‎Bibliography‎

‎J. Oliver;‎

‎Singing with Angels Liturgy, Music, and Art in the Gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Hardback, VIII+384 p., 124 b/w ill. + 44 colour ill., 21 x 27,5. ISBN 9782503516806.‎

‎A prized possession of the Cistercian convent of Marienbrunn in Rulle near Osnabruck in northern Germany was its richly illuminated gradual dating to c. 1300, which is of great significance in the history of medieval art for several reasons. With 52 historiated initials iconographically complex in their literary quotations from the liturgy, the manuscript ranks as one of the most lavishly decorated books of its type to survive. Painted in an elegant courtly Gothic style, it is ascribed in a prefatory inscription to the nun Gisela von Kerssenbrock, who wrote, notated, and decorated the manuscript "with golden letters and beautiful images." Such an encyclopedic listing of a scribe-artist's labors is unparalleled in medieval scribal colophons. The high quality of the miniatures ranks her among the most gifted women artists of the Middle Ages. Gisela is depicted in two self-portraits within the manuscript, in one of which she is leading the nuns of Rulle in singing the Christmas hymn, visual evidence that she was the choirmistress at this convent. The manuscript's images reflect the intellectual ambience of encloistered nuns who were steeped in the annual liturgical cycle of feasts with its associated bible readings, theological commentary, sermons, music, dramatic ritual, and artistic decoration. As it was used in the nuns' daily celebration of the mass, the book is an eloquent witness of the communal religious life of medieval women rather than their private meditations or mystical experiences.This study explores the imagery and texts associated with major feasts of the liturgical year and the novel ways in which music and text are woven into the artistic program of Gisela's manuscript. In particular, her book shows the seminal importance of the Easter celebration for convent life, as well over half of its illustrations are clustered in the Easter season; and the manuscript repeatedly gives artistic expression to the nuns' hopes of heaven. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 40466

‎S. Papadaki-Oekland;‎

‎Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts of the Book of Job A Preliminary Study of the Miniature Illustrations. Its Origin and Development,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 Hardback, 478 p., 127 b/w ill. + 285 colour ill., 23 x 30. ISBN 9782503532325.‎

‎Of all the Old Testament books, the Book of Job remains acutely contemporary today. Written between the 6th and 3rd c. B.C., it deals with subjects such as the presence of evil in the world, the misery, the quest for justice, the faith, and the behavior of people when they face sudden twists and turns of life. It seems that the ancient text had been illustrated since the Early Christian period because of its fascinating novel-like narrative style. In her own study on the Book of Job, Stella Papadaki-Oekland probes into all the Byzantine illuminated manuscripts of the illustrated Greek text. The number of miniature illustrations included in these fifteen manuscripts, dating from the 9th to the 16th century, comes to more than 1800 of which 2/3 of the about 380 illustrated herein are previously unpublished manuscript images. The book is an unabridged version with minor changes of Papadaki-Oekland?s Inaugural Dissertation at Heidelberg University (1979) and is published posthumously by her daughters, Helen-Aina and Astrid-Zoe -in homage to Byzantine Art. The fifteen Byzantine Illuminated Manuscript Illustrations of the 'Book of Job' studied, illustrated and discussed are: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome: cod. Vat. gr. 749; cod. Vat. gr. 751; cod. Vat. gr. 1231 and cod. Vat. Pal. gr.230 - The Monastery of St. John the Theologian, Isle of Patmos: cod. Patmos 171 - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia: cod. Marc. gr. 538 - Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai, Egypt: cod. Siena 3 - Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and All Palestine, Jerusalem: MS. Taphou 5 - Monastery of Vatopedi, Mount Athos: Vatopedi 590 - Monastery Magisti (Great) Lavra, Mount Athos: Lavra B100 - Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens: MS. 62 - Bodleian Library, Oxford: MS. Barocci 201 and MS. Laud gr. 86 - Bibliothegue nationale de France, Paris: MS. gr. 134 and MS. gr. 135 - National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg: MS gr. 382 (former folio of Taphou 5) The study of the Septuagint Book of Job in Byzantine tradition include comparative analysis of the interrelationship of the individual miniature cycles, their general arrangement and artistic character, the origin and development as well as its contents and significance in the literary and popular tradition. Finally, the six Comparative Tables presented at the end of the volume provide the reader for the first time a complete cross reference interrelationship between the individual 1800 images of the 15 manuscripts and 'Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton's' English translation of the Septuagint 'Book of Job' passages. Further examples of images discussed herein of early Christian 'Job' representations include: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, MS.Reg.gr.1 ? known as the Bible of Queen Christina of Sweden; Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris, MS gr. 510, MS syr. 341-the Syriac Bible and MS.gr. 923- Sacra Parallela; Biblioteca Nazionale 'Vittorio Emanuele III', Naples, Coptic MS IB 18, Catacomb of the Via Latina, Rome and the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Basilica di San Pietro, Rome. Furthermore, the book is of invaluable importance due to its methodological approach. As the leading art historian Hans Belting points out, the study of Stella Papadaki-Oekland calls in question Kurt Weitzmann's rigid theory about the process of the Byzantine illuminated manuscripts production. There?s no doubt that, even though it was written a lot of years ago, this remains the most complete and comprehensive study about the Book of Job in Byzantine art. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 40469

