Edité par Lisbon, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro, 1996., 1996
ISBN 10 : 972565224X ISBN 13 : 9789725652244
Vendeur : Richard C. Ramer Old and Rare Books, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 342 pp., illustrations. One of 500 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Lists 1,165 items, mostly nineteenth and twentieth century. Gives author, title, collation and measurements for each. Mentions list of actors when present. Indices of principal and secondary authors, titles, year of publication, actors, singers and theater companies, places of presentation, autographs and copyists, and provenance.***.
Edité par Lisbon, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro / Secretário de Estado da Cultura (volume I), and Biblioteca Nacional / Ministério da Cultura (volume II), 1994-2001, i.e., 2002?., 2002
Vendeur : Richard C. Ramer Old and Rare Books, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
2 volumes. Folio (30 x 23 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. As new. 351 pp.; 279 pp. Both volumes are profusely illustrated in color. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITIONS. Volume I, subtitled Distrito de Lisboa, lists 497 illuminated manuscripts of the fifteenth century and earlier in libraries in the Lisbon area. Volume 2, subtitled Distrito de Aveiro, Beja, Braga, Bragança, Coimbra, Évora, Leiria, Portalegre, Porto, Setúbal, Viana do Castelo e Viseu; Apêndice: Distrito de Lisboa, lists 543 illuminated manuscripts of the fifteenth century and earlier in libraries in the areas mentioned in the subtitle. Both volumes describe each manuscript briefly: content, origin if known, date, collation, size, language, style of script, illumination, binding, and provenance. A portion of each manuscript is nicely reproduced in color - usually an initial or miniature, with some text. Herein lies this work's worth: to those studying scripts and illumination, a detailed physical description is no substitute for actually seeing a bit of the manuscript. Both volumes include indexes of principal and secondary authors, titles, dates, copyists, illuminators, languages, and provenance. ***.