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A list compiled by Ed van der Vlist

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As-Vijvers, Anne Margreet W., Tuliba Collection. Catalogue of manuscripts and miniatures from the fifteenth and sixteenth century.

Hilversum: Tuliba Collection, 2014. 352 pp., over 300 col. ills. ISBN 978-90-90-28697-6. € 107.

Descriptions of the 33 medieval manuscripts in the privately owned Tuliba Collection. The book can be ordered at the Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, Germany, by sending an e-mail to iris.ellers@draiflessen.com.

 

Ausserlechner, Petra, Helmut Gritsch, Patrik Kennel, Walter Neuhauser, Alexandra Ohlenschläger, Claudia Schretter-Picker & Ursula Stampfer, Katalog der Handschriften der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol in Innsbruck. Teil 9: Cod. 801-950.

Wien, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015 (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters: II.4). 2 vols. (Katalogband and Registerband), 406, 85 pp., 23 tables with b/w and col. ills. ISBN 978-3-7001-7747-0. € 129.

Ninth volume of the Tyrol library catalogue, issued since 1987. The entire work is planned to have 10 volumes and will contain descriptions of 1067 manuscripts.

[Avril, François], Trésors enluminés – De Toulouse à Sumatra.

Ville de Toulouse/Musée des Augustins: Toulouse, 2013. 181 pp. ISBN 978-2-901820-39-0. € 29.

Catalogue of the exposition at the museum, November 2013 – February 2014.

 

Bauer-Eberhardt, Ulrike, Die illuminierten Handschriften italienischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Teil 2: Von der Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts bis um 1540.

Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2014 (Katalog der illuminierten Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München: 6). Textband + Tafelband, 330 + 318 pp., 517 col. ills. ISBN 978-3-95490-032-9. € 348.

Describes 285 manuscripts.

 

Becker, Julia, Tino Licht & Stefan Weinfurter (eds.), Karolingische Klöster. Wissenstransfer und kulturelle Innovation.

Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015 (Materiale Textkulturen: 4). 307 pp., 29 col. ills. ISBN 978-3-11-037123-9. € 89,95.

Examines contemporary vehicles and recipients that were involved in the Carolingian knowledge system and guided the transmission and selection of knowledge, with focus on the abbey of Lorsch.

 

Bouchet, Florence , L’iconographie du Chevalier errant de Thomas de Saluces.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2014 (Répertoire Iconographique de la Littérature du Moyen Age. Le Corpus du RILMA: 3). 168 pp., 46 b/w and 48 col. ills. ISBN 978-2-503-55239-2. € 60.

Study of Paris, BnF, fr. 12559, a manuscript illuminated by the Master of the Cité des Dames in Paris, c. 1403-1405.

 

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 V: Textes historiques.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. 434 pp,. b/w and 23 col. ills. ISBN 978-2-503-52990-5. € 84.

Second volume concerning the historical texts owned by the Burgundian dukes.

 

Brinkman, Herman, & Ike de Loos (eds.), Het Gruuthuse-handschrift. Hs. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 79 K 10.

Hilversum: Verloren, 2015 (Middeleeuwse Verzamelhandschriften uit de Nederlanden: 13). 2 vols., 869, 488 pp., b/w ills. ISBN 978-90-8704-463-3. € 80.

Final edition of the unique collection of Middle Dutch poems, prayers and songs, in The Hague since 2007.

 

Brunius, Jan, From manuscript to wrappers. Medieval book fragments in the Swedish National Archives. Archival guide.

Stockholm: Riksarkivet, 2013 (Skrifter utgivna av Riksarkivet: 35). 252 pp., 21 col. ills. ISBN 978-91-88366-99-3. SEK 200.

Devoted to the 23.000 fragments catalogued in an illustrated database recently published on the internet: http://sok.riksarkivet.se/mpo.

 

Czifra, Nikolaus, & Rüdiger Lorenz, Katalog der mittelalterlichen Handschriften in Salzburg. Stiftsbibliothek Mattsee, Archiv der Erzdiözese Salzburg, Salzburger Landesarchiv, Archiv der Stadt Salzburg, Salzburg Museum.

Wien, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015 (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters: II.11). 2 vols. (Katalogband and Registerband), 503, 125 pp. ISBN 978-3-7001-7586-5. € 129.

Describes 263 (fragments of) manuscripts, 9th-16th centuries, kept in some poorly known collections.

Derolez, Albert, The making and meaning of the Liber Floridus. A study of the original manuscript, Ghent, University Library MS 92.

Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2015 (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History: 76). 356 pp., 22 b/w and 98 col. ills. ISBN 978-1-909400-22-1. € 125.

In-depth study of the remarkable autograph encyclopedia compiled by Lambert of Saint-Omer (1121).

