Nigel morgan eds (5 Ergebnisse)

Large 4to, 286pp. Original predominatly gold semi-rigid wrappers with flaps, very slightly bowed toward the top edge. Numerous full-colour reproducitons of illuminated manuscripts. A near-fine to fine copy. First edition.

Cloth. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. The British Isles; Insular and Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts. The first published volume in a wonderful resource dealing with this vital period. pp360. Superbly illustrated with all the scholarly apparatus.

Size:230 x 330 mm. Illustrations: 440 col. Hard cover and dust jacket Cambridge is fortunate in having a significant collection of manuscripts from this period, and the ninety-seven works catalogued and richly illustrated here are amongst the finest surviving examples of Anglo-Saxon decoration. Included here are the fragmentary yet striking remains of a once magnificent early eighth-century Northumbrian Gospels, while an early tenth-century copy of Bede's Life of St Cuthbert contains a full-page image of King Aethelstan offering a book to St Cuthbert, that may be the earliest presentation scene surviving in England. …

2 vol. Size:230 x 330 mm. Illustrations:750 col. Part I, vol. I the Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria ; vol. 2 The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands Two-volume set. "The first two beautifully designed volumes of Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge have all the indices and finding aids (including an index of biblical and non-biblical iconography) to facilitate further research. They are brimming with ideas, are full of dissertation topics, and are testaments to the bounty - intellectual and sensuous or even sybaritic - spread out before students of medieval manuscripts.".…

2 vol. Size:230 x 330 mm. Illustrations:900 col. Italy and the Iberian Peninsula. It covers manuscripts produced in Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, ranging from the early Gospels of St Augustine made in sixth-century Rome, through the carefully designed patristic texts from twelfth-century Tuscany and Lombardy, the great law books of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Bologna, the opulent Books of Hours, elegant Humanistic volumes and enormous Choir Books of the fifteenth century, and finally to the richly decorated and densely ornamented books of sixteenth-century Spain Two-volume set. "Every manuscript and cutting is illustrated to a very high standard by at least one and often several images, ensuring the value of this project not only in describing the Cambridge collections, but as a tool for future research.".…