The Roman Vergil and the Origins of Medieval Book Design Tapa dura - 2001

British Library, January 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Hardback. Very Good.

British Library Publishing Division. Used - Very Good. 2001. Hardcover. 4to. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy. Very Good.

British Library, London. As New in As New dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0712346562 . This book is like new; no remainder marks. Unread copy. Dustjacket does have some shelfwear. Inside pages are clean. ; 72 pages .

British Library, 2001. 31 cm x 27.5 cm, dark blue boards, pp. [71]; illustrated in colour..

London: The British Library, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Blue cloth-effect paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. As issued. Color pictorial dust jacket as issued, now in mylar. 72 pp., illus. mostly in color, some b&w..

British Library, 2001. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 11 x 12 1/2. This book is new. The dust jacket shows shelfwear including scuffing. Twenty surviving illuminated pages from The Roman Vergil are reproduced in color and accompanied by explanatory text.

London: British Library, 2001. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 70pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

British Library. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Books, Manuscripts, Illustrated works, Art) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

The British Library, 2001 4to (31 cm), 72 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "The Roman Vergil (or Codex Romanus so named by Valeriano in 1521) is one of the most precious manuscripts in the Vatican Library. Produced in Rome before the end of the fifth century AD, it is an enormous and beautifully made copy of the works of Vergil, finely designed and illuminated. Its influence on the development of mediaeval manuscript art is important in many ways: for example the first page of the text of the "Aeneid" is the earliest-known decorated "incipit" page. In this volume, all 20 illuminated pages are reproduced in sequence, with explanatory text. In the accompanying commentary Professor Wright provides a wide-ranging discussion of the place of the manuscript in the history of art and book design, illustrated with comparative material from other manuscripts, mosaics and ivories, along with an analysis of the script and letter forms." (from the… Leer más