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New York: Schuman's, 1943.
Dark blue cloth boards with gold lettering, [xvi] 207pp, no illustrations Short-title catalog of books bequeathed to the Yale University Library by Dr. Harvey Cushing. "This catalog includesall the printed books, manuscripts, and bound memorabilia which the executors of Dr. Cushing's estate turned over to the University at the time of his death." Alphabetical order; includes a list of abbreviations, terms, and Cushing family memorabilia. more information
Price: 120.00 USD
New York: Sotheby's, 2008.
Khaki cloth with set-in illustration and gilt lettering; 392 pp. with 247 catalogue items pictured. Includes maps, autographs, letters, books, manuscripts, etc.; several kinds of printed matter. more information
Price: 30.00 USD
1999.
Black ill. wraps. 278 pp. 106 color plates Present the first public exhibition and scholarly appraisal of teh Wormsley Library. Gives only a small taste of the whole collection, including illuminated manuscripts, examples of tehe first 500 years of fine printing, Victorian design, modern calligraphic manuscripts, and splendid examples of European bookbinding. more information
Price: 100.00 USD
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1992.
Glossy black card wraps with red spine; color-illustrated covers with red and white lettering; 253 pp. with several color plates and 104 numbered bw works and several bw figures. Catalogue divided into French, English, Netherlandish, Spanish, German, and Italian manuscripts, with indeces of artists and scribes, iconography, types of manuscripts, provenance, and manuscripts cited; most works are well-described, and there is a thorough essay about the genesis of the collection; with beautiful color plates; from the exhibition held December 1992 - April 1993. more information
Price: 50.00 USD
London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2010.
Black boards with gold lettering, embossing, DJ of dark blue with color images, 227 pp, 109 bw illustrations. From the publisher: Jews among Christians explores a corpus of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts of the Lake Constance region produced in the first decades of the fourteenth century. The author Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, provides a detailed and insightful study of the content, design, and iconography of the illustrations and decorations of a group of Ashkenahzi codices, thereby uncovering a surprising interface between Jews and Christians in the urban workshops of the time. Here, Christian artists would include midrashic... more information
Price: 125.00 USD
Washington DC: Smithsonian Instituation, 1963.
Brick red cloth. No DJ. 145 pp. 108 plates, 4 of them color. Study of the collection's Armenian illuminated manuscripts, mostly medieval Christian manuscripts from the Byzantine tradition. more information
Price: 32.00 USD
Paris: Societe Francaise de Reproductions de Manuscrits a Peintures, 1929.
Portfolio folder with white paper boards and ribbon tie. Not bound. 228 pp of text in folded (uncut) sections, followed by 88 BW plates and 1 tipped in color plate on single sheets (about 3 bw plates are larger on folded sheets). All on quality watermarked paper. Text in French. This book covers illuminated manuscripts of the second half of the fifteenth century painted in grisaille (monochrome or near monochrome) and focusing on the miracles of Our Lady. The intro discusses these manuscripts within the evolution of the cult of the Virgin and in the theological and liturgical history of... more information
Price: 265.00 USD
Washington DC: Smithsonian Instituation, 1963.
Brick red cloth. No DJ. 145 pp. 108 plates, 4 of them color. Study of the collection's Armenian illuminated manuscripts, mostly medieval Christian manuscripts from the Byzantine tradition. more information
Price: 30.00 USD
Chartres, France: Librairie Souget, 2000.
Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine and cover, full color dj, 354 pp. Profuse color plates. Title in English: Seven Centuries of Bibliophilic Patrimony, 1250-1920: Prices-Marked Sale Catalogue of Valuable Books and Manuscripts Available at the Sourget Library, in Chronological Order, Winter 2000. Series title: Librairie Sourget, Livres Precieux, Catalogue XXII (Librairie Sourget, Valuable Books, Catalog 22). As with other volumes from this establishment, this one is sumptuously illustrated. Pricelist is laid-in.. Almost entirely a collection of antiquarian or rare books and fine bindings. Text is in French. Spine reads: Patrick et Elisabeth Sourget. more information
Price: 50.00 USD
New York: Dover Publications, 1981.
Brownish illustrated laminated wraps. xii, 259 pp. with 129 illustrated manuscripts Published in association with the Pirpont Morgan Library. more information
Price: 25.00 USD
Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1983.
Illustrated color glossy wraps. 104 pp. A most interesting collection of books and manuscripts covering different areas of interest. more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Cambridge: Houghton Library, 1992.