 

Embach, Michael, Hundert Highlights. Kostbare Handschriften und Drucke der Stadtbibliothek Trier.

Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2013. 232 pp., 100 col. ills. ISBN 978-3-7954-2750-4. € 29,95.

Presents inter alia the Codex Egberti, the Ada-Gospels and the Trier Apocalypse.

 

Finger, Heinz, & Harald Horst (eds.), Mittelalterliche Handschriften der Kölner Dombibliothek. Fünftes Symposion der Diözesan- und Dombibliothek Köln zu den Dom-Manuskripten (30. November bis 1. Dezember 2012).

Köln: Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek mit Bibliothek St. Albertus Magnus, 2014 (Libelli Rhenani: 51). 391 pp., ills. ISNB 978-3-939160-48-9. € 25.

Eleven papers on medieval manuscripts kept in Cologne.

 

Freeman Sandler, Lucy, Illuminators and patrons in fourteenth-century England. The psalter and hours of Humphrey de Bohun and the manuscripts of the Bohun family.

London: The British Library / University of Toronto Press, 2014. 383 pp., 240 col. ill. ISBN 978-0-7123-5757-9. With dvd. £ 60 / € 90.

Study of London, British Library, MS Egerton 3277 and related manuscripts, with twelve previously published essays.

 

Frenz, Thomas, Abkürzungen. Die Abbreviaturen der Lateinischen Schrift von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Tafelband.

Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2014 (Bibliothek des Buchwesens: 24). IX, 306 pp., ca. 300 ills. ISBN 978-3-7772-1400-9. € 188.

Complements the theoretical volume published in 2010 with transcribed exempla for study and exercise. Expensive but useful.

 

Gehrt, David, Katalog der Reformationshandschriften. Aus den Sammlungen der Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha’schen Stiftung für Kunst und Wissenschaft. 2 vols.

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015 (Die Handschriften der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha: 2,1 and 2,2). ISBN 978-3-447-10182-0. € 289.

Describes 260 volumes from the 16th century.

 

Hamburger, Jeffrey F., & Nigel F. Palmer, The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin.

Dietikon-Zürich: Urs Graf, 2015. 2 vols., 676 and 204 pp., 545 col. ills., and complete col. reproduction. ISBN 978-3-85951-280-1. € 165.

On Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 801: an extensively illustrated book conceived for a laywoman of Strasbourg ca. 1380–1410 and remade into a prayer book ca. 1480.

 

Helmer, Friedrich, und Julia Knödler, unter Mitarbeit von Günter Glauche, Katalog der lateinischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. Die Handschriften aus St. Emmeram in Regensburg. Band 4: Clm 14401-14540.

Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2015 (Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum Bibliothecae Monacensis: Tomus IV, Series Nova Pars 2,4). XXXIV, 608 pp. ISBN 978-3-447-10273-5. € 162.

Description of 138 manuscripts, 8th-16th centuries.

 

Hermant, Maxence, avec la collaboration de Marie-Pierre Laffitte (eds.), Trésors royaux. La bibliothèque de François I^er.

Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015. 320 pp., col. ills. ISBN 978-2-7535-4185-6. € 28.

First synthesis on the books of this French king, published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Château royal de Blois.

 

Heyder, Joris Corin, & Christine Seidel (eds.), Re-inventing traditions. On the transmission of artistic patterns in late medieval manuscript illumination.

Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Wien: Peter Lang, 2015 (Zivilisationen & Geschichte / Civilizations & History / Civilisations & Histoire: 34). 363 pp., 15 col. and 183 b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-631-65907-6. €59,95.

Comprises 16 papers given at a conference in Berlin in 2012.

 

Jackson, Deirdre, Nigel Morgan & Stella Panayotova (eds.), Illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge. A catalogue of western book illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part three: France. Volume one: c. 1000-c. 1250.

London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2015. 296 pp., 382 col. ills. ISBN 978-1-909400-37-5. € 175.

Catalogues 94 manuscripts.

 

Jakobi-Mirwald, Christine, Buchmalerei. Terminologie in der Kunstgeschichte. Vierte, überarbeitete Auflage unter Mitarbeit von Martin Roland.

Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 2015. 314 pp., 459 b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-496-01499-7. € 24,95.

New edition of a popular manual, first published in 1991.

 

Jarrett, Jonathan, & Allan Scott McKinley (eds.), Problems and possibilities of early medieval charters.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2013 (International Medieval Research: 19). X, 301 pp., b/w ills. ISBN 978-2-503-54830-2. € 80.

Reassessment of the potential of charter evidence by thirteen scholars, previously presented at the Leeds international medieval congress from 2006 to 2011.

 

Johnston, Michael, & Michael van Dussen (eds.), The medieval manuscript book. Cultural approaches.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature: 94). ISBN 9781107066199. £ 64,99.

A dozen essays emphasizing the need to analyze the manuscript book in all its cultural complexity.

