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RECENT PUBLICATIONS – 2013

A LIST COMPILED BY ED VAN DER VLIST

(Here’s a PDF version, eight pages long, without the illustrations)

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AMSLER, Mark, Affective literacies. Writing and multilingualism in the late Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011 (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies (LMEMS): 19). XXV, 421 pp., 5 b/w and 5 col. ills. ISBN 978-2-503-53236-3. € 100.

Analyses later medieval writing and textual cultures in Latin, English, and French as they relate to reading formations and textual materialities.

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AS-VIJVERS, Anne Margreet, Re-making the margin. The Master of the David Scenes and Flemish manuscript painting around 1500. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013 (Ars Nova. Studies in late medieval and renaissance northern painting and illumination). 783 pp., 355 b/w and 72 col. ills. ISBN 978-2-503-51684-4. € 170.

Enriched version of a magnificent dissertation on the working practices of the Ghent-Bruges illuminators.

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AVRIL, François, & Marie-Thérèse Gousset, Manuscrits enluminés d’origine italienne. 3: XIVe siècle. II. Émilie-Vénétie. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2012. 221 pp. and 32 pp. with col. ills, 176 pp. with b/w ills. ISBN 978-2-7177-2551-3. € 150.

Catalogues 132 manuscripts.

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BEADLE, Richard, & Colin Burrow (eds.), Manuscript miscellanies c. 1450-1700. London: The British Library, 2011 (English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700: 16). VIII, 256 pp., b/w ills. ISBN 978-0-7123-5827-9. £ 50.

Collection with an interesting contribution by Alexandra Gillespie, ‘Medieval books, their booklets, and booklet theory’ (p. 1-29).

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BEUCKERS, Klaus Gereon, Christoph Jobst & Stefanie Westphal (eds.), Buchschätze des Mittelalters. Forschungsrückblicke – Forschungsperspektiven. Beiträge zum Kolloquium des Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel vom 24. bis zum 26. April 2009. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2011. 311 pp., 174 col. and 46 b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-7954-2444-2. € 69.

Twenty contributions on several kinds of illuminated manuscripts.

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BEUCKERS, Klaus Gereon (ed.), Studien zur Buchmalerei des 13. Jahrhunderts in Franken. Zum Hiltegerus-Psalter (UB München 4° Cod. Ms. 24 [Cim 5]) und dem stilistischen Umfeld des Komburger Psalters (WLB Stuttgart Cod. Bibl. 2° 46). Kiel: Ludwig, 2011 (Kieler Kunsthistorische Studien, N.F.: 14). 208 pp., 84 col. ills. ISBN 978-3-86935-144-5. € 39,80.

Contains two studies, by Ulrich Kuder and Stefanie Westphal, on two psalters illuminated in mid-13th-century Franconia.

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BEUCKERS, Klaus Gereon (ed.), Äbtissin Hitda und der Hitda-Codex (Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, Hs. 1640). Forschungen zu einem Hauptwerk der ottonischen Kölner Buchmalerei. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2013. 152 pp., 8 col. and 80 b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-534-25379-1. € 49,90.

Articles on the identity of the patron and the date of her manuscript.

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BLOCKMANS, Wim, Till-Holger Borchert, Nele Gabriëls, Johan Oosterman & Anne van Oosterwijk (eds.), Staging the court of Burgundy. Proceedings of the conference ‘The Splendour of Burgundy’. Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2013 [Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH): 69]. 394 pp., 200 b/w and 50 col. ills. ISBN 978-1-905375-82-0. € 115.

Studies on Burgundian court culture between 1419 and 1482, presented at the Bruges conference in 2009 on the occasion of the exhibition around Charles the Bold.

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BRINKMAN, Herman (ed.), Liefde, leven en devotie. Poëzie uit het Gruuthusehandschrift. Amersfoort: Bekking & Blitz, 2013 (Cahier reeks: 8). 96 pp., col. ills. ISBN 9789061094630. With cd-rom. € 14,99.

Anthology of the songs, with translations by Maria van Daalen.

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BROWN, Virginia, Beneventan discoveries. Collected manuscript catalogues, 1978-2008. Ed. by Roger E. Reynolds. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012 (Studies and Texts (ST): 179; Monumenta Liturgica Beneventana: 6). 427 pp. ISBN 978-0-88844-179-9. € 80.

Reprint of Brown’s five lists of recently discovered Beneventan manuscript items, previously published in the journal Mediaeval Studies, with preliminary findings for a sixth list.

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BUAT, Nicolas, & Evelyne Van den Neste, Dictionnaire de paléographie française. Découvrir et comprendre les textes anciens (XVe-XVIIIe siècle). Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2011. 654 pp. ISBN 978-2-251-44406-2. € 45,70.