‎M. Goehring;‎

‎Space, Place and Ornament: the Function of Landscape in Medieval Manuscript Illumination,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2014 Paperback, 214 p., 85 b/w ill. + 16 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, ISBN 9782503529776.‎

‎The present volume analyzes the functions of landscape imagery within medieval Northern European manuscript illumination, and also takes into account the ideological and the economic milieus in which they were produced. This book proposes a new methodological framework for the study of medieval landscape imagery, by analyzing the functions of landscape imagery within Northern European manuscript illumination. Taking a historicist approach, this study explores landscape imagery within a broad range of specific manuscript contexts, taking into account the ideological and the economic milieus in which they were produced. Organized into three sections, this study will look at how landscape functioned as ornament, didactic tool (space) and political tool (place). The first section looks at the role that landscape imagery had in the hierarchy of book decoration, and how it responded to late medieval mnemonic systems and devotional practices. It also addresses the emergence of landscape as a form of ornamental elaboration, sometimes as a means to appeal to specific aesthetic criteria, or as a way to create extra-textual associations to augment the message of the text. The second section is concerned with landscape within encyclopedic and allegorical manuscripts, and will analyze how artists constructed space to communicate specific lessons or ideas, for example to frame debates about the role of agricultural labor or to present the dynastic ambitions of the Burgundian court. Finally, the third section explores the visualization of the political and economic landscape of late medieval Europe, particularly focusing on how landscape was structured to respond issues of status, power and identity not only in works created for the landed nobility but within manuscripts made for urban patrons as well. Concentrating on manuscripts from Paris, Northern France and Flanders from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth centuries, this book will offer new insights as it contextualizes the emergence of landscape painting in the late middle ages. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 40471

‎W. Stenhouse;‎

‎Harvey Miller. Ancient Inscriptions ,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2002 Hardback, 439 p., 324 b/w ill. + 23 colour ill., 22 x 28,5. ISBN 9781872501451.‎

‎Latin inscriptions found on buildings, tombstones, altars and votive monuments form a rich source of information for historians about classical Rome. By the early seventeenth century, ancient epigraphy had become a highly developed branch of learning, and the drawings of inscriptions preserved in the Paper Museum offer a fascinating insight into this earlier world of scholarship ? in some cases providing our only record of the piece being illustrated. The drawings in this volume cover a wide chronological range and provide details about Roman law, the Roman army and officials of the Roman Empire as well as aspects of Roman life overlooked in literary sources. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 40474

‎D. Pegler, D. Freedberg;‎

‎Fungi, three volumes catalogue the extensive corpus of mycological drawings in the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo.‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2006 Hardback, 3 vol., 1028 pages., 24 b/w ill. + 901 colour ill., 21 x 28. *fine condition! ISBN 9781905375059.‎

