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BAGNOLI, Martina (ed.), Prayers in code. Books of Hours from Renaissance France. Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, 2009. 86 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-911886-72-6. $ 14,95.

Accompanies the exhibition held from 25 april to 19 july 2009.

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BAIER-SCHRÖCKE, Helga, Die Buchmalerei in der Chronik des Ernst von Kirchberg im Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin. Ein Beitrag zu ihrer kunstgeschichtlichen Erforschung. Schwerin, Landeshauptarchiv, 2007 (Findbücher, Inventare und kleine Schriften des Landeshauptarchivs Schwerin: 13). 116 pp., ills. ISBN 3-9809707-2-8. € 19,80.

On a rhymed chronicle of Mecklenburg, probably illuminated by the cistercians of Doberan around 1378.

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BARNES, Carl. F., The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr 19093). A new critical edition and color facsimile. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009 (AVISTA Studies in the history of medieval technology, science and art). XXVI, 266 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-7546-5102-4. € 67,50.

Solid study and edition of a model-book with architectural drawings of c. 1230 by a Picard artist.

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BESAMUSCA, Bart, Remco SLEIDERINK en Geert WARNAR (eds.), De boeken van Velthem. Auteur, oeuvre en overlevering. Hilversum, Verloren, 2009 (Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen: 119). 296 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-8704-093-2. € 29.

Eleven contributions on Velthem and his literary production.

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BROEKHUIJSEN, Klara H., The Masters of the Dark Eyes. Late medieval manuscript painting in Holland. Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 (Ars nova: 10). VIII, 472 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-51510-6. € 125.

Long awaited study dealing with the work of the most prolific book illuminators in Holland during the late 15th and early 16th century, with catalogue of 74 manuscripts.

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CAIE, Graham D. & Denis RENEVEY (eds.), Medieval texts in context. London [etc.], Routledge, 2008. IX, 257 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-415-36025-8. € 131,95.

Collection of essays on scribal practice and textual providence, glosses, rubrics, page lay-out, and even page ruling, in (mainly vernacular) manuscripts from England.

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CAVALLO, Guglielmo, Giovanna NICOLAJ (eds.), Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters. 2nd series: Ninth century. Part LXXVIII: Italy L. Lucca VII. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2009. 128 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-220-7. € 550.

Contains 50 charters, dated 842-845.

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CAVALLO, Guglielmo, Giovanna NICOLAJ (eds.), Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters. 2nd series: Ninth century. Part LXXXIX: Italy LXI. Nonantola II. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2009. 144 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-231-3. € 550.

Contains 32 charters, dated 818-899.

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CAVALLO, Guglielmo, Giovanna NICOLAJ (eds.), Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters. 2nd series: Ninth century. Part CII: Switzerland V. Sankt Gallen III. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2009. 132 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-247-4. € 550.

Contains 52 charters, dated 820-828.

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CYRUS, Cynthia J., The scribes for women’s convents in late medieval Germany. Toronto [etc.], University of Toronto Press, 2009. XIX, 387 pp. ISBN 978-0-8020-9369-1. € 70,95.

Demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women in over 450 convents.

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DANIELS, Rhiannon, Boccaccio and the book. Production and reading in Italy 1340-1520. London, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2009 (Italian perspectives: 19). 229 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-906540-49-4. £ 45 / $ 89,50.

Traces the evolving social, cultural, and economic profile of Boccaccio’s readership and the scribes and printers who laboured to reproduce his works, focusing on the physical structure and presentation of manuscripts and printed books containing texts by this author.

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[ENGLER, Claudia, Denise WITTWER HESSE (eds.)], Schachzabel, Edelstein und der Gral. Spät­mittelalterliche Handschriftenschätze der Burger­bibliothek Bern. Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 2009 (Passepartout: 1). 80 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-7272-1225-3. CHF 29 / € 18,40.

Short introductions of some of the manuscripts exhibited in the summer of 2009.

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ERHART, Peter, Karl HEIDECKER, Bernhard ZELLER (eds.), Die Privaturkunden der Karolingerzeit. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2009. 287 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-272-6. € 59.

Contributions presented at the international conference on the diplomatics of private charters in the Carolingian age held at Sankt Gallen, 20-23 september 2006, in celebration of the ChLA-editing project.

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LIBER AUREUS. Codex Fabariensis 2 des Stiftsarchivs Pfäfers im Stiftsarchiv St. Gallen. Kommentar von Anton von Euw und Werner Vogler. Graz, Akademische Druck- und Verlags­anstalt, 2008 (Glanzlichter der Buchkunst: 17). [110], 69 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-201-01901-9. € 89.

