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‎Nikitin Yu. Complete set of 16 volumes. Book 1-Mrak., Book 2-Troy and Dana., Book 3-Three in the Sands., Book 4-Three out of the Forest., Book 5-The Holy Grail., Book 6-Revelation., Book 7-Ingvar and Olkha., Book 8-9-Prince Vladimir., Book 10-Prince Rus., Book 11-Prince Feast., Book 12-Z. In Russian /Nikitin Yu. Polnyy komplekt iz 16 tomov. Kn.1-Mrak., Kn.2-Troe i Dana., Kn.3-Troe v peskakh., Kn.4-Troe iz lesa., Kn.5-Svyatoy graal., Kn.6-Otkrovenie., Kn.7-Ingvar i Olkha., Kn.8-9-Knyaz Vladimir., Kn.10-Knyaz Rus., Kn.11-Knyazheskiy pir., Kn.12-Z Series: Classical Library of Adventure and Science Fiction. . (BPNF). M. Centropolygraph. 1997-1998. Book 1-Mrak., Book 2-Troy and Dana., Book 3-Three in the Sands., Book 4-Three out of the Forest., Book 5-The Holy Grail., Book 6-Revelation., Book 7-Ingvar and Olha., Book 8-9-Prince Vladimir., Book 10-Prince Rus., Book 11-Prince Rus., Book 12-The Golden Sword., Book 13-The Dalit Bright Terme., Book 14-Hyperboreus., Book 15-Stonehenge., Book 16-The Man Who Changed the World. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbe5db470d5ac9fe8b.‎

‎How to Babysit a Grandpa: A Book for Dads Grandpas and Kids (How To Series)‎

‎Knopf Books for Young Readers 2012 32 pages 22 4028x28 4988x1 1938cm. 2012. Relié. 32 pages.‎

‎Kapital. Kritika politicheskoj ekonomii. Perevod c nmetskago. Tom pervoej. Kniga I. Protschess proizvodstva Kapitala. (Russian, = The Capