Live auction - Lot 566
[Facsimile]
Apokalypse. Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat der Handschrift MS Douce 180 aus dem Besitz der Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1981-1983
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
2 vol., 4to.
Text vol.: decor. paper over cardboard covers, gilt title label, facsimile vol.: gilt orn. black leather, gilt orn. spine on 5 raised bands, slipcase. Excellent copy.
Complete colour facsimile edition of a Westminster codex dating from 1272. Ill. with 97 half page miniatures with gold reproduction, showing scenes from the Bible book Apocalypse. One of 960 numb. copies (n. 646). All folios cut according to the original. Gilt leather binding is a replica of the 16th-c. original binding. Commentary vol. in German. Bookpl. B. [Gobbe].
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