Facsimile of the ‘golden book’ of Pfäfers abbey near St. Gall, begun as an Evangelistarium at the end of the 11th century (with shortened commentary compared to the edition of 1993).

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DER ROSENROMAN für François I. Ms M.948 der Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Kommentar von Margareta Friesen. Graz, Akademische Druck- und Verlags­anstalt, 2007 (Glanzlichter der Buchkunst: 16). [428], 144 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-201-01887-6. € 72.

Facsimile of the 13th-century bestseller copied for the French king in 1519 (with shortened commentary compared to the edition of 1993).

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FUCHS, Thomas, Handschriften und Urkunden der Stadtbibliothek Leipzig in der Universitäts­bibliothek Leipzig: Neuzugänge nach 1838.

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GEIß, Jürgen, Mittelalterliche Handschriften in Greifswalder Bibliotheken. Verzeichnis der Bestände der Bibliothek des Geistlichen Ministeriums (Dombibliothek St. Nikolai), der Universitäts­bibliothek und des Universitätsarchivs. Wiesbaden, Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2009. LVI, 359 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-89500-596-1. € 128.

Describes 176 manuscripts, mainly late medieval (middle 13th-end 16th century), among which Books of Hours from Utrecht and Arnhem; a Book of Prayers a.o. from Maaseik; a Doctrinale written in 1478, probably in Schoonhoven; a fragment of the Roman der Lorreinen, Brabant, s. XIVc; and some other texts in Middle Dutch.

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GUMBERT, J.P., Illustrated inventory of medieval manuscripts in Latin script. Inventaire illustré de manuscrits médiévaux / Illustriertes Inventar mittelalterlicher Manuskripte. Intro­duction. Rules – Instructions. Hilversum, Verloren, 2009. 34 pp. ISBN 978-90-8704-110-6.

Introduction to the ‘IIMM’-project.

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GUMBERT, J.P., Illustrated inventory of medieval manuscripts in Latin script in the Nether­lands / Inventaire illustré de manuscrits médiévaux / Illustriertes Inventar mittel­alterlicher Manuskripte. 2: Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek BPL. Hilversum, Verloren, 2009. 338 pp. ISBN 978-90-8704-112-0. € 40.

Short codicological descriptions of all 1500 items (including fragments!) preserved in one of the the richest collectionsof medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands.

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HOLLANDER, A.A. den, Virtuelle Vergangenheit. Die Textrekonstruktion einer verlorenen mittelniederländischen Evangelienharmonie. Die Handschrift Utrecht Universitätsbibliothek 1009. Leuven [etc.], University Press/Peeters, 2007. X, 168 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-429-1989-1. € 58.

Relates the last adventures and reconstructs the text of a 15th-century dutch manuscript lost in (or after!) World War II.

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HOUTHUYS, Astrid, Middeleeuws kladwerk. De autograaf van de Brabantsche yeesten, boek VI (vijftiende eeuw). Hilversum, Verloren, 2009 (Schrift en schriftdragers in de Nederlanden in de Middeleeuwen: 4). 370 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-8704-063-5. € 39.

Scrutinizes an exeptional piece of rhymed historiography written for the Burgundian court in Brussels.

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HüLSMANN, Margriet, Tronies, baardmannen en hondenkoppen. Noord-Hollandse boek­decoratie uit derde-orde-conventen aangesloten bij het Kapittel van Utrecht (ca. 1430-1480). Een kunsthistorisch-codicologisch onderzoek naar aanleiding van een Legenda aurea van 1450 uit Amsterdam. Enschede, PrintPartners Ipskamp, 2009. 254 pp., ills. Geen ISBN.

Dissertation on book decoration in Amsterdam. Digital edition: http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl//handle/1871/15527.

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HUSBAND, Timothy B., The art of illumination. The Limbourg brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry. New York/New Haven [etc.], Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2008. XII, 376 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-300-13671-5. € 61,95.

Monograph on the only manuscript executed in its entirety by the famed Limbourg brothers.

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KöNIG, Eberhard, Christian Tico SEIFERT und Guido SIEBERT (eds.), Bible moralisée. Prachthandschriften des Hohen Mittelalters. Gesammelte Schriften von Reiner Haussherr. Petersberg, Inhof, 2009. 207 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-86568-168-3. € 39,95.

Studies on illustrated bibles from 13th-century France, selected on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the author.

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KRENN, Margit, Christoph WINTERER, Mit Pinsel und Federkiel. Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Buchmalerei. Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2009. 160 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-89678-648-7. € 39,90.

General, albeit skillful, introduction to illustrated medieval manuscripts.

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LEEFLANG, Micha, e.a. (eds.)], Beeldschone boeken. De Middeleeuwen in goud en inkt. Zwolle, Waanders, 2009. 160 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-400-8581-9. € 29,95.

Catalogue of the exhibition in Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, 16 may-23 august 2009.

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LOWDEN, John, The Jaharis gospel lectionary. The story of a Byzantine book. New York/New Haven, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2009. XIV, 130 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-58839-343-2/978-0-300-14899-2. $ 30.

Monography on an almost entirely unknown but superbly preserved lectionary produced in Constantinople around 1100.

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MARCHIARO, Michaelangiola, Stefano ZAMPONI (eds.), Conoscere il manoscritto: esperienze, progetti, problemi. Dieci anni del progetto Codex in Toscana. Atti del convegno internazionale Firenze, 29-30 giugno 2006. Firenze, SISMEL, 2007. X, 329 pp., ills. ISBN 978-88-8450-263-6. € 54.

Contributions on cataloguing projects, mainly in Italy, but also from North America and Germany.

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MARCHIOLI, Nicoletta Giovè, Martina PANTAROTTO (eds.), I manoscritti datati della Biblioteca Queriniana di Brescia. Firenze, SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008 (Manoscritti datati d’Italia: 18). 82 pp., ills. ISBN 978-88-8450-306-0. With cd-rom. € 110.

Contains descriptions of 77 manuscripts dated 1247-1491, with 82 plates.

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McGRADY, Deborah, Controlling readers. Guillaume de Machaut and his late medieval audience. Toronto [etc.], University of Toronto Press, 2006. XII, 310 pp., ills. ISBN 978-08-0209-020-1. $ 67,50.

Case study on the reception of vernacular poetry and the impact of lay litteracy on European culture.

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MORGAN, Nigel, & Stella PANAYOTOVA (eds.), Illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge. A catalogue of western book illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part one: the Frankish Kingdoms, the Low Countries, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Austria. Volume one: the Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria / Volume two: The Meuse region, Southern Netherlands. London [etc.], Harvey Miller, 2009. 255, 292 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-905375-61-5 and 978-1-905375-62-2. € 200.

First publication in a major new series of catalogues covering all the Western medieval illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge (except those in the University Library); catalogues 251 manuscripts.

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PANI, Laura, & Cesare SCALON (eds.), Le Alpi porta d’Europa. Scritture, uomini, idee da Giustiniano al Barbarosse. Atti del convegno internazionale di studio dell’Associazione italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti, Cividale del Friuli (5-7 ottobre 2006). Spoleto, Centro Italiano di Studi sull’alto Medioevo, 2009 (Studi e ricerche: 4). XXII, 636 pp., ills. ISBN 978-88-7988-418-1. € 80.

Fifteen contributions on early medieval manuscripts on both sides of the Alps.

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PRIEM, Ruud (ed.), Op reis en aan tafel met Katherina van Kleef 1417-1476. [Antwerpen], Ludion, 2009. 159 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-5544-825-8. € 24,90.

Tasteful essays adjoining the minor exhibition in Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen.

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DE SCHRYVER, Antoine, The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold. A study of a Flemish masterpiece from the Burgundian court. Los Angeles, Paul Getty Museum, 2008. 310 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-89236-943-0. € 56,95.

The culmination of a lifetime of research on one of the dukes most splendid commissions from the Burgundian Netherlands (1469).

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SITAR, Gerfried, Martin KROKER (eds.), Macht des Wortes. Benediktinisches Mönchtum im Spiegel Europas. Regensburg, Schnell & Steiner, 2009. 2 vol., 423, 480 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-7954-2125-0. € 49,90.

Richly illustrated volumes with essays and catalogue of the twin-exhibition held in Austria, obtainable at an incredible price.

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DAS ANTIPHONAR von St. Peter. Codex Vindobonensis Ser. n. 2700 der Österreichischen National­bibliothek. Teil 1: pag. 1-438. Kommentar von Franz Unterkircher und Otto Demus. Graz, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 2009 (Glanzlichter der Buchkunst: 18/1). [438], 140 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-201-01912-5. € 72.

Facsimile of the Antiphonarium of St. Peter in Salzburg, written around 1160 (with shortened commentary compared to the edition of 1974).

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VILLALOBOS HENNESSY, Marlene (ed.), Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott. English medieval manuscripts: readers, makers and illuminators. London [etc.], Harvey Miller, 2009. 292 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-872501-08-6. € 125.

Fifteen essays on various aspects of the late medieval English manuscript book, among which penwork and other decoration.

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WINSBURY, Rex, The Roman book. Books, publishing and performance in classical Rome. London, Duckworth, 2009 (Classical Literature and Society: [12]). XII, 236 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-7156-3829-3. £ 18.

Examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw materials and aesthetic critetia of the Roman book (a papyrus scroll) and the process of literary composition.