‎Manuscripts‎

‎G. Ouy, C. Reno, I. Villela - Petit‎

‎Album Christine de Pizan.‎

‎Hardback, IV 800 pages ., 450 b/w ill. 32 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm, Languages: French. ISBN 9782503543154. De tous les ecrivains du Moyen Age, Christine de Pizan est celui dont le plus grand nombre de manuscrits originaux sont conserves, certains autographes, les autres realises sous sa direction. Ces cinquante-deux manuscrits forment donc un ensemble inestimable et representent un objet d?etude d?une exceptionnelle richesse d?enseignements, tant pour les historiens du livre et les codicologues que pour les historiens de l?art ou de la litterature. Fruit de trente ans de travaux menes par Gilbert Ouy et Christine Reno, auxquels s?est jointe l?historienne de l?art Ines Villela-Petit, l?Album Christine de Pizan a beneficie du precieux concours d?Olivier Delsaux, James Laidlaw et Tania Van Hemelryck, ainsi que des conseils avises de Marie-Therese Gousset, pour offrir une etude complete du corpus des manuscrits de l?auteur. Les peintres enlumineurs et les ornemanistes a son service, pourvus de nom de convention lorsqu?ils n?en avaient pas encore, sont aussi etudies, beaucoup pour la premiere fois.‎

‎Stones, A‎

‎Gothic Manuscripts: 1260-1320. Part One , two volumes. A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France.‎

‎hardback, cloth. with dusjackets, 2 volumes., 1130 pages ., 838 b/w ill. 77 colour ill., 230 x 330 mm, Languages: English, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France. ISBN 9781872501956. This book traces the cultural context of book illustration, its production, owners, and makers in the various regions of France in the last third of the thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth centuries. The period c. 1260-1320 marks the emergence and the flowering of what has come to be known as the ?courtly style? in French painting, whose dynamic vitality is manifest throughout the region we now call France. By the end of this period French art had assimilated a rich variety of regional works and styles. New texts had been introduced to a range of patrons, and patterns to be played out in the following centuries were in place. This book traces the cultural context of book illustration, its production, owners, and makers in the various regions of France in the last third of the thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth centuries. While the royal, courtly, academic and ecclesiastical patrons were critical to the cultural and artistic production of the capital, books made in provincial centres manifest an independence and originality that can be attributed to fruitful interaction with neighbouring cultures?the linguistic, literary, and artistic traditions of England in the north and west, Navarre, Aragon, the county of Barcelona and the Kingdom of Majorca in the Pyrenean regions, and the Empire along the eastern borders, from the principalities of North Italy and the Alpine regions to Burgundy, Hainaut and Flanders. Ecclesiastical boundaries cut across political divisions, contributing different sets of allegiances that impacted upon book culture in other ways. The Provinces of Reims and Tarantaise included fiefs of Empire, while Narbonne (to 1317) encompassed dioceses in Aragon, and the Provinces of Bordeaux and Tours lay in part in lands held by the English. The religious orders and the universities offered other sets of governing structures and vehicles of influence and reception. Royal and courtly patrons took their place in this period alongside churchmen and women and layfolk from the burgeoning bourgeois class, many of whom are known from ownership notes or inventories. Yet some of the finest books of the period were made for people whose identity remains obscure. Similarly the names of craftsmen?scribes, decorators, illuminators?are often known from their signatures in the books they made or from payments and other records, yet many distinguished works are the products of anonymous creators. These years witnessed an explosition in the range of texts that were deemed worthy of illustraton, extending far beyond the usual liturgical and devotional material to include works of science, medicine, law, philosophy, history and literature in verse and prose, offering a wealth of material for comparative study which is only beginning to be exploited in modern scholarship. This book is organized according to production in regional centres based on stylistic analysis and by comparative tables of the illustration of liturgical and devotional books, and a selection of romances, legal and historical works. Part 1 comprises the Introduction, the Lists of the Producers (scribes, illuminators and decorators) and Patrons whose names are known, followed by a Catalogue of Manuscripts made in the North (Paris and the Province of Sens, Normandy, the Province of Reims). Part 2 contains the Catalogue of Manuscripts made in the East, South-East, South-West, West and Centre, followed by the Comparative Tables and Index of Manuscripts Cited. Alison Stones is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a membre correspondant etranger of the Societe nationale des antiquaires de France.‎

