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The Lorsch Gospels
by BRAUNFELS, Wolfgang (introduction)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: George Braziller, Inc, 1967. Hardcover. Folio. Quarter vellum with gilt lettering and red cloth, slipcase. (Ca. 400pp). Extensive illustrations (some color). Fine/very good. A lovely and fresh copy of this outstanding facsimile, with a fine copy of the accompanying 24pp folio illustrated introductory pamphlet by Braunfels. The Codex Aureas of Lorsch or "Lorsch Gospels," named after the German monastery where it was likely created, is an illuminated Gospel volume penned in Latin in two-column format between 778 and 820. Part of the original resides at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome, the other part at the Biblioteca Documentara Batthyaneum in Alba Julia, Rumania, with a couple of the ivory panels at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London -- but all appear together here for the first time as a single unified text in this large and magnificent production. Colophon at rear notes limitation to 1,000 numbered copies (here unnumbered).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49311
- Title
- The Lorsch Gospels
- Author
- BRAUNFELS, Wolfgang (introduction)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Braziller, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Religion; Ancient World;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Glossary
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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