‎Bibliography‎

‎H. Atsma, S. Barret, J. Vezin (eds.);‎

‎plus anciens documents originaux de l'abbaye de Cluny Tome III. Documents n? 61 a 90, Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Collection de Bourgogne, vol. 77, n? 62 a 89,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2000 Hardback, 140 p., incl. ill., 30,5 x 44. ISBN 9782503511887.‎

‎Edition en fac-simile a grandeur d'original, sous les auspices de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, avec le concours de l'Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, IVe section (Sorbonne) et de l'Institut historique allemand de Paris. Languages : French.‎

Bookseller reference : 40309

‎Christoph Mungenast.‎

‎Deutsche Druckkunst. Band I.‎

‎Munchen, Sudwest Verlag, 1964 Bound, white cloth with original dustjacket, unpaginated (ca 200pp.), 30.5x25cm., lavishly illustrated in col., fine copy. German text.‎

Bookseller reference : 40362

‎B. Coulie;‎

‎Repertoire des bibliotheques et des catalogues de manuscrits armeniens,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1992 Paperback, 280 p., 15,5 x 24,5. ISBN 9782503502540.‎

‎Hellenists know the services that can be rendered by the Repertoire des catalogues de manuscrits grecs of Marcel Richard. It is an indispensable heuristic tool but also a witness of the development of codicology and a witness of history. Such a tool was lacking for specialists of Armenian manuscripts, philologists, linguists, and art historians. The Repertoire des bibliotheques et des catalogues de manuscrits armeniens publishes, for the first time, all the libraries, public and private, known to possess Armenian manuscripts. For each, it gives the catalogue or catalogues published and, if appropriate, an indication of the content of the manuscripts and their origin. Tables of concordance between the current references and the old references enable one to locate manuscripts that are thought to have disappeared or to find more complete descriptions in an old catalogue than are given in recent lists. The volume also includes an impressive index of manuscripts. Languages : French.‎

Bookseller reference : 40431

‎B. Coulie;‎

‎Repertoire des bibliotheques et des catalogues de manuscrits armeniens,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1992 Hardback, 280 p., 15,5 x 24,5. ISBN 9782503502533.‎

‎Hellenists know the services that can be rendered by the Repertoire des catalogues de manuscrits grecs of Marcel Richard. It is an indispensable heuristic tool but also a witness of the development of codicology and a witness of history. Such a tool was lacking for specialists of Armenian manuscripts, philologists, linguists, and art historians. The Repertoire des bibliotheques et des catalogues de manuscrits armeniens publishes, for the first time, all the libraries, public and private, known to possess Armenian manuscripts. For each, it gives the catalogue or catalogues published and, if appropriate, an indication of the content of the manuscripts and their origin. Tables of concordance between the current references and the old references enable one to locate manuscripts that are thought to have disappeared or to find more complete descriptions in an old catalogue than are given in recent lists. The volume also includes an impressive index of manuscripts. Languages : French.‎

Bookseller reference : 40433

‎M. Milman;‎

‎Heures de la Priere Catalogue des livres d'heures de la Bibliotheque de l'Abbaye d'Einsiedeln,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2003 Hardback, 212 p., 100 b/w ill. + 100 colour ill., + ills., 21 x 30. ISBN 9782503510446.‎

‎Separe du Breviaire et du Psautier, le Livre d'Heures etait devenu des le XIIIe siecle le livre de devotion du laic. Il correspondait a l'extension de la pratique de la lecture dans les couches de la societe, alliee a un evident detachement par rapport a l'emprise de l'eglise. L'intensification du culte porte a la Vierge Marie firent d'elle le theme central du Livre d'Heures qui s'organisa autour du petit Office qui la celebrait. Il contient aussi le textes d'autres Offices, dedies en general au Saint Esprit, a la Croix et aux morts ainsi que toute une serie de prieres et invocations variant selon la devotion de leur possesseur et commanditaire. Ce Livre n'etait pas destine aux Offices celebres dans l'Eglise; il etait sense etre utilise par n'importe quel laic, regulierement, aux heures canoniales, dans la solitudes de sa journee domestique. La pratique de recueillement que ce livre impliquait etait en meme temps un hommage et un lien avec la Vierge mais aussi un plaisir pour les yeux, car il fut des le debut, abondamment illustre et decore. Le Livre d'Heures devint ainsi un des joyaux dont s'enorgueillaient les plus riches et les plus nobles qui pouvaient se permettre les services des meilleures miniaturistes de l'epoque. Il fut aussi, plus modestement, celui de tout un chacun, a la mesure de ses moyens financiers. Le nombre impressionnant de le Livres d'Heures executes firent que l'on les appelle couramment aujourd'hui, les "best sellers" des derniers siecles de l'epoque medievale et ceux des annees qui suivirent l'introduction de l'impression. L'abbaye benedictine d'Einsiedeln (Suisse) est depuis des siecles une importante eglise de pelerinage. Sa bibliotheque abrite, parme des tresors insignes, douze Livres d'Heures qui sont ici etudies et publies pour la premiere fois. Leur provenance, la date d'execution et l'artiste ou l'atelier responsables de leur illustration etaient restes inconnus. Il s'est avere que parmi eux se trouvent aussi bien un manuscrit parisien d'une grande elegance , oeuvre d'un maitre repute, qu'un Livre d'Heures pittoresque et extremement rare illustre par une moniale alsacienne et destine a une nonne d'un Monastere suisse. Le corpus d'Einsiedeln comprend egalement un precieux et minuscule manuscrit flamand, ainsi qu'un Livre d'Heures "retouche" et transforme en Suisse au XVIe siecle a partir d'une ebauche abandonnee, realisee au nord de la France un siecle plus tot. Leur etudes nous a pose des problemes concernant leur datation, leur attribution et leur localisation, ainsi que la determnation du role que peut jouer un maitre au talent reconnu lors de l'illustration partielle ou totale d'un manuscrit modeste. Cette etude se propose de donner au lecteur la possibilite d'entrevoir quelques aspects de la piete du laic medieval par l'etude iconographique, liturgique et stylistique de ces douze Livres d'Heures realisees en France, dans les Flandres, dans le Rhin superieur ou en Italie, entre la fin du XIVe et le debut du XVe siecle. Languages : French.‎