‎Borchert, W. Blockmans, N. Gabriels, J. Oosterman, A. Van Oosterwijk (eds.)‎

‎Staging the Court of Burgundy.‎

‎Hardback with dusjacket, IV 396 p., 200 b/w ill. 50 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH 69) Languages: English . ISBN 9781905375820. This volume presents a study of the Burgundian court during the 15th century, and provides a forum for new research in various fields. In the course of the fifteenth century, the reputation of the Burgundian court rose to an unprecedented level, catapulted forward by ever growing territorial ambitions and accumulation of wealth. This reached a climax during the reign of Charles the Bold (1433-1477), the living embodiment of the pomp and pageantry of the Burgundian court and a generous patron of the fine arts. Rather than focusing on a single domain, this volume aims to shed light on Burgundian court culture as an organic whole, between the start of the reign of Philip the Good (1419) and the death of Mary of Burgundy (1482). It is intended to provide a forum for new research from the fields of History, History of Art, Literature and Musicology. With contributions (among others) from Wim Blockmans, Herman Brinkman, Barbara Haggh, Andrea Berlin, James Bloom, Till-Holger Borchert, Andrew Brown, Hendrik Callewier, Anna Campbell, Mario Damen, Sonja Duennebeil, Jonas Goossenaerts, Bieke Hillewaert, Andrew Hamilton, Eva Helfenstein, Jesse Hurlbut, Sophie Jolivet, Sascha Kohl, Sherry Lindquist, Jana Lucas, Samuel Mareel, Elizabeth J. Moodey, Klaus Oschema, Kathryn Rudy, Emily Snow, Olga Vassilieva-Codognet, Hanno Wijsman.‎

‎Meiss, Millard - Beatson, Elizabeth‎

‎Belles Heures des Jean Duc de Berry in The Cloisters New York.‎

‎Hardbound with dusjacket and slipcase, Orig.-Leinenband mit Schutzumschlag im Schuber, Gr.-8?°, 264 pp. in fine condition. Einfuhrung und Bilderlauterungen von Millard Meiss und Elizabeth H. Beatson zu den Wiedergaben nach der Handschrift des Metropolitan Museum of Art New York‎

‎G. H. Brown, L. E. Voigts (eds.)‎

‎Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England. Festschrift in Honor of Richard W. Pfaff‎

‎Hardback, IX+438 p., 23 b/w ill., 175 x 255 mm. ISBN 9780866984324. The Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England: Festschrift in Honor of Richard Pfaff, edited by George Hardin Brown and Linda Ehrsam Voigts, consists of sixteen important studies, all dealing with manuscripts produced in medieval England. The first group reflects the meticulous analysis of liturgical manuscripts that characterize the honorand's career. These treat both early and late medieval liturgical concerns and include liturgy for Gilbertine lay brothers, a lost treatise by Amalarius, the re-working of an Anglo-Saxon Gospel book; the music for the Vigil of St. Thomas Becket; and the continuity of Processions from Old Sarum to Salisbury Cathedral. Two studies examine the liturgies having to do with saints in Sarum missals and breviaries. The second, historical, section of this volume includes three studies on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Six other analyses concern the high and later Middle Ages: an illuminated crusade manuscript; codicological evidence for revising the traditional dates associated with Gilbertus Anglicus's life and writing; evidence for Bishop William Reed's collection and donation of books to Oxford colleges in the later fourteenth century; anomalous writings in a sermon codex; the records of the private incomes of monks at Westminster Abbey; and a catalogue and analysis of medieval manuscripts containing moral philosophy. New.‎

‎R. L. Schoff‎

‎Reformations, Three Medieval Authors in Manuscript and Movable Type‎

‎Hardcover. XVI 231 p., 4 b/w ill., 1 b/w tables, 160 x 240 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503523163. This volume discusses the key shift from manuscript to print culture in the history of books, taking The Canterbury Tales, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Piers Plowman as models of the way in which a medieval text's unique tradition influenced its transition from manuscript to print. The forces of the Reformation era did not produce the same effect across the varied textual legacy of the Middle Ages. Every text that made the transition from manuscript to print brought with it a set of concerns, a tendency to address a particular readership in particular ways, a physical presence developed in manuscript culture, all of which might shape the pathways by which a text might arrive in print, and what it might look like when it got there. This study follows The Canterbury Tales, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Piers Plowman from their circulation in manuscript to their presentation in print, in order to track how each of them survived the metamorphosis of the relationship between writers and readers as the new technology was introduced. Taken together, the three case studies demonstrate to scholars of any medieval literature the variety of possible impacts made when texts composed in manuscript culture were prepared for printing. The great force exerted by the technological and cultural developments of the English Reformation, not least the more centralized legislative regulation of the press, has long been central to the study of the history of books. This volume takes into account the ways in which individual textual traditions pushed back or accelerated the forces of early modern reform, producing their own plural reformations.‎

