medieval books
illuminated manuscripts & brasses

Basic Documents in Medieval History
No. 38

by Norton Downs
An Anvil Original
D. Van Nostrand Co.
New Jersey. 1959

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
For the Modern Reader

by Geoffrey Chaucer
Prepared and Edited by Arthur Burrell, M.A.
J.M.Dent and Co.
London, May 1909

Chronicles
by Froissant
Penguin; 1st edition
17 December, 2001
Czechoslovakian Miniatures
From Romanesque and Gothic Manuscripts

by Jan Kvet
Fontana Unesco Art Books
1964
Ettiquette For Renaissance Gentlemen
by Baldesar Castiglione

Translated by George Bull
Penguin 60's Classic
1967
Gawain and the Green Knight
by Anonymous
Translated by Brian Stone
Penguin Classics
November 30, 1959
Gothic Illuminated Manuscripts
by Emma Pirani
Hamlyn
1966
Hildegard von Bingen's Physica
The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing

edited by Priscilla Throop
Healing Arts Press
1998
Illuminators & Patrons in Fourteenth-Century England
The Psalter & Hours of Humphrey de Bohun
and the Manuscripts of the Bohun Family

by Lucy Freeman Sandler
The British Library & University of Toronto Press
2014
History of Illuminated Manuscript
by Christopher De Hamel
Phaidon Press
26 Sept 1997
Here Begins The Seeing Of The Urines
an original 13th-15th Century Urine Diagnosis Pamphlet

Theophrastus von oberstockstall
The Restoreres of Alchemical Manuscripts Society
2014
Holistic Healing
Hildegard of Bingen
Liturgical Press
12 September, 1994
Illuminated Manuscripts
by John Bradley
Braken Books
London, 1996
Illuminated Manuscripts
The Pocket Library of Art
Brockhampton Press,
London, 1997

Illustrated Letters of the Paston Family
Private Life In The 15th Century

edited by Roger Virgoe
Macmillian
London, 1989

Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination
by Kurt Weitzmann
George Braziller
First Edition June 1, 1977
Medieval Rural Life
from the Luttrell Psalter

by Janet Backhouse
The British Library
2000
Magna Carta
Icon of Liberty

edited by Rex Davis
Published by the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln
Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts
by Christopher de Hamel
Penguin

Medieval Handbooks of Penance
A Translation of the Principal Libri Poenitentiales

Translated by John Thomas McNeill & Helena M. Gamer
Records of Western Civilization Series
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
United States, 1 November, 1990

Medieval Woman's Guide to Health:
The first english gynecological handbook.
Middle English Text with introduction and Modern English Translation

By Beryl Rowland
Kent State University Press
Kent, Ohio
1981
Piers Ploughman
A New Translation of the B-text
by William Langland
Translated by A. V. C. Schmidt
World's Classics
Oxford University Press
1992
Piers the Plowman
The Vision of William Concerning Piers The Plowman

by William Langland (or Langley)
edited by the Rev Walter W. Skeat, Litt,D.
Clarendon Press series
Oxford, 1890
Prayers of Henry VII:
Book of Days

by PAST TIMES
Chatsworth Library
January 1, 1993
The Decameron of of Giovanni Boccaccio (unexpurgated)
Rigg's faithful and complete translation with the original 16 plates by louis Chalon now reproduced and colopured by hand

The Best Illustrated Edition
Volume the Second
Privately Printed For The Navarre Society Limited 63/-
London
The Four Seasons of The House of Cerruti
by Judith Spencer, Ibn Bu=tlsan
Facts on File
December 31, 1984
On Union With God
by Albert the Great
Ways of Mysticism
Continuum Publishing Inc.
London, 2000
The Art of Courtly Love
by Andreas Capellanus
Records of Western Civilization Series
Columbia University Press
May 16, 1990
The City of Ladies
by Christine de Pizan
Penguin Great Ideas
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
London, United Kingdom
01 October, 2005
The Golden Age of Manuscript Painting
1200 -1500

by Richard Marks & Nigel Morgan
George Braziller Inc.
1999
The Goodman of Paris
Le Menagier de Paris
A Treatise on Moral and Domestic Economy by A Citizen of Paris. c.1393

Translated by Eileen Power
George Routeledge A Sons Ltd 1928
The Folio Society, 1992
The Medieval Health Handbook
Tacuinum Sanitatis

Translated and adapted by Oscar Ratti and Adele Westbrook
from the original Italian edition by Luisa Cogliati Arano
George Braziller NY 1976
The Romance of King Arthur
Abridged from Malory's Morte d'Arthur

by Alfred W. Pollard
Macmillan and Co. Limited
1979
The Romance of The Rose
by Guillaume de Lorris & Jean de Muen

A new translation by Frances Horgan
Oxford World's Classics
The Splendor of the Word
Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts
at the New York Public Library

by Jonathan Alexander, James Marrow & Lucy Freeman Sandler
Harvey Miller Publishers
2005

The Trotula
An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine

The Middle Ages Series
edited by Monica H. Green
University of Pennsylvania Press
2002

  Transgressing the Boundaries of Holiness:
Sexual Deviance in the Early Medieval Penitential Handbooks of Ireland, England and France 500-1000.

by Christine A. McCann
Theses. 76. 2010.
https://scholarship.shu.edu/theses/76
Women's Secrets
A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus' De Secretis Mulierum with Commentaries

by Helen Rodnite Lemay
SUNY series in Medieval Studies
October 14, 1992.
York Notes on The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer

Notes by W. E. East
Longman Literature Guides
Longman York Press

 

Brasses
by J. M. Ward B.A., F.R.Hist.S
The Cambridge Manuals of Science & Literature
Cambridge at the University Press, 1912
Small hardcover. Looks at memorial brasses and what the clothing and poses tell us about people, their jobs and lives. This is the same J. Ward who founded Abbey Park in the UK which led to the collections at the Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology at Caboolture in Queensland. REVIEW
Brasses and Brass Rubbings
by Clare Gittings
Blandford Press
London. 1970
Hertfordshire Brasses
A Guide To Brasses in the Churches of Hertfordshire

by Mary Rensten
Hertfordshire Publications
1982

 

 

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