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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.
Hardback, 124 p., incl. 20 pl. coul. et 16 pl. n/bl., 21 x 29. ISBN 9782503505244. Dote d'une superbe representation du Seigneur en Majeste, d'initiales historiees de grande qualite, d'initiales a motifs parlants et de belles initiales a decor vegetal, l'Evangeliaire de Remiremont compte parmi les plus beaux livres de ce type conserves dans les fonds de Departements. L'origine lorraine du manuscrit de Remiremont n'est certainement pas etrangere a son statut de manuscrit de luxe, car c'est dans l'Empire germanique que les Evangiles et les Evangeliaires ont connu leur plus bel essor. Le voisinage de l'art mosan, qui au seuil du XIIIe siecle vient de connaitre sa plus grande gloire, n'est sans doute pas etranger a la qualite stylistique et iconographique du manuscrit qui apparait du meme coup comme un nouveau temoin du 'style 1200'. Languages : French.
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.
Hardback, VIII+320 p., 89 b/w ill. + 35 colour ill., 22 x 29. ISBN 9782503515113. This study of the two-volume Lambeth Bible, one of the premier Romanesque giant bibles, concerns itself with its textual makeup as well as its magnificent illumination. It reports the results of research on texts and imagery found in over a hundred English and continental Romanesque Bibles. Comparative study of the prefatory materials in these Bibles yielded significant new understandings of their importance and represents a major conclusion of this study. They are important aids in establishing places of origin of biblical manuscripts and in the study of the illumination chosen for them. Exhaustive study of the prologues, chapter lists, and other miscellaneous texts in both volumes of the Lambeth Bible and other English Bibles, has helped to establish that the Lambeth Bible was not made at St. Albans or at Christ Church, Canterbury, two of the sites often suggested for its production. Six beautiful miniatures and thirty-one historiated initials remain in the Lambeth Bible so examination of their iconography is a major aspect of this book. This study includes both a search for visual and textual models for the imagery used in the Lambeth Bible and an investigation of the significance of those subjects in the twelfth century. In a surprising number of cases a relationship existed between the prologue preceding a biblical book and the imagery with which it was illuminated. Thus what initially seemed to be isolated instances of drawing inspiration from the prologues was in fact a customary practice of the makers of the Lambeth Bible. Languages : French, English.
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.
Hardback, 641 p., 20 b/w ill. + 50 colour ill., 22 x 28. ISBN 9782503517186. This book is primarily a catalogue of those nearly-intact extant books containing the full music of the Mass made between the date of the Bohemian Revolution (July 1419) and the Battle of the White Mountain (November 1620). Two principal religious factions were active in Bohemia and Moravia during the period. The larger, the Utraquists, took communion in both bread and wine. The Roman Catholics, fewer but still numerous, followed the then relatively recent practice of using bread only. While graduals are important sources for the liturgy practised by Utraquists and Roman Catholics, many of them are also of great interest artistically and historically. Some of the more beautiful books were produced for use by the literary societies, later incorporated as guilds, which were responsible for the music in their churches. The information the books contain about the membership of the guilds, containing as it did most of the social strata of the towns, gives important information about the contemporary social structure and about the strength of Utraquism. Individual guild members often sponsored a page at the beginning of a mass set which was profusely decorated. The quality of the art and the evolution in the iconography can be appreciated in the book's 50 colour plates. Languages : English.
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.
Paperback, 272 p., 14 b/w ill., 15,6 x 23,4. ISBN 9782503532042. Avec l'avenement de ?« la pensee gothique ?», le christianisme s'est decouvert une nouvelle maniere d'exprimer la Creation et les experiences du temps. Cette maniere se caracterise par une sensibilite a la representation de plenitude dans la Creation (horror vacui). En prenant les fameux Bibles Moralisees comme etude de cas, Babette Hellemans met en evidence diverses experiences temporelles du monde de la premiere moitie du XIIIe siecle : l'acte de creer, l'incarnation et le debat scolastique sur la notion de presence par rapport a la question de la condition humaine. Le lecteur est engage dans la decouverte passionnante d'une famille coherente de manuscrits, consideres d'abord dans leur materialite d'objets - le codex, ses folios de parchemin, le texte du scribe et les medaillons du peintre, les lignes et les couleurs - materialite a partir de laquelle se revele le sens du texte et des images. L'auteur produit ainsi une oeuvre scientifique d'essai par son intention hermeneutique et aussi par une demarche qui, a la maniere des Bibles Moralisees, lie de maniere indissociable le present et le passe. Les references a la philosophie et a la linguistique (Deleuze et Ricoeur par exemple), a la litterature (Proust, Le Clezio), a la peinture et sculpture (Mondrian, Brancusi) ne sont pas de simples ornements ?-elles nourrissent la pensee de l'auteur et eclairent des aspects essentiels des Bibles Moralisees, tel le caractere repetitif des medaillons et la geometrie matricielle de la page, ou encore l'articulation de la paraphrase biblique et de la ?« signification ?» ou ?« moralisation ?» qui lui repond en echo. L'enjeu de l'ouvrage est soutenu par un souci fondamental pour le debat methodologique; l'auteur vise a explorer, tenant compte du contexte historique avec une grande precision, des nouvelles voies de recherche apres le postmodernisme et le linguistic turn. Languages : French.
Hardback, 116 p., 23 b/w ill., 15,5 x 22. ISBN 9789654931601. This study examines five different aspects of the production of medieval Hebrew manuscripts while attempting to check whether the manuscripts reflect a clear historical process of progress and rationalization: ergometrically amelioration of the technical production procedures, growing efficiency in copying, greater comfort of reading and clarity of the text hierarchy, and greater faithfulness to the copied text. The study addresses the question whether the history of Jewish handwritten book production and consumption until the beginning of Hebrew printing mirrors compromises between economic constraints and functional needs or optimization of production process, as it is claimed by Ezio Ornato concerning Western manuscripts, or it is possible to discern the dominant impact of interests other than economic or functional in the history of the fabrication of Hebrew books, such as the esthetical and the 'rethorical'. These aspects are analyzed while deploying the unique empirical procedure of Hebrew quantitative codicology, based on a database of codicological features of all the extant dated Hebrew manuscripts. Languages : English, Hebrew.
Hardback, 424 p., 46 b/w ill. + 224 colour ill., 22 x 28,5. FINE ISBN 9781905375769. The Paper Museum ('Museo Cartaceo') is a collection of some 10,000 drawings and prints assembled during the seventeenth century by the Roman patron and collector, Cassiano dal Pozzo, and his younger brother, Carlo Antonio. It represents one of the most significant attempts before the age of photography to embrace human knowledge in visual form, documenting ancient art and culture, architecture and topography, natural history and social customs. The 160 drawings catalogued in this volume are derived from five ancient manuscripts: the famous Vatican Vergil, the so-called 'Roman' Vergil, the Vatican Terence, and the less well-known Palatine Agrimensores, all in the Vatican Library, and from a fifth codex, now lost, known as the Chronography or Calendar of the year 354. The bulk of the drawings were copied for Cassiano between 1632 and 1634 for the purpose of studying both the characters depicted and the allied evidence of ancient costume and artefacts. By the later seventeenth century, when Pietro Santi Bartoli executed the last group of drawings in the present volume for Carlo Antonio, manuscript illustrations had come to be cherished as much for their rarity as examples of ancient painting as for their documentary value. Introductory essays provide an overview of the dal Pozzo commissions, the manuscripts and their history down to Cassiano's day, as well as their study in the wider context of classical scholarship through to the eighteenth century. All the drawings are reproduced in colour at full page, with accompanying descriptions of the subjects or relevant ancient verses in modern translation and brief commentaries. Languages : English.
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.
Hardback, 344 p., incl. 282 ills., with 116 in colour, 22 x 28,5. ISBN 9781872501888. The first volume to appear in the Natural History series catalogues a group of spectacular drawings of citrus fruit in watercolour and gouache, most of which were commissioned to illustrate Giovanni Battista Ferrari's Hesperides, an ambitious attempt at a complete taxonomy and classification of the entire citrolgical world, which was published in Rome in 1646. Cassiano dal Pozzo played a fundamental role in this project: it was he who commissioned and supplied most of the drawings and then arranged for them to be engraved for Ferrari's projected work. The citrus drawings - grouped in the Catalogue under the headings of citrons, lemons, oranges, pummelos, hybrids, monstro sities and unidentified citrus fruit - are reproduced in full colour and are accompanied by a wealth of comparative material which includes the Hesperides engravings, additional drawings and photographs of actual specimens, mainly of the monstrous kind. In addition to detailed scientific descriptions of the specimens themselves, the catalogue also gives art historical information on watermarks, annotations, types of mount, provenance and literature. The introductory essays explain Cassiano's method of gathering information from a network of correspondents around Europe and consider the relationship between these drawings and other natural history subjects commissioned by Cassiano. The authors discuss the work of the artists involved in the project and assess the major contribution made the classification of citrus fruit by the collaborative efforts of Cassiano of Ferrari. Languages : English.
