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Total number of records: 126

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Brotherton Collection45
Herbert Read Collection12
Ripon Cathedral9
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1

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SubjectCount
illumination of books and manuscripts126
manuscripts22
manuscripts, latin20
books of hours14
miniature painting10
bookbinding8
bibliography6
book collectors6
books6
engraving6

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America1
Flanders1
Florence (Italy)1
France1
Italy1
Norway1
Spain1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Catholic Church14
Millar, Eric George8
Roxburghe Club7
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847)6
Bibliotheque Nationale (France). Departement Des Manuscrits5
James, M R (1862-1936)5
James, M. R5
Leroquais, Victor (1875-1948)5
Beatty, Sir Alfred Chester (1875-1968)4
British Museum. Department of Manuscripts4

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From 180022
From 1900102

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Up to 189919
Up to 1999105

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Illuminated manuscripts : their origin, history and characteristics : a sketch

Quaile, Edward

1897

"With twenty-six examples from books of hours in his possession."

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Les Fouquet de Chantilly : les heures d'Étienne Chevalier : la vierge et les saints

Fouquet, Jean (1420-1480); Malo, Henri (1868-1949); Chevalier, Etienne (1474); Musée Condé; Catholic Church

1945

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Les très riches heures du duc de Berry (Musée Condé à Chantilly)

Porcher, Jean; Limbourg, Pol de (1385-1416); Colombe, Jean (fl. 1463-1498)

[1950]

Miniatures by the brothers Jean, Herman and Pol de Limbourg under the direction of Pol; completed by Jean Colombe.

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Les Belles heures du Duc de Berry

Berry, Jean de France duc de (1340-1416); Freeman, Margaret B; Rorimer, James J (1905-1966); Catholic Church

[1959]

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Un livre d'heures de Jean sans Peur, duc de Bourgogne (1404-1419)

Leroquais, Victor (1875-1948); John Duke of Burgundy, the Fearless (1371-1419)

1939

The manuscript is now in the Bibliothèque nationale recorded as "manuscrit latin, nouvelles acquistions 3055." cf. p. 74.

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Les très belles Heures de Notre-Dame du duc Jean de Berry

Durrieu, Paul Comte (1855-1925); Berry, Jean de France duc de (1340-1416); Rothschild, Maurice Baron de (1881-)

1922

Issued in portfolio. Description of a manuscript belonging to Maurice de Rothschild. "Celles de mes publications que je citerai": p. 104-105.

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Die Illustrationen zum Casseler Willehalm-codex : ein Beispiel englischen Einflusses in der rheinischen Malerei des XIV. Jahrhunderts; mit 57 Lichtdrucktafeln

Freyhan, Robert; Kassel (Germany). Landesbibliothek. Manuscript. poet. & rom. fol. fol. 1

1927

At head of title : Robert Freyhan. Cover-title : Der Willehalm-codex der Landesbibliothek in Cassel. "Druck der Lichtdrucktafeln von Sinsel & Co., Leipzig-Oetzsch. Druck des Textes von Karl Strauc...

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Notes on the illuminations of the Spanish Haggadah in the John Rylands Library

Rosenau, Helen

1954

Reprinted from: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. Vol. 36, no. 2 (March 1954), pages 468-483.

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Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford

Pächt, Otto (1902-1988); Alexander, J J G (1935-); Bodleian Library

1966

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The Art of the French book from early manuscripts to the present time

Lejard, André (1899-)

[1947]

"This book is based on the world-famous collection in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris". Bibliography: p. 165-166.

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