Illuminated Manuscripts from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Wratislaviae: Ossolineum, 1984 8vo (24.5 cm), XVII, [1], 508, [2] pp. Publisher's cloth (binding slightly stained). The third volume of the catalogue of manuscripts in the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow contains descriptions of manuscripts with signatures from 445 to 563.

New York: Christie's, 2009 4to (27 cm), 66 pp. Laminated wrappers (wrappers slightly rubbed at extremities, collector's stamp top of the title). A price list is loosely inserted. This auction catalogue documents a sale held in London on 24 November 2009, featuring 81 entries. Highlights include "Il Canzoniere and I Trionfi" by Petrarch, accompanied by "Vita di Petrarca" by Leonardo… Read more about this item

Penguin Press, 2017 8vo (24.5 cm), VIII, 632 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket. "The book is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and about the… Read more about this item

Brussels, 1962 8vo (25 cm), XVI, 112 pp, 66 plates. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly stained, date written verso of the front cover). Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Royal Library of Belgium from May 5th to July 8th, 1962, featuring 159 entries.

Annecy: Gardet, 1959 4to (33 cm), 138 pp. Publisher's boards (binding slightly rubbed and stained, bookseller's ticket on the front free endpaper). Limited to 1165 copies, this is no. 337 on vélin crème. Beautifully printed by Clément Gardet facsimile of the Hours of the Duc Louis of Savoie executed c. 1445-1460. Preface by Daniel-Rops, an introduction by Clément Gardet.

Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, 1897 8vo (22 cm), front. in color, XI, [1], 149, [1] pp, 26 plates. Publisher's burgundy cloth gilt, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom-edge untrimmed (biding slightly rubbed, some foxing to endpapers and untrimmed edges, faded inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1897 possibly by the author). A very good copy of an interesting… Read more about this item

British Museum, 1894 4to (26 cm), [6], XLIII pp, 65 plates. Green Jansenist Morocco, commissioned by H. Sotheran & Co, London, with a gilt-lettered spine, inner gilt dentelles, and marbled endpapers (spine sunned, joints slightly rubbed). The book includes a collotype facsimile of the miniatures and borders from the Sforza Hours (British Library, London, Add. MS 34294). Painted by the… Read more about this item

Madrid: Imprenta de La Iberia, 1881 4to (29 cm), [4], XX, [6], [4] pp facsimile of a letter, [118] ff facsimile of the manuscript, [2], 76 pp. Contemporary leather-backed boards, front cover gilt, gilt-lettered spine (binding slightly rubbed, blind stamp of the binder J. Gomez, Madrid, outer margins of two leaves worn, last leaves somewhat warped). An interesting example of… Read more about this item

‎Paris: Vilo, 1974 8vo (22.5 cm), 32 pp (pamphlet in printed wrappers), 78 cards in board case, slip-case (minor shelf-wear). The Visconti-Sforza Tarot is used to refer to approximately 15 decks from the middle of the 15th century, now located in various museums, libraries, and private collections around the world. Visconti-Colleoni deck, reproduced here in beautiful facsimile, was produced… Read more about this item

Florence: Bonechi, 1968 Folio (36 cm), 72 pp, 32 ff of plates. Hardcover in dust jacket and printed plastic wrappers (plastic wrappers chipped at bottom, dj slightly rubbed at extremities). The library of the Dominican monastery of San Marco in Florence is widely regarded as the first public library in Europe. Commissioned by Cosimo de' Medici between 1437 and 1444,… Read more about this item

Artia, 1962 4to (29.5 cm), 176 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities). A study of medieval book illumination in Slovakia.

Paris: Berthaud Frères, 1902 12mo (19 cm), 20 pp, 86 plates. Burgundy cloth, spine gilt, original wrappers bound in, whole book mounted on guards (withdrawn library stamps on front endpapers and verso front wrapper, else clean and firm copy). Lavishly illustrated Psalter of St. Louis (now Bibliothèque nationale de France MS Latin 10525) was made between 1253 and 1270. Done… Read more about this item

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971 2 volumes 4to (31 cm), [6] pp, [38] ff of facsimile; 104 pp. Publisher's cloth, slip-case (slipcase slightly rubbed, spine somewhat sunned). The first volume is a facsimile, the second volume commentaries on the Cloisters Apocalypse. The illuminated manuscript was executed in Normandy, France c. 1330. It contains 72 half or full page miniature illustrations.… Read more about this item

Peter Nevill, 1962 4to (33.5 cm), 144 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket (some foxing of front leaves, paper slightly toned). 132 tipped in color illustrations. "Here, in a handsome volume containing over 130 beautiful colour plates, we find a history and an interpretation of the exacting art of illumination. What is illumination? How did it begin and develop? How did… Read more about this item

Thames and Hudson, 1968 4to (28.5 cm), 307 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust-jacket, paper slip-case (slip-case worn, dj slightly rubbed at extremities). 96 color and 64 half-tone plates. "In this book Dr Rothe has chosen one illuminated miniature from each of 160 manuscripts, all taken from the collections in German Democratic Republic. So rich and varied were the resources available,… Read more about this item

London: Sotheby's & Co, 1969 8vo (25 cm), 56 pp, 9 plates. Printed wrappers. Auction catalogue of a sale held in London on 9th July 1969. 63 lots, including a Fine Charter of Henry I; a Grant of Fernando II, King of Leon; an Alchemical Manuscript of Miles Blomefield; a 15th Century Manuscript of Hardyng's Metrical Chronicle of England; a… Read more about this item

Paris: La Société française de reproductions des manuscrits à peintures, 1923 4to (28 cm), front., 35 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly rubbed). "The Hours of Étienne Chevalier" is an illuminated book of hours commissioned by Étienne Chevalier (1410-1474), treasurer to King Charles VII of France, from the miniature painter and illuminator Jean Fouquet. While 48 leaves with 47 miniatures were… Read more about this item

London: Sotheby's & Co, 1974 8vo (25 cm), 48 pp, 18 plates. Printed wrappers. Auction catalogue of a sale held in London on 8th July 1974. 96 lots, including Fragments of Greek and Coptic Papyri; a Leaf from a Genesis Picture Book, Salzburg, 12th Century; a Miniature by Jean Bourdichon from the Hours of Henry VII; Four Other Miniatures from… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Printed for private circulation, 1908 Cloth-backed portfolio, 4to (31.5 x 24.5 cm), 20 pp pamphlet, 11 plates (the paper of the covers slightly warped, the first and last pages of the pamphlet separated with the first having a small tear, foxing on one plate, a note in pencil on the front pastedown, back cover without a pastedown). This privately… Read more about this item

Phaidon, 1947 4to (30 cm), 38 pp, 82 illustrations on unnumbered plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj stained and frayed at extremities, paper chipped at the head of the spine, endpapers toned, bookseller's ticket on front past-down). "In 1941 the British Museum acquired the finest surviving illuminated manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy. Produced in the first half of the… Read more about this item