‎These three volumes catalogue the extensive corpus of mycological drawings in the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Executed mostly in watercolour between 1625 and 1630 and depicting fungi native to Umbria and the environs of Rome, they constitute the first sustained attempt to survey all the larger fungi of a region, recording in detail the stages of their growth. Laden with notes on colour, smell, taste, weight, season and the locality in which the specimens had been found, the almost six hundred folios were commissioned by Federico Cesi (1585-1630), founder of Europe?s first scientific academy, the Accademia dei Lincei. They were acquired by Cassiano dal Pozzo after Cesi?s death and were greatly admired by those who saw them in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thought to have been lost until their rediscovery in 1979 in the library of the Institut de France in Paris, the drawings are also remarkable for their pioneering use of the microscope, a novel instrument given to Cesi in 1624 by Galileo and used throughout the pages of these manuscripts to enhance the direct observation of nature. Also included are drawings of fungi commissioned by Cassiano and his brother Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo now in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, and an early set of copies of the Cesi originals in the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Each drawing is reproduced in colour with accompanying text, and two introductory essays discuss the scientific investigations and collecting activities of Cesi and Cassiano and the importance of these drawings in the history of science and art. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 40481

‎F. Garbari, L. Tongiorgi Tomasi;‎

‎Harvey Miller. Flora: The Erbario Miniato and other Drawings,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Hardback, 2 vol., 664 p., 368 b/w ill. + 317 colour ill., 22 x 28,5. ISBN 9781905375189.‎

‎These volumes catalogue more than 200 botanical drawings from the Erbario Miniato, an early seventeenth-century herbal made for Federico Cesi and acquired by Cassiano after Cesi's death in 1630. Also included are a further sixty or so loose sheets that originally formed a companion volume, broken up in the eighteenth century, and botanical drawings commissioned by Cassiano and Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo. Most of the drawings depict the native flora of central Italy, but mycological specimens, rarities from across Europe and recently imported species such as the crown imperial, the tobacco plant, the tomato and the aubergine are also represented. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 40483

‎R.M. Savory, D.A. Agius (eds.);‎

‎Logos Islamikos Studia Islamica in Honorem Georgii Michaelis Wickens,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1984 Paperback, 361 p., +plate, 16 x 24. ISBN 9780888448064.‎

‎Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 40486

‎R.J. Long (ed.);‎

‎Philosophy and the God of Abraham Essays in Memory of James A. Weisheipl O.P.,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1991 Paperback, 306 p., 16 x 24. ISBN 9780888448125.‎

‎Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 40489

‎B. D. Walfish (ed.); Frank Ephraim Talmag‎

‎Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver : Studies in Medieval Jewish Exegesis and Polemics.‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1999 Hardback, 463 pages., ENG.,235 x 160 x 35 mm, NEW. ISBN 9780888448149.‎

‎This volume gathers together the major essays of the late Frank Ephraim Talmage, who served as professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Toronto until his death in 1988. Talmage's research interests emerged from his study of David Kimhi on whose family and intellectual world he became the leading authority. Talmage's study of Joseph Kimhi's biblical purism, newly translated for this volume, offers, for instance, a fresh look at the polemicist and exegete through the prism of grammatical works. Of the exegetical studies included in this volume, perhaps the best known is 'Apples of Gold', a wide-ranging exploration of the power of allegory in medieval Jewish thought that has proved a standard in its field. 'Trauma at Tortosa', another seminal, deeply-felt essay, analyzes Abraham Rimoch's commentary on the Book of Psalms in order to understand the exegete's state of mind and his psychological withdrawal in the wake of the disputation at Tortosa in 1413-1414, a painful event that led to mass conversions of Jews to Christianity. The polemical studies in the collection focus on Jewish-Christian relations in Spain, Provence and Bohemia. Several of these studies are here translated for the first time. Talmage was one of the few scholars to have worked on Bohemian Jewry, and his writings offer new insights into a fascinating Jewish community influenced by both Ahskenazi and Sephardic traditions, and a world in which popular religious sentiment and intellectual discourse were frequently at loggerheads. A bibliography of Talmage's writings and comprehensive indexes complete the volume. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 40491

‎T. E Burman, M. D. Meyerson, L. Shopkow (eds.);‎

‎Religion, Text, and Society in Medieval Spain and Northern Europe Essays in Honor of J.N. Hillgarth,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2002 Hardback, XX+373 p., 15 x 23. ISBN 9780888448163.‎

