The Lorsch Gospels by Braunfels, Wolfgang

New York: George Braziller, 1967. Limited Edition Facsimile, #58/1000. Hardcover. Large quarto; 23 pages and unpaginated plates; VG; quarter vellum binding with gilt titling to spine over red cloth boards and grey softcover accompaniment, housed in a VG grey paper slipcase; mild shelfwear to slipcase and spine of facsimile volume, including a small chunk missing at the tail of the spine and associated tearing; textblocks clean, if mildly sunken; full color and black and white photographs throughout; limitation page at the end of the facsimile volume numbered 58/1000; shelved front table. 1362949. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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).