Recent publications, May 2009
21 May 2009
BRAASCH-SCHWERSMANN, Ursula, Axel HALLE (eds.), Wigand Gerstenberg von Frankenberg 1457-1522. Die Bilder aus seinen Chroniken Thüringen und Hessen – Stadt Frankenberg. Marburg, Hessisches Landesamt für geschichtliche Landeskunde, 2007 (Untersuchungen und Materialien zur Verfassungs- und Landesgeschichte: 23). XVI, 391 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-921254-86-8. € 29.
Fifteen contributions and exhibition catalogue on all illustrations in one of the treasures of the Universitätsbibliothek Kassel.
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BRINKMANN, Bodo, Das Stundenbuch der Grafen von Manderscheid, Gerolstein und Blankenheim. Sammlung Renate König IV. Köln, Kolumba, 2006 (Kolumba: 25). 86 pp., ills. ISBN 3-931326-52-7. € 16.
Nearby-facsimile of this splendid Latin Book of Hours produced in Bruges around 1515.
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[BUBENIK, Claudia, Cornelia JAHN (eds.)]. Kulturkosmos der Renaissance. Die Gründung der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Katalog der Ausstellung zum 450-jährigen Jubiläum 7. März bis 1. Juni 2008 und der Schatzkammerausstellung “Musikschätze der Wittelsbacher” 9. Juni bis 6. Juli 2008. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2008. 352 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-447-05672-4. € 49,80.
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CAVALLO, Guglielmo, Giovanna NICOLAJ (eds.), Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters. 2nd series: Ninth century. Part LXXVII: Italy IL. Lucca VI. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2008. 156 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-219-1. € 550.
Contains 50 charters, dated 835-842.
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CHAVANNES-MAZEL, Claudine A., Maerlants Rijmbijbel in Museum Meermanno. De kracht van woorden, de pracht van beelden. Den Haag, Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum, 2008. 163 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-813402-1-2. € 16,95.
Describes all 64 miniatures of Rimebible 10 B 21 (dated 1332), with translations of Maerlant’s texts into modern Dutch.
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CONNOLLY, Margaret, & Linne R. MOONEY (eds.), Design and distribution of late medieval manuscripts in England. York, York Medieval Press, 2008 (Manuscript culture in the British Isles: 1). XIII, 336 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-903153-24-6. € 103,50.
Thirteen essays, with a particular focus on vernacular manuscripts of the 14th-16th century.
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DANE, Joseph A., Abstractions of evidence in the study of manuscripts and early printed books. Farnham, Ashgate, 2009. 176 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-7546-6501-4. € 63,11.
Study regarding the nature of bibliography, questioning presuppositions in the use of ‘material evidence’ derived from manuscripts and printed books.
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DE ROBERTIS, Teresa, Cinzia DI DEO e Michaelangiola MARCHIARO (eds.), I manoscritti datati della Bibliotheca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze. I: Plutei 12-34. Firenze, SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008 (Manoscritti datati d’Italia: 19). 131 pp., ills. ISBN 978-88-8450-298-8. With cd-rom. € 125.
Contains descriptions of 99 manuscripts dated 1259-1515, with 114 plates.
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DRAKE BOEHM, Barbara, Choirs of angels. Painting in Italian choir books, 1300-1500. New York [etc.], The Metropolitan Museum of Art [etc.], 2009. 64 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-300-14142-9. $ 19,95.
Reprint of the delightful catalogue issued in conjunction with the exhibition in 2008.
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ESER, Thomas, und Anja GREBE (eds.), Heilige und Hasen. Bücherschätze der Dürerzeit. Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2008. 184 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-936688-35-1. € 29,95.
Catalogue of the exhibition on book illumination in Nürnberg around 1500.
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EUW, Anton von, Monasterium Sancti Galli. Die St. Galler Buchkunst vom 8. bis zum Ende des 11. Jahrhunderts. Band 1: Textband. Band 2: Tafelband. St. Gallen, Verlag am Klosterhof, 2008 (Monasterium Sancti Galli: 3). 593, 731 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-906616-85-8. € 160.
Magnificent monograph on 167 manuscripts from the most famous Swiss abbey.
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[FABIAN, Claudia, Jürgen SCHEFZYK (eds.)], Die Ottheinrich-Bibel. Das erste illustrierte Neue Testament in deutscher Sprache. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 8010. Begleitbuch zu den Ausstellungen anlässlich der Zusammenführung der Ottheinrich-Bibel im Jahre 2008. Darmstadt, Primus Verlag, 2008 (Ausstellungskataloge der Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: 80). 214 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-89678-391-2. € 39,90.
