Catalogue of printed books and manuscripts in various languages, now on sale.

Catalogue from Lord Ashburnham's library.

Palæographia sacra pictoria : being a series of illustrations of the ancient versions of the Bible, copied from illuminated manuscripts, executed between the fourth and sixteenth centuries. /

Mode of access: Internet.

Facsimiles of illustrations in Biblical and liturgical manuscripts executed in various countries during the XI-XVI centuries, now in the possession of Bernard Quaritch; with an introduction.

The plates are numbered 170-216 with reference to the series of "Choice examples selected from illuminated manuscripts, unpublished drawings, and illustrated books of early date," of which the Facsimiles forms pt. 6.

Fifty mediaeval and renaissance manuscripts

Mode of access: Internet.

The treatise of al-Jazarī on automata; leaves from a manuscript of the Kitāb fī maʻarifat al-hiyal al handasiya in the Museum of fine arts. Boston, and elsewhere,

Plates, accompanied by unnumbered leaf, laid in.

A book hunter's holiday : adventures with books and manuscripts /

Mode of access: Internet.

The illuminated psalter : studies in the content, purpose and placement of its images /

Includes bibliographical references (p. [591]-593) and indexes.

The library catalogue. Printed books and manuscripts. 1834-1888 ...

"Two thousand copies of this volume have been printed."

An English 13th century bestiary, a new discovery in the technique of medieval illumination,

"Three hundred copies ... have been printed."

Illumination and its development in the present day,

"Notes on books:" p. 256-260.

A bibliophile's miscellany, rare books and manuscripts.

382 titles; annotated and priced.

Fifty distinguished books and manuscripts.

Catalogue no. 137.

Description of a very beautiful Book of hours; illuminated probably by Hans Memling and Gérard David; now in the possesion of George C. Thomas; with reproductions in photogravure of 11 representative miniatures.

The illuminated manuscript has title: Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae secundum usum romanum, cum calendario.

Plain words on the art and practice of illuminating /

Mode of access: Internet.

Cy commence le livre nom[m]e la discipline damour divine.

"Written by an anonymous Celestine monk in the 1470s at Notre Dame D'Ambert near Orleans ... an interesting example of devotional literature in the vernacular written by the Celestines for women. The complicated story behind this text (which survives in only two manuscripts), however, is even more interesting, since its source is the Miroir des simples âmes (Mirror of Simple Souls) by the mystical writer, Marguerite Porete, who was burnt at the stake as a relapsed heretic in Paris in 1310"--Textmanuscripts.com