Dictionary with more than 2000 definitions and examples of common and less common words derived from handwritten texts.

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CALDELLI, Elisabetta, I frammenti della Biblioteca Vallicelliani. Studio metodologico sulla catalogazione dei frammenti di codici medievali e sul fenomeno del loro riuso. Roma: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 2012 (Quaderni della Scuola Nazionale di Studi Medievali; Fonti, Studi e Sussidi: 2). 366 pp., b/w ills. ISBN 978-88-89190-89-0. € 25.

Excellent descriptions of 130 items, 8th-16th century, with preceding chapters on the reuse of manuscripts, methodological problems in cataloguing fragments, and general problems in conserving them.

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CARLVANT, Kerstin, Manuscript painting in thirteenth-century Flanders. Bruges, Ghent and the circle of the counts. Turnhout, Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2012 [(Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH): 63)]. IX, 542 pp., 280 b/w and 19 col. ills. ISBN 978-1-905375-67-7. € 125.

Extensive in-depth study of the figural painting produced in Flanders between 1240 and 1280.

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CAVALLO, Guglielmo, & Giovanna Nicolaj (eds.), Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters. 2nd series: Ninth century. Part XCII: Italy LXIV, Parma I. Published by Francesca Santoni. Dietikon-Zürich: Urs Graf, 2012. 156 pp., b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-85951-234-4. CHF 780 / € 630.

Concerns 35 charters, dated 831-900.

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CORBELLINI, Sabrina (ed.), Cultures of religious reading in the Late Middle Ages. Instructing the soul, feeding the spirit, and awakenining the passion. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013 (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (USML): 25). VI, 308 pp., 12 b/w and 15 col. ills. ISBN 978-2-503-54569-1. € 90.

A volume with a dozen new, interdisciplinary approaches to religious reading and reading techniques in a lay environment within late medieval textual, social, and cultural transformations.

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EIFLER, Matthias, Die lateinischen Handschriften bis 1600. Band 2: Quarthandschriften (Q). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012 (Bibliographien und Kataloge der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek zu Weimar). LXXXV, 799 pp., 22 b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-447-06779-9. € 158.

Description of 94 medieval codices, 7 fragments, 2 incunables with manuscript parts and 13 mss of the 16th and 17th century with medieval maculature. The first volume (Fol. and Oct.) was published in 2004.

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FASBENDER, Christoph (ed.), Aus der Werkstatt Diebold Laubers. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012 (Kulturtopographie des alemannischen Raums: 3). 392 pp., b/w and 18 col. ills. ISBN 978-3-11-026206-3. € 99,95.

Fourteen studies on the Hagenau workshop that produced illustrated texts in the first half of the 15th century.

 

FERRE, Rose-Marie, René d’Anjou et les arts. Le jeu des mots et des images. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012 (Culture et société médiévales: 23). 548 pp., 30 col. and 25 b/w ills. ISBN 978-2-503-54468-7. € 75.

Studies the dialogue between figurative art and early drama at the court of this 15th-century prince.

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FINGER, Heinz, & Harald Horst, Mittelalterliche Handschriften der Kölner Dombibliothek. Viertes Symposion der Diözesan- und Dombibliothek Köln zu den Dom-Manuskripten (26. bis 27. November 2010). Köln: Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek mit Bibliothek St. Albertus Magnus, 2012 (Libelli Rhenani: 38). 369 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-939160-33-5. € 25.

Ten contributions to Cologne manuscript study.

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HAJDÚ, Kerstin, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. Band 4: Codices graeci Monacenses 181-265. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012 (Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum Bibliothecae Monacensis: Tomus II, Pars IV). 510 pp., 124 [80 pp.] b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-447-06725-6. € 168.

Description of 86 manuscripts, 8/9th-18th century.

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HAND, Joni M., Women, manuscripts and identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550. Farnham, Surrey/Burlington: Ashgate, 2013. XII, 251 pp., 51 b/w ills. ISBN 978-1-4094-5023-8. £ 54.

Explores the visual and textual elements of devotional manuscripts commissioned by women of the Valois courts, and how they were used to express the women’s religious, political, and genealogical concerns.

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HÉRICHÉ-PRADEAU, Sandrine, & Maud Pérez-Simon (eds.), Quand l’image relit le texte. Regards croisés sur les manuscrits médiévaux. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013. 367 pp., b/w and col. ills. ISBN 978-2-87854-580-7. € 32.

Nineteen contributions reflecting on problematic relations between image and text.