On the occasion of the acquisition of the remaining five parts of this sumptuously illuminated manuscript (Regensburg, ca. 1425/30), named after its 16th-century owner Ottheinrich von Pfalz-Neuburg.
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FASSEUR, Valérie, (ed.), Froissart à la cour de Béarn. L’écrivain, les arts et le pouvoir. Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 (Texte, codex & contexte: 7)). 376 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52867-0. € 69.
Seventeen contributions on Jean Froissart (1337-1410) and his surroundings.
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FERRELL, Lori Anne, The Bible and the people. New Haven/London, Yale University Press, 2008. XIII, 273 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-300-11424-9. $ 21,45 / £ 17,29.
Engaging look at the Bible’s impact on English-speaking readers over the centuries.
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FROSCHAUER, Harald, & Cornelia Eva RöMER (eds.), Spätantike Bibliotheken. Leben und Lesen in den frühen Klöstern Ägyptens. Wien, Phoibos, 2008 (Nilus: 14). VII, 158 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-901232-99-2. € 29.
On monastic libraries, book production and daily life in early Egypt.
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GATHERCOLE, Patricia M., The depiction of architecture and furniture in medieval French manuscript illumination. Lewiston [etc.], Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. 80 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-7734-5780-5. $99.95 / £ 64.95.
GATHERCOLE, Patricia M., The depiction of clothing in French medieval manuscripts. Lewiston [etc.], Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. 97 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-7734-5014-1. $99.95 / £ 64.95.
Two more tiny but expensive volumes in the sequence by the same author: animals / the landscape of nature / women / angels and devils, all depicted in medieval French manuscripts.
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GEORGES, Stefan, Das zweite Falkenbuch Kaiser Friedrichs II. Quellen, Entstehung, Überlieferung und Rezeption des Moamin. Mit einer Edition der lateinischen Überlieferung. Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2008 (Wissenkultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: 27). 459 pp. ISBN 978-3-05-004483-5. € 79,80.
Based on forty manuscripts and three prints.
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HARTL, Wolfgang, Text und Miniaturen der Handschrift Dialogus de laudibus sanctae crucis (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 14159). Ein monastischer Dialog und sein Bilderzyklus. Hamburg, Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2007 (Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte: 16). 518, [170] pp. and cd-rom, ills. ISBN 978-3-8300-3000-3. € 148.
Analysis of the Regensburger ‘Kreuzeslob’-manuscript of ca. 1170-1175, with complete transcription of the anonymous text.
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HEDEMAN, Anne D., Translating the past. Laurent de Premierfait and Boccaccio’s De casibus. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. XV, 280 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-89236-935-5. $ 60.
Considers Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes and how this popular translation was converted into visual images.
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KANNOWSKI, Bernd, Die Umgestaltung des Sachsenspiegelrechts durch die Buch’sche Glosse. Hannover, Hahnnsche Buchhandlung, 2007 (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Schriften: 56). XLVI, 655 pp. ISBN 978-3-7752-5756-5. € 75.
Analysis of the 14th-century german commentary by Johann von Buch on Eike von Repgow’s Sachsenspiegel.
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KELLY, Stephen, and John J. THOMPSON (eds.), Imagining the book. Turnhout, Brepols, 2005 (Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe: 7). XVIII, 253 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-51693-6. € 63,60.
A snapshot of current research in English manuscript study in the pre-modern period on the inter-related topics of patrons and collectors, compilers, editors and readers, and identities beyond the book.
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KIENING, Christian, Martina STERCKEN (eds.), SchriftRäume. Dimensionen von Schrift zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne. Zürich, Chronos, 2008 (Medienwandel, Medienwechsel, Medienwissen: 4). 454 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-0340-0896-9. € 35.
With examples taken from the Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen, Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Museum Burg Zug, and Strauhof Zürich.
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KOCH, Walter, Inschriftenpaläographie des abendländischen Mittelalters und der früheren Neuzeit. Früh- und Hochmittelalter. Wien/München, Oldenbourg, 2007 (Oldenbourg Historische Hilfwissenschaften: 2). 263 pp. and cd-rom, ills. ISBN 978-3-702-90551-4 / 978-3-486-58189-8. € 39,80.
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KOUROUPOU, Matoula, Paul GÉHIN, Catalogue des manuscrits conservés dans la Bibliothèque du Patriarcat Œcuménique. Les manuscrits du monastère de la Panaghia de Chalki. Volume 1: Notices descriptives. Volume 2: illustrations. Turnhout, Brepols, 2008. 501, XXIII, 295 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52578-5, 978-2-503-52928-8. € 110.
Comprises 171 monastic manuscripts written in greek from the 10th-18th centuries, nowadays preserved in Istanbul.
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[KRENN, Margit], Stunde, Tag und Jahr. Ein illuminiertes Andachtsbuch des späten Mittelalters. Handschrift 4157 der Universitätsbibliothek Darmstadt. Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007. 27 [242] pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-534-20807-4. € 69,90.
Facsimile with introduction of a book of hours from Bruges, ca. 1460.
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LENDINARA, Patrizia, Loredana LAZZARI, Maria Amalia D’ARONCO (eds.), Form and content of instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the light of contemporary manuscript evidence. Papers presented at the international conference Udine, 6-8 April 2006. Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 (Textes et études du Moyen Âge: 39). xiii, 539 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52591-4. € 89,05.
Nineteen essays on educational texts and the Insular manuscripts which have preserved them.
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OLIVER, Judith H., Singing with angels: liturgy, music, and art in the gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock. Turnhout, Brepols, 2007. VIII, 384 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-51680-6. € 120.
Monograph on this gradual, which was written, illuminated, annotated, paginated and decorated by a known cistercian nun at Marienbrunn near Osnabrück at the end of the 13th century.
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PANAYOTOVA, Stella, The Macclesfield Psalter. With a complete reproduction at the original size of this 14th-century prayer book in the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and 95 colour details. London, Thames & Hudson, 2008. 352 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-500-23852-3. € 69,95.
Facsimile of an exeptional East Anglian psalter from the 1330’s, virtually unknown before its acquisition by the ‘Fitz’ in 2005, with introductory texts on its history and creation.
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RUST, Martha Dana, Imaginary worlds in medieval books. Exploring the manuscript matrix. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. XII, 290 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-4039-7222-4.
Explores the imaginative interactions of readers and the different systems of representation offered by the material features of their books, focusing on England and Scotland between 1400 and 1490.
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SCASE, Wendy, (ed.), Essays in manuscript geography. Vernacular manuscripts of the English West Midlands from the Conquest to the sixteenth century. Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 (Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe: 10). xii, 294 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-51695-0. € 77,95.
Examines the production and use of texts and books in relation to cultural networks in the region and beyond.
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SCHEEPSMA, Wybren, The Limburg sermons. Preaching in the medieval Low Countries at the turn of the fourteenth century. Translated by David F. Johnson. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2008 (Brill’s series in church history: 34). XII, 486 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-04-16969-2. € 99.
Updated translation of De Limburgse sermoenen (ca. 1300). De oudste preken in het Nederlands, published in 2005; on ms. 70 E 5 from the Royal Library at The Hague.
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SUMMIT, Jennifer, Memory’s library. Medieval books in early modern England. Chicago/London, University of Chicago Press, 2008. X, 343 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-226-78171-6. $ 35.
Argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries.
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TEEUWEN, Mariken, & Els ROSE, Middeleeuwse Magister. Feestbundel aangeboden aan Árpád P. Orbán bij zijn emeritaat. Hilversum, Verloren, 2008 (Middeleeuwse studies en bronnen: 117). 223 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-8704-082-6. € 25.
Festschrift containing ten articles, primarily on medieval education and scholarschip.
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THOMSON, S. Harrison, Latin bookhands of the later middle ages 1100-1500. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. [283] pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-521-08674-5. € 35.
Digitally printed version of the 1969 edition of this famous atlas on palaeography containing 132 geographically arranged and dated specimina.
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WILLINGHAM, Elizabeth M., (ed.), Essays on the Lancelot of Yale 229. Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 (The illustrated Lancelot Prose). 135 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-51677-6. € 55.
Eleven essays on different aspects of the late 13th-century prose Lancelot fromt Northern France, housed at the Beinecke Library of Yale University.
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WINTERER, Christoph, Das Fuldaer Sakramentar in Göttingen. Benediktinische Observanz und römische Liturgie. Petersberg, Imhof, 2009 (Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte: 70). 576 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-86568-190-4. € 122,35.
Monograph on the famous Sacramentarium of c. 975 and its surroundings; already announced in 2007, now finally available.
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ZAPKE, Susana, (ed.), Hispania vetus. Musical-liturgical manuscripts from Visigothic origins to the Franco-Roman transition (9th-12th centuries). Bilbao, Fundación BBVA, 2007. 480 pp., ills. ISBN 978-84-96515-50-5. € 62.
Contributions of nine renowned researchers on the multiple configuration of the lithurgical-musical sources in Spain, with a description of 89 manuscripts.