featuring 13 watercolor illustrations,...
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$17500.00
Easie Rules on Earlie Rising by a late Philosopher
by Henry Jeffreys Bushby. Illustrated by Lady Frances Bushby
London: Day & Son Limited, 1866. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. Seven heavy card leaves, with bright chromos and/or text only on the recto. Five of the pages, including title, with brilliant illumination, and particularly winsom are the illustrations of a cock crowing and of a donkey. The verse is written in a mock Old English. Scarce, with only six copies listed as institutional holders on OCLC. Light foxing in the margins and on the blank versos. Light corner wear to the decorated...
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$350.00
