The Medieval Book. Glosses from Friends & Colleagues of Christopher de Hamel. by JAMES H. MARROW/LINENTHAL, RICHARD A./WILLIAM NOEL [EDS.]

t Goy-Houten, HES & De Graaf Publishers. 2011. Original publisher's gray cloth hardback, gilt title on dark-red label spine, small 4to: 468pp., 38 contributions with 184 plates & illustrations [27 bl.& wh.] - chapternotes & references, list contributors, bibliography works Christopher de Hamel, index names, index manuscripts, credits illustrations. CONTENTS: 1. Michael Gullick: A Christ Church Scribe of the Late Eleventh Century. 2. A.I. Doyle: The Portrait of Laurence of Durham as Scribea. 3. Richard A. Linenthal: Medieval English Bookbinding Stamps: Four New Examples. 4. Timothy Bolton: An Illustrated Twelfth-Century Manuscript of Hyginuss De Astronomia. 5. Paul Binski: Angels, Lost and Found, in the University Library, Cambridge. 6. Lucy Freeman Sandler: A Scientific Textbook for a Noble Student: Sacroboscos Treatises in the New York Public Library. 7. Richard & Mary Rouse: Early Manuscripts of Jean de Meuns Translation of Vegetius. 8. John Lowden: The Holkham Bible Picture Book and the Bible Moralisée. 9. Michelle Brown: The Sherborne Missal and Roddoke Robertus: The Anatomy of a Major Manuscript Commission. 10. Margaret Manion: Uncommon Images in the Common of the Saints of Italian Choir Books. 11. Jonathan J. G. Alexander: The City Gates of Perugia and Umbrian Manuscript Illumination of the Fifteenth Century. 12. Bernard Rosenthal: Mind Your Table Manners. 13. Jeffrey F. Hamburger: Magdalena Kremer, Scribe and Painter of the Choir and Chapter Books of the Dominican Convent of St Johannes-Baptista. 14. James H. Marrow: A Dutch (?) Miniaturist Active at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century. 15. Thomas Kren: Bathsheba Imagery in French Books of Hours Made for Women, c.1470-1500. 16. Roger S. Wieck: The Prayer Book of Claude de France. 17. Margaret Bent: Indexes in Late Medieval Polyphonic Music Manuscripts: A Brief Tour. 18. Paul Needham: The Discovery and Invention of the Gutenberg Bible, 1455-1805. 19. Marvin L. Colker: An Early Witness to the Texts of Horace and Tibullus, or an Audacious Forgery ? 20. Anthony Hobson: Some Deceptive Bookbindings. 21. Lotte Hellinga: Four Book Auctions of the Fifteenth Century. 22. David McKitterick: A New Beginning: The Sotheby Bankruptcy of 1836. 23. John Collins: William Edward Hurcomb, Goldsmith, Gasconader, Auctioneer, and Bankrupt. 24. Diana Berry & Margaret Edwards [et al.]: Colleagues at Sotheby's. 25. Sam Fogg: The Provenance of the Bute Psalter. 26. Patrick Zutshi: Frederick, Archbishop of Riga (1304 - 1341), and His Books. 27. Nigel Morgan: Ligging in the choer, every of hem tied by hymself with a cheyne of iron: Chained Books in Churches in Late Medieval England. 28. William P. Stoneman: Henry Yates Thompson, Gentleman: An unusual collector with commercial motives just a shade larger than was common. 29. Roland Folter: Catalogues of the Library of Sir Thomas Phillipps: A Chronological Checklist. 30. François Avril: The Bibliophile and the Scholar: Count Paul Durrieus List of Manuscripts Belonging to Baron Edmond de Rothschild. 31. Stella Panayotova: Cockerell and Riches. 32. A.S.G. Edwards: Medieval Manuscripts Owned by J. Meade Falknera. 33. Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Lynn Ransom: Princely Pursuits: Hunting Manuscripts. 34. Martin Schøyen: The Saga of Christianitys Oldest Liturgical Manuscript. 35. Robert Weaver: Floreat Vellomania: or, A Slice of History: Reflections on Collecting Medieval Manuscript Fragments. 36. Toshiyuki Takamiya: A Handlist of Western Medieval Manuscripts in the Takamiya Collection. 37. William Noel: Some Transatlantic Trails of W. de Brailes. 38. Henri Schiller: The Descriptions Master. Little sunned.