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A catalogue of Greek manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum and essays in honor of Gary Vikan  cover art

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
A choice of corals. Facets of fifteenth-century Hebrew printing.  cover art

A choice of corals. Facets of fifteenth-century Hebrew printing.

Eight studies, including: Literature on Hebrew incunabula since the Second World War - Notes on Hebrew printing at Naples about 1490 - A list of copies of Hebrew incunabula, disappeared since the outbreak of the Second World War. More info
Album Palaeographicum XVII Provinciarum. Paleografisch album van Nederland, België, Luxemburg en Noord-Frankrijk.  cover art

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
Anshelmus Faust: Beschrijvinghe des boeckbinders handwerck. 1612|Prescription de la manicfacture des relieurs. 1612.  cover art

Anshelmus Faust: Beschrijvinghe des boeckbinders handwerck. 1612|Prescription de la manicfacture des relieurs....

This is the `editio princeps` of the oldest bookbinders` manual. This French-Dutch bilingual manuscript, which is now in the collections of the Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp, was written by the German bookbinder Anshelmus Faust for the cistercian abbey of Saint-Bernhard, near Antwerp. The manusc... More info
Bibliotheca Erasmiana. Répertoire des oeuvres d`Erasme.  cover art

Bibliotheca Erasmiana. Répertoire des oeuvres d`Erasme.

I. Liste sommaire et provisoire des diverses éditions des oeuvres d`Erasme.  II. Auteurs publiés, traduits ou annotés par Erasme. III. Sources. Biographies d`Erasme et écrits le concernant; ouvrages qui contiennent des notes d`Erasme, des extraits de ses oeuvres, etc. More info
Bibliotheca Theologica enthaltend u.a. die Sammlung William Jackson, Paris. Bücherkatalog 327-331 Otto Harrassowitz.  cover art

Bibliotheca Theologica enthaltend u.a. die Sammlung William Jackson, Paris. Bücherkatalog 327-331 Otto Harrass...

Outstanding collection of Reformation books and pamphlets. More than 6.880 entries. More info
Binding structures in the Middle Ages. A Selection of Studies by Berthe van Regemorter. Translated and annotated by Jane Greenfield.  cover art

Binding structures in the Middle Ages. A Selection of Studies by Berthe van Regemorter. Translated and annotat...

Berthe van Regemorter learned the craft of bookbinding in Brussels before joining the workshop of the famous British bookbinders Sangorsky and Sutcliffe. In 1923 she entered the Vrije Akademie in Antwerp as an instructor. A turning point in her carreer was Henry van de Velde`s request to become a le... More info
Bio-bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica ante saeculum XVI.  cover art

Bio-bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica ante saeculum XVI.

I: Pars Biographica: Auctores editionum qui scripserunt ante saeculum XVI. De auteurs van de uitgegeven werken die in de XIIIe, XIVe en XVe eeuw leefden. II: Pars Bibliographica : Incunabula. De Inkunabel-uitgaven. - 131 entries with full descriptions. III: Illustrationes Incunabulorum. 4to. A volum... More info
Bodoni: quand la simplicité devient art.  cover art

Bodoni: quand la simplicité devient art.

Exposition organisée à la Bibliotheca Wittockiana du 17 juin au 9 septembre 2000. This monograph is a tribute to the prince of typographers, Giambatista Bodoni (1740-1813) whose genius is not only refelcted in the creating and drawing of typographical characters, but also in their engraving and foun... More info
Bücherzeichen (Ex-libris) des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts von Dürer, Burgmaier, Beham, Virgil Solis, Jost Amman, u.A.  cover art

Bücherzeichen (Ex-libris) des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts von Dürer, Burgmaier, Beham, Virgil Solis, Jost Amman,...

Documentation on German ex-libris by outstanding artists of the 15th-16th centuries. More info
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