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AGATI, Maria Luisa, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente: per una codicologia comparata. Roma, “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2009 (Studia archaeologica: 166). 528 pp., ills. ISBN 978-88-8265-513-6. € 191.

Initially meant as a second edition of Il libro manoscritto: introduzione alla codicologia (2003), this publication underwent a complete revision. Indispensable!

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ARN, Mary-Jo, The poet’s notebook. The personal manuscript of Charles d’Orléans (Paris, BnF, MS fr. 25458). Turnhout, Brepols, 2008 (Texts and transitions: studies in the history of manuscripts and printed books: 3). xi, 200 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52070-4. With cd-rom. € 80.

Reconstructs the sequence of the composition of the manuscript with poetry by Charles of Valois, duke of Orléans, c. 1440-1465.

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AS-VIJVERS, Anne Margreet (ed.), De hand van de meester. Het Getijdenboek van Katherina van Kleef. Nijmegen/Antwerpen 159 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-5544-822-7. € 24,90.

English translation: AS-VIJVERS, Anne Margreet (ed.), From the hand of the master. The Hours of Catherine of Cleves.

Five essays on and 35 descriptions of miniatures by the most famous illuminator of the Northern Netherlands.
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BOUSMANNE, Bernard, Tania VAN HEMELRYCK et Céline VAN HOOREBEECK (eds.), La librairie des ducs de Bourgogne. Manuscrits conservés à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Volume IV: Textes historiques. Turnhout, Brepols, 2009. 343 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52989-9. € 68.

First part dealing with the historical texts, mainly chronicles, in the Burgundian library.

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BRAESEL, Michaela, Buchmalerei in der Kunstgeschichte. Zur Rezeption in England, Frankreich und Italien. Köln/Weimar/Wien, Böhlau, 2009 (Studien zur Kunst: 14). 568 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-412-20300-9. € 75.

Monograph on the reception and historiography of book illumination untill the nineteenth century.

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BRETSCHER-GISIGER, Charlotte & Rudolf GAMPER, Katalog der mittelalterlichen Hand¬schriften des Klosters Wettingen. Katalog der mitteralterlichen Handschriften in Aarau, Laufenburg, Lenzberg, Rheinfelden und Zofingen. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2009. 272 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-271-9. € 100.

Contains descriptions of 66 medieval manuscripts and five fragments from the Wettingen monastery and other institutions in the Swiss canton of Aargau.

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CAILLET, Jean-Pierre, Marie-Pierre LAFITTE (eds.), Les manuscrits carolingiens. Actes du colloque de Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, le 4 mai 2007. Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 (Bibliologia. Elementa ad librorum studia pertinentia: 27). 263 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52598-3. € 80.

Lectures on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Trésors carolingiens’ held at the BnF.

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Caldelli, Elisabetta, I codici datati nei Vaticani latini 1-2100. Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2007 (I codici latini datati della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: 2). XIV, 186, [186] pp., ills. ISBN 978-88-210-0800-9. With cd-rom. € 140.

Contains descriptions and plates of 186 manuscripts dated 1284-1514/15.

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CHAPUIS, Julien (ed.), Invention. Northern Renaissance studies in honor of Molly Faries. Turnhout, Brepols, 2008. XVII, 231 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52768-0. € 80.

Although primarily devoted to panel painting, some contributions concern manuscripts as well.

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CLARK, Linda, Maureen JURKOWSKI, Colin RICHMOND (eds.), Image, text and church, 1380-1600. Essays for Margaret Aston. Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2009 (Papers in mediaeval studies: 20). xiv, 289 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-88844-820-0. $ 90.

Papers originally presented at a conference held at University College, London, 2008.

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[DE HAMEL, Christopher (intr.)], Book of Beasts. A facsimile of MS Bodley 764. Oxford, Bodleian Library, 2008. 316 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-85124-317-4. £ 99.

Reproduces all 137 folios and 135 miniatures of this Salisbury bestiary from the mid-thirteenth century.

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DE LA MARE, A.C., Laura NUVOLONI, Bartolomeo Sanvito. The life & work of a Renaissance scribe. London, Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, 2009 (The handwriting of the Italian humanists: 2). 463 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-9563702. € 150.

