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Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001. Softcover. VG. Minor shelf wear. Owner's writing inside front cover.. Red wraps with color illustration, bronze and white lettering. xiv, 242 pp. 80 full-page color plates, numerous smaller BW & color illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition held March 10-May 13, 2001 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, September 28, 2001-January 6, 2002. Eight informative essays accompany the beautiful illustrations. Topics include bibles, psalters, Book of Hours, liturgical manuscripts, as well as literary and secular texts. Also contains essays on "Collecting Illuminated Manuscripts in Philadelphia" and "From Calf to Codex.

(Philadelphia, PA): Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001. paperback. Illuminated Manuscripts. 4to. paperback. xiv, 242 pages. First softcover edition. A fine copy. This catalogue highlights eighty of the most significant illuminated manuscripts held in public collections throughout the greater Philadelphia area that were exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from March 10 through May 13, 2001. Essays on Bibles, Psalters, Books of Hours, liturgical manuscripts, literary and secular texts, the history of collecting manuscripts in Philadelphia, and the making of medieval manuscripts add to the value of this volume. The delicate paintings with their jewel-like colors, intimate scale and often whimsical marginalia, are rich historical sources which reveal the art, customs, and styles of the times and provide an especially engaging view into the past. Included here are such treasures as a superb Book of Hoursonce owned by the Earl of Pembroke and an elegantly illustrated copy of Saint Augustine's City of… Leer más

Philadelphia Pa. : Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001. First Edition. Hardback. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 242 pages; xiv, 242 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm. Summary: This volume records a remarkable collaborative exhibition that assembles for the first time eighty illuminated manuscripts of great quality, drawn from collections of eleven institutions in the greater Philadelphia area. Almost every artistic centre in medieval and Renaissance Western Europe is represented in this wonderfully diverse group of images, as well as almost every major known type of early illuminated book: Psalters, Bibles, Books of Hours, a wide variety of liturgical manuscripts, and many types of literary and secular texts. The delicate miniatures in these manuscripts did not appear alone; they were surrounded by words and are therefore… Leer más

(Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, Belgium): Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001. Illustrated by 185 reproductions (143 in color). Only edition. Navy cloth, gilt stamped spine, gloss paper. Signed by Tauris following inscription (scanned). Royal 4to. pp. xiv, 242. Near Fine/In like jacket/No price in mylar. Trace wear to book and jacket. A Multi-contributor collaboration "with contributions from twenty-one scholars and experts [for exhibits in Philadelphia and Nashville] organized in association with the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries". ISBN: 0876331452. Oversize >4lb packaged..