‎F. T. Coulson, A. Grotans‎

‎Classica et Beneventana, Essays Presented to Virginia Brown on the Occasion of her 65th Birthday‎

‎Hardcover. XXIV 444 p., 20 b/w ill., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: English, French, Italian, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503524344. The Festschrift volume Classica et Beneventana, presented to Virginia Brown on the occasion of her 65th birthday, brings together twenty-one insightful new essays by leading scholars devoted to the fields of classical reception and Latin palaeography. The authors investigate a wide-range of topics such as the development and application of the Beneventan script, comparative codicology, uses of early liturgical manuscripts, medieval artes and biblical texts and their readers, and the reception and dissemination of classical texts during the Italian Renaissance. Since 1970, Virginia Brown has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. She is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities in classical reception and Latin palaeography. Her numerous publications on the Beneventan script have dramatically altered our knowledge of the dissemination of this southern Italian book hand from 800 to 1600. Her editorial work for the Catalogus translationum et commentariorum, as a member of the Editorial Board and since 1985 as Editor-in-Chief, has resulted in several learned volumes tracing the fortuna and study of classical authors from antiquity to the year 1600. As editor of Mediaeval Studies from 1974 to 1988, she single-handedly produced tomes noted for their scholarly rigor and acumen. This collection of essays serves as a fitting tribute to a scholar who, via her scholarly research and editorial work, has done so much to advance the fields of palaeography, codicology, and the history of classical scholarship.‎

‎P. Lendinara, L. Lazzari, M. A. D'Aronco‎

‎Form and content of instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the light of contemporary manuscript evidence Papers presented at the International Conference, Udine, 6-8 April 2006‎

‎Hardcover. XIII 546 p., 2 b/w ill. 4 colour ill., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503525910. The essays collected in this volume focus on a prominent aspect of Anglo-Saxon culture: educational texts and the Insular manuscripts which have preserved them. The English imported manuscripts and texts from the Continent, whilst a series of foreign masters, from Theodore of Tarsus to Abbo of Fleury, brought with them knowledge of works which were being studied in Continental schools. Although monastic education played a leading role for the entire Anglo-Saxon period, it was in the second half of the tenth and early eleventh centuries that it reached its zenith, with its renewed importance and the presence of energetic masters such as AEthelwold and AElfric. The indebtedness to Continental programs of study is evident at each step, beginning with the Disticha Catonis. Nevertheless, a number of texts initially designed for a Latin-speaking milieu appear to have been abandoned (for instance in the field of grammar) in favour of new teaching tools. Besides texts which were part of the standard curriculum, Anglo-Saxon manuscripts provide abundant evidence of other learning and teaching instruments, in particular those for a specialized class of laymen, the Old English laece, the healer or physician. Medicine occupies a relevant place in the book production of late Anglo-Saxon England and, in this field too, knowledge from very far afield was preserved and reshaped. All these essays, many by leading scholars in the various fields, explore these issues by analysing the actual manuscripts, their layout and contents. They show how miscellaneous collections of treatises in medieval codices had an internal logic, and highlight how crucial manuscripts are to the study of medieval culture.‎

‎M. Marchiaro‎

‎biblioteca di Pietro Crinito, Manoscritti e libri a stampa della raccolta libraria di un umanista fiorentino‎

‎Hardcover. 343 p., 100 b/w ill., 38 b/w tables 12 colour tables, 165 x 240 mm, Languages: Italian, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503549491. Il presente studio si colloca all?interno di un complesso di ricerche che negli ultimi quaranta anni hanno affrontato la cultura grafica e la complessiva eredita culturale diumanisti della cerchia laurenziana, quali Angelo Poliziano, Marsilio Ficino, Bartolomeo Fonzio (libri appartenenti alla loro biblioteca, talora autografi oppure realizzati da copisti di fiducia, ma anche materiali di lavoro della piu varia natura, quali appunti, schedature, commenti inediti, traditi da fascicoli autografi, talora oggetto di plurime, successive sistemazioni in forma di volume). Il lavoro ha per oggetto la ricostruzione della biblioteca di Pietro Crinito (1474-1507), lo studio della sua cultura grafica e un catalogo dettagliato di tutti i libri che gli appartennero. In assenza di inventari e disposizioni testamentarie, la raccolta libraria del Crinito e stata ricostruita attraverso un sistematico spoglio della bibliografia di riferimento, ma anche attraverso controlli diretti dei singoli fondi delle principali biblioteche in cui sono giunti materiali dell?umanista fiorentino. La ricerca ha portato al reperimento di 34 volumi di proprieta del Crinito per un totale di 64 unita codicologiche. Particolare attenzione e stata dedicata ai manoscritti autografi del Crinito che, pur distribuiti in un arco di anni ridotto dal 1486 al 1500, permettono di delineare un quadro dell?evoluzione delle sue abitudini grafiche dagli anni della formazione scolastica all?eta matura. La ricerca individua l?evoluzione della scrittura e riconosce, a partire dal 1495, una svolta nelle scelte grafiche del Crinito che solo da questo momento, solo dopo lo studio degli autografi di Poliziano, adotta un modello di corsiva all?antica decisamente caratterizzato da forme di lettera e di legature di tradizione antiquaria.‎

