Online auction - Lot 437
[Facsimile]
Bestiarium. Bodleian Library, Oxford. Ms. Ashmole 1511.
Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1982
Starting bid: €
150
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4to: [244] pp.
Blind-stamped mod. leather, spine with raised bands, white title label, slipcase. Excellent copy.
Complete colour facsimile ed. of this beautiful manuscript dating from the 12th c., South England. Ed. limited to 980 numb. copies (n. 387). Ill. with 130 miniatures with backgrounds with gold reproduction, depicting animals, mythical creatures and people. The pages are cut according to the original.
Joined: 2 companion vol. providing the French and German translations: 1. Le Bestiaire. [...]. Présentation et commentaires de Xénia Muratova et Daniel Poirion. Paris, Lebaud, 1988. 4to. Gilt green publ. cloth. - 2. Unterkircher, F. - Bestiarium. Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1986. 4to. Sewn.
Prov. B. [Gobbe] (mod. bookpl. in all vol.). (3 vol.)