France. 18mo. [ca. 1450 or later, Southern France]. Disbound single leaf from a Breviary, used by monks and priests to conduct daily services. Latin. Parchment with rubcricated and blue decorative initials, gothic script. Writing to both sides of leaf. Some darkening and light soiling to edges, else fine specimens of..... More
France. 18mo. [ca. 1450 or later, Southern France]. Disbound single leaf from a Breviary, used by monks and priests to conduct daily services. Latin. Parchment with rubcricated and blue decorative initials, gothic script. Writing to both sides of leaf. Some darkening and light soiling to edges, else fine specimens of..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. Hard Cover. 4to. Bollingen Seres LXXXI. Two volumes in slipcase. Full brown cloth. Volume I - Text: xx, 378 pp., [74] pp. B&W plates. Volume II - Plates: xxii, 539 pp., XVI [colour plates]. Sunning to spines of dust jackets. Jackets are price clipped and..... More
New York: Routledge, 1997. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. Paperback. xiv, 457 p.p. A few scuffs to edges of text block, corners lightly bumped. Both reference work and general overview of medieval German literature, this book provides a comprehensive survey of this Germanic body of work from the eighth century..... More
New Rochelle, New York: Caratzas Brothers, Publishers, 1977. Hard Cover. Folio. Limited edition of 750 copies. Full brown cloth. xxxii, 251 pp. Colour frontis + B&W illustrations in text. Light bumping to spine ends, cloth split at spine head. Interior clean. Fine overall. Herrad's Horticus Delicarum was a medieval encyclopedic..... More
Athens: Ekdotike Athenon S.A., 1974. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 4to. The Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies. Two volume corpus of coloured miniatures from Byzantine manuscripts in the monastic libraries of Mount Athos. Volume I, Miniatures - Headpieces - Initial Letters (1974): The Protaton and the Monasteries of Dionysiou, Koutloumousiou, Xeropotamou..... More
Stuttgart: Hansjorg Mayer, 1973. Soft Cover. 8vo. German. [Dieter Roth Collected Works, Volume 14. The Blue Tide. Reproductions of the first edition of Hansjorg Mayer, Stuttgart 1967 and the 3 Original Manuscripts of Markgroningen Providence, Reykjavik 1966-1967.] Unpaginated - contains manuscript pagination to several pages as this is a facsimile..... More
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1950. Hard Cover. 18mo. Re-edited from Ms. Laud Misc. 108 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Reprint of 1915 second edition. Full brown cloth, black stamped lettering to spine, decorative panel and Oxford device to front board. xl, 171 pp. Slight sunning to spine, some..... More
London: Published for the Early English Text Society By Oxford University Press, 1957. Hard Cover. 8vo. Early English Text Society No. 224. Full brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine and Early English Text Society device to front board. 157 pp. One folding plate facsimile of manuscript. Rubbing to joints, spine..... More
New York: William Edwin Rudge. Hardcover. 8vo (tall). [1929] Green cloth binding with title in silver on spine. x, 53 p.p., [36] leaves of plates. Some light scratches to extremities of boards, with pages yellowing, otherwise an excellent copy in fine condition.This edition includes beautiful miniature colour engravings of paintings..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1952. Hardcover. 8vo (tall). Brown cloth, 83pp, [40] plates plus colour frontispiece. Light dampstaining to foot of last two plates and endpapers (images not affected). Spine cocked, boards a bit faded o/w very good in d/w. Jacket chipped at spine and top edges but still good..... More
London: The Early English Text Society By the Oxford University Press, 1976. Hard Cover. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to front and spine, device of Early English Text Society to front. Two B&W folding reproductions of pages from the original manuscript, incl. frontis. xxiii, 184 p.p. Light rubbing..... More