Writing and the Manuscript Book - Libraries, Catalogues, Exhibitions - Britain

Lot Comprises:

Oxford, Bodleian Library

Otto Pächt & J.J.G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Oxford, 1966‐1973, 3 vols., publisher's blue cloth

Cambridge, Peterhouse College

Montague Rhodes James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, with an Essay on the History of the Library by J.W. Clark, Cambridge, 1899, 4to., publisher's beige cloth

Worcester, Cathedral

R. M. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in Worcester Cathedral Library with a contribution on the bindings by Michael Gullick, Cambridge, D.S. Brewer2001, fol., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket, contains history of library and description of bindings

Oxford, Bodleian Library

Albinia de la Mare, Catalogue of the Collection of Medieval Manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, by James P.R. Lyell, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971, 4to., publisher's black cloth gilt, dust jacket

Oxford, Bodleian Library

Richard Barter, ed., Bestiary, Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, M.S. Bodley 764 with All the Original Miniatures Reproduced in Facsimile, London, Folio Society, 1992, 4to., publisher's printed boards, backed by blue cloth, slipcase

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum and Cambridge University Library

Paul Binski & Stella Panayotova, The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West, London & Turnhout, Harvey Miller & Brepols, 2005, fol., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum and Cambridge University Library

The Cambridge Illuminations: The Conference Papers, London & Turnhout, Harvey Miller & Brepols, 2005, fol. publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

London, British Library

Thomas Kren, Janet Backhouse, Mark Evans, Myra Orth, Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library, New York, 1983, fol., publisher's red cloth gilt, slipcase

London, British Library

British Museum, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, Part III, Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library, London, 1912, 8vo., blue cloth

London, British Library, Add Ms 42130

Michael Camille, Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England, Chicago, 1998, 4to., publisher's beige cloth, dust jacket

London, British Library, Add. Ms. 22318

Charles Mitchell, A Fifteenth Century Italian Plutarch (The Faber Library of Illuminated Manuscripts), New York, 1961, thin small fol., publisher's orange cloth gilt, dust jacket

Sold as a group, not subject to return.