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0259229067.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
18871338London: Privately Printed for Ellis and Scrutton 1887. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good . One of fifty copies printed at the Chiswick Press. 14 2 pp. String-sewn wrappers titled printed on front cover. Scattered foxing. The Psalter was once in the collection of Horace Walpole it is now held by the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. Privately Printed for Ellis and Scrutton unknown
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
2007ST17769gGütersloh/Munich: Coron Exclusiv Facsimile Publishing 2007. No. 66 OF 980 COPIES. 197 x 140 mm. 7 3/4 x 5 1/2". 235 leaves. Without the commentary volume in German. <br/> Publisher's replica calf covers richly decorated in gold in a Renaissance strapwork and foliate style raised bands spine panels gilt with central trefoil all edges gilt. Housed in the original very attractive brown leather jewel case with a gilt and enamel crest on upper lid. LAVISHLY ILLUMINATED with more than 1200 one- or two-line initials in colors and gold; with dozens of leaves featuring panel borders of swirling blue and gold acanthus leaves and multi-colored flowers and berries; with calendar leaves highlighted by full floral borders the rectos with a small arch-topped miniature of the labor of the month the versos with the zodiacal sign; and with 17 FULL-PAGE MINIATURES ACCOMPANIED BY FULL BORDERS of foliage and flowers inhabited by insects snails dogs unicorns and grotesques. ◆In mint condition.<br/> <br/> This is a beautifully produced facsimile of one of the crown jewels in the collection of the Russian State Library a 15th century Parisian Book of Hours with especially striking miniatures in the style of Van Eyck. Among these are featured the four Evangelists Mark unusually painting an icon of the Virgin the Virgin and Child with two angels the Annunciation Visitation Nativity Annunciation to the Shepherds Presentation Coronation of the Virgin King David the Garden of Gethsemane Christ before Pilate Pentecost Christ and the Apostles appearing to the patron of this manuscript and a bloody beheading of St. Barbara. The action and detail in these scenes are remarkable. In the Annunciation to the Shepherds for example we see not the usual half dozen sheep with a couple of dazed keepers but a huge flock of white and black sheep guarded by five men and one woman gazing in shock at the Heavenly Host appearing in a gold and orange sunburst above. One of the herders seems so rattled by the experience that he is swigging from a skin of wine. The patron who commissioned this manuscript is shown in his miniature clad in armor kneeling at a prie-dieu his helmet topped with a unicorn's head by his side. He was likely a member of the Burgundian court whose support for the illuminators of Paris resulted in many of the most beautiful 15th century Books of Hours. Coron Exclusiv Facsimile Publishing unknown
ST12210Lucerne: Faksimile Verlag 1993. No. 195 OF 980 COPIES. 206 x 168 mm. 8 1/8 x 6 5/8". Four volumes each with separate volume of commentary in English and German. With commentary by Mark L. Evans. <br/> Publisher's red velvet flat spine two silver gilt clasps each volume housed in a matching velvet box with the commentary volume in paper wrapper gilt coat of arms on upper cover of each box. With 138 borders and 48 miniatures by Birago and two borders and 16 miniatures by Horenbout. ◆In mint condition.<br/> <br/> This is a very fine facsimile of a Renaissance Book of Hours with an intriguing history and decoration by two different and distinguished illuminators one Italian and the other Flemish. The Sforza Hours was originally commissioned from Italian miniaturist Giovan Pietro Birago fl. 1471-1513 by Bona Sforza wife of the Duke of Milan around 1490. A surviving letter from Birago to an unknown nobleman complains that part of the manuscript was stolen by an unscrupulous "Fra Jacopo" and demands restitution in the enormous amount of 500 ducats. No one knows if Birago was ever reimbursed for his loss but the duchess bequeathed the partial manuscript to her nephew's wife Margaret of Austria. In 1506 Margaret daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor moved to the Netherlands where she served as Regent for the future Charles V until his coronation in 1520. In 1517 she set about completing the Sforza Hours hiring scribe Etienne de Lale to provide the missing text pages and illuminator Gerard Horenbout ca. 1465-1541 to paint miniatures and two borders. Horenbout had produced the miniatures in the Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal and those in the Hours of James IV of Scotland. He also briefly worked as painter in the court of Henry VIII. Horenbout included a small portrait of Charles V in one of the borders here leading art historians to believe that Margaret gave the book to the emperor to commemorate his coronation. The manuscript resurfaced in Madrid in 1871; it was purchased by an Englishman and was donated to the British Library by a later owner. As noted in the library's online exhibit of the work "The manuscript is outstanding for its rich decorative scheme and an unusually high number of its text pages have minutely detailed borders initials and vignettes in deep blues greens and rich reds to complement the many full-page miniatures.". Faksimile Verlag unknown
ST12207Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini 2008. No. 201 OF 980 COPIES. 216 x 152 mm. 8 1/2 x 6". 136 leaves in the facsimile. Three volumes including two volumes of commentary one in German and one in Italian. <br/> SUMPTUOUS RED MOROCCO central panel of each cover with thin open-work black leather in an ornate vine pattern laid over blue and gold silk creating a stained glass effect the leatherwork incorporating floral circles painted in red and gold three large medallions arranged down the center of the panel those at head and tail of red morocco painted in a black gold and blue pattern and with a large round semi-precious stone at the middle the central medallion comprising a miniature on silk that on the upper cover of the Archangel Gabriel that on the lower cover of the Virgin Mary; raised bands spine diapered in blind with a single gilt dot at the center of each lozenge; floral silver cornerpieces and two clasps red morocco doublures framed in silver doublure panels with intricate decoration in gilt and black large central medallion of open-work black leather over blue silk with a molded leather profile of Julius Caesar at center ivory watered silk endleaves all edges gilt and gauffered. In a padded silk-lined cream-colored suede box with an enamel medallion on the upper cover. BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED THROUGHOUT: with many ornamental initials elaborate floral extensions and partial borders a tondo miniature at the foot of each calendar page seven historiated initials with full borders and five full-page miniatures each by a different Italian master. ◆In mint condition.<br/> <br/> This sophisticated Book of Hours was produced in 1503 at the behest of Bonaparte Ghislieri a member of an important Bolognese family. In commissioning it Ghislieri wanted to bring together several of the most famous artists of the period each of whom was called upon to create a full-page miniature. The intention was to offer a sort of miniature anthology of the best that the Bologna school of illumination could produce at the time. Consequently we see a succession of works by: Amico Aspertini Adoration of the Shepherds Lorenzo Costa King David and his Lyre Il Francia Francesco Raibolini Saint Jerome Matteo da Milano Annunciation and Perugino St. Sebastian. This last is the only miniature ever painted by Raphael's teacher. Bologna was also the home of the scribe Pierantonio Sallando who taught grammar at the University of Bologna and was to become a famous professor of writing. The codex passed from the Ghislieris to the Albani family of Urbino where it is documented in the 18th century; the following century it reached England where it was purchased by Henry Yates Thompson in 1897. Since 1941 it has been kept in the British Library. Franco Cosimo Panini unknown
