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BEIER, Christine (ed.), Neue Forschungen zur Buchmalerei / Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 58. Wien/Köln/Weimar, Böhlau, 2009. 273 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-205-78476-0. € 69.

Twelve essays on decoration (mostly penwork) in manuscripts and incunabula.

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BOOTON, Diane E., Manuscripts, market and the transition to print in late medieval Brittany. Farnham, Ashgate, 2010. xviii, 469 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-7546-6623-3. £ 65.

Innovative survey of the production and marketing of non-monastic Breton manuscripts and printed books from c. 1340 to 1535, incorporating archival research into the prices, wages and commissions associated with the manufacture of books.

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CAVALLO, Guglielmo, & Giovanna Nicolaj (eds.), Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters. 2nd series: Ninth century. Part LXXIX: Italy LI. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2010. 160 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-221-4. € 550.
Contains 50 charters, dated 845-850.

CAVALLO, Guglielmo, & Giovanna Nicolaj (eds.), Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters. 2nd series: Ninth century. Part CIII: Switzerland VI. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2010. 124 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-248-1. € 550.

Contains 48 charters, dated 828-837.

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COLKER, Marvin L., Trinity College Library Dublin. Descriptive catalogue of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin manuscripts. Supplement one. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2008. 220 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-84682-095-3. € 55.

Describes 33 items (9th-16th century), acquired from 1990 to 2003.

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DEROLEZ, Albert (ed.), Corpus catalogorum Belgii. The medieval booklists of the Southern Low Countries. Volume VII: The surviving manuscripts and incunables from medieval Belgian libraries. Brussel, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, 2009. 434 pp. ISBN 9789065690562. € 57,02.

Vols. I-IV have been published between 1966 and 2001, vols. V-VI will be published shortly.

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DEUFFIC, Jean-Luc, Notes de bibliologie. Livres d’heures et manuscrits du Moyen Âge identifiés (XIVe-XVIe) siècles. Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 (Pecia: 7). 320 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-53279-0. € 65.

Presents several books of hours from France the owners of which could be identified by their coats of arms or other means.

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DÜCKERS, Rob, & Pieter Roelofs (eds.), The Limbourg Brothers. Reflections on the origins and the legacy of three illuminators from Nijmegen. Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2009. 216 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-04-17512-9. € 78.

Papers from a conference held in Nijmegen, 17-18 nov. 2005, at the end of the exhibition ‘The Limbourg Brothers: Nijmegen masters at the French court (1400-1416)’.

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DUFOUR, Jean (ed.), Les rouleaux des morts. Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 (Monumenta Palaeographica Medii Aevii, Series Gallica). 295 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-51364-5. € 250.

With more than hundred plates of these dated/datable and  localised/localisable manuscripts, from the 10th century on.

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ENGELHART, Helmut (ed.), Lexikon zur Buchmalerei LzB. Erster Halbband: Adelphi-Meister – Kursive. Stuttgart, Anton Hiersemann Verlag, 2009 (Bibliothek des Buchwesens: 19/1). vi, 331 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-7772-0920-3. € 184.

Quick reference tool with names of places, individuals, manuscripts and libraries, as well as iconographical themes and items on codicology, palaeography, illumination, binding techniques and the like, all concerning the written book in the west. With the second volume, to appear in 2010, it will contain more than thousand items.

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FALMAGNE, Thomas, unter Mitwirkung von Luc Deitz, Die Echternacher Handschriften bis zum Jahr 1628 in den Beständen der Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg sowie der Archives diocésaines de Luxembourg, der Archives nationales, der Section historique de l’Institut grand-ducal und des Grand Séminaire de Luxembourg. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2009 (Die Handschriften des Grossherzogtums Luxemburg: 1). Teil 1: Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis, Einleitung, Abbildungen; Teil 2: Beschreibungen und Register. 311, [32], 792 pp., 162 ills. ISBN 978-3-447-05871-1. € 168.

Describes 89 complete manuscripts, 153 fragments and 18 written additions to prints, 7th-17th centuries.

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FOEHR-JANSSENS, Yasmina, & Olivier Collet (eds.), Le recueil au Moyen Âge. Le Moyen Âge central. Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 (Texte, codex & contexte: 8). 304 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52281-4. € 59.

Contributions presented at the colloquium HyperCodex (‘Le livre, le texte, le temps: la mise en recueils au XIIIème siècle’), University of Geneva, 16-17 November 2007.

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FORSYTH, Katherine (ed.), Studies on the Book of Deer. Dublin etc., Four Courts Press, 2008. xvii, 481 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-85182-569-1. € 85.

Essays on the 10th-century illuminated gospel-book from Scotland with 12th-century Gaelic annotations.

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FRANKLIN, Carmela Vircillo, Material restoration. A fragment from eleventh-century Echternach in a nineteenth-century Parisian codex. Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 (Cursor Mundi: 7). XVI, 242 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52909-7. € 60.