‎J. Hamesse‎

‎Repertorium initiorum manuscriptorum latinorum medii aevi, Vol. II: D-O‎

‎Hardcover. 802 p., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: French, Latin, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503530451. L?originalite du nouveau repertoire d?incipit de manuscrits medievaux latins reside dans le caractere inedit de la majorite de la documentation rassemblee. Repondant a un souhait exprime depuis longtemps par plusieurs chercheurs, nous avons essaye d?enregistrer des informations figurant dans des fichiers peu ou pas accessibles a la majorite des medievistes. Constitues au fil du temps par des erudits ou par des equipes de chercheurs, ce materiel est susceptible de rendre d?enormes services a tous ceux qui souhaitent retrouver les manuscrits ayant conserve une oeuvre donnee ou bien encore identifier l?auteur d?un ouvrage considere jusqu?a present comme anonyme. Pour le moyen age, l?incipit d?un manuscrit ou d?une oeuvre, c?est-a-dire les premiers mots d?un texte, est le seul moyen tout a fait sur d?identification. Beaucoup de textes medievaux sont anonymes ou faussement attribues. Seul l?incipit peut alors servir a reperer les differents manuscrits qui conservent encore actuellement une oeuvre donnee. Des recherches peuvent etre faites sur differentes zones afin d?obtenir l?ensemble de la documentation concernant un incipit. L?ensemble du materiel sera publie en quatre volumes. Le dernier comprendra des index d?auteurs, de bibliotheques et de titres pour faciliter la consultation des donnees. Nous esperons donc que ce nouveau repertoire accessible dans les cabinets de manuscrits constituera une aide precieuse lors des recherches menees sur un manuscrit.‎

‎J. Hamesse‎

‎Repertorium initiorum manuscriptorum latinorum medii aevi, Vol. IV - Supplementum. Indices‎

‎Hardcover. 597 p., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: French, Latin, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503536033. Ce quatrieme volume constitue non seulement le complement indispensable des trois premiers, mais aussi un instrument de travail irremplacable pour tous ceux qui sont a la recherche des manuscrits conserves d?un texte ou qui souhaitent identifier l?auteur d?une ?uvre restee anonyme. Il contient plus de 2000 addenda envoyes notamment par des chercheurs soucieux d?aider les autres en completant le materiel deja rassemble dans le Repertorium. Nous tenons a les remercier vivement de l?aide precieuse qu?ils ont fournie ainsi benevolement a tous les utilisateurs. D?autre part, en confectionnant les divers index, des uniformisations se sont encore averees necessaires que ce soit dans la maniere de citer un manuscrit, dans le nom des bibliotheques, dans le titre d?une ?uvre ou l?identification d?un auteur. A la fin d?un travail de cette ampleur, seuls les index permettent de voir une serie d?erreurs ou de variantes qui ne sautent pas toujours aux yeux en elaborant la documentation sur la base des fiches individuelles contenant les divers incipit et classees alphabetiquement. Enfin, a l?aide des index, il sera possible de faire des recherches croisees en ne partant plus seulement de l?incipit, mais aussi de l?auteur ou de la bibliotheque qui a conserve une ?uvre donnee. L?effort d?uniformisation qui a ete fait pour les realiser apparait immediatement et constitue un apport irremplacable a la documentation deja rassemblee dans les trois volumes precedents. Pour etre certain d?avoir reuni tous les renseignements necessaires, le chercheur doit se livrer a plusieurs interrogations successives qui sont indispensables. Ces interrogations complementaires eviteront de laisser echapper une information pertinente et de passer a cote d?un manuscrit important. Ce volume fournira donc l?essentiel a propos d?une ?uvre donnee et completera ainsi de maniere adequate une premiere recherche menee exclusivement sur l?incipit dans les trois volumes precedents.‎

‎Z. Izydorczyk‎

‎Manuscripts of the 'Evangelium Nicodemi', A Census.‎

‎Hardcover. 292 p., 165 x 245 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9780888443700. The so-called Evangelium Nicodmi (EN), a fifth-century apocryphal passion narrative, showed remarkable vitality throughout the Middle Ages and by the close of the period established itself as one of the most influential religious texts, its authority approaching - though not often attaining - that of the canonical gospels. The importance of the EN for the religious culture of the Middle Ages has long been recognized, yet its scope and vicissitudes, its gradual evolution and transmission, have occasioned but a few tentative explorations. The reason for this paucity of detailed studies and for the continued absence of a comprehensive edition of the EN lies in the circumstances that make them all the more desirable - the apocryphon's enormous popularity in the Middle Ages and, as a natural corollary, the daunting abundance of extant manuscripts. Manuscripts of the Evangelium Nicodemi offers the first comprehensive listing of all known Latin manuscripts of the apocryphon. Descriptions of individual manuscripts provide information about the coodices (writing material, number of folios, size, date, place of origin, scribes, owners, contents) and about the texts those codices contain (incipits and explicit of the texts that make up the Evangelium). A series of five analytical and interpretative indexes serves as a guide to the composition of the Evangelium and its satellites, to the chronology of the manuscripts, to their contents, and to persons and places connected with them. The information gathered in this volume may be of assistance in studying the sources of vernacular translations of the Evangelium, patterns of its ownership and readership, medieval attitudes towards it, and the dynamics of its textual evolution; in investigating scribal practices of selection and compilation; and in identifying manuscripts of other apocrypha.‎

‎Schneegans, F.Ed‎

‎MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE. LA COCHE. Texte de l'edition de 1547 avec les variantes des manuscrits Bibl.Nat. Ms.fr. 12485 et Arsenal 112, et accompagne de la reproduction des gravures sur bois de l'edition originale‎

‎Broche, xxvii+84pp., ills. n/b., bon etat.‎

‎Orth, M‎

‎Renaissance Manuscripts: The Sixteenth Century‎

‎Hardcovers with dusjackets, 2 vol., 721 p., 321 b/w ill. + 55 colour ill., 230 x 330 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9781872501307. This publication is the first comprehensive survey to establish the importance of Renaissance manuscript illumination in the history of sixteenth-century French art. Although illustrated printed books were circulating freely by the beginning of the sixteenth century, patronage of manuscripts became all the more special to the ruling elite, and commissions from the court, aristocratic circles and the higher clergy resulted in a surge of artistic creativity that produced a wide range of outstanding illustrated works from devotional books to translations of classical and humanistic texts. While continuing the tradition of French figurative art, ornamentation became a major element in the style of the period, with frames and borders becoming a significant feature of the aesthetic impact of the illuminated page. One hundred manuscripts have been chosen for this survey to represent the artistic excellence of French book production of the period, as well as to demonstrate the stylistic relationships between artists and between books that may be seen to form distinct groups. Many years of research enabled the author to identify the hands of individual illuminators, both named and anonymous, and to connect these to a particular artistic milieu or regional group. Moreover, not only are the stylistic aspects of the manuscripts analysed, but entirely new information regarding authorship, patronage and historical context are revealed here of hitherto unstudied material. The author, Myra Orth, completed her catalogue and introductory texts shortly before her sad death some years ago. Since that time, a number of scholars ? specialists in French manuscripts studies of the period ? have helped to update the literature that has more recently appeared relating to the manuscripts catalogued and to the individual artists and workshops discussed. Present locations of manuscripts that may have changed ownership since Dr Orth?s submission of her work have also been noted. To accompany the detailed catalogue, the publication includes a corpus of 360 illustrations that offers a significant visual conspectus of manuscript illumination of the period. In addition to the introductory text, the author also provides brief biographies of Artists and Scribes, Authors and Translators, and Patrons and Dedicatees Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France (HMMSF 4)‎

‎Frank Willaert, Jos Koldeweij en Johan Oosterman (red.)‎

‎Gruuthusehandschrift. Literatuur, muziek, devotie rond 1400 Studies op het gebied van de oudere Nederlandse letterkunde‎