 

Kalning, Pamela, Matthias Miller und Karin Zimmermann, unter Mitarbeit von Lennart Güntzel, Die Codices Palatini germanici in der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg (Cod. Pal. germ. 496-670).

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014 (Kataloge der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg: 11). XXXII, 668 pp. ISBN 978-3-447-10146-2. € 168.

Describes some 300 items, mostly medical and alchemical manuscripts from the 16th century.

 

Karpp, Gerhard, Mittelalterliche Bibelhandschriften am Niederrhein.

Frankfurt am Main [etc.]: Peter Lang, 2014. 211 pp. ISBN 978-3-631-65388-3. € 49,95.

Offers 18 bible manuscripts (c. 800-c. 1450) now kept in Düsseldorf, with both a ‘DFG’-description and a more popular presentation.

 

De Kesel, Lieve, The Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland/Ohio, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1963.256.

Gütersloh/Munich 2013. Gütersloh/Munich: Faksimile Verlag, 2014. 224 pp. ISBN 978-3-577-12956-2.

Commentary volume with the facsimile published in 2013.

 

Klugseder, Robert, Katalog der mittelalterlichen Musikhandschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Wien.

Purkersdorf: Brüder Hollinek, 2014 (Codices Manuscripti & Impressi; Zeitschrift für Buchgeschichte: Supplementum 10). 529 pp., col. ills. ISSN 0379-3621. € 198.

Basic information on 367 manuscripts, with more elaborate descriptions of 108 manuscripts.

 

[König, Eberhard], The Hours of Marie de Medici. A facsimile.

Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2014. 352 pp., 45 col. ills. ISBN 978-1-85124-407-2. £ 150.

Enchanting Flamish manuscript with miniatures by the renowned Master of the David Scenes.

 

Kren, Thomas, & Kurt Barstow, Italian illuminated manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Los Angeles: Getty Trust Publications, 2015. 112 pp., 96 col. ills. ISBN 978-1-60606-436-8. $ 19,95 / € 23,30.

Expanded an revised edition of Kren’s volume published in 2005.

 

Lenz, Philipp, & Stefania Ortelli, Die Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen. Band 3 Abt. V: Codices 670-749: Iuridica. Kanonisches, römisches und germanisches Recht.

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014. XLVIII, 402 pp., 5 col. and 8 b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-447-10294-0. € 118.

Catalogue of legal manuscripts, 7th-15th centuries.

 

Long, Sarah Ann, & Inga Behrendt (eds.), Catalogue of notated office manuscripts preserved in Flanders (c. 1100-c. 1800). Volume 1: Averbode, Dendermonde, Diest, Geel, Ghent, Tongeren).

Turnhout: Brepols, 2015 (Antiphonaria: 1). 170 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-54278-2. € 65.

Presents a collection of manuscript antiphoners and other liturgical books containing music.

 

Lucas, Peter J., & Angela M. Lucas, The medieval manuscripts at Maynooth. Explorations in the unknown.

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014. 276 pp., col. ills. ISBN 978-1-84682-534-7. € 45.

Illustrated guide to the Maynooth manuscripts in Ireland: sixteen items (11th century-1529), plus twelve fragments (not dated, not even identified).

 

Meyer, Christian, avec la collaboration de Barbara Haggh-Huglo et Shin Nishimagi, Collections du Nord – Pas-de-Calais et de Picardie. I: Abbeville, Amiens, Arras, Bergues, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Cambrai.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2014 (Catalogue des manuscrits notés du Moyen Âge conservés dans les bibliothèques publiques de France: 4). XXII, 369 pp. ISBN 978-2-503-55433-4. € 90.

Concerns 200 manuscripts with music, 9th-17th centuries.

 

Nicolaj, Giovanna, a cura di Cristina Mantegna, Storie di documenti, storie di libri. Quarant’anni di studi, ricerche e vagabondaggi nell’eta antica e medievale.

Dietikon-Zürich: Urs Graf, 2015. 632 pp., ISBN 978-3-85951-279-5. € 166,40.

Collected articles and the like by one of the leading palaeographers in Italy.

 

Otterman, Annelen (ed.), Das spätkarolingische Fragment eines illustrierten Apokalypse-Kommentars in der Mainzer Stadtbibliothek. Bilanz einer interdisziplinären Annäherung.

Mainz: Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek, 2014 (Veröffentlichungen der Bibliotheken der Stadt Mainz: 60). 232 pp., b/w and col. ills. No ISBN. € 15.

Results of an interdisciplinary workshop on a Franco-Saxon fragment of c. 900, related to the Trier Apocalypse.

 

Parkes, Henry, The making of liturgy in the Ottonian church. Books, music and ritual in Mainz, 950-1050.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, fourth series). 276 pp., 4 b/w ills. ISBN 9781107083028. £ 65.

