Sales catalogue 55: Martin Breslauer

Date:
1942
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/27/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 55: Martin Breslauer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 CHYTL, K. (Monuments of the Czech Art of Illuminating: I. A) Illuminated MSS. of the 14th Century) Library of the Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Prague, 1915. Folio. Introd. in Czech, and 50 reprod. on 26 plates (4 beautifully printed in gold and colours) and 26 reprod. in the text. In orig. folder. £3 10s. All published and rare. These reproductions provide excellent material for the study of book illumination in Bohemia which had reached a high artistic standard during the 14th century. CLOVIO.—BRADLEY, J. W. The Life and Works of Giorgio Giulio Clovio, Miniaturist, with Notices of his Contemporaries, and of the Art of Book Decoration in the 16th Cent. 1891. With 18 plates. Or. hf. mor. Only 300 copies printed. 18s. COCKERELL (SIR) S. C. A Psalter and Hours executed before 1270 for a Lady connected with St. Louis, probably his Sister Isabelle of France, Founder of the Abbey of Longchamp, now in the Collection of H. Yates Thompson, described in Relation to the Companion Psalter of St. Louis in Paris, with (24) Photogravures of all the (48) Miniatures by Emery Walker. 1905. Folio oblong, hf. mor. . £3 3s. Only a very small number of copies privately printed of this valuable study. CODEX WITTEKINDEUS. Im Auftrage der Preussischen Staatsbibliothek bearbeitet von A. Boeckler. Leipzig, 1938. Folio. With 22 double plates of reproduction (2 in gold and colour). Orig. buckram. £3 3s. This magnificent illuminated Ottonic Codex of the roth century belongs to the treasures of the Berlin State Library. It was written at Fulda and is of highest importance for the history of Ottonic MS. illumination. P CUVELIER, JEAN. Illustrations from the Life of Bertrand Duguesclin by Jean Cuvelier. From a MS. of about 1400 in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson. 1909. 4to. With 14 plates and coloured title-vignette. Or. cloth, t.e.g. £2 2s. A special study of MS. No. 100 of the Thompson collection which is of special importance owing to the fact that it seems to be the only illustrated MS. of this poem on Duguesclin, ‘‘ predecessor by about half a century of the Maid of Orleans, by Cuvelier, the last of the Troubadours.”’ An entirely fresh copy. D’ ANCONA, P. La Miniature Italienne du Xe au XVI Siécle. Traduction de Poirier. 1925. Fol. With 126 ill. on 97 plates, 4 in colours. Or. wrappers. £3 3s. One of the main works on Italian miniature painting. ; LE LIEUR, JACQUES. “Le Livre Enchainé’’ ou Livre des Fontaines de Rouen. Manu- scrit de la Bibliothéque de Rouen, 1524-1525 par J. Le Lieur. Publié intégralement par V. Sanson. Rouen, 1911. Large 4to. Text, printed in black and red, with 14 plates of manuscript facsimiles, gilt and coloured by hand. Or. wrappers, and 84 hand-coloured and 2 plain plates in special case. £4 10s. Only 200 copies were printed of this splendid facsimile ed. of the MS. on the water system of Rouen, during the early 15th cent. The plates are excellently coloured by hand. Rare. THE LUTTRELL PSALTER. Catalogue of the Luttrell Psalters and the Bedford Horae, and of Nine very fine Illuminated MSS., the Property of Sir G. Holford. London, Sotheby’s, 1929. 4to. With 26 plates (2 in colours). Hf. mor. gilt, or. wr. Fine copy. 18s. — The Same. Orig. wrappers. 12s. 6d. MODUS SCRIBENDI. — MORISON, STANLEY. A 15th Century Modus Scribendi from the Abbey of Melk. Cambridge, 1940. Or. cl. £2 Qs. Only 50 copies printed. Large reproduction of miniature on title, 16 pp. of facsimile, preface, introduction, transcrip- tion and translation. MUNICH.—RIEHL, B. Studien iiber Miniaturen niederlindischer Gebetbiicher des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts im Bayerischen National-Museum und in der Hof- und Staats-bibliothek. Munich, 1907. 4to. With 15 reprod. on 7 plates. Or. wr. 12s. 6d. Reprint from the Transactions of the Munich Academy. PSAULTIER DE SAINT LOUIS. Reproduction des 86 miniatures du MS. Latin 10526 de la Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris, N.D. With an essay by H. O(mont). Sm. 4to. 92 plates, in portfolio, hf. cl. in case. £1 STEINSCHNEIDER, M. Vorlesungen iiber die Kunde hebraischer Handschriften, deren Sammlungen und Verzeichnisse. Leipzig, 1897. With 1 plate. Hf. cl. £1 5s. Extremely rare orig. edn. forming ‘‘ Beiheft ’’ 19 of the Centralblatt fiir Bibliothekswesen. | VOGELSTEIN, J. Von Franzésischer Buchmalerei. Munich, (1914). Large 8vo. With 77 reprod. on 28 plates. Or. wr. 12s. 6d. WEBER, LOUIS. Einbanddecken, Elfenbeintafeln, Miniaturen, Schriftproben aus Metzer liturgischen Handschriften. Frankfort, 1913. Fol. With 121 plates (one in colour), text and plates in portfolio. £4 4s. Very rare publication on the MSS. once at Metz. Part I (all published) describing the MSS. now in Paris. Fine reproductions of magnificent miniatures and illuminations of MSS. from the 9th cent. onwards, palaeographical specimens, medieval ivory carvings for bookcovers, jewelled bindings, etc. Only 150 copies printed, 75 of which were for sale. WINKLER, F. Der Leipziger Valerius Maximus. Mit einer Einleitung iiber die Anfange des Sittenbildes in den Niederlanden. Leipzig 1921. With 5 plates giving 13 reproductions and 3 illustrations in the text. Large 4to. Hf. vellum. 18s. An extensive study in the very important MS. of the Facta et dicta memorabilia Romanorum preserved at the Stadt- bibliothek in Leipzig, the illuminations of which have been ascribed by Winkler to the Bruges Master of the Dresden Prayer-book. WULFILA.—[HENNING, H.] Der Wulfila der Bibliotheca Augustana. zu Wolfenbiittel. (Codex Carolinus). Hamburg (1913). 4to. 8 plates. In or. folder. 15s. Reproduction of the famous palimpsest of the 6th cent. containing parts of Wulfila’s Gothic bible translation.
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