‎Gebonden, Hardcover 320 pagina's met prachtige illustraties. ISBN 9789072474957. Het Gruuthusehandschrift blijft een bron van inspiratie voor liefhebbers van Middelnederlandse literatuur en middeleeuwse muziek en cultuur. Een nieuwe bundel met een aantal prikkelende essays door specialisten uit Vlaanderen, Nederland en daarbuiten verzamelt de meest recente inzichten over dit voortreffelijke handschrift. Inhoud: ?FRANK WILLAERT, JOS KOLDEWEIJ en JOHAN OOSTERMAN - Woord vooraf ?FRITS VAN OOSTROM - Ter inleiding. Plus est en vous/meer is in u: Gruuthuse in onderzoek ?WIM BLOCKMANS - Contingentie van literaire milieus ?HERMAN PLEIJ - De ontwikkeling van literair zelfbewustzijn in de stad. Wat is er nieuw in het Gruuthusehandschrift? ?HERMAN BRINKMAN - Jan van Hulst alias Jan Moritoen? Een stylometrisch perspectief op de notie ?Gruuthusedichters? ?JOS KOLDEWEIJ - Jan van Hulst en de Lieve-Vrouwe-Broederschap te ?s-Hertogenbosch ?FRANK WILLAERT - Poeticale verstrengelingen. De Gruuthuselyriek in Vlaams en internationaal perspectief ?KARL KUGLE - Ic hadde een lief vercoren? Muzikale erotiek in de Gruuthuseliederen ?STEFAN ROSMER - Bemerkungen zum Verhaltnis der Lieder der Gruuthuse-Handschrft zu den Liedern des Korpus Monch von Salzburg unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der geistlichen Lieder ?ITA HIJMANS - The polyphonic potential of Gruuthuse melodies from a Central European perspective: an experimental musicological exploration ?JOHAN OOSTERMAN - ?In droefheid is dit opgeschreven?. Herinnering, betrouwbaarheid en de ?ik? in de Gruuthusegedichten ?THOM MERTENS - De preek van Jan Lyoen tegen de achtergrond van de Middelnederlandse preekliteratuur ?JORIS REYNAERT - Een noordelijke vroegrenaissance? De allegorische gedichten en de historische artistieke context ?HELENE HAUG - Possible reception modalities for the Gruuthuse manuscript ?HENK PORCK, ROBERTO PADOAN, GEERT VAN DER SNICKT, AD LEERINTVELD en MARVIN KLEIN - Het Gruuthusehandschrift nader belicht. Verificatie van de authenticiteit van het wapen van Gruuthuse ?SONIA TORTAJADA HERNANDO - The conservation of the two Tydeman?s angels from the Prado Museum ?ANNE S. KORTEWEG - De verwerving van het Gruuthusehandschrift door de Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Den Haag. Feiten en ficties‎

‎SCHREURS, Eugeen.‎

‎DE SCHATKAMER VAN ALAMIRE. MUZIEK EN MINIATUREN UIT KEIZER KARELS TIJD ( 1500 - 1535 ).‎

‎softcover , groen geillustreerde kartonomslag met flappen, 21x28.5 cm., 168pp., zeer uitgebreid geillustreerd in kleur en z/w. ISBN 9789058260383. Monografie over Petrus Imhoff ( Alamire ) uit Nurnberg die als veelzijdig artiest in de 16e Eeuw in onze contreien een bloeiende carriere wist uit te bouwen. Levenswandel van een met mysterie omgeven figuur.‎

‎VANBESELAERE, DR. WALTHER.‎

‎originele brief van Mevr. Th. Bout rijksacademie van beeldende kunsten aan W. Vanbeseleare directeur van schone kunsten te Antwerpen‎

‎21x29.5cm, getypt, gesigneerd. brief i.v.m. opsturen catalogus Leplae.‎

‎DOGAER, Georges & DEBAE, Marguerite‎

‎DE LIBRIJE VAN FILIPS DE GOEDE‎

‎softcover geillustreerde papieromslag, 180 x 255mm., 170pp., kleurplaten in tekst en 64 z/w platen buiten de tekst. Tentoonstelling georganiseerd bij de 500ste verjaardag van de dood van de hertog. 9 september - 12 november 1967. In prima staat.‎

‎Soret.‎

‎Carnaval des animaux Camille Saint-Saens. Facsimile Edition of the Autograph Manuscript.‎