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.
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.
Paperback, 461 p., 16 x 24. ISBN 9780888448040. Languages : English.
Paperback, 361 p., +plate, 16 x 24. ISBN 9780888448064. Languages : English.
Paperback, 506 p., 16 x 24. ISBN 9780888448101. Languages : English.
Paperback, X+185 p., 15 x 23. ISBN 9780888448170. Charters are among the richest sources for the history of medieval Europe. The historical sub-discipline of diplomatics is devoted to the study of these documents. In Charters, Cartularies, and Archives, a distinguished international group of diplomatists address thirteen cases of transmission and preservation of medieval documents. A recurrent theme in the volume is the actual preservation of individual charters, but the content of originals was transmitted in other ways as well. Several chapters discuss questions relating to recopied originals, cartularies, and a range of other archival practices for retaining documents during the Middle Ages. Many of the authors focus on how documents were organized in archives and in cartularies during the period. Others discuss the notions of 'original document' and 'copy' - both their relationship to each other, and to the legal validity of the document in question. The volume ranges over a wide chronological and geographical scope, with contributions spread across Europe and the Middle Ages from the eighth-century Lombard kingdom to late medieval Douai. Several chapters focus on institutions in medieval France, but areas such as Scandinavia, Bohemia, and Italy are also represented. The chapters of this volume derive from papers delivered at a colloquium of the Colloquium international de diplomatique in Princeton and in New York in autumn 1999. Languages : English.
Gebrocheerd, originele uitgeversomslag in kleur, 19.5x13.5 cm., 192 pp., binnen- en buitentekstillustraties in z/w en in kleur waarvan 69 genummerd. ISBN 9022611876.
Paperback, 196 pages ., 18 x 26,5. ISBN 9782503548005. Parmi les 1100 manuscrits decouverts au Sinai en 1975 figurent deux codex georgiens, N Sin 13 et Sin 55, entierement palimpsestes. La couche inferieure conserve les deux seuls temoins connus de la litterature udi, idiome de l'ancien royaume albanien du Caucase. Copies au VIIe s., semble-t-il, ces palimpsestes albaniens revelent l'un, un texte lacunaire de l'Evangile de Jean emaille, en marge, de six annotations liturgiques et de tirets renvoyant peut-etre aux sections eusebiennes et a un lecture continue de Jean au Temps pascal ; l'autre, une compilation desordonnee de pericopes bibliques provenant presque toutes d'une traduction d'un lectionnaire grec de Jerusalem des annees 450-614. Sous-jacent a cette compilation, dont le but reste obscur, apparait un authentique lectionnaire liturgique albanien qui a pu etre utilise en Albanie du Caucase des apres 450. Ce document est caracterise par le souci d'attenuer une dependance, non seulement vis-a-vis du lectionnaire hierosolymitain, mais aussi par rapport aux lectionnaires armenien et georgien fideles a la tradition hagiopolite. La compilation du second palimpseste repond-elle a l'intention de composer par la suite un lectionnaire albanien encore plus distinct des textes jerusalemite, armenien et georgien, l'Eglise albanienne ayant souvent manifeste a l'egard des Eglises armenienne et georgienne un desir d'autonomie, voire meme d'autocephalie. Ce document albanien enrichit notre connaissance de l'antiquite chretienne. Languages : French.
Paperback, 526 p., 18 x 26,5. ISBN 17500010200. Languages : Syriac.
Paperback, 714 p., 18 x 26,5. ISBN 17500020200. Languages : Syriac.
Paperback, 738 p., 18 x 26,5. ISBN 17500030200. Languages : Syriac.
Paperback, 19 x 28. ISBN 17102250200. Languages : Latin.
Paperback, 752p., 19 x 28. ISBN 9782503130521. Languages : Greek.
