Newly catalogued acquisitions curated by Stephen Butler

Spanning medieval & Renaissance manuscripts (codices, leaves, illuminated miniatures and cuttings), early printed books and incunabula (pre-1501), fine/exceptional bindings, and Arabic & Asian manuscripts (Arabic, Persian, Ottoman, Indian). Descriptions focus on what matters: script (Gothic textura, humanist), materials (vellum, iron-gall ink, shell gold, lapis, vermilion), binding (dentelle, fanfare, paneled calf), provenance, and condition.

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Browse the latest arrivals below, or jump to: Manuscripts & Illuminations, Printed Books & Bindings, Arabic & Asian Works.

Bindings

German Romanesque Psalter (first half of the twelfth century), preserved as the original binding of Ioannes a Iesu Maria, Stimulus Compunctionis. Cologne, 1611.

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Calendar leaf from a Book of Hours mid-C15th, France

Bindings

Lost Gospel, Reborn: A Medieval Manuscript Binding on a Paris Sermon Book

Arabic and Ottoman

An Elegant Mewar Miniature of a Princess with Her Ladies, Watched by a Secret Admirer

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Magnificat Anima Mea Dominum. Bifolium from a 15th-Century Psalter Manuscript on vellum Germany, 15th century

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Property Deed for a House and Garden at Deggendorf, with Building Rights and Ecclesiastical Rent In Old High German, manuscript on vellum

C14th -C16th manuscripts

SAINT NICHOLAS. Leaf from a Medieval Breviary In Latin, manuscript on vellum, c.1300

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Leaf from a Large English Manuscript of Aurora, in the First Redaction of Aegidius of Paris c.1375