hindman light enluminures (6 résultats)

Laminated pictorial wrappers, 8vo, 21 cm, 35 pp, colour facs. 11 items. From the blurb - "-What people read most in the Middle Ages is not necessarily self-evident even to the experienced medievalist. The present "primer" assembles a group of manuscripts that survive in many hundreds of copies to explore the idea of the medieval "bestseller." As the fascinating introduction by Professor Pascale Bourgain demonstrates, medieval "bestsellers" were the texts considered truly important, and thus preferentially copied, during the Middle Ages. Her introduction, significantly, also argues for the careful interpretation of this data, which must be understood in the context of the very complicated circumstances that affected the survival of manuscripts. The texts in this collection include some that are still read today, alongside others of equal import that are hardly known even to scholars, and almost certainly seldom read. Manuscripts of most of these texts are common and still appear regularly on the market - but it is the very fact that they are common that underlines their importance in the past and should earn them a place in collections today." Near Fine.

Laminated illustrated wrappers with flaps, 8vo, 21 cm. 31, [1] pp, colour ills. 11 items. Price-list laid in. Very Good.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, small 4to, 28 cm, 118, [2] pp, colour ills. 35 items. Near Fine.

Laminated pictorial wrappers, 4to, 28 cm, 103, [1] pp, colour ills, facs. 37 items. From the introduction - "Begun in 1604 and completed in 1611, the King James or the Authorized Version of the Bible celebrates its 400th year anniversary in 2011. Called 'the book that changed the world,' the King James Bible became a unifying text for the entire English-speaking world. The epoch- making task of translation was undertaken by fifty-four (some sources say forty-seven) scholars, who revised existing English translations with reference to the original Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. . The King James Bible did not appear out of thin air - nor does its history begin with Bibles printed by Gutenberg, instead, it was the culmination of a long history of the transmission of the biblical text in manuscripts copied across Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages. If these texts did not all directly shape the creation of the King James Bible, they still vividly call to mind other cultures and other historical moments in which the Bible played a central role. The thirty-seven manuscripts and books explored in this catalogue bring to light the pre-history of the King James Bible by examining the widening access to the Bible that eventually led to the creation of the Bible said to be the 'best-selling book of all time." Near Fine.

Laminated pictorial wrappers, large 8vo, 28 cm, 115, [1] pp, colour ills. 40 items. From the introduction: "This catalogue, the third in a series of catalogues on text manuscripts, brings together forty codices from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries from Western Europe. The subject is Reform. In this case, we treat Reform in the sense of "reformatio," as it was used by reformers within the Church from St. Bernard to Geert Grote, and the title "Paths to Reform" evokes the multifaceted course the history of Christianity charted leading up to the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century." Near Fine. Price-list and card advertising exhibition laid in.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, folio, 30 cm, 319, [1] pp ; colour ills. 16 items. From the preface - "The sixteen manuscripts in this catalogue contribute to the history of the first millennium of the Bible in the Latin West. The project for a catalogue like this is, in itself, almost unimaginable in the twenty-first century. There has probably never before been a trade or auction catalogue devoted exclusively to codices (not fragments) of the Bible - or indeed of any other type of medieval manuscript -of this early date. To compose the present catalogue, we were able to assemble a selection of exceptional manuscripts from one of the great European private collections of medieval manuscripts and art at the highest level. Distinguished for its unusual focus on monastic study, the collection is especially rich in early manuscripts." Contents include: Preface; Introduction; I The Liesborn Gospels, Northwestern Germany (Liesborn Abbey?), c. 980-1000; 2 Gospel Lectionary, Northern Spain, Catalonia (Ripoll?), c. 1040-60; 3 Gospel Lectionary, Iberian Peninsula (Portugal, Lorvao?, or Northern Spain), c. 1140-60; 4 The Rebdorf Psalter, Southern Germany, c. 1130-60; 5 The Buxheim Psalter, Southern Germany (Augsburg?), c. 1220-40 (before 1235?); 6 BRUNO, Correction and Completion of PATERIUS, Germany, Swabia (St. Blaise Abbey?), c. 1090-1100;7 JEROME, Expositio super Psalmos triginta, Italy (Northern?), c. 1125-50; 8 GREGORY THE GREAT, Moralia in Job, Northern Italy (Morimondo Abbey), c. 1150-75; 9 AUGUSTINE, Enarrationes in Psalmos; Austria (Lambach Abbey), c. 1150-1175; 10 ORIGEN, Homiliae in Cenesim et Exodum, Austria (Lambach Abbey?) c. 1150-1175; 11 HAIMO OF AUXERRE, Commentarium in Cantica canticorum, Northern Germany, Thuringia (Erfurt), c. 1175-1200; 12 HUGH OF SAINT VICTOR, Dialogus de creatione mundi; and Homiliae in Ecdesiasten, Eastern France (Lorraine?), c. 1150-75; 13 Vulgate Bible, Job with the Clossa Ordinaria, Northern Italy, c. 1125-40; 14 Vulgate Bible, Epistles of St. Paul with the Glossa Ordinario, Northern Italy (Milan?), c. 1140-60; 15 Vulgate Bible, Gospel of Mark with the Glossa Ordinaria, Northern Italy (Tuscany?), c. 1150-1175; 16 Vulgate Bible, Apocalypse and Catholic Epistles with the Glossa Ordinaria, Southern Europe (Spain?), c. 1175-1200; Bibliography; Biographies. Near Fine, with a creased price-list and an invitation card to the exhibition tipped-in.