Medieval Manuscripts (16 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. From the Collection of Medieval Manuscripts in the Donaueschingen Library, Karlsruhe and St. Gallen, West Germany. Blue cloth boards lightly sunned on edges. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. Text in English . 128 pages, 68 black & white plates. Original card covers, as issued. From the collection of Jean F. Preston, Curator of Manuscripts (1977-1991) and Curator of Medieval Manuscripts (1991-1993) in the Firestone Library, Princeton University; died at home in Oxford, England, in July 2006. Her signature on the first page. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: Books on Books; Varied Booklets; ISBN: 0910956642. ISBN/EAN: 9780910956642. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

Card Covers. Condition: Fine. 98 pages, illustrated. Original card covers. Very clean and bright throughout. Size: 19.5 x 28 cms. Category: Varied Books; Books on Books; Softcover Books; ISBN: 0712349081. ISBN/EAN: 9780712349086. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

Condition: Very Good. 1993. 8 pages, illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 20 x 25 cms. Category: Durham Archaeological Journal; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 9 pages, 1 plate. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 26 cms. Category: John Rylands Library; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 6 pages, 5 illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: British Archaeological Association; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 16 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Category: Book Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 11 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Category: Book Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 10 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Category: Book Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. Offprint from Traditio, Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 1956, pages 460-555. Original card covers, as issued. From the collection of Jean F. Preston, Curator of Manuscripts (1977-1991) and Curator of Medieval Manuscripts (1991-1993) in the Firestone Library, Princeton University; died at home in Oxford, England, in July 2006. Her signature on the first page. Size: 17.5 x 25.5 cms. Category: Books on Books; Varied Booklets; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. …

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. Text in English . 96 pages, 9 black & white plates. Original card covers, as issued. Size: 16 x 23.5 cms. Category: Books on Books; Varied Booklets; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

Publisher's pictorial boards. As new. Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, 1987. 8:o. 224 pp. Richly illustrated in black & white. With Nordenfalk's bibliography, compiled by Gunhild Osterman. With index. Texts in English, French and German. Festschrift to Carl Nordenfalk for his 80th birthday. - - - Contents: "A twelfth-century Augustine on the Psalms, perhaps from the area of Soissons, containing an unpublished library catalogue" by Jonathan Alexander, "Une 'devise' du Roi René: le toupin des cordiers" by Francois Avril, "An Italian Romanesque Manuscript of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job" by Larry Ayres, "Nature Studies by Claude Lorrain" by Per Bjurström, "Claude Lorrain and Jacob van Ruisdael. Notes on the two 'representative' landscape painters and their reception in the first part of the 19th century" by Bengt Dahlbäck, "Boucher in Stockholm" by Pontus Grate, "Si tu es Christus, dic nobis palam! Eine Notiz zum Soester Retabel der Berliner Gemäldegalerie" by Reiner Haussherr, "Koimesis - dormitio - assumptio. Byzantinisches und Antikes in den Miniaturen der Liuthargruppe" by Rainer Kashnitz, "Et videbit eum omnis oculus et qui eum pupugerunt. Zur Deutung des Tympanons von Beaulieu" by Peter Klein, "Christian and Jewish mitres: a paradox" by Ruth Mellinkoff, "Die Kanontafeln des Evangeliars Cod. 56 in Köln" by Florentine Mutherich, "An East Anglian Psalter in Uppsala" by Carl Otto Nordström, "Der Salvator Mundi des Turiner Stundenbuches" by Otto Pächt, "To Make Felt the Passion and the Miracle of the Mass. Apropos an Orphrey in Vadstena" by Patrik Reuterswärd, "Tours and the medieval Art of Spain" by John Williams. - - - (Nationalmuseums skriftserie, N.S. 9.) - - - Carl Nordenfalk (1907-1992) was a Swedish art historian, academic and director of the Swedish Nationalmuseum 1958-68. He is best known for his work on Late Antique illuminations, especially those linked to the Gospel Canon Tables. In addition, he contributed to the study of modern painters, including Vincent van Gogh and Rembrandt. Among his works are "Die spätantiken Kanontafeln" (1938), "Early Medieval Painting, from the Fourth to the Eleventh Century" (1957) and "Romanesque Painting, from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century" (1958). …

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Karton-Cover. Condition: Guter Zustand. Kein Schutzumschlag. Egy Trubadúr Magyarországon / A Troubadour In Hungary - Schallplatte augenscheinlich in gutem Zustand, mehrsprachige Textbeilage, unbeschädigtes Cover; 5 Euro Versandkosten für Deutschland.

Two vols. Folio. 1st - 12.75 x 16.75 in. 63, [1] pp., text in Czech, English, French, German & Russian. Title in purple & black. Faux vellum paper boards, gilt lettering on spine; 2nd - 13.5 x 17 in. [222 pp] of colour photo facsimile reproducing the entire manuscript. Quarter-vellum over embroidered Bohemian folk pattern cloth covers, w/ original mylar protective cover (ever-so-slight fraying in a couple fore-edges), still NF/NF set, preserved in original clamshell slipcase, gilt lettering on spine (hinges starting at foot of spine). Striking facsimile edition of the sumptuous Romanesque Codex of Vysehrad, commissioned as one of four manuscripts produced by the same artists between 1080 and 1085 around the time of the coronation of Vratislav II (1061-1092), first king of Bohemia, and includes the lection for the king's coronation. They all probably originated in the scriptorium at the Monastery of St. Emmeram, and this manuscript was declared a National Cultural Monument of the Czech Republic. The extensive cycle of images carefully rendered and detailed, draw from the Regensburg School and Ottonian influences, with a Christ's genealogy on four divided pages. Within the 108 folios there are 26 pages depicting the gospels, four of the Old Testament, and 29 scenes from the life of Christ with large decorated illuminated initials. Originally the property of the Church of Vysehrad, many scholars believe it was originally prepared for St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague Castle, and Vratislav II had secured his title after negotiations with Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV, at the time in conflict with Pope Gregory VII as he continued insisting on the retaining the Slavonic liturgy, and wanted to appoint his own bishops.…

Los Angeles/ London, The J. Paul Getty Museum/ Royal Academy of Arts, 2003, XV,(1),576 pag., richly illustrated in colours, paperback, quarto. = Name on divisional title, else fine. Heavy work, extar charges for shipping outside EU may apply.