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HEYDECK, Kurt, Die Handschriften der Signaturenreihe Hdschr. der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Teil 1: Hdschr. 1-150. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013 (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Kataloge der Handschriftenabteilung. Erste Reihe: Handschriften: 9.1). 301 pp. ISBN 978-3-447-06793-5. € 91,50.

First part of a catalogue of the 456 manuscripts acquired by the ‘western’ Berlin library between 1951/52 and 1997; this volume contains the 150 acquisitions (9th-20th century) until the autumn of 1978.

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HRANITZKY, Katharina, a.o., Mittelauropäische Schulen V (ca. 1410-1450). Wien und Niederösterreich. Wien: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012 (Veröffentlichungen zum Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters, Reihe I: Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek: 14). 2 vols., Textband 401 pp. and 93 b/w ills.; Tafel-und Registerband 89 pp. and 39 col. and 647 b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-7001-7066-2. € 229.

Fourth published volume in the series; catalogues 179 decorated books.

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[IMHOF, Dirk], Manuscripten uit het Museum Plantin-Moretus / Les manuscrits du Musée Plantin-Moretus / A feast for the eyes. Manuscripts from the Plantin-Moretus Museum. Wommelgem: BAI, 2013. 96 pp., 59 col. ills. ISBN 978-90-8586-642-8. € 14,95.

Nice selection from the c. 600 manuscripts kept in the museum, with a brief introduction.

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JEANNOT, Delphine, Le mécénat bibliophilique de Jean sans Peur et de Marguerite de Bavière (1404-1424). Turnhout: Brepols, 2012 (Burgundica: 19). XXVI, 386 pp., 64 b/w ills. ISBN 978-2-503-54422-9. € 92.

Reconstructs the collections of their manuscripts and those of their daughters Marguerite, Marie, Anne and Agnès.

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KEMPER, Joachim, & George Vogeler (eds.), Digitale Urkundenpräsentationen. Beiträge zum Workshop in München, 16. Juni 2010. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011 (Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik: 6). XI, 100 pp., b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-8423-6184-3. € 19,90. Free download: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4532/.

Shows that mass digitisation is a hot item not only in libraries, but also in archives.

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KOLDEWEIJ, Jos, Inge Geysen, & Eva Tahon (eds.), Liefde & devotie. Het Gruuthusehandschrift: kunst en cultuur omstreeks 1400. S.l.: Ludion, 2013. 320 pp., 250 col. ills. ISBN 978-94-6130-091-1. € 29,90.

Catalogue of the exhibition in the Gruuthusemuseum, Bruges, 22 march-23 june 2013.

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KÖNIG, Eberhard, Das Stundenbuch der Claude de France Königin von Frankreich. Ramsen: Heribert Tenschert, 2012 ([Katalog: 70]; Illuminationen. Studien und Monographien: 18). 270 pp., 153 col. ills. ISBN 978-3-906069-04-3. € 80.

Full facsimile of the Book of Hours of the wife of Francis I, now for sale at the Bibermühle; also published in English: ISBN 978-3-906069-05-0.

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KORTEWEG, Anne S., Catalogue of the medieval manuscripts and incunabula at Huis Bergh Castle in ’s-Heerenberg. ’s-Heerenberg: Huis Bergh/Primavera Pers, 2013. 238 pp., 236 col. ills. ISBN 978-90-803638-7-8. € 69,50.

Catalogues 73 complete manuscripts, 71 fragments of manuscripts, 15 incunabula and 8 separate incunabula leaves.

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KOZIOL, Geoffrey, The politics of memory and identity in Carolingian royal diplomas. The West Frankish kingdom (840-987). Turnhout: Brepols, 2012 (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (USML): 19). XVIII, 661 pp. ISBN 978-2-503-53595-1. € 100.

Analysis of the circumstances in which kings issued charters and examination of their verbal and visual semiotics.

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KOZLOWSKA, Anna, Lucina Nowak, Anna Sobanska, Richardus Tatarzynski, Wladimirus Zega & Marianus Zwiercan, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Medii Aevi latinorum qui in Bibliotheca Jagellonica Cracoviae asservantur / Katalog lacinskich rekopisów sredniowiecznych Biblioteki Jagiellonskiej. Dl. 10: Numeros continens inde a 1431 usque ad 1500. Cracoviae, Bibliotheca Jagellonica [etc.]: 2012. XXVII, 533 pp. ISBN 978-83-04-00684-3. PLN 45 / ca. € 11.

Catalogues 70 manuscripts, 12th-15th century.

