The History of the Library in Western Civilization. Volume V: From Petrarch to Michelangelo.
In this fifth volume, the author writes about the re-evaluation of the ancient world: this set in motion a quest for the surviving works of ancient Greek and Latin literature, most of which were to be found in monastic libraries. He discusses the new schools and scholarly circles that were formed to... More info
Practice Makes Perfect P. Cotsen-Princeton 1 and the Training of Scribes in Byzantine Egypt
This book by papyrologist Scott Bucking is about a 7th century Sahidic Coptic manuscript including a syllabary and simple text indicating its use for elementary instruction in a monastery. The text provides a papyrological description of the manuscript, with a text describing its historical and soci... More info
The Medieval Book. Glosses from Friends & Colleagues of Christopher de Hamel
This book was presented on the occasion of Christopher de Hamel’s sixtieth birthday, and celebrates his many accomplishments during his years at Sotheby’s and more recently as the Gaylord Donnelley Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Christopher de Hamel has ... More info
A catalogue of Greek manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum and essays in honor of Gary Vikan
Volume of The Journal of the Walters Art Museum, dedicated to Dr Gary Vikan, a scholar of Byzantine art, curator of medieval art and for a period of ten years director of the Walters Art Museum. The centrepiece of this book is a catalogue of the twenty Greek manuscripts in the collection of the muse... More info
The Oxford Bible Pictures
History and description of the leaves of the Oxford Bible Pictures by the 13th-century English illuminator W. de Brailes.The Oxford Bible Pictures consist of thirty-four illuminated miniatures depicting biblical events from the fall of the Rebel Angels to the Last Judgment. This is one of the fe... More info
Cyrillus Fables in Ulrich von Pottenstein`s version, Das Buch der Natürlichen Weisheit.
"A newly discovered illustrated manuscript of the Cyrillus-Fables in Ulrich von Pottenstein`s middle high German translation, with 96 watercolour wash illustrations, accompanied by other texts, in a dated sixteenth-century binding, formerly in the celebrated library of Count Johann Nepomuk of Wilcze... More info
The Utrecht Psalter in Medieval Art. Picturing the Psalms of David.
With authorative contributions on the historical, stylistic, and iconographic context of this masterpiece of Carolingian Renaissance by R. McKitterick, K. van der Horst, K. Corrigan, F. Mütherich, and W. Noel, and including the catalogue of the 1996 exhibition on the Utrecht Psalter at the Museum Ca... More info
Album Palaeographicum XVII Provinciarum. Paleografisch album van Nederland, België, Luxemburg en Noord-Frankri...
Velen interesseren zich vandaag voor het verleden. Dit stelt het probleem van de toegankelijkheid van de historische bron. Het lezen van de handgeschreven teksten blijft een noodzaak en schrikt de gebruiker in spe wel eens af. Ook de evolutie van het historisch onderzoek, in het bijzonder de verfijn... More info
Illuminated and decorated medieval manuscripts in the University Library, Utrecht. An illustrated catalogue.
Of all the illuminated and decorated manuscripts in the UL-Utrecht, all miniatures with identifiable subjects are illustrated and indexed, along with a choice of the minor decorations. Over 65 manuscripts are illuminated in Utrecht, the most important centre of book production in the Netherlands dur... More info