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Illuminated Manuscripts

BIERBRAUER, Katharina.

Die vorkarolingischen und karolingischen Handschriften der bayerischen Staatsbibliothek.

Weisbaden. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. 1990. 2 vols., 4to. pp. 164 (text); iv, 175 plates, most with several subjects, in monochrome and colour. Cloth, slipcase. Fine.

Katalog der illuminierten Handschriften der bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in Munchen. Band 1.

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CAHN, Walter.

Romanesque Manuscripts. The Twelfth Century.

London. Harvey Miller. 1996. 2 vols. 4to. pp. 256;220. 410 illustrations, 16 in colour. Cloth, dust jackets.

The first part of A Survey of Manucripts Illuminated in France under the General Editorship of Francois Avril and J.J.G. Alexander.

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CAHN, Walter.

Romanesque Manuscripts. The Twelfth Century.

London. Harvey Miller. 1996. 2 vols. 4to. pp. 256;220. 410 illustrations, 16 in colour. Cloth, dust jackets.

The first part of A Survey of Manucripts Illuminated in France under the General Editorship of Francois Avril and J.J.G. Alexander.

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FOUQUET. Malo, Henri.

Les Fouquet de Chantilly. Les Heures d'Etienne Chevalier. La Vierge et les Saints par Jean Fouquet.

Paris. Verve. 1945. 4to. Illustrated with 14 colour facsimile plates, on rectos only. Boards, minor wear to wrappers.

The Verve issue no. 12, vol. III. Reproduces the miniatures of the Virgin and the saints contained in the Hours of Etienne Chevalier, an important 15th century French manuscript.

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FOUQUET. Malo, Henri.

Les Fouquet de Chantilly. Les Heures d'Etienne Chevalier. La Vierge et les Saints par Jean Fouquet.

Paris. Verve. 1945. 4to. Illustrated with 14 colour facsimile plates, on rectos only. Boards, wrappers heavily worn, spine missing.

The Verve issue no. 12, vol. III. Reproduces the miniatures of the Virgin and the saints contained in the Hours of Etienne Chevalier, an important 15th century French manuscript.

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FOUQUET. Malo, Henri.

Les Fouquet de Chantilly. Les Heures d'Etienne Chevalier. Vie de Jésus.. Verve vol. III. No. 11

Paris. Verve. 1945. 4to. Illustrated with 14 colour facsimile plates, on rectos only. Boards, wrappers.

The Verve issue no. 12, vol. III. Reproduces the miniatures of the Virgin and the saints contained in the Hours of Etienne Chevalier, an important 15th century French manuscript.

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FOUQUET. Malo, Henri.

Les Fouquet de Chantilly. Les Heures d'Etienne Chevalier. Vie de Jésus.. Verve vol. III. No. 11

Paris. Verve. 1945. 4to. Illustrated with 14 colour facsimile plates, on rectos only. Boards, wrappers worn & torn, book has come free from binding.

The Verve issue no. 12, vol. III. Reproduces the miniatures of the Virgin and the saints contained in the Hours of Etienne Chevalier, an important 15th century French manuscript.

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HASSALL, W.O. (Introduction and Commentary).

The Holkham Bible Picture Book.

London. The Dropmore Press. 1954. Small folio. pp. vii, [3], 191, [3]. 84 page reproduction of the manuscript in monochrome and colour. Ex-libris W.A. Foyle, with small bookplate on inside front cover. T.e.g.

One of the first 100 copies, printed on Arnold and Foster hand-made vellum, and specially bound in ... (more)

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KANTER, Laurence B. et al.

Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1994. 4to. pp. x, 394. With 296 illustrations, including 120 in colour. Cloth, dust jacket. New.

Exhibition catalogue.

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PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY.

A Check List of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library.

New York. Privately Printed. 1919. 4to. pp. 20. Illustrated with frontispiece and four plates, all printed in sepia. Original coarse-weave cloth-backed paper-covered boards, rubbed..

From the edition limited to 150 copies. This copy with a presentation label to inner pastedown: 'With Mr. Morgan's Compliments'.

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