Italian Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library : Descriptive Survey of the Principal Illuminated Manuscripts of the Sixth to Sixteenth Centuries, with a Selection of Important Letters and Documents.

Published by Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, first edition, 1953, 1953

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Printed wrappers, large 4to, cover illustration, xii, 79 pp + 73 plates. This paper-bound version of the catalogue omits colour plates 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 included in the cloth-bound version. From the introduction: "The section hereafter devoted to illuminated manuscripts executed before 1600 describes all the notable illuminated and textual Italian manuscripts at present contained in the collections of The Pierpont Morgan Library. Some sixty other Italian manuscripts in the Library, principally texts from the second half of the fifteenth century and later, have been omitted as lacking sufficient distinction or significance. Re productions are provided for 59 of the 103 manuscripts described. The Library contains a considerable number of Italian autograph letters and documents written before 1600 by poets, artists, explorers, statesmen, princes and prelates, of which a minor but representative fraction, chosen for intrinsic interest, is included in this survey." Minor marks to fore-edge of text block, a few light pencil notes, Good.…

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Title
Italian Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library : Descriptive Survey of the Principal Illuminated Manuscripts of the Sixth to Sixteenth Centuries, with a Selection of Important Letters and Documents.
Author
Harrsen, M.P. ; Boyce, G.K. ; Pierpont Morgan Library.
Publisher
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, first edition, 1953
Publication year
1953
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Soft cover
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1st Edition
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