Illuminated and Decorated Mediaeval Manuscripts in the University Library, Utrecht
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, UTRECHT.
An illustrated Catalogue. Compiled by Koer T Van Der Horst.
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Cambridge University Press Cambridge, [1989]
Stock code: 80
Price: £84.00
Folio, First Edition, with 23 fine coloured plates on 16 and 718 monochrome plates on 342; terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in brown, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
The manuscript collection contains some 700 codices, over half of which originated in the monastery libraries of the mediaeval bishopric of Utrecht. This catalogue, modelled on those of the Bodleian Library, presents all the essential information on the miniatures, marginalia and other decorations in 132 MSS from the northern Netherlands, and 49 others from Belgium, France, Germany, Greece and Italy.