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LACKNER, Franz, Katalog der Handschriften des Augustiner Chorherrenstiftes Klosterneuburg. Teil 3: Cod. 201-300. Unter mitarbeit von Alois Haidinger, Martin Haltrich und Maria Stieglecker. Wien: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012 (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters, Reihe 2: Verzeichnisse der Handschriften österreichischer Bibliotheken: 2.3; Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse; 434). 364 pp. ISBN 978-3-7001-6895-9. With cd-rom. € 98.

Continuation of the catalogues published in 1983 and 1991, comprising 101 codices, most of them with patristic texts, 11th-16th century.

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LENDINARA, Patrizia, Loredana Lazzari & Claudia Di Sciacca (eds.), Rethinking and recontextualizing glosses. New perspectives in the study of late Anglo-Saxon glossography. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011 (Textes et Etudes du Moyen Âge (TEMA): 54). XX, 564 pp. b/w and 16 col. ills. ISBN 978-2-503-54253-9. € 60.

Twenty-one essays devoted to both Latin and Old English apparatuses of glosses as well as to specific items of the Old Norse and Old Saxon glossarial production.

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MEEHAN, Bernard, The Book of Kells. London: Thames & Hudson, 2012. 256 pp. 250 ills., 230 in col. ISBN 978-0-500-23894-3. £ 60 / € 85.

Featuring 84 full-size reproductions of complete pages of one of the most remarkable manuscripts to survive, with lucid explanatory texts by its keeper at Trinity College Library.

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MOONEY, Linne R., & Estelle Stubbs, Scribes and the city. London Guildhall clerks and the dissemination of Middle English literature, 1375-1425. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2013. 158 pp. 53 b/w ills. ISBN 978-1-903153-40-6. $ 60 / £ 35 / € 44.

The authors identify scribes of early English literature as clerks holding major bureaucratic offices at the London Guildhall, while copying literary manuscripts as a sideline.

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MORGAN, Nigel J., Illuminating the end of time. The Getty Apocalypse manuscript. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. 87 pp. [92] pp. col. ills. ISBN 978-1-60606-071-1. $ 75 / £ 50.

Facsimile edition of this mid-13th-century English illuminated manuscript, with a commentary by the world’s leading authority on the subject.

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MOSTERT, Marco, A bibliography of works on medieval communication. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012 (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (USML): 2). XIV, 658 pp. ISBN 978-2-503-54477-9. € 115.

Guided list of more than 6.700 publications in a field of study which has seen an ever-increasing number of studies in the last few decades.

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NISKANEN, Samu, The letter collections of Anselm of Canterbury. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012 (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia (IPM): 61). 345 pp., 11 b/w ills. ISBN 978-2-503-54075-7. € 90.

Demonstrates how Anselm’s letters have survived and how the surviving witnesses relate to one another.

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OUY, Gilbert, Christine Reno & Inès Villela-Petit (eds.), Album Christine de Pizan. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012 (Texte, Codex & Contexte (TCC): 14). IV, 800 pp., 450 b/w and 32 col. ills. ISBN 978-2-503-54315-4. € 110.

Fruit of thirty years of study of the manuscripts of Pizan, with solid descriptions of all 54 known original manuscripts.

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PFÄNDTNER, Karl-Georg, & Brigitte Gullath, Der Uta-Codex. Frühe Regensburger Buchmalerei in Vollendung. Die Handschrift Clm 13601 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Quaternio: Luzern, 2012. 159 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-905924-14-5. € 285 / CHF 348.

Shows all decorated pages in their original size, with a commentary on this magnificent 11th century evangelistary.

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POLEG, Eyal, & Laura Light (eds.), Form and function in the late medieval Bible. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013 (Library of the Written Word: 27; The Manuscript World: 4). XV, 412 pp., b/w and X p. col. ills. ISBN 978-90-04-24888-5. € 119.

Studies of the layout, evolution and use of 13th- and 14th-century Bibles as a cohesive group.

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REUTER, Marianne, Die Codices iconographici der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Teil 1: Die Handschriften des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Text- und Tafelband. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2013 (Katalog der illuminierten Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München: 8.1 / Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum bibliothecae Monacensis: 12.1). 360 pp., 60 col. and 46 b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-89500-848-1. € 148.

Catalogues 126 items, dated first half 14th century and later, but mainly from 16th-century Italy and Germany. The total number of ‘Cod.icon’ at present counts up to more than 550.

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RUDOLF, Winfried, & Timoty Leonardi (eds.), An English prayer book of the fifteenth century in Vercelli. Studies in the palaeography and history of Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS CCXXV. Vercelli: Gallo, 2012. 208 pp., 32 col. and b/w ills. ISBN 9788897314097. € 25.

Presents one of the unrecorded manuscripts in the Vercelli chapter library.

