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Avenarius, Martin (ed.), Die Institutionenhandschrift der Sammlung Wallraf im Historischen Archiv der Stadt Köln. Faksimileedition und Kommentar. Leipzig, Eudora, 2008. 64 [+119] pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-938533-19-2. € 59.

Facsimile with introduction of an Italian manuscript of the early 12th century with the Institutiones Iustiniani.

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Beal, Peter, A dictionary of English manuscript terminology 1450-2000. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008. 457 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-19-926544-2. $ 125 / £ 55.

Defines some 1500 terms relating to manuscripts and their production, from ‘Abbreviation’ to ‘Year Books’.

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Bradley, Jill, ‘You shall surely not die’. The concepts of sin and death as expressed in the manuscript art of Northwestern Europe, c. 800-1200. Leiden, Brill, 2008 (Library of the written word: 4). 727 pp. (2 vols.), ills., ISBN 978-90-04-16910-4. € 150.

Dissertation on changing attitudes towards death, sin and salvation, as expressed in medieval miniatures.

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Brantley, Jessica, Reading in the wilderness. Private devotion and public performance in late medieval England. Chicago/London, The University of Chicago Press, 2007. XVIII, 463 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-226-07132-9. $ 45.

Examination of the connections between images and texts, reading and performance, in public and in private, departing from London, BL, Add. 37049, an illustrated Yorkshire carthusian miscellany of the first half of the 15th century.

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Bredow-Klaus, Isabel von, Heilsrahmen. Spirituelle Wallfahrt und Augentrug in der flämischen Buchmalerei des Spätmittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit. Zweite, unveränderte Auflage, München, Herbert Utz, 2008 (tuduv-Studien, Reihe Kunstgeschichte: 81). 478 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-8316-0797-6. € 64.

Dissertation on pilgrims badges sown or painted in Gent-Bruges Books of Hours, 1480-1530.

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Brown, Michelle P., The Holkham Bible picture book. A facsimile. London, The British Library, 2007. 90 [+92] pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-7123-0990-5. £ 45,49.

A new facsimile with commentary of the famous Additional MS 47682, an Anglo-Norman French picture bible from London, c. 1327-1335.

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Die gotischen Handschriften der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Teil 2: Vom späten 13. bis zum frühen 15. Jahrhundert. Bearbeitet von Peter Burkhart, mit Beiträgen von Christine Sauer. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2005 (Katalog der illuminierten Handschriften der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart: 3). 2 vol., 414 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-447-04900-6. € 138.

Comprises 104 manuscripts.

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Geheimnisse auf Pergament. Katalog zur Jahresausstellung in der Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen (3. Dezember 2007 – 9. November 2008). St. Gallen, Verlag am Klosterhof, 2008. 106 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-906616-78-2. CHF 19,50.

Focusses on aspects like magic, code, riddles and ‘invisible’ script in carolingian manuscripts.

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Green, D.H., Women readers in the Middle Ages. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007 (Cambridge studies in medieval literature: 65). 296 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-521-87942-2. $ 95.

Stresses the fact that the number of female readers (and writers!) throughout the Middle Ages was far greater than is commonly assumed, focussing on Germany, France and England.

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Gwara, Scott, A census of medieval manuscripts in South Carolina collections. Columbia, S.C., Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, 2007. 72 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-9801256-0-3.

Catalogue of 118 manuscripts and manuscript fragments, also available as pdf.

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Heinzer, Felix, Klosterreform und mittelalterliche Buchkultur im deutschen Südwesten. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2008 (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte: 39). 618 pp., ills., ISBN 978-90-04-16668-4. € 125.

Series of case studies dealing with the relation between monastic reform and manuscript production in southwestern Germany during the period from the 9th to the early 16th century.

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Inglis, Erik, Faces of power & piety. Los Angeles / London, The J. Paul Getty Museum / The British Library, 2008 (The medieval imagination: 2). viii, 88 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-89236-930-0. $ 19,95.

This second volume in a series of small, affordable books that draw on manuscript illuminations in two rich collections, focuses on late medieval and Renaissance portraiture. An exhibition of the same name was on view at the JPG Museum.