‎The scholarship of Jocelyn Nigel Hillgarth touches the whole history of medieval Spain, the history of Christianity and its institutional practices, and the medieval intellectual achievement. The essays by students and friends gathered here honour the remarkable reach of that lifework and the sympathies in which it remains rooted. Essays by David Abulafia, Anthony Bonner, Harvey Hames, and Charles H. Lohr explore the writings of the Majorcan scholastic, reformer and missionary, Ramon Lull. The broader history of Spain may be found in Jacques Fontaine's consideration of the eponymous founder of Spain, Hispalus; in Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz's discussion of royal liturgy in Visigothic Spain; in Lucy K. Pick's examination of the tenth-century queen-regent of Leon, Elvira; and in Mark Meyerson's exploration of the fate of the Jews of Morvedre (Sagunto) in 1348. Other papers study the complex interaction between the institutional structures of the church and the spirit that animated them: Clarissa Atkinson compares the biographies of Anselm of Canterbury and Christina of Markyate to uncover differing sources of authority. Giles Constable argues that the various historical and legendary lives of Odo Arpinus - nobleman, Cluniac prior, and crusader in Old French epic - reveal an underlying coherence. In a study of Dubrovnik's Dalmatian martyrs, Richard Gyug shows how ecclesiastical politics as well as economic and religious rivalry work to determine the structures of civic identity. Phyllis Pobst examines the archbishop Eudes Rigaud's record of his visitations in the diocese of Rouen, and William Lundell studies the response of the Carthusian order in the face of schism. Texts lie at the heart of a concluding group of four essays: the writings of John Cassian on the relationship of the eremitic and cenobitic lives in Stephen Driver's work; the Norman history of Dudo of St-Quentin in Leah Shupkow's essay; the translation of philosophical texts into architectures of stone at Chartres in Edouard Jeauneau's article; and the Christian use of Muslim commentaries on the Latin translations of the Qur'an in Thomas E. Burman's paper. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 40493

‎L. Clark, M. Jurkowski, C. Richmond (eds.);‎

‎Image, Text, and Church, 1380-1600 Essays for Margaret Aston,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 Hardback, XIV+289 p., 15 b/w ill., 15 x 23. ISBN 9780888448200.‎

‎This collection of essays has been assembled as a tribute to the eminent ecclesiastical historian Dr. Margaret Aston, Fellow of the British Academy. Many of the contributors are themselves distinguished scholars of the late medieval and early modern Church. The twelve essays reflect the extraordinary breadth of Dr. Aston's interests, reaching beyond history into the cognate disciplines of literature, theology, art history and codicology. Colin Richmond's personal appreciation is followed by Anne Hudson's engrossing study of how John Wyclif gained access to the books that he used and cited. Essays by Ann Eljenholm Nichols, Elizabeth Eisenstein and Richard Marks all focus, in different ways, on the relationship between religious text and image. Three biographical essays - by Jeremy Catto, Alison McHardy and Maureen Jurkowski - describe widely varying careers in the late medieval church, from the archbishop of Canterbury to an obscure Lollard preacher. Lollardy is the subject also of Norman Tanner's essay on the conciliar treatment of heresy and the condemnation of Wyclif's teachings, while Ian Forrest considers the role of defamation and heresy in late medieval social life. Andrew Hope compares reputation and reality in the career of the early Tudor reformer John Colet, and John Bossy examines the devotional compositions of the Elizabethan nobleman, Lord Henry Howard. While providing ample testimony of Aston?s influence, these essays are also of considerable - even seminal ?-importance in their own right, and deserve a place on the shelf of any serious student of the period. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 40496

‎N/A;‎

‎Modern British bookbinding. La reliure moderne Brittanique. De moderne Britse boekband,‎

‎London, Designer Bookbinders, 1985‎

‎Exhibition Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels‎

Bookseller reference : 40578

‎VAN EEDEN, Ed.‎

‎Boekenwurmen & ander ongedierte. Over de omgang met boeken.‎

‎Utrecht / Antwerpen, Kosmos- Z&K Uitgevers, 1993 Originele uitgeversomslag, 20x12.5 cm., 20.5x12.8 cm., 75 pp. + 4. ISBN 9789021519524.‎

