This exhibition catalogue is designed to bring some highlights of manuscript illumination in Philadelphia collections not only to scholars but to all lovers of medieval and Renaissance art. Eighty of the region's most significant manuscripts, chosen from among more than five hundred volumes and two thousand leaves, are pictured and described. Those presented here range from a deluxe Books of Hours to technical medical and legal texts, including an internationally renowned Book of Hours-Psalter once owned by the Earl of ...
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This exhibition catalogue is designed to bring some highlights of manuscript illumination in Philadelphia collections not only to scholars but to all lovers of medieval and Renaissance art. Eighty of the region's most significant manuscripts, chosen from among more than five hundred volumes and two thousand leaves, are pictured and described. Those presented here range from a deluxe Books of Hours to technical medical and legal texts, including an internationally renowned Book of Hours-Psalter once owned by the Earl of Pembroke and an unusual, richly illuminated copy of Saint Augustine's City of God.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x1x12; The binding is tight, corners sharp. White stains to cloth along bottom panel edges, otherwise the binding is like new. Gift inscription on FFEP. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows light handling and shelf rubbing, spine sunned, in a mylar cover. 4to. 242pp.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 91/2x12 1/2. 242 page hardcover exhibition catalog with many color illustrations. Exhibit was Philadelphia area illuminated manuscripts shown at Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 10-May 13, 2001. Dust jacket is bright, complete and clean. Full blue cloth exterior with title in gold. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean.
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As New in As New jacket. Book. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in royal blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's red pictorial dust-jacket. 242 pages. Glossary, Selected Bibliography. Indexes. With 185 illustrations, 143 of which are in color. First edition, first printing published on the occasion of the eponymously named exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 10-May 13, 2001 and the First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tenn., September 27, 2001-January 6, 2002. A fine selection of eighty the Philadelphia area's museums, universities, public library's and scholarly institutions examples of medieval illuminated books, many published for the first time. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket. No international shipping available for this title; domestic Priority orders will require additional postage due to size and weight.
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