Bookseller reference : 40461

‎A.-M. Legare, B. Schnerb (eds.);‎

‎Livres et lectures de femmes en Europe entre moyen age et renaissance,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Hardback, XIV+378 p., 133 b/w ill., 21 x 27. ISBN 9782503518824.‎

‎Anne-Marie Legare, Introduction I Le Royaume de France Alison Stones, Some Portraits of Women in Their Books, Late Thirteenth - Early Fourteenth Century - Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, La Femme au livre dans la litterature medievale - Elizabeth L'Estrange, Les Lectrices et les images de la maternite sainte : deux livres d'heures du XV? e siecle appartenant aux duchesses de Bretagne - Colette Beaune et Elodie Lequain, Marie de Berry et les livres - Hanno Wijsman, Les Livres de la ? damoiselle de Dreux ? :La bibliotheque d'une femme au seuil du XVe siecle - Marie-Francoise Damongeot, Le Coffre aux livres de Marie de Bretagne (1424-1477), abbesse de Fontevraud - Roseline Claerr, ? Que ma memoire 'la demeure', en mes livres ? . Catherine de Coetivy (vers 1460-1529) et sa bibliotheque - Mary Beth Winn, ? Louenges ? envers Louise: un manuscrit enlumine d'Anthoine Verard pour Louise de Savoie - Catherine Muller, ? Monstrum inter libros ? : La perception de la femme lettree chez les humanistes de la Renaissance francaise (l'exemple de Camille de Morel) II L'espace bourguignon Gaelle Cordier, L'Illustration du livre du chapitre de l'abbaye Notre-Dame-des-Pres de Douai la fin du XIIIe siecle - Therese de Hemptinne, Lire et ecrire, c'est prier un peu. Culture ecrite et pratiques feminines de devotion aux Pays-Bas a la fin du Moyen Age - Jeanne Verbij-Schillings, Les Relations entre femmes et livres : Essai d'une typologie a partir de la Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta - Marie-Elizabeth Henneau, La Cistercienne et le livre : Analyse de quelques exemples liegeois entre le XIIIe et le XVe siecle - Delphine Jeannot, Les Bibliotheques de princesses en France au temps de Charles VI : L'exemple de la bibliotheque de Marguerite de Baviere, duchesse de Bourgogne (1385-1424) - Bertrand Schnerb, Les livres de Marguerite de Becourt, dame de Santes - Anne S. Korteweg, La Collection de livres d?'ne femme independante : Marie de Luxembourg (v. 1470-1547) - Anne-Marie Barbier, Images de femmes et de livres de l'Epistre Othea de Lille (Lille, Bibliotheque municipale, ms 175) - Monique Somme, Un Recueil de traites ascetiques de la Bibliotheque municipale de Lille copie par Jacques de Ramecourt pour Isabelle de Portugal, duchesse de Bourgogne - Anne-Marie Legare, Les bibliotheques de deux princesses : Marguerite d'York et Marguerite d'Autriche - Marie-Madeleine Fontaine, Des Auteurs pour Marguerite d'Autriche et les dames de la cour de Malines : Olivier de La Marche et Jean Lemaire de Belges III Les provinces italiennes Joan Isobel Friedman, Politics and the Rhetoric of Reform in the Letters of Saints Bridget of Sweden and Catherine of Siena - Gennaro Toscano, Livres et Lectures de deux princesses de la cour d'Aragon de Naples : Isabella de Chiaromonte et Ippolita Maria Sforza - Alessandra Toniolo, Le Livre et les femmes : images dans l'enluminure ferraraise de la Renaissance. Lectures de femmes et iconographie a la cour des Este a Ferrare au XVe siecle - Alessandra Villa, Le mecenat d'Isabella d'Este entre art et litterature. Le role du Libro de natura de amore de Mario Equicola. Languages : French, English.‎

Bookseller reference : 40463

‎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

‎collective‎

‎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

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‎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

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‎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.‎

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