Bookseller reference : 40783

‎J. Parisot (ed.);‎

‎Demonstrations I a XXII,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, original edition: 1897, reprint Paperback, 526 p., 18 x 26,5. ISBN 17500010200.‎

‎Languages : Syriac.‎

Bookseller reference : 40941

‎M. Kmosko (ed.);‎

‎Livre des Degres,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, original edition: 1927, reprint Paperback, 738 p., 18 x 26,5. ISBN 17500030200.‎

‎Languages : Syriac.‎

Bookseller reference : 40943

‎Collectief‎

‎Printers and Readers in the Sixteenth Century‎

‎, Brepols Publishers, 2005 Paperback, VIII 517 p., 210 x 270 mm, Languages: French . ISBN 9782503518114.‎

‎Much attention is paid nowadays to the remarkable increase in the speed of communication that is transforming our planet into a global village. In fact, international contacts across frontiers have been with us for centuries. Humans were wandering nomads before becoming traveling salespeople who built towns and countries. They were naturally interested in what was going on next door. The European invention of the printed book and the appearance of printers and publishers made an important contribution to the scientific, cultural and intellectual development of the continent. The Low Countries, in particular Flanders with Dirk Martens and Christoffel Plantin Moretus among others, played a key role in this revolution, the value of which we still recognise today. This important event was the subject of a colloquium, with the title "Aspects of intellectual migration in sixteenth century Europe: Printers and publishers in Paris, Geneva and the Low countries", organised on 9 June 2000 by the Centre for European Culture under the auspices of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.‎

Bookseller reference : 41702

‎Zilmer,K.- Jesch, J. (eds.)‎

‎Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity, Modes of Written Discourse in the Newly Christian European North.‎

‎, Brepols, 2012 Hardback,VI 273 p., 39 b/w ill., 15 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9782503542942.‎

‎collection of nine essays deals with the role of epigraphic literacy within the newly introduced Christian culture and the developing tradition of literacy in Northern Europe. This volume examines the role of epigraphic literacy within the newly introduced Christian culture and the developing tradition of literacy in Northern Europe during the Viking Age and the High Middle Ages. The epigraphic material under scrutiny here originates from Scandinavia and North-West Russia ? two regions that were converted to Christianity around the turn of the first millennium. Besides traditional categories of epigraphic sources, such as monumental inscriptions on durable materials, the volume is concerned with more casual inscriptions on less permanent materials. The first part of the book discusses a form of monumental epigraphic literacy manifested on Scandinavian rune stones, with a particular focus on their Christian connections. The second part examines exchanges between Christian culture and ephemeral products of epigraphic literacy, as expressed through Scandinavian rune sticks, East Slavonic birchbark documents and church graffiti. The essays look beyond the traditional sphere of parchment literacy and the Christian discourse of manuscript sources in order to explore the role of epigraphic literacy in the written vernacular cultures of Scandinavia and North-West Russia. Table of Contents Epigraphic Literacy and the Communication of Christian Culture in Northern Europe KRISTEL ZILMER . Part I: Runic Literacy and Christian Connections in the Context of Scandinavian Rune Stones Clerical or Lay Literacy in Late Viking Age Uppland? The Evidence of Local Rune Carvers and Their Work MAGNUS KALLSTROM . Carving Technique and Runic Literacy. LAILA KITZLER AHFELDT , Christianity in Runes: Prayers in Scandinavian Rune Stone Inscriptions from the Viking Age and the Early Middle Ages, KRISTEL ZILMER , ?Dead in White Clothes?: Modes of Christian Expression on Viking Age Rune Stones in Present-Day Sweden, HENRIK WILLIAMS, Part II: Exchanges between Christian Culture and Practical Modes of Correspondence in Scandinavia and Northwestern Russia: Rune Sticks, Birchbark Documents and Church Graffiti, Pragmatic Runic Literacy in Scandinavia c. 800-1300: With a Particular Focus on the Bryggen Material MICHAEL SCHULTE How Christian Were the Norwegians in the High Middle Ages? The Runic Evidence TERJE SPURKLAND The Birchbark Documents in Time and Space ? Revisited JOS SCHAEKEN Birchbark Literacy and the Rise of Written Communication in Early Rus? ALEXEJ GIPPIUS Written Culture of Medieval Novgorod in the Light of Epigraphy TATJANA ROZHDESTVENSKAJA List of Contributors‎