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SCHMID, Manfred Hermann, Notationskunde. Schrift und Komposition 900-1900. Kassel/Basel/London/New York/Praha: Bärenreiter, 2012 (Bärenreiter Studienbücher Musik: 18). 298 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-7618-2236-4. € 29,95.

Practical survey, with reference to a website – www.baerenreiter.com – for training in transcribing musical notation.

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SPYRA, Ulrike, & Birgit Mitzscherlich (eds.), Katalog der Handschriften der Domstiftsbibliothek Bautzen. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2012 (Quellen und Materialen zur sächsischen Geschichte und Volkskunde : 4). 344 pp., b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-86583-634-2. € 62.

Catalogues 34 (fragments of) manuscripts from the 12th-early 16th century, most of them likely Bavarian, and numerous younger manuscripts.

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STOOP, Patricia, Schrijven in commissie. De zusters uit het Brusselse klooster Jericho en de preken van hun biechtvaders (ca. 1456-1510). Hilversum: Verloren, 2013 (Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen: 127). 495 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-8704-195-3. € 39.

Analyses a collection of sermons in the nucleus of the convent’s writing culture.

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TEEUWEN, Mariken, & Sinéad O’Sullivan (eds.), Carolingian scholarship and Martianus Capella. Ninth-century commentary traditions on ‘De nuptiis’ in context. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012 (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (CELAMA): 12). XI, 393 pp., 20 b/w ills. ISBN 978-2-503-53178-6. € 90.

Explores the carolingian fascination with De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, a fifth-century encyclopedia of the seven liberal arts.

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THOMSON, R.M., A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Corpus Christi College Oxford. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011. 412 pp., 49 col. and 94 b/w ills. ISBN 978-1-84384-284-2. £ 95.

Describes all the College’s western medieval manuscripts, whether in Latin or one of the vernaculars, including fragments.

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THOMSON, Rodney M., Catalogue of medieval manuscripts of Latin commentaries on Aristotle in British libraries. Volume I: Oxford. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011 (Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries (CMMLC): 1). 446 pp., 1 col. ill. ISBN 978-2-503-54232-4. € 110.

First of a projected series of four volumes, listing 397 items from the late 12th century until c. 1500.

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THOMSON, Rodney M., Catalogue of medieval manuscripts of Latin commentaries on Aristotle in British libraries. Volume II: Cambridge. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013 (Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries (CMMLC): 2). 228 pp., 9 col. ills. ISBN 978-2-503-54782-4. € 95.

Second of a projected series of four volumes, listing 152 items from the 10th century until c. 1500.

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VALVEKENS, Patrick, Vado mori. Une Danse Macabre unique dans le Livre d’Heures ganto-brugeois Croy-Arenberg (environ 1500). Leuven: Maurits Sabbebibliotheek/Peeters, 2012 (Documenta libraria: 40). 198 pp., b/w and col. ills. ISBN 978-90-429-2610-3. € 39.

On a remarkable iconographic theme in the vigils of a splendid late 15th-century book of hours.

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WATTEEUW, Lieve, & Catherine Reynolds, Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp. Paris/Leuven/Walpole, MA: Peeters, 2013 (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts: 20; Low Countries Series: 15). 301 pp., col. ills. ISBN 978-90-429-2915-9. € 50.

Catalogues each of the 102 illuminated manuscripts of this under-explored collection.

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WILCOX, Jonathan (ed.), Scraped, stroked, and bound. Materially engaged readings of medieval manuscripts. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013 (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (USML): 23). X, 235 pp., 15 col. and 27 b/w ills. ISBN 978-2-503-54549-3. € 90.

Collection of essays by medievalist scholars and practicing book artists, with extreme attention to the materiality of manuscripts.

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WINTER, Ursula, Die Manuscripta Magdeburgica der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Teil 4 (Ergänzungsband): Die Codices electorales Magdeburgenses. Nach den Beschreibungen von Valentin Rose neu bearbeitet. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012 (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Kataloge der Handschriftenabteilung. Erste Reihe: Handschriften: 4.4). 171 pp. ISBN 978-3-447-06731-7. € 58.

Describes 49 codices, 10th-16th century, transported from Magdeburg to Berlin in the 17th century.

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WOUDHUYSEN-KELLER, Renate, Das Farbbüechlin. Codex 431 aus dem Kloster Engelberg. Ein Rezeptbuch über Farben zum Färben, Schreiben und Malen aus dem späten 16. Jahrhundert. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2012. 2 vols.: Band I: Edition; Band II: Bearbeitung, 260, 318 pp., 43 coll. ills. ISBN 978-3-905014-52-5. CHF 120.

Edition of the German text with translation into modern German.