Examins how religious life was organised, transmitted and perceived through its ritual books.

 

Philippi, Sabine, & Philipp Vanscheidt (eds.), Digitale Rekonstruktionen mittelalterlicher Bibliotheken.

Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2014 (Trierer Beiträge zu den Historischen Kulturwissenschaften: 12). 132 pp., 27 b/w ills. ISBN 978-3-89500-995-2. € 49.

Contributions to manuscript studies in the digital age.

 

 

Pierazzo, Elena, Digital scholarly editing. Theories, models and methods.

Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. ISBN 9781472412119. £ 65.

Up-to-date treatment of the developments in digital textual scholarship, imposed by the radical changes in the way we manage (medieval) texts.

 

Rappl, Stephanie, Text und Bild in der Elsässischen Legenda aurea. Der Cgm 6 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München) und der Cpg 144 (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg).

Hamburg: Dr. Kovač, 2015 (Schriften zur Mediävistik: 22). 484 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-8300-7937-8. € 129,80.

On illustrated manuscripts with a German translation of the Legenda aurea.

 

Roland, Martin, & Peter Wiesinger, Malstil und Schreibsprache. Kunsthistorisch-stilkritische und sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zur Lokalisierung des Münchener „Jüngeren Titurel“ (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, CGM 8470).

Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015 (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Denkschriften: 473). XI, 183 pp., 20 b/w and col. ills., 43 col. tables. ISBN 978-3-7001-7639-8. € 47.

Claims an illustrated manuscript of c. 1430/35 for the Regensburg region.

 

Rudy, Kathryn M., Postcards on parchment. The social lives of medieval books.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 360 pp., 140 b/w and 80 col. ills. ISBN 978-0-300-20989-1. $ 85 / £ 45 / € 65,30.

Study of parchment paintings kept in medieval books from the Low Countries, but not designed as manuscript illuminations.

 

Snijders, Tjamke, Manuscript communication. Visual and textual mechanics of communication in hagiographical texts from the Southern Low Countries, 900-1200.

Turnhout: Brepols, 2015 (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy: 32). XVIII, 493 pp., 24 pp. b/w and 5 col. ills., 23 graphs, 38 b.w tables. ISBN 978-2-503-55294-1. € 110.

Investigates how medieval abbeys in the Southern Low Countries used hagiographical manuscripts as a communicative tool.

 

Stones, Alison, Gothic manuscripts 1260-1320. Part two.

London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2014 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France: [3.2]). 2 vols., c. 1100 pp., 1095 b/w and 173 col. ills. ISBN 978-1-905375-95-0. € 300.

Traces the cultural context of book illustration, its production, owners, and makers; this part comprises manuscripts made in the East, South-East, West and Centre of France.

 

Vaisey, David], Bodleian Library treasures.

Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2014. 232 pp., 114 col. ills. ISBN 978-1-85124-408-9. £ 19,99 / € 24.

Over one hundred highlights with a story to tell, presented by the former Bodley’s Librarian.

 

Vlist, Ed van der, con la colaboración de Eberhard König, Biblia ilustrada de La Haya (KB 76 F 5). Libro de estudios.

[Madrid:] Orbis Mediaevalis, 2015. 230 pp., col. ills. ISBN 978-84-942509-1-0.

Study on the Saint-Bertin picture book of ca. 1190-1200.

 

Voelkle, William, Christine Sauer & Frauke Steenbock, Das Berthold-Sakramentar. Ms. M.710, New York, Morgan Library & Museum.

Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 2013 (Glanzlichter der Buchkunst: 22/1). 288 pp., ills. ISBN 978-3-201-01980-4. € 98.

Facsimile of and commentary on the sacramentary commissioned by abbot Berhold von Hainburg at Weingarten abbey shortly after 1215.

 

Wieck, Roger S., Illuminating faith. The Eucharist in medieval life and art.

London: Scala, 2014. 80 pp., 67 col. ills. ISBN 978-1-85759-917-6. £ 9,95 / $ 14,95 / € 11,60.

Illustrates the importance of the Eucharist in medieval Europe from the Morgan Library & Museum’s holdings of illuminated manuscripts.

 

Willaert, Frank, Jos Koldeweij & Johan Oosterman (eds.), Het Gruuthusehandschrift. Literatuur, muziek, devotie rond 1400. Internationaal congres Brugge 25-27 april 2013.

Gent: Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, 2015. 320 pp., ills. ISBN 978-90-724-7495-7. € 29.

Provocative essays by renowned specialists in the field of Dutch culture in the Middle Ages.

 

Wolf, Norbert, Buchmalerei verstehen.

Darmstadt: Primus, 2014.208 pp., 30 col. ills. ISBN 978-3-86312-375-8. € 24,95.

Introduction into the history of manuscript illumination.