Bookseller reference : 41936

‎Alexandre, G. Lanoe, G. Grand‎

‎Bibliotheque municipale de Vendome‎

‎, brepols, 2000 Paperback, 290 p., 210 x 270 mm, Languages: French, fine condition !. ISBN 9782503510149.‎

‎Ce volume est le deuxieme du corpus des Reliures medievales des bibliotheques de France. Apres Autun et la belle diversite d?un fonds capitulaire, voici Vendome et la rigoureuse homogeneite d?un fonds constitue pour repondre aux exigences d?une communaute monastique. Quelques modifications ont ete apportees aux principes de description. Le cartouche de tete donne la cote du volume, la date et le lieu de fabrication de sa reliure ; les remaniements, reparations ou restaurations sont ensuite mentionnes, de meme que les traces de reliures anterieures. Suivent les renseignements utiles sur le contenu du volume : auteur, titre des oeuvres, datation de son execution. Apres la description de la reliure, figurent les renseignements utiles sur le manuscrit lui-meme et son histoire. Une nouvelle ligne a ete introduite pour donner une description de l?aspect physique. Les informations extraites de la lecture des notes et marques diverses portes sur les contre-gardes, gardes, voire dans le corps meme de l?ouvrage, et interessant l?histoire du volume, les marques de possession, les ex-libris, les essais de plume riches de renseignements utiles ? y trouvent naturellement leur place. Une bibliographie tres succincte clot la notice‎

Bookseller reference : 42287

‎Alexandre, G. Grand, G. Lanoe‎

‎Bibliotheque municipale de Reims.‎

‎, Brepols, 2009 Paperback.513 p., 410 b/w ill. 8 colour ill., 210 x 270 mm, Languages: French, fine condition !!. ISBN 9782503517469.‎

‎Le quatrieme volume de la collection ? Reliures medievales des bibliotheques de France ? est voue aux manuscrits conserves a la bibliotheque municipale de Reims qui, pour la plupart, proviennent de la bibliotheque capitulaire Reims et de celles des abbayes de Saint-Remi et de Saint-Thierry. Le fonds manuscrit de ces trois bibliotheques remonte a l?episcopat d?Hincmar (845-882) et d?Adalberon (969-988), mais elles sont restees constamment en relation avec les mouvements intellectuels qui ont suivis et elles temoignent de l?intensite de la vie culturelle et spirituelle medievale. Les manuscrits de la bibliotheque capitulaire presentent un interet particulier, car le fonds manuscrit provient surtout des donations effectuees par les archeveques et les chanoines a la fin du XIVe et au debut du XVe siecle. La plus remarquable est celle de l?archeveque Guy de Roye (1390-1409), qui legue quelque 160 volumes a la bibliotheque capitulaire, mais la bibliotheque de Guillaume Fillastre, cardinal-pretre de Saint-Marc, rassemblee pendant ses sejours a Constance et en Italie aux environs de 1416-1418 est aussi du plus grand interet, car elle apparait comme la toute premiere manifestation de l?humanisme en France. C?est ainsi que se trouve rassemble a Reims un ensemble exceptionnel de reliures du XIVe et XVe siecle, moment cle dans l?histoire de la reliure. Ce nouveau catalogue offre aux chercheurs la matiere d?une reflexion renouvelee sur cette importante periode de mutation.‎

Bookseller reference : 42289

‎HAINING, PETER.‎

‎Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines.‎

‎, Chicago Review Press , 2002 Hardcover with dustjacket, 224pp., 30x23.5cm., lavishly illustr. in col., as new. ISBN 9781556523892.‎

