The Scriptorium of Wearmouth-Jarrow. de PARKES, M.B.:

London: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & Co Ltd, 1935 VG oblong H/b.125x195mm. Profusely illus. 204pp. b/w photo-plates. Summary, Fleet Distribution, Destroyer Pendant Numbers etc.- please See our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.[Book- blue cloth, black titles, sound binding, No inscsp, no annotation, on glossy paper, tan to end papers, spine lean]

London: Scolar Press. 402pp hardback, brown cloth gilt in wrapper, well illustrated, very good in a good wrapper, in blank card slipcase . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1979.

Scolar Press. 1979. First Edition, 4to, 193 plates (17 in colour), orig. cloth, d.w. with slight insect damage otherwise a very nice copy. An important collection comprising of 71 Western, 5 Greek and 13 Oriental manuscripts, together with a number of fragments.

Scolar Press, London, first edition, 1979. Cloth, skiver spine-label, 4to, 29 cm,. xxi, 365 pp, 176 black-and-white ills, 17 colour ills. From the prospectus: "The medieval manuscripts of Keble College, Oxford, form almost the last important collection of medieval manuscripts in England hitherto uncatalogued.. The collection comprises seventy-one Western, five Greek and thirteen Oriental manuscripts together with a number of fragments. The Western manuscripts contain texts in Dutch, English, French, German and Italian as well as Latin and Greek; the Oriental manuscripts contain texts in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Pashto, Turkish and Samaritan. Most of the manuscripts are liturgical books or Books of Hours, lavishly decorated and illustrated by artists of outstanding ability. The oldest manuscript in the collection is a fragment of the Sacramentary made for Arno of Salzburg (d. 821). One of the most famous items is the Regensburg Lectionary, executed in the 1270s, and long regarded as one of the… Leer más

London: Scolar Press, 1979. Reprint. Near fine/near fine. Hardcover : pp. [x] xxxii [xxxiv] 26 : 16 plates : maroon cloth boards : gilt to spine. Head of spine and corners at head pushed, repeated on jacket. "Few palaeographical handbooks achieve the status of classics, but Malcolm Parkes's English Cursive Book Hands 1250-1500 is beyond doubt one of them. Since it was first published in 1969 the accuracy of its judgements and the lapidary manner in which they are expressed have rendered it the touchstone for the description and analysis of later medieval English handwriting. It is a work of permanent significance, and its reappearance in a second reprint will be universally welcomed." Richard Beadle, University of Cambridge, UK.

Paperback / softback. New. In the present collection of articles by Malcolm Parkes two overarching concerns emerge: the palaeography of manuscript books in relation to what Parkes has previously called the 'grammar of legibility'; and the importance of considering the circumstances in which medieval books were produced, copied and read. The individual studies discuss the handwriting of individual scribes, and the evidence script can provide of the circumstances of a book's production, the effect of punctuation and layout of text on the reader's interpretation of a work, and the provision and production of books for communities of readers, both clerical and academic. From a discussion of the scribe of the Hereford Mappa Mundi to a comprehensive study of book provision in the medieval University of Oxford, a wealth of information is conveyed in these articles, now conveniently accessible in one volume, about books and their histories by one of the most knowledgeable of manuscript… Leer más

Scolar Press. 1979. First Edition, 4to, 193 plates (17 in colour), orig. cloth, d.w. a very nice copy. An important collection comprising of 71 Western, 5 Greek and 13 Oriental manuscripts, together with a number of fragments.

Routledge, 2017. Paperback. New. 400 pages. 9.61x6.65x1.18 inches.

Hambledon Press, 1991. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xxii + 325, illus with b&w plates (previous owner's neat inscription on front paste-down).

University of California Press, 1980. Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. Price-clipped.