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The Holkham Bible: A Facsimile
by Michelle P. Brown
This celebrated medieval picture-book tells the Biblical story, with the help of illustrations of everyday 14th-century England. It is only loosely based on the Bible and includes plenty of apocryphal episodes, for example Christ 'surfing' on sunbeams as a child. The costumes, tools, weapons and buildings in the pictures give us a near documentary-style representation of many occupations in the age of Chaucer, such as dyer, smith, carpenter and ...
Hardback. Price US$125.00
Deutsche und österreichische Exlibris 1500-1599 im Department of Prints and Drawings im Britischen Museum
by Ilse O'Dell
This catalogue, written in German, describes for the first time the outstanding collection of sixteenth-century German and Austrian bookplates in the British Museum, with over 500 catalogue entries and illustrations. Artists such as Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach are represented. The different types of bookplate, including copies, reproductions using later printing techniques and new works in the style of earlier artists, are discussed in ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$175.00, Our Price US$39.98
Book of Beasts: A Facsimile of MS. Bodley 764
with an introduction by Christopher de Hamel
In the Middle Ages, people believed that studying animals allowed them to read the Divine Order as written in the natural world. In image and word, medieval bestiaries illustrated beasts in stunning detail and explained their scientific nature as well as their allegorical significance.
This bestiary, dating from the mid-13th century and preserved at the Bodleian Library in Oxford since the early 17th century, is one of the finest and ...
Hardback. Price US$250.00
The Illustrated Beatus Volume I
by John Williams
Around the year 776 the monk Beatus of the monastery of Santo Toribio in Asturias compiled a Commentary on the Apocalypse, the Book of Revelation, which has survived in 32 manuscripts and fragments spanning the 9th to the 13th century. Representing the greatest single tradition of medieval Apocalyptic imagagery, this 5 volume series of books provides a thorough historical context for their origin and evolution, and is the first to offer the ...
Hardback. Price US$155.00
Joshua Roll
by Steven H. Wander
The "Joshua Roll" (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. gr. 431), a tenth-century illuminated scroll of the first half of the Old Testament book of Joshua, is among the finest examples of Byzantine book illumination. Previously overlooked, the texts accompanying the pictures along with other primary sources explain the miniatures. A critical edition of the Greek with English translation shows how elegantly and accurately the artist ...
Hardback. Price US$168.00
Rechtsidee und Bild: Zur Funktion und Ikonografie der Bilder in Rechtsbüchern vom 9. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert
by Hanna Sofia Hayduk
English summary: Illustrated legal manuscripts are a field of art-historical research that has seen little attention. This study for the first time examines illustrated manuscripts of German-Germanic law from between the 9th and 16th Centuries. The starting point is the Balthasar Behem Code, a magnificent manuscript documenting the laws of Krakow. This code, which is decorated with a series of paintings depicting everyday urban life, was ...
Hardback. Price US$115.00
Die illuminierten Handschriften italienischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek: Teil 1: Vom 10. bis zur Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts
by Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt
English summary: The illuminated manuscripts from Italy which are held in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München date from the pre-Carolingian period up to the 16th century. The oldest codices have already been described in the catalogue of illuminated pre-Carolingian and Carolingian manuscripts (Katharina Bierbrauer, Katalog der illuminierten Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München, Band 1. Wiesbaden 1990). ...
Hardback. Price US$420.00
Studies in Manuscript Illumination, 1200-1400
by Lucy Freeman Sandler
The author is Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History emerita at New York University, Institute of Fine Arts , and a leading authority on English medieval manuscript illumination.
This volume brings together twenty-eight of Professor Sandler's studies, focusing on illustrated manuscripts produced in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly on the illuminated psalters. They are arranged under four headings, ...
Hardback. Price US$300.00
The History of Alexander the Great
by Scot McKendrick
A lavishly produced monograph about a late 15th Century illuminated manuscript. The text is a translation into French, by Vasco da Lucena, of one of the primary sources for the life of Alexander. The illustrations portray the events of the story in contemporary costumes and settings. Now in the John Paul Getty collection, this publication discusses the history of the text and the manuscript itself, with full colour reproduction of each ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$150.00, Our Price US$49.98
Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Gennadius Library
edited by Maria Politi and Eleni Pappa
Greek manuscript production has a long and fascinating history, covering almost every area of intellectual, religious, literary, and administrative endeavor in the Greek-speaking world of the medieval and early modern eras. Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Gennadius Library features 12 essays on the tremendously rich and exquisite Greek manuscript collection of the Gennadius Library. Each of the authors is a leading manuscript scholar, and each ...
Hardback. Price US$75.00
Hardback. Price US$75.00
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