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B2823. Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters/Pryor
Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters
By Felix Pryor. 2003. 144pp. 9"x11.75". Hardcover $34.95.
This volume reproduces sixty letters in full color. The letters by Elizabeth are in her italic hand, which changes over the years. Other letters are to Elizabeth from her subjects and from foreign princes, kings, queens and czars. Some of the letters are written out by scribes, others are by the hand of the correspondent. Each letter is discussed individually, placing the document in its historical context. Selected parts of each are transcribed or, where necessary, translated. A fascinating combination of handwriting, calligraphy and English history.
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B2932. Der Klang in der Schrift (Rudo Spemann)
Rudo Spemann: Der Klang in Der Schrift
2005. 49pp. 7.75"x11.75". Paper.
Reproduces in color 30 pieces in a variety of hands: Roman majuscules, italic, blackletter and uncial. Introductory
material in German.
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B2505. History of Writing / Christin HARDCOVER
A History of Writing: From Ideogram to Multimedia.
Edited by Anne-Marie Christin. 2002. 408pp. 9-1/2"x11".
Retail Price $75.00.
Discusses the oldest, nonalphabet methods of writing,
history & spread of alphabets, how the Western alphabet has reincorporated imagery into writing, & the effects of computer technology. 400 color & b/w illustrations.
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B3207. Surface of Meaning / Bringhurst
The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design in Canada by Robert Bringhurst. 2008. 240pp. 9.25"x11". Hardcover $59.95
A survey of Canadian books and book design, including books for Native Americans in their own languages & bilingual books, small press books, university press books, private press books and trade books. Each of the four sections of the book starts with a brief essay by Bringhurst: What's a Book - and Why? Transparency, tangibility, complexity, and culture. The Invisible Book: Literary structures before, beneath, and beside the European colonization. The Echo of Tangibility: Constructing culture from the Second World War to the Digital Divide. Stills from a Typographic Movie: Canadian books from 1980 to the present day. (This is a presentation of books in codex form, rather than a survey of artist's books.) A few, such as Canadian artist Nick Bantock's Sabine's Notebook, will be familiar from their USA editions.
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B2844. Treasures of a Lost Art/Palladino
Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the
Middle Ages and Renaissance
By Pia Palladino. 2003. 204pp. 8.75"x11.5". Hardcover.
Presents nearly 150 leaves, cuttings and illuminated manuscript fragments (169 illustrations, many in full color). The scholarly catalog deals mainly with the history of these illuminations. Vivian Mungall finds it a great resource for illuminated initials.
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B3134. Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe/Kren
Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Thomas Kren. 2009. 132pp. 6-5/8"x9-3/8". Paper.
This beautifully illustrated volume showcases full-color reproductions of masterpieces (9th-18th centuries) from such works as Carolingian manuscripts of the ninth century; several sumptuously illuminated Ottonian texts from
the late tenth and early eleventh centuries; two of the most celebrated examples of Romanesque illumination: the Helmarshausen Gospel book from the 1120s and the Stammheim Missal, made around 1170 for Saint Michael's
monastery in Hildesheim; The Life of the Blessed Hedwig from 1353; and the only known illuminations by the Cologne painter called the Master of Saint Veronica, ca. 1400. It also illustrates many richly colored illuminations from such manuscripts as a luxury psalter made in Würzburg, dating from the mid-thirteenth century; a copy of Rudolf von Ems's Weltchronik, produced in the early fifteenth century; and chivalric and dynastic manuscripts from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
Now available.
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B3309. Emperor Maximilian: Adv of Knight Theuerdank / Fussel
Emperor Maximilian I: The Adventures of the Knight Theuerdank edited by Stephan Füssel. 668 pp. 9.75"x13.5" (24.4 x 34 cm). Hardcover $99.00.
The amazing tales of the knight Theuerdank and his companion, Ehrenhold, comprise the last great epic verse of the late Middle Ages. The courageous knight’s journey to woo his future wife, Mary of Burgundy, and his triumph in battles and other dangerous escapades are the focus of this highly embellished "life-story" of Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519). King of Germany before becoming Holy Roman Emperor in 1508, Maximilian was a great patron of the arts and commissioned a trilogy of ornate, illustrated books to immortalize his existence. (Modesty was not one of his virtues!) The thick volume includes 118 ornate, gold-adorned woodcuts - one for each chapter - providing many examples of period clothing. The typeface was specially designed for the book.
This complete color reprint is made to exacting standards from an extremely rare hand-colored original from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich. This substantial volume - it weighs over eight pounds - is accompanied by an 88-page companion book by Stephan Füssel covering Maximilian’s life and work, as well as his role in the art of printing and use of printed materials. The companion booklet also contains a chapter-by-chapter retelling of the tales in modern vernacular, exploring the narrative strategy and real events behind the allegories. Included too, is a presentation of calligraphic and typographic origins of the typeface. Like the Gütenberg Bible, the type has many alternate characters which give the book the appearance of a hand lettered manuscript. There are over 50 alternates for only the uppercase letters.
Use this link to view pages of the book. http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/classics/all/03807/facts.emperor_maximilian_i_the_adventures_of_the_knight_theuerdank.htm
Airmail shipping cost for this book to Canada $32.00. Airmail overseas shipping to most of the rest of the world $50.00.
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B3240. Illuminated Manuscripts / Woronowa
Illuminated Manuscripts by Tamara Woronowa and Andrej Sterligow. 2007. 255pp. 5.75"x6.25". Paper.
A fascinating visual history of European manuscript illumination (AD 700-1546) using 114 page-filling reproductions from manuscripts. In addition there are three details on the facing page. The text discusses the individual manuscripts shown and their part in the history of manuscripts and miniature painting.
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B3164. Images in the Margins / Nishimura
Images in the Margins by Margot McIlwain Nishimura. 2009. 96pp. 7" x 9". Hardcover
An astonishing mix of mundane, playful, absurd and monstrous beings, called marginalia, are found in the borders of English, French, and Italian manuscripts from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Unpredictable, topical, often irreverent, marginalia were a source of satire, serious social observation, and amusement for medieval readers. Though enlarged full-color details, and a lively narrative, this volume brings these intimately scaled and fascinating images to a wider audience. 84 color illustrations.
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B3234. Building the Medieval World / Sciacca
Building the Medieval World by Christine Sciacca. 2010. 104pp. 7"x9". Hardcover.
This volume illustrates the creative ways in which medieval artists represented architecture, including soaring cathedrals and grand castles & palaces. Provides insight into what these buildings meant for medieval people. Such structures were not just made to be inhabited - they symbolized grandeur, power, and even heaven on earth. Many of these edifices are lost and survive only within the pages of these manuscripts.
102 color illustrations.
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