‎The period between the World Wars?the era of sexual liberation, Prohibition, the rise of organized crime, and the Great Depression?was also the classic era of American pulp magazines, the subject of this fascinating volume. Pulps, with their lurid color covers depicting the thrills of sex and violence, and with stories to match inside, fuelled America?s dreams?and nightmares. For a few cents they offered everything young men wanted: sex, action, adventure. But they also fostered the talents of some of the greatest popular writers of the century?Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and Dashiell Hammett, among others?and virtually invented the genres of science fiction and hard-boiled crime. From the cheap thrills of the ?hot? and ?spicy? pulps and the sexual sadism of the ?shudder? pulps to the weird worlds of the fantasy, sci-fi, and horror pulps, this book displays their art and tells their history, capturing the original magazines in all their sleazy, sensational glory.‎

Bookseller reference : 43325

‎BOUGARD, Raulin;‎

‎LE PETIT FLAMBEAU DE LA MER, ou le veritable guide des pilotes cotiers; ou il est clairement enseigne la maniere de naviguer le long de toutes les cotes de France, d'Angleterre, d'Irlande, d'Espagne, de Portugal, d'Italie, de Sicile, de Malte, de Corse et de Sardaigne, et autres Isles du Detroit; et des Cotes de barbarie, depuis le Cap Bon jusqu'au Cap Verd. Comme aussi toutes les demonstrations des cotes, de la maniere qu'elles paroissent de la mer.‎

‎Saint Malo, Chez L.H. Hovius,. , 1784 Relie, petit in-4 , Reliure de l'epoque. (relie 19e siecle,) 384pp avec illustrations. Derniere edition, bon etat.‎

‎avec l'heure des marees en chaque port,et de la chute des courans; de plus les sondes et profondeurs qui se rencontrent tant dedans que dehors le Canal, la qualite des fonds, avec tous les dangers qui y sont. Les plans et baies des principaux ports et havres y sont demontres d'une maniere fort intelligible: comme aussi tous les amers, et plusieurs autres plans et baies qui se rencontrent en allant aux Indes Oientales, et une table des variations qui se trouvent tant en allant que revenant des Indes.‎

Bookseller reference : 43566

‎K.O. Meinsma.‎

‎Librye te Zutphen.‎

‎Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1988 Softcover, 64pp., 21x14.5cm., goede staat. ISBN 9060115945.‎

Bookseller reference : 44575

‎James W.P. Campbell.‎

‎Bibliotheek, hoogtepunten uit de wereldgeschiedenis‎

‎BE, Luster uitgeverij, 2015 Hardcover, gebonden in linnen met stofomslag, Pagina's; 320, Gewicht:2333 gr;317 mm x 250 mm x 35 mm, Fine copy. Illustrated. ISBN 9789082038750.‎

‎Boekenverzamelingen symboliseren door de eeuwen heen de geleerdheid en cultuur van hun eigenaar. Het woord bibliotheek duidt in de meeste talen niet langer alleen op de boeken zelf maar ook op de gebouwen waarin ze zijn ondergebracht. De bibliotheek is in zijn hoogste vorm een totaalkunstwerk geworden waarin schilderkunst, sculptuur, meubels en architectuur in een naadloos en dramatisch geheel samenkomen. En architecten wedijveren met elkaar, vanaf hun ontwerpen voor de bibliotheken van het oude Rome tot aan die voor de Bibliotheque Nationale in Parijs, om boeken in de meest spectaculaire omgeving onder te brengen. Dit boek is het eerste overzicht van de geschiedenis van dit gebouwtype, van het ontstaan van het schrift tot de dag van vandaag, van het oude Mesopotamie tot het moderne Japan. Elk tijdperk en elke cultuur heeft de bibliotheek opnieuw uitgevonden, gemodelleerd naar zijn eigen prioriteiten en interesses, en al doende een afspiegeling geschapen van de beschaving zelf. De fraaiste bibliotheken herbergen niet zozeer boeken als wel kennis, creativiteit en beschouwing; ze belichamen het hoogste van wat de mensheid kan bereiken. James Campbell en Will Pryce hebben de wereld afgereisd en rond de tachtig bibliotheken bezocht en gedocumenteerd. Ze hebben een mijlpaal van een boek gecreeerd, een complete architectuurgeschiedenis van de bibliotheek.‎

