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Manuscripts & illuminationThis page was last updated February 8th, 2024
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Auction catalogues
[Auction catalogue].
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Monday 9 July 2001. (pb) £10.00
[Auction catalogue].
The Ernest Brummer Collection, vol. 1: Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque Art. (hb) £20.00
[Auction catalogue].
Catalogue of The Celebrated Library of the late Major J. R. Abbey. The 11th & Final Portion: 44 mss. c 1100 to 1762. [Monday, 19th June 1989] (hb) £15.00
[Auction catalogue].
Western Manuscripts and Miniatures: Sotheby’s, 20th June 1989. (pb) £10.00
Reference
Lucy-Anne Hunt
The Mingana and Related Collections: A Survey of Illustrated Arabic, Greek, Eastern Christian, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham. (pb) £8.00
Lucia N. Valentine
Ornament in Medieval Manuscripts: A Glossary. (hb) £6.00
Secondary sources
[Journal].
Fifteenth-Century Flemish manuscripts in Cambridge Collections: Transactions of Cambridge Bibliographical Society, vol. X, Part 2 (1992). (pb) £4.50
[No author].
English Illumination of the 13th & 14th Centuries. (pb) £5.00
[No Author].
English Romanesque Illumination. (pb) £5.00
[Exhibition guide].
The John Rylands Library Manchester: Catalogue of a Selection of Mediéval Manuscripts and Jewelled Book Covers, 1939. (pb) £12.00
[Exhibition guide].
Les Manuscrits a Peintures en France du VIIe au XIIe siècle, seconde édition, revue et corrigée. (pb) £15.00
[No author].
Scenes from the Life of Christ in English Manuscripts. (pb) £8.00
[No author].
Twice Thirty Manuscripts for the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Morgan Library [3 May-31 July 1984]. (pb) £4.50
J. J. G. Alexander
(pref.): Anglo-Saxon Illumination in Oxford Libraries. (pb) £3.00
The Decorated Letter. (pb) £6.00
Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings. (pb) £3.50
Jeffrey C. Anderson
The New York Cruciform Lectionary. (hb) £12.00
Janet Backhouse
(w/ Christopher de Hamel): The Becket Leaves. (pb) £8.00
The Illuminated Manuscript. (hb) £5.00
The Lindisfarne Gospels. (hb, large format) £5.00
Gabriel Bise
The Illuminated Naples Bible (Old Testament): 14th-Century Manuscript; intro. & notes by Eva Irblich. (hb) £10.00
T. S. R. Boase
The York Psalter in the Library of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. (hb) £8.00
Michelle P. Brown
The Lindisfarne Gospels. (pb) £3.00
Robert G. Calkins
Programs of Medieval Illumination. (hb) £20.00
Matthew Fox
Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen. (pb) £4.50
D. M. Gill
Illuminated Manuscripts. (hb) £2.50
Rev. Canon F. Harrison
Treasures of Illumination: English Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century (c.1250 to 1400). (hb) £10.00
A. G. and W. O. Hassall
The Douce Apocalypse. (hb) £8.50
Thomas Kren, Elizabeth C. Teviotdale, Adam S. Cohen, Kurtis Barstow
Meisterwerkeim J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminierte Handschriften. (hb) £6.00
Also available with text in Italian (ISBN 0500170142) or Japanese (ISBN 0500170150), both in paperback edition at £6.00 inc. UK P&P
Richard Marks and Nigel Morgan
The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting 1200-1500. (hb) £10.00
Millard Meiss
The Master of the Breviary of Jean Sans Peur and the Limbourgs. (pb) £10.00
Sabrina Mitchell
Medieval Manuscript Painting. (pb) £6.00
Bezalel Narkiss
The Golden Haggadah. (pb) £6.00
Vrej Nersessian
The Bible in the Armenian Tradition. (hb) £10.00
Otto Pächt
The Master of Mary of Burgundy. (hb) £15.00
Pamela Porter
Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts. (pb) £4.00
Conrad Rudolph
Violence and Daily Life: Reading, Art and Polemics in the Cîteaux Moralia in Job. (hb) £15.00
James Johnson Sweeney
Irish Illuminated Manuscripts of the Early Christian Period. (pb) £2.50
Dr. T. Tolley
A Book of Hours. (hb) £5.00
D. H. Turner
Early Gothic Illuminated Manuscripts in England. (pb) £3.50
Rose Walker
Views of Transition: Liturgy and Illumination in Medieval Spain. (hb) £10.00
Kurt Weitzmann
Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination. (pb) £6.00
Emmy Wellesz
The Vienna Genesis. (hb) £8.50
Francis Wormald
The Benedictional of St. Ethelwold. (hb) £8.00
C. E. Wright
English Heraldic Manuscripts in the British Museum. (pb) £4.50
Yekaterina Zolotova, comp.
Fifteenth-Century French Illuminated Manuscripts in Moscow Collections: Books of Hours. (hb) £10.00
Books & journals containing related material
[Journal].
History Today, vol. 41 (June 1991): Henry VIII 1491-1991. (magazine) £2.50
[Exhibition catalogue].
Late Gothic Art from Cologne: A loan exhibition, 5th April to 1st June 1977. (pb) £8.00
[No Author].
Prayers of Henry VII: Book of Days. (hb) £3.50
Michael Avi-Yonah
Ancient Scrolls. (hb) £8.00
Janet Backhouse, D. H. Turner, Leslie Webster, eds.
The Golden Age of Anglo Saxon Art, 966-1066. (pb) £10.00
Rebecca Barnhouse and Benjamin C. Withers, eds
The Old English Hexateuch: Aspects and Approaches. (pb) £15.00
Trenchard Cox
Jehan Foucquet, Native of Tours. (hb) £6.00
Jenny De Gex, ed.
A Medieval Herbal. (hb) £5.00
Linda Tarte Holley
Chaucer’s Measuring Eye. (hb) £6.00
Sotiris Kadas
Mount Athos: An illustrated guide to the monasteries and their history. (pb) £12.00
Florentine Mütherich and Joachim E. Gaehde
Carolingian Painting. (pb) £6.00
Sophie Page
Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts. (pb) £4.00
Teresa Pérez-Higuera
The Art of Time: Medieval Calendars and the Zodiac. (hb) £8.00
Christine Sciacca
Building the Medieval World. (hb) £7.00
Michael J. Shire
The Jewish Prophet: Visionary Words from Moses & Miriam to Szold & Heschel. (hb) £4.50
Roy Strong [exhibition catalogue]:
Artists of the Tudor Court: The Portrait Miniature Rediscovered, 1520-1620; with contributions from V. J. Murrell. (pb) £12.00
David Talbot Rice
Byzantine Art, revised edn. (pb) £3.00
George Zarnecki, Janet Holt, Tristram Holland, eds.
English Romanesque Art 1066-1200: Hayward Gallery, London 5 April-8 July 1984. (pb) £6.00
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