‎Hardcover, 192 pages., 127 colour ill., 300 x 366 mm, ISBN 9782503581224. If there is one work, in all of Saint-Saens musical output that supremely captures the disposition so typical of the composer, it is the Carnival of the Animals. The collection De main de maitre showcases the facsimiles of the most prestigious scores of the Music Department of the National Library of France. Camille Saint-Saens? extremely long career as a virtuoso, as a brilliant pianist and organist (no fewer than seventy-six years of concerts) and his daunting catalogue of works (close to six hundred are known) have helped shape the image of him as a tutelary figure, omnipresent in the musical landscape of his time, the uncontested master of French music, showered with honours and glory, yet the champion of what was, in the young 20th century, an outmoded aesthetic. Such an image ignores, however, that from the outset of his career, at the end of the 1850s, until the 1890s, Saint-Saens was, on the contrary, regarded in the artistic world as an agitator, as a propagator of new ideas and as an intermediary between French and Germanic cultures. Republican from his earliest days, he was a major figure in musical life, involved in many concert societies, most notably the Societe nationale de musique, which he founded in 1871. He was also a polemicist, whose quill was much feared and who used the press as his vehicle of choice, to disseminate his ideas, attract public attention, and conquer new audiences. Similarly, if the image of the ?official? Saint-Saens, at home with the stage and the institutions and their etiquette, has endured, that of the ?intimate? Saint-Saens, known by a faithful few for his sparkling conversation, his sharp humour and taste for puns, has been lost. If there is one work, in all of Saint-Saens? musical output that supremely captures the disposition so typical of the composer, it is the Carnival of the Animals. Dedicated to the autograph manuscript of Camille Saint-Saens? famous Carnival of the Animals (1835-1921), this volume sheds a distinctive light on the musician?s personality. Completed in February 1886, The Carnival of the Animals was created for friends and performers close to Saint-Saens and was performed about fifteen times between 1886 and 1894 to a small audience. Because Camille Saint-Saens feared that his ?zoological fantasy? would damage his reputation, the work was published in its entirety only after his death. Since then, its immense popularity has continued to grow, so much so that it is now enjoyed by music lovers and the general public alike. Presented by Marie-Gabrielle Soret, a specialist of Camille Saint-Saens, who provides a detailed description of the work and the context of its creation, the facsimile includes the fourteen pieces of The Carnival of the Animals. It reveals the composer?s handwriting, all the performance directions as he noted them, but also to the playful animal drawings with which he decorated his score ? a fish for ?Aquarium, the skeleton of a dinosaur for ?Fossiles?, the pale blue pencil silhouette of a swan to illustrate the famous Swan. La collection ?« De main de maitre ?» presente les fac-similes des partitions les plus prestigieuses du departement de la Musique de la Bibliotheque nationale de France. Dedie au manuscrit autographe du celebre Carnaval des animaux, de Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), ce volume eclaire la personnalite du musicien sous un jour particulier. Acheve en fevrier 1886, Le Carnaval des animaux fut cree pour des amis et interpretes proches de Saint-Saens et joue a une quinzaine de reprises entre 1886 et 1894 aupres d?un public restreint. Camille Saint-Saens craignant que cette ?« fantaisie zoologique ?» ne nuise a sa reputation, l?oeuvre ne fut publiee dans son integralite qu?apres la mort du compositeur. Depuis lors, son immense succes n?a cesse de croitre, si bien qu?elle est aujourd?hui appreciee tant par les melomanes que par le grand public. Presente par Marie-Gabrielle Soret, specialiste de Camille Saint-Saens, qui nous livre une description detaillee de l?oeuvre et du contexte de sa creation, le fac-simile comprend les quatorze pieces du Carnaval des animaux. Il permet d'acceder a la graphie du compositeur, a l'ensemble des indications telles qu?il les a notees, mais aussi aux facetieux dessins animaliers dont il emailla sa partition ? un poisson pour ?« Aquarium ?», un squelette de dinosaure pour ?« Fossiles ?», ou encore la pale silhouette au crayon bleu d'un cygne pour accompagner la celebre piece dediee a cet oiseau. Marie-Gabrielle Soret est conservateur en chef au Departement de la musique a la Bibliotheque nationale de France, responsable de la coordination du traitement des grands fonds d'archives et collections des XIXe et XXe siecles, au Service des collections patrimoniales du Departement de la musique (fonds de compositeurs, interpretes, institutions et societes musicales).‎

‎Ik, Maria van Gelre De hertogin en haar uitzonderlijke gebedenboek.‎

‎PB, 270 x 240 mm, 224 p, 125 illustrations. NL edition. ISBN 9789462622012. Haar gebedenboek is een van de grootste Nederlandse kunstschatten van kort na 1400. Het verhaal van haar leven was tot voor kort vrijwel onbekend. Maria, hertogin van Gulik en Gelre en gravin van Zutphen, was een bijzondere vrouw. Ze is geboren in Normandie in 1380 en opgegroeid aan het Franse hof. Jarenlang was ze hofdame van Valentina Visconti, moeder van de beroemde dichter Charles d'Orleans. Die Franse wereld van geleerdheid, schoonheid en zelfverzekerdheid heeft haar gevormd. Ze had smaak, was intelligent en daadkrachtig als bestuurder, wanneer ze daarvoor de ruimte kreeg. Ik, Maria van Gelre. De hertogin en haar uitzonderlijke gebedenboek vertelt voor het eerst het levensverhaal van deze sterke vrouw van 600 jaar geleden, laat de rijke wereld zien waarin zij leefde en biedt de tot nu toe meest uitvoerige kennismaking met haar spectaculaire gebedenboek.‎

