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B4529. The Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel. Hardcover; 616 pages; 6.5" x 9.5". Read about the fascinating world of medieval manuscripts with Christopher de Hamel. This captivating book introduces the extraordinary keepers and companions of...

B3832. Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms by Michelle P. Brown. Revised Edition 2018. 128pp. 6.25"x9.25". Paper What is a historiated initial? What are canon tables? What is a drollery? This book offers definitions of these...

B2179. Nature Illuminated: Flora & Fauna from the Court of Emperor Rudolph II 1997. 64pp. 7.25" x 5.25". Hardcover  The court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced nothing more amazing than the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a brilliant...

B4298. Medieval Illumination: Manuscript Art in England and France, 700-1200 by Charlotte Denoel and Kathleen Doyle. 2019. 176pp. 7.5"x10". Paper Showcases dozens of the finest examples from gospel-books and saint's lives, histories, herbals and more -...

B4202. Illuminating Women in the Medieval World by Christine Sciacca. 2017. 120pp. 7"x9". Hardcover. When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in...

B3780. Illuminating the Word: The Making of The Saint John's Bible (Second Edition) by Christopher Calderhead. 2015. 240pp. 9-5/8" x 11-3/8". Hardcover Takes you on a behind-the-scenes tour of this extraordinary project, telling the story of the scribes...

B1999. Illuminated Initials in Full Color by Carol Belanger Grafton. 1995. 48pp. 9.25" x12.25". Paper. 548 illuminated letters have been selected from 19th-century reproductions of medieval manuscripts and are arranged alphabetically. The letters...

B4352. Beauty in Letters: A Selection of Illuminated Addresses by John P. Wilson. 2021. 144pp. 8.8"x10.8". HardcoverIlluminated addresses--in the form of books, scrolls, certificates, and the like--were at their most popular in the late-nineteenth and...