A riveting scholarly detective story that traces the history of an Echternach manuscript fragment.

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DE HAMEL, Christopher, Gilding the Lilly. A hundred medieval and illuminated manuscripts in the Lilly Library. Bloomington, Lilly Library, 2010. 252 pp. ISBN 0-9777529-8-4 / 0-9777529-9-2. $ 100 (hardcover), $ 50 (softcover).

A history of European book production in 100 (fragments of) manuscripts, from c. 700 on, most of them acquired from the private libraries of C.L. Ricketts and G.A. Poole, many of them described here for the first time.

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DEN HARTOG, Elizabeth & Hanno Wijsman (red.), Yolande van Lalaing (1422-1497), kasteelvrouwe van Brederode. Jaarboek van de Kastelenstichting Holland en Zeeland 2009. Haarlem, Kastelenstichting Holland en Zeeland, 2009. 222 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-8559-939-5. € 25.

Contains i.a. articles about the library of the Brederode family, and an extensive treatment of the illumination in the book of hours of Yolande, now in Oxford (Douce 93).

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VAN HEMELRYCK, Tania, & Stefania Marzano (eds.), Le recueil au Moyen Âge. La fin du Moyen Âge. Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 (Texte, codex & contexte: 9). 384 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52282-1. € 69.

Contributions presented at the 3rd international colloquium of the research group on medieval French (‘Le Livre où je mets toutes mes choses. Le recueil à la fin du Moyen Âge’), University of Louvain, 1-12 May 2007.

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HOFMANN, Siegfried, Der Ingolstädter Psalter. Ein deutscher Psalter des Spätmittelalters aus der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg. Regensburg, Schnell & Steiner, 2010. 455 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-7954-2317-9. € 39,90.

Edition of the manuscript ordered by Louis VII duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt in 1438.

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KÖNIG, Eberhard, El Libro de Horas Voustre Demeure. Estudio para la edición facsimilar del volumen de Madrid y las miniaturas de Berlín y Filadelfia. Valencia, Patrimonio, 2009. 374 pp., ills. ISBN 978-84-95061-34-8. € 100.

Scholarly commentary on the facsimile of the Flemish book of hours, written by Nicolas Spierinc and illuminated by the Master of Mary of Burgundy, Simon Marmion, the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book, Lieven van Lathem and anonymous associates, possibly commissioned by Charles the Bold and Margaret of York around 1470.

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KOTZABASSI, Sofia, & Nancy Patterson Šev?enko, with the collaboration of Don C. Skemer, Greek manuscripts at Princeton, sixth to nineteenth century. A descriptive catalogue. Department of Art and Archeology and Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University/Princeton University Press, 2010. xxix, 304 pp., 279 ills. ISBN 978-0-691-14387-3. $ 195 / £ 135.

The first comprehensive publication of the holdings of Greek manuscripts in several Princeton libraries, from the early Byzantine period through the mid-19th century.

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KRATZMANN, Gregory (ed.), Imagination, books & community in medieval Europe. Papers of a conference held at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 29-31 May, 2008. In conjunction with an exhibition ‘The medieval imagination’, 28 March-15 June 2008. Victoria, Macmillan/State Library of Victoria, 2009. 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-921394-33-1. $ 99.

Papers by 17 scholars, with lots of images of manuscripts from Australian and New Zealand collections and elsewhere.

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KREN, Thomas, Illuminated manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 132 pp., 110 ills. ISBN 978-0-89236-948-5. $ 19,95.

This third volume in the popular series about the Getty collection (the first two are on Italian and French illuminated manuscripts) offers a quick view on some manuscripts from the 9th to the 18th century.

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KREN, Thomas, Illuminated manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. 127 pp., 85 ills. ISBN 978-1-60606-014-8. $ 19,95.

And the fourth volume, accompanying the exhibition untill February 6, 2011.

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KRESTEN, Otto, & Franz Lackner (eds.), Régionalisme et internationalisme. Problèmes de paléographie et de codicologie du moyen âge. Actes du XVe colloque du Comité International de Paléographie Latine (Vienne, 13-17 septembre 2005). Wien, Verlag der Österreichishen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008 (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters, Reihe IV, Monographien: 5). XIV, 389 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-7001-3824-2. € 95,20.

27 contributions on European palaeography.

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LAWRENCE-MATHERS, Anne, & Phillipa Hardman (eds.), Women and writing, c. 1340-c. 1650. The domestication of print culture. York, York Medieval Press, 2010 (Manuscript culture in the British Isles: 2). ix, 238 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-90315-332-1. £ 50.

Eleven essays adressing the involvement of women in the transition from manuscript to print in England.

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LAZARIS, S., Art et science vétérinaire à Byzance. Formes et fonctions de l’image hippiatrique. Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 (Bibliologia. Elementa ad librorum studia pertinentia: 29). 288 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-53446-6. € 75.