Bookseller reference : 44608

‎Jeroen Salman (redactie)‎

‎Sterke verhalen, Vijf eeuwen vertelcultuur.‎

‎, vantilt uitgeverij, 2014 softcover, 160pp, Illustrated. Fine copy. ISBN 9789460041686.‎

‎Roekeloze zeelieden die na een schipbreuk op een eiland met dwergen terechtkomen (Gulliver?s Travels), overmoedige wetenschappers die hun ziel aan de duivel verkopen (Faust), deugdzame sloofjes die eindigen als prinses (Assepoester) en hilarische baronnen die op kanonskogels door de lucht vliegen (Baron van Munchhausen). Zij zijn de hoofdpersonen van dit boek. Hun verhalen zijn tijdloos, maar hebben zich wel voortdurend aangepast aan het medium waarin ze werden overgedragen. Wat gebeurde er als een verhaal tot toneelstuk werd bewerkt, van poezie in proza veranderde of als beeldverhaal in prenten werd uitgebeeld? Hoe en waarom werden sommige verhalen overgenomen door nieuwe media als toverlantaarns, strips, films en tv-series? Een medium staat in Sterke verhalen centraal: de centsprent, ook wel volksprent of kinderprent genoemd. Deze prenten, die vooral in de achttiende en negentiende eeuw zeer geliefd waren, hebben een cruciale rol gespeeld in de popularisering van ?sterke? verhalen en in het doorgeven ervan aan latere generaties.‎

Bookseller reference : 45425

‎Stijn Van Rossem Pierre Delsaerdt.‎

‎gevecht met de boeken. De uitgevers strategie n van de familie Verdussen (Antwerpen, 1589?1689)‎

‎Antwerpen, Universiteit Antwerpen, 2014 Softcover, 321 pagina's ., 23.5x15.5cm., nieuw. Doctoraatsverhandeling. ISBN 9781304944733.‎

‎Eerder dan de ideeen van grote wetenschappers, filosofen of schrijvers in de verf te zetten, en eerder dan de uitvinding die de machinale reproductie van die ideeen mogelijk maakte op zich te bewieroken, wil deze studie aandacht vragen voor de mannen en vrouwen die deze ideeen in de periode van het handgedrukte boek daadwerkelijk gematerialiseerd en verspreid hebben. Dit onderzoek naar een zeventiende-eeuwse drukkersfamilie toont aan dat het mogelijk was om gedurende generaties overeind te blijven in een moeilijke en kapitaalintensieve sector. Ondanks oorlogen en economische crisissen wisten de Verdussens door een mengeling van voorzichtigheid, flexibiliteit, durf, volharding, imitatie en natuurlijk ook geluk, hun bedrijf uit te bouwen tot een belangrijke speler in de katholieke wereld. Hieronymus Verdussen was de eerste van zijn familie: hij begon omstreeks 1589 in Antwerpen een uitgeverij-drukkerij-boekwinkel. Vele nazaten waren werkzaam in de boekenbranche, tot in de 19e eeuw aan toe. Hun handelscontacten strekten zich tot ver over de landgrenzen heen, hetgeen de Verdussens tot een van de interessantste uitgeversfamilies van de Zuidelijke Nederlanden maakt. In juni jl. verdedigde Stijn Van Rossem zijn proefschrift over deze familie Verdussen. Hij concentreert zich op de 17e eeuw: ?Ondanks oorlogen en economische crisissen wisten de Verdussens door een mengeling van voorzichtigheid, flexibiliteit, durf, volharding, imitatie en natuurlijk ook geluk, hun bedrijf uit te bouwen tot een belangrijke speler in de katholieke wereld?. Van Rossem noemt de Verdussens ?informatiehandelaars?. Omdat de familie zo lang in het boekenvak actief is gebleven, is een belangrijk deel van het archiefmateriaal bewaard gebleven. Van Rossem behandelt echter alleen de periode ten tijde van het Spaans bestuur van de Zuidelijke Nederlanden sinds de val van Antwerpen (1685) tot het begin van de Spaanse Successieoorlog (1702). Hij laat zien wat hun strategische keuzes waren, hoe hun bedrijf was georganiseerd, hoe hun fonds er uitzag en hoe zij hun boeken aan de man probeerden te brengen.‎

Bookseller reference : 46104