| ISBN |
9789061943709 (hbk.) |
| Title |
The medieval book : glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel / edited by James H. Marrow, Richard A. Linenthal, & William Noel |
| Publisher |
't Goy-Houten : HES & De Graaf, 2010 |
| Physical desc. |
xxxi, 467 p. ; ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Note |
Festschrift |
| Ref. to ACB: p. 348, 349, 380, 409, 441. |
| CBL illustrations: p. 255 (AF639) |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Contents |
Foreword / James H. Marrow, Richard A. Linenthal, and William Noel -- Contributors -- Christopher de Hamel / Nicolas Barker -- Bibliography of Christopher de Hamel / compiled by Lynley Herbert -- Pt. 1: Books. A Christ church scribe of the late eleventh century / Michael Gullick -- The portrait of Laurence of Durham as scribe / A.I. Doyle -- Medieval English bookbinding stamps: four new examples / Richard A. Linenthal -- An illustrated twelfth-century manuscript of Hyginus's De astronomia / Timothy Bolton -- Angels, lost and found, in the University Library, Cambridge / Paul Binski -- A scientific textbook for a noble student: Sacrobosco's treatises in the New York Public Library / Lucy Freeman Sandler -- Early manuscripts of Jean de Meun's Translation of Vegetius / Richard and Mary Rouse -- The Holkham Bible picture book and the Bible moralisée / John Lowden -- The Sherborne missal and 'Roddoke Robertus': the anatomy of a major manuscript commission / Michelle Brown -- Uncommon images in the common of the saints of Italian choir books / Margaret Manion -- The city gates of Perugia and Umbrian manuscript illumination of the fifteenth century / Jonathan J.G. Alexander -- Mind your table manners / Bernard Rosenthal -- Magdalena Kremer, scribe and painter of the choir and chapter books of the Dominican convent of St. Johannes-Baptista in Kirchheim unter Teck / Jeffrey F. Hamburger -- A Dutch (?) miniaturist active at the turn of the sixteenth century / James H. Marrow -- Bathsheba imagery in French books of hours made for women, c. 1470-1500 / Thomas Kren -- The prayer book of Claude de France / Roger S. Wieck -- Indexes in late medieval polyphonic music manuscripts: a brief tour / Margaret Bent -- The discovery and invention of the Gutenberg Bible, 1455-1805 / Paul Needham -- An early witness to the texts of Horace and Tibullus, or an audacious forgery? / Marvin L. Colker -- Some deceptive bookbindings / Anthony Hobson -- Pt. 2: The book trade. Four book auctions of the fifteenth century / Lotte Hellinga -- A new beginning: the Sotheby bankruptcy of 1836 / David McKitterick -- William Edward Hurcomb, goldsmith, gasconader, auctioneer, and bankrupt / John Collins -- Colleagues at Sotheby's / Diana Berry, [et al.] -- The provenance of the Bute psalter / Sam Fogg -- Pt. 3: Collectors & collecting. Frederick, Archbishop of Riga (1304-1341), and his books / Patrick Zutshi -- 'Ligging in the choer, every of hem tied by hymself with a cheyne of iron': chained books in churches in late medieval England / Nigel Morgan -- Henry Yates Thompson, gentleman: 'an unusual collector with commercial motives just a shade larger than was common' / William P. Stoneman -- Catalogues of the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps: a chronological checklist / Roland Folter -- The bibliophile and the scholar: Count Paul Durrieu's list of manuscripts belonging to Baron Edmond de Rothschild / François Avril -- Cockerell and riches / Stella Panayotova -- Medieval manuscripts owned by J. Meade Falkner / A.S.G. Edwards -- Princely pursuits: hunting manuscripts / Lawrence J. Schoenberg with Lynn Ransom -- The saga of Christianity's oldest liturgical manuscript / Martin Schøyen -- Floreat vellomania; or, A slice of history: reflections on collecting medieval manuscript fragments / Robert Weaver -- A handlist of western medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya -- Some transatlantic trails of W. de Brailes / William Noel -- The descriptions master / Henri Schiller. |
| Person as subject |
De Hamel, Christopher -- 1950- |
| Subject |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, European |
| Manuscripts, Medieval |
| Fine bindings |
| Collectors and collecting |
| Rare books |
| Added name(s) |
Marrow, James H. ed. |
| Linenthal, Richard A. ed. |
| Noel, William ed. |
| De Hamel, Christopher 1950- |
