A catalogue of medieval literature, especially of the romances of chivalry, and books relating to the customs, costume, art, and pageantry of the middle ages.

  • Bernard Quaritch Ltd
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A catalogue of medieval literature, especially of the romances of chivalry, and books relating to the customs, costume, art, and pageantry of the middle ages. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the Emperor Maximilian's own handwriting), hf. red morocco, gilt top, uncut Wien, 1880-82 15 0 This superb volume is a companion to the Weiss Kunig, the Theuerdank (see post), the Triumph, and the Triumphal Arch of Maximilian; but, unlike those books, it was never engraved in the sixteenth century, with the exception of five blocks (in Burgmair’s style) which are also reproduced here for comparison with the corresponding facsimile-drawings. The subjects are entirely drawn from the incidents of tilting, combating, dancing, pageantry, and masquerade, which took place during the wooing of Mary of Burgundy. It thus completes the cycle of illustrated works projected by and executed for the romantic Emperor. There is in it, however, no allegorical signification as in the others. 77 MENESTRIER (Claude Eran9ois) Traitedes Tovrnois, lovstes, Carrovsels, et avtres spectacles pvblics, 4to. fine vignettes in illustration of the subject and initials engraved with, figures ; Colbert’s copy in red morocco extra, with his arms on the sides and his monogram in the panels on the back Lyon, 1669 3 10 With Bindley’s bookplate. 78 PISTOFILO (Bonaventvra) il toeneo . . sm. 4to. frontispiece, portrait, and 117 fine plates of knights in armour upon foot, in attitudes of parade, exercise, or defence; red morocco super extra, qilt edqes, by R. Petit Bologna, 1627 8 10 79 [RUEXNER (Georg)] Thtjrnieebuch, Das ist: Warhaffte eigentliche vnd kurtze Besckreibung, von Anfang, Yrsachen, Vrsprung vnd Herkommen der Tburnier ... 2 vols. in 1, folio, numerous beautiful woodcuts by Post Amman, fine copy in pigskin, with clasps Franckfurt am Mayn, 1579 6 0 80 —■ ■■ the same, red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Trautz-Bauzonnet 1579 7 10 The bottom of the title is repaired, so that the letters of the date had to be added in facsimile. The facsimilist has made it m.d.lxx.viii. The first volume of this edition is a reprint of Eiixner’s book, first published in 1530 at Siemern, but with totally different woodcuts. The second volume is a con- tinuation, and describes the knightly sports of Maximilian’s time. 81 THE EGLINTON TOURNAMENT. Series of Views representing the Tournament beld at Eglinton Castle in 1839, impl. folio, 21 large coloured plates after drawings made by James Henry Nixon on the spot; and a descriptive text ornamented with illuminated initials; hf. green morocco, gilt edges 1843 3 16 A striking presentment of picturesque folly. The enthusiastic text-writer declares that the scene carried the spectators back four hundred years: “ they beheld the realisation of the ages of the Conqueror, of the Crusades, the fields of Agincourt and Cressy.”—This is like the view which Adam enjoyed from a hill-top, of Samarcand, Mexico, Moscow, and Cuzco. 5.—Illustrations in Books and Manuscripts. 82 PSALTERIUM, cum Calendario ad usum Eboracensem, square folio, illuminated MS. on vellum, wM 92 pictures of scenes from the Bible and the lives of the Saints; old rough calf in a red morocco case Executed probably at Mendham Priory about 1170 800 0 Called tbe Huntingfield Psalter, because of two entries in the Calen- dar of the death of Sir Roger of Huntingfield (about 1337) and of Lucy of Huntingfield (about the same time). Mendham Priory was founded and endowed by successive members of this family, but the last Sir Roger died in 1337, and after the death of his son William, the large Huntingfield lordships in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridge, and Lincolnshire, passed into other hands. This grand volume is a treasury of early English art such as can no longer now be found (with this single exception) out of the great public libraries. After the six leaves of Calendar (of markedly York charac- ter) 17 leaves follow containing nothing but pictures, two on each page, within light green, red, and blue architectonic borders. These sixty- eight miniatures begin with the creation, and end with the life of 0 0 0 0 0 0 0