Illustrated green wraps. ix, 200 pp. Illustrated in bw Preface by Robert Wendorf followed by 35 essays on various Harvard manuscripts. more information
Price: 10.00 USD
Bruxelles: Centre d'études des manuscrits, (Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique -F. Lyna , C. Gaspar), 1946 onward.
Variously bound in red, blue library buckram and publishers wraps. An incomplete but substantial run of this periodical. Includes Vols. 1 through 16, and 21 through 54, ending in 1999. A substantial run of a scarce reference work on early manuscripts. Scholarly periodical which treats the whole scope of Western manuscripts. Contributions can be found in French, Dutch and English. This run provides 50 out of 54 years. Not bad. more information
Price: 2000.00 USD
London: The British Library, 2007.
Black cloth with gold lettering and end papers; terracotta title pages and section dividers with black lettering; beautifully illustrated dj, front and back; 160 pp. with extensive colour plates A beautiful study of illuminated manuscripts of medieval times. more information
Price: 35.00 USD
Leipzig: W. Drugulin (Printers), 1920.
Beige paper wraps, stapled, with black lettering; 35 pp. Introduction in English; main text in Hebrew. Price has collated the entire tract of the Mo'ed Katon with the second Venice edition of 1538 and with the Munich manuscripts. In his introduction, he makes note of the peculiarities of script, margins, and line numberings. The manuscripts were presented, along with a larger collection of Arabic papers, to Columbia University Library in 1890. more information
Price: 140.00 USD
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Reformed Church Seminary, 1888.
Tan paper wraps, string bound, with black lettering; 27 pp. Reprinted from the Christian Intelligencer of July 4, 11, and 18th, 1888 (presumably a series article) by the Reformed Church Seminary as their Publication No. 1, also in 1888. Divided into sections on Rare books, scrolls, incunabula, and manuscripts; theologial and religious books; and philosophy, history, the arts, etc. Also with an appendix at the back of the library's needs. more information
Price: 30.00 USD
Wroclaw: Zaklad Imienia Ossolinskich, 1956.
In Polish, Russian and French. White cloth boards with embossed gilt design on upper cover, white DJ with bw illustration, 229 [51] pp, 48 bw plates, laid-in color and gilt frontispiece with tissue protector. From Wikipedia: The Ossolineum or Zakad Narodowy im. Ossoliskich (ZNiO, National Ossoliski Institute) was a meritorious department for Polish science and culture (until 1939 it combined a Library, Publishing House and the Lubomirski Museum), founded for the Polish Nation by Józef Maksymilian Ossoliski and opened in 1827 in Lviv. It became one of the most important research centers on history and Polish literature with one of... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
Totowa, New Jersey: Allanheld & Schram, 1983.
Purple (of course) cloth, blue/purple/gold dj, 138 pp., 26 bw plates Provides a historical background using scribes' own words to illustrate the tribulations involved in reproducing manuscripts in the Middle Ages. Then it explores the unusual use of book curses as they appeared in ancient clay tablets and papyrus scrolls, and ultimately in Medieval manuscripts. For example: "This book belongs to none but me/ For there's my name inside to see./ To steal this book, if you should try,/ it's by the throat that you'll hang high./ And ravens then will gather 'bout/ To find your eyes and pull them... more information
Price: 37.00 USD
2001.
Red wraps. xiv, 242 pp. 80 full-page color plates, numerous smaller bw & color illus Eight informative essays accompany the beautiful illustrations. Topics include bibles, psalters, Book of Hours, liturgical manuscripts, as well as literary and secular texts. Also contains essays on "Collecting Illuminated Manuscripts in Philadelphia and "From Calf to Codex" more information
Price: 20.00 USD
London: John Eskenazi, Ltd. in Association with Sam Fogg, 2001.
Orange-red cloth in custom cloth box with cloth lid. Spine title is White Beryl. 432 pp. with profuse and vivid high quality color reproductions This edition is superior to the reprint. A stunning project whereby this fascinating discovery has been translated and explained after over two years of exhaustive research. Foreword by the Dalai Lama. Breathtaking in it's beauty and complexity. This groundbreaking book presents for the first time two magnificent eighteenth century manuscripts which illuminate in exquisite detail the practices of elemental divination as described in The White Beryl, a renowned seventeenth-century treatise. more information
Price: 1000.00 USD