‎VAN DEN BERGEN - PANTENS, Christiane ( ed. )‎

‎ORDRE DE LA TOISON D'OR, DE PHILIPPE LE BON A PHILIPPE LE BEAU ( 1430 - 1505 ): IDEAL OU REFLET D'UNE SOCIETE?‎

‎softcover illustree, 230 x 285mm., 256pp., b/w illustration. Exposition de 27.09.1996 - 14.12.1996. Bon etat.‎

‎GREBE, Anja‎

‎CODEX AUREUS. DAS GOLDENE EVANGELIENBUCH VON ECHTERNACH‎

‎Gebunden, kartonniert, Schutzumschlag, 215 x 295mm., 151S., illustriert. ISBN 9783896786173. Der ?»Codex Aureus?« mit seiner 1000-jahrigen Geschichte ist ein Kunstwerk hochsten Ranges und ein einzigartiges Dokument europaischer Kultur. Der Prunkeinband gilt als Meisterwerk Trierer Goldschmiedekunst um 985/90. Der Codex selbst entstand um 1045 in der Benediktinerabtei Echternach. Er zahlt zu den schonsten Handschriften des Mittelalters und wurde ganz in Goldtinte geschrieben. Als Evangeliar umfasst er die lateinischen Texte der vier Evangelien mit Zusatzen. Neben Zierinitialen in Gold und Purpur finden sich Zierfelder und -kolumnen, reich geschmuckte Kanontafeln, ganzseitige Miniaturen mit einem Christuszyklus, Evangelistenbilder, Initial- und Textzierseiten sowie Ornamentseiten, die kostbare byzantinische Seidengewebe imitieren. Der vorliegende Band zeigt alle Bild- und Zierseiten in hochster Qualitat. Ausschnitte machen auf wichtige Details aufmerksam. Anja Grebe gibt eine ausfuhrliche Beschreibung der Handschrift und informiert uber die Geschichte des Codex. Ein beeindruckendes Zeugnis abendlandischer Buchkunst wird so erstmals in einem prachtigen Bildband prasentiert. Neue.‎

‎SMEYERS, Maurits en VAN DER STOCK, Jan ( dir. )‎

‎MANUSCRITS A PEINTURES EN FLANDRE 1475-1550‎

‎Hardcover ! mais pas originelle, cartonnage illustree, 245 x 305mm., 223pp., illustration abondante en couleurs. ISBN 9789055440894. Le Breviaire Mayer van den Bergh - La musique sublime - Le culte supreme - L'art dans les villes. Bon etat.‎

‎Cardon, B‎

‎Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c.1410 - c.1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism‎

‎Hardcover with dusjacket. 451 pages. English text . ill. ISBN 9789068317732.‎

‎Stella Panayotova (ed.)‎

‎Art & Science of Illuminated Manuscripts: A Handbook‎

‎Hardcover,528 pages , 830 col. ills, 190 x 255 mm, English, . ISBN 9781912554591. This book is designed to provide a guide for art historians, conservators and manuscript scholars to understand and support the increasingly popular cross-disciplinary research efforts focused on non-invasive scientific analyses of illuminated manuscripts. The results achieved by the research of the pioneering MINIARE research project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge led to the ground-breaking and acclaimed 2016 exhibition "COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts." This was followed by an international Conference, in which art historians, paper and book conservators, and cultural heritage scientists were brought together to share new recent research not only on manuscripts but also on painting in other media. The Conference proceedings were published in the first two volumes of the HMMIMA series (2017-2018). The present publication includes 6 Essays by way of introducing and explaining the major topics being investigated, including the range of inks, pigments and paint binders used by illuminators; parchment-making; pigment recipes; and model books. The many analytical instruments and techniques that are used to investigate manuscripts are also discussed. Then follow 58 Case Studies of manuscripts from as early as the year 700 up to c.1600. All these are fully illustrated in colour and in great detail, and should act as examples to inform scholars in libraries, museums and other cultural institutions of the benefits of adding scientific tools to the range of methods used to investigate manuscripts.‎