Catalogue of the 124 identified manuscripts by the prolific Italian scribe and illuminator Bartolomeo Sanvito (1435-1511) with introductory essays.

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DESCHAMPS, Jan (†), Herman MULDER, Inventaris van de Middelnederlandse handschriften van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (voorlopige uitgave). Tiende aflevering. Brussel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, 2008. xix, 165 pp. ISBN 90-6637-146-3. € 5.

Description of 45 items.

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DESCHAMPS, Jan (†), Herman MULDER, Inventaris van de Middelnederlandse handschriften van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (voorlopige uitgave). Elfde aflvering. Brussel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, 2009. xxii, 175 pp. ISBN 90-6637-149-8. € 5.

Description of 47 items.

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DÜCKERS, Rob, & Ruud PRIEM (eds.), The Hours of Catherine of Cleves. Devotion, demons and daily life in the fifteenth century. [Antwerpen etc.], Ludion, 2009. 426 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-5544-821-0. $ 85 / € 59,90.

Catalogue of the exhibition at the Valkhof in Nijmegen of the most spectacular illuminated Book of Hours produced in the Northern Netherlands, made for the duchess of Guelders around 1440.

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FINGERNAGEL, Andreas, & Christian GASTGEBER (eds.), The most beautiful Bibles. Hong Kong [etc.], Taschen / Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 2008. 319 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-8365-0299-3. € 19,99.

Publisher’s 25th anniversary edition, therefore a bargain; with several short contributions (i.a. on a Utrecht bible of c. 1430 and on the History Bible commissioned by Evert van Soudenbalch c. 1460, both now in Vienna).

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HAMESSE, Jacqueline, auxiliante Slawomir SZYLLER (eds.), Repertorium initiorum manu¬scrip¬torum latinorum medii aevi. 3 vols., Louvain-la-Neuve, Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales [Brepols], 2007-2009 (Textes et Études du Moyen Âge: 42, 1-3). XXXIV, 658, 802, 792 pp. ISBN 978-2-503-52727-7, 978-2-503-53045-1, 978-2-503-53321-6. € 59 each.

Extremely useful tool in identifying texts and locating extant manuscripts. The fourth and last volume, with indices on authors, is yet to come.

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HAMMER, Gabriel, Bernhard von Clairvaux in der Buchmalerei. Darstellungen des Zister¬cienser¬abtes in Handschriften von 1135-1630. Regensburg, Schnell & Steiner, 2009. 615 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-7954-2083-3. € 89.

On the iconography of Bernhardus, with more than 250 depictions of the founder of the cistercian order.

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HANS-COLLAS, Ilona, & Pascal SCHANDEL, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux. I. Manuscrits de Louis de Bruges. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2009. 347 pp., ills. (XXXII, 230 pp.) ISBN 978-2-7177-2396-0. € 150.

Catalogue with synthetic introduction of all known books from the library of one of the most remarkable bibliophiles of the fifteenth century.

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HEESAKKERS, Chris L., Het Vruntbuuc van Jan van Hout. Facsimile-uitgave van het album amicorum van Jan van Hout (Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, nr. 3385) met inleiding, transcriptie, vertaling en toelichting. Leiden, Ginkgo, 2009. 245 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-71256-12-7. € 39,50.

Edition of the album amicorum of Jan van Hout (1542-1609), Dutch poet and secretary of Leiden.

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KING, John N. (ed.), Tudor books and readers. Materiality and the construction of meaning. Cambridge [etc.], Cambridge University Press, 2010. xviii, 270 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-521-51494-1. £ 55 / $ 90.

Essays considering the formative years of English book printing; book format, marketing, and the reception of books; print, politics, and patronage; and connections between reading and religion.

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KOEHLER, Wilhelm (†), Florentine MÜTHERICH (eds.), Die karolingischen Miniaturen. Siebter Band: Die frankosächsische Schule. Wiesbaden, Ludwig Reichert, 2009. 400 pp. and 172 ills. ISBN 978-3-89500-700-2. € 398.

Seventh volume of the impressive series started in 1930.

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LÁNG, Benedek, Unlocked books. Manuscripts of learned magic in the medieval libraries of Central Europe. Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008 (The magic in history series). XIV, 334 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-271-03377-8. C. € 60 (but also free downloads).