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Black is beautiful. Rubens tot Dumas. [Ed. Elmer Kolfin e.a.] Tentoonstellingscatalogus. De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam. Zwolle, Waanders, 2008. 387 pp., ills., ISBN 978-90-400-8496-6. € 29,95.

Among the 132 works cited are nine illuminated medieval manuscripts.

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Signs on the edge. Space, text and margin in medieval manuscripts. Edited by Sarah Larrat Keefer and Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. Paris/Leuven/Dudley, MA, Peeters, 2007 (Mediaevalia Groningana New Series: 10). VIII, 319 p., ills., ISBN 978-90-429-1980-8. € 62.

Eleven essays devoted to specific strategies in scribal layout or prescribed authorial design, mainly observed in early insular manuscripts.

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Under the influence. The concept of influence and the study of illuminated manuscripts. Ed. by John Lowden and Alixe Bovey. Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 (Publications of the Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts: 1). XIII, 234 pp., ills., ISBN 978-2-503-51504-5. £ 73,34.

Papers read at the international conference held at the London Courtauld Institute of Art in July 2003; with some observations on the Utrecht Psalter.

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Marrow, James, e.a., Private pleasures. Illuminated manuscripts from Persia to Paris. The collection of Denys Spittle. Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2007. 77 pp., ills., ISBN 978090445478-9. £ 14,95.

Catalogue of the exhibition of the private collection of Deny Spittle (1920-2003), held 23 Oct. 2007 – 7 Jan. 2008.

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Parkes, M.B., Their hands before our eyes: a closer look at scribes. The Lyell Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford 1999. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008. xix, 188 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-7546-6337-9. € 72,38.

Examines different aspects of the history of handwriting, such as its function, processes and development in antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Rauner, Erwin, Katalog der lateinischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. Die Handschriften aus Augsburger Bibliotheken. Band 1: Stadtbibliothek Clm 3501-3661. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2007 (Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum Bibliothecae Monacensis. Tomus III, series nova, pars 3,1). XXXIX, 763 pp., ISBN 978-3-447-05503-1. € 118.

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Saurma-Jeltsch, Lieselotte E., Pietät und Prestige im Spätmittelalter. Die Bilder in der Historiebibel der Solothurner Familie vom Staal. Basel, Schwabe, 2008 (Veröffentlichungen der Zentralbibliothek Solothurn: 30). 431 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-7965-2415-8. € 61,50.

Study on the iconography of the bible c. 1460 commissioned by Johann von Staal of Solothurn in the atelier of Diebold Lauber in Hagenau, Alsace-Lorraine.

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Schipke, Renate, Die lateinischen Handschriften in Quarto der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Teil 1: Ms. lat. quart. 146-406. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2007 (Kataloge der Handschriftenabteilung, herausgegeben von Eef Overgaauw. Erste Reihe: Handschriften: Band 6. Die lateinischen Handschriften in Quarto: Teil 1). 627 pp., ISBN 978-3-447-05433-1. € 128.

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Stahl, Harvey, Picturing kingship. History and painting in the Psalter of Saint Louis. University Park, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. XIV, 371 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-271-02863-7. $ 85 / £ 61,50.

Monograph on one of the best-known albeit least studied manuscripts of the entire Middle Ages.

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Tanner, Marcus, The Raven king. Matthias Corvinus and the fate of his lost library. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008. XX, 265 pp., ills., ISBN 980-0-300-12034-9. ₤ 19.

Lively account on this Hungarian king and of the quest to recover one of the greatest libraries in 15th-century Europe: of an estimated 2.200-2.500 volumes some 216 books have been identified.

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Thompson, Susan D., Anglo-Saxon royal diplomas. A palaeography. Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 2006 (Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies: 6). 174 pp., ills., ISBN 1-84383-218-6. £ 45.

Traces many material aspects in the development of the 118 known presumed original royal Latin diplomas enacted in England before 1066.

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Winter, Ursula, und Kurt Heydeck, Die Manuscripta Magdeburgica der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Teil 3: Ms. Magdeb. 170-286. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2008. (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Kataloge der Handschriften­abteilung, herausgegeben von Eef Overgaauw. Erste Reihe: Handschriften. Band 4). 306 pp., ISBN 978-3-447-05463-8. € 70.