Reflexion on miniatures in Greek hippiatric manuscripts.

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MEYER ZU ERMGASSEN, Heinrich, Der Buchschmuck des Codex Eberhardi. Marburg, N.G. Elwert, 2009 (Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen: 58, 4). 374 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-7708-1332-2. € 36.

After the edition of Der Codex Eberhardi des Klosters Fulda, published in 1995-1996 (and finally indexed in 2007), this volume deals with the history, codicology and decoration of this copybook written around 1160.

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MÜLLER, Stephan, Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch & Peter Strohschneider (eds.), Codex und Raum. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2009 (Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien: 21). 198 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-447-06096-7. € 59.

Explores medieval codices and their relation to space, in six contributions held at a colloquium in november 2006.

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NISHIMURA, Margot McIlwain, Images in the margins. London, J. Paul Getty Museum/British Library, 2009 (The Medieval Imagination). 78 pp., ills. ISBN 978-0-7123-5083-9. $ 19,95.

Third volume in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination. Accompanies an exhibition on view from September-November 2009.

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OLTROGGE, Doris, & Robert Fuchs, Die Maltechnik des Codex Aureus aus Echternach. Ein Meisterwerk im Wandel. Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2009 (Wissenschafliche Beibände zum Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums: 27). 178 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-936688-30-6. € 55.

Analysis by restauration-experts of the materials and the ways they are used in the illumination of this gospel book of around 1040.

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PAOLINI, Adriana, con la collaborazione di M. Bernasconi & L. Granata, I manoscritti medievali di Trento e provincia. Firenze, SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010 (Biblioteche e archivi: 20). xxxiii, 198 pp., 161 ills. ISBN 978-88-8450-311-4. € 140.

Catalogues 158 (composite) manuscripts, mostly from Northern Italy, 5th-15th centuries.

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PARKER, D.C., Codex Sinaiticus. The story of the world’s oldest bible. London/Peabody, British Library/Hendrickson, 2010. xi, 195 pp., ills. ISBN 978-1-59856-576-8 / 978-0-7123-5803-3. $ 34,95.

Fascinating look at the history of a fascinating book produced in the middle of the fourth century.

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PUTATURO, Antonella, Donati Murano & Alessandra Perriccioli Saggese (eds.), La miniatura in Italia. II: Dal tardogotico al manierismo. Napoli/Roma 2009. 286 pp., 279 ills. ISBN 978-88-495-1781-1. € 50.

Second volume, completing this survey of Italian book illumination.

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RAMSAY, Nigel, & James M.W. Willoughby, Hospitals, towns and the professions. London, the British Library in association with the British Academy, 2009 (Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues: 14). xlix, 561 pp., 4 b/w ills. ISBN 978-0-7123-4976-5. £ 75.

Gathers a great array of evidence on book collections, such as inventories and book lists.

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SCRIPTA. An international journal of codicology and palaeography. Pisa/Roma, Fabrizio Serra, 2008-… ISSN 1971-9027. € 60 (Italy), € 90 (individuals outside Italy), € 58,45 (electronic issue).

Promising new journal devoted to the history of written manuscripts in European and Mediterranean civilization, without limitation as to chronology, type, support and writing techniques.

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STOCKS, Bronwyn, & Nigel Morgan (eds.), The medieval imagination. Illuminated manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand. Victoria, Macmillan/State Library of Victoria, 2008. 286 pp. ISBN 978-1-921394-07-2. € 76,99.

Catalogue recording 91 items displayed at an exhibition from march-june 2008, with introductory essays.

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WATTEEUW, Lieve, & Jan Van der Stock (eds.), The Anjou Bible. A royal manuscript revealed. Naples 1340. Paris/Leuven/Walpole, Peeters, 2010 (Corpus of illuminated manuscripts: 18; Low Countries series: 13; Documenta libraria: 39). ix, 335 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-429-2445-1. € 85.

Research findings on a superbly illuminated manuscript created at the royal court of Naples, now kept in Leuven.

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WHITE, Cynthia, From the ark to the pulpit. An edition and translation of the “transitional” Northumberland Bestiary (13th century). Louvain-la-Neuve, Collège Erasme, 2009 (Publications de l’Institut d’Études médiévales, Université Catholique de Louvain. Série 2, Textes, études, congrès : 24). xxix, 436 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-9600769-2-9. € 55.

Complete critical edition of the mid-13th-century book formerly known as the Alnwick Bestiary, acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2007.

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WIJSMAN, Hanno (ed.), Books in transition at the time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and printed books in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century Low Countries. Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 (Burgundica: 15). vi, 322 pp., ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52984-4. € 61.

Papers delivered at a conference in Brussels in 2006, with introduction and four new chapters, discussing the book market and its place in society in the transitional period when manuscripts and printed books were produced and used next to one another.