Aims to situate the role of Central Europe in general, and Kraków in particular, as a center for the study of magic in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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OWEN-CROCKER, Gale R. (ed.), Working with Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2009 (Exeter medieval texts and studies). XVI, 320 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-85989-840-9. € 30 (paperback).

Guide to manuscript study, with advice on accessing and handling pre-Conquest insular manuscripts; also useful for the student of medieval manuscripts made elsewhere.

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PARKER, D.C., An introduction to the New Testament manuscripts and their texts. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. XXX, 368 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-89553-8. € 30,50.

Provides a detailed introduction to the methodology and history of textual research in NT-manuscripts.

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PARKER, David C., Manuscripts, texts, theology. Collected papers 1977-2007. Berlin/New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2009 (Arbeiten zur Neutestamentlichen Textforschung: 40). XII, 379 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-021193-1. € 99,95.

Collection of 25 revised and updated articles on different aspects of manuscript studies, textual criticism and their relation with theology.

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PFEIL, Brigitte, Katalog der deutschen und niederländischen Handschriften des Mittelalters in der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt in Halle (Saale). 2 vols., Halle, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2007 (Schriften zum Bibliotheks- und Büchereiwesen in Sachsen-Anhalt: 89/1-2), XXXIV, 545 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-86010-984-7. € 60.

Describes more than seventy manuscripts and fragments, mostly from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, some of them originating from the Netherlands.

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RICHARDSON, Brian, Manuscript culture in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv, 317 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-521-88847-9. € 71.

Explores the uses of scribal culture within specific literary genres after the arrival of printing.

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SCHMIDT-GLINTZER, Helwig (ed.), Die gelehrten Bräute Christi. Geistesleben und Bücher der Nonnen im Hochmittelalter. Vorträge. Mit einer Einführung von Helmar Härtel. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2008 (Wolfenbütteler Hefte: 22). 122 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-447-05756-1. € 10.

Three lectures with introduction, accompanying the exhibition ‘Geschrieben und gemalt. Gelehrte Bücher aus Frauenhand’ held at the Herzog August Bibliothek in 2006/7, mostly on codices from the benedictines of Lamspringe near Hildesheim.

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SCHNEIDER, Karin, Gotische Schriften in deutscher Sprache. II. Die oberdeutschen Schriften von 1300 bis 1350. 2 vol. Wiesbaden, Ludwig Reichert, 2009. 207 (Textband), 162 (Tafelband) pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-89500-603-6. € 248.

Welcome addition to the study of 14th-century German paleography; the first part (Vom späten 12. Jahrhundert bis um 1300) was issued in 1987.

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THEISEN, Maria, History buech reimenweisz. Geschichte, Bildprogramm und Illuminatoren des Willehalm-Codex König Wenzels IV. von Böhmen, Wien, Österreichische National¬bibliothek Ser. Nov. 2643. Wien, Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010 (Denkschriften der philosophische-historische Klasse: 391 / Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters, Reihe IV, Band 6). 200 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-7001-6058-8. € 51,80.

Monography on the codex with the epic Guillaume d’Orange-translation made for king Wenzel in 1387 and later.

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URBAN, Malte (ed.), John Gower. Manuscripts, readers, contexts. Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 (Disputatio: 13). 372 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52470-2. Ca. € 65.

Essays on the literary output of this fourteenth-century English poet within the context of manuscript production and readership in late-medieval England.

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WITHERS, Benjamin C., The illustrated Old English Hexateuch, Cotton Claudius B.iv. The frontier of seeing and reading in Anglo-Saxon England. London/Toronto, The British Library/University of Toronto Press, 2007 (Studies in book and print culture). xvi, 429 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-8020-9104-8. With cd-rom. £ 45.

Analyses the functioning and purposes of the illustrated manuscript with the earliest vernacular translations of the Old Testament, written at Canterbury in the second quarter of the eleventh century.

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WÜSTEFELD, Helen C., & Anne S. KORTEWEG, Sleutel tot Licht. Getijdenboeken in de Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. Amsterdam, In de Pelikaan, 2009, 155 pp., kl.ills., ISBN 978-9071608-28-5 Euro 24,50.

A richly illustrated publication, accompanying an exhibition held in the BPH, with descriptions and analyses of 25 books of hours. More extensive descriptions with illustrations are published on the BPH’s website.