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1976ST17769q<p>Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt 1976. 165 x 95 mm. 6 1/2 x 3 3/4". 255 leaves in the facsimile volume. Two volumes including commentary volume in German.<br />Publisher's full dark green velvet housed in original brown folding cloth box. With numerous decorative initials and line fillers in colors and gold and with 76 attractive miniatures in gold gothic frames. In mint condition.<br /><br />This is a very pleasing facsimile of the prayer book given to Charles V the future king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor by his aunt and godmother Margaret of Austria in approximately 1516. The text is in a careful Burgundian bâtarde done by a scribe of considerable skill and the degree of artistry in the miniatures which are in the Flemish style is high the figures being rendered realistically and sympathetically. Several miniatures are especially noteworthy in their subject and/or composition. Two examples: the resurrected Christ appears to his mother in a scene that beautifully echoes the composition of the Annunciation and in the Flight into Egypt the Holy Family pauses to rest on their journey the Virgin in the foreground nursing her child and looking radiant while Joseph replenishes a water jug and the donkey grazes nearby. Margaret of Austria was the owner of an impressive library which included a number of fine illuminated manuscripts and she would have commissioned the finest artists to execute her nephew's coming-of-age gift.</p> Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt
195949192Faber 1959-62. 8 vols. roy. 8vo. First Edition with very numerous fine coloured reproductions throughout; cloth upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt a near fine set in dustwrapper one wrapper with small loss at upper edge of front panel. The set comprises: The Great Lambeth Bible ed. Dodwell 1959; The Parisian Miniaturist Honore ed. Millar 1959; The Rohan Book of Hours ed. Porcher 1959; The Benedictional of St. Ethelwold ed. Wormald 1959; The Vienna Genesis ed. Wellesz 1960; A Fifteenth Century Italian Plutarch ed. Mitchell 1961; The Douce Apocalypse ed. Hassall 1961; The York Psalter ed. Boase 1962. Two further volumes - The Book of Durrow ed. Bruce-Mitford and The Book of Kells ed. Henry were projected but never published in this series. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Faber, hardcover
