Presenting works from the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA, this volume includes masterpieces from the 10th to the 16th century as the centrepieces of this collection of manuscripts produced in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. Among the highlights are four Ottoman manuscripts, Romanesque treasures from Germany, Italy and France, an English Gothic Apocalypse, and late medieval manuscripts painted by such masters as Jean Fouquet and Joris Hoefnagel. Included are devotional books for private use, books of the ...
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Presenting works from the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA, this volume includes masterpieces from the 10th to the 16th century as the centrepieces of this collection of manuscripts produced in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. Among the highlights are four Ottoman manuscripts, Romanesque treasures from Germany, Italy and France, an English Gothic Apocalypse, and late medieval manuscripts painted by such masters as Jean Fouquet and Joris Hoefnagel. Included are devotional books for private use, books of the Bible, histories by Giovanni Boccaccio and Jean Froissart, and pages from the 16th-century "Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta". The book is one of a series of seven volumes that present the finest works from The Getty Center in Los Angeles, USA which opened in late 1997.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 128pp. Several colour plates. A little edge wear to d/w. Pages very slightly crumpled to top margins. Private ownership. (bs4)
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 1st edition, large 4to, 128pp, colour photo reproductions, previous owner's name to ffep o/w VG Copy in VG DJ.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket. 1997 1st edition with numerous colour illustrations; tightly bound in grey cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front. Dust jacket very good apart from small loss to top front corner extending round onto flap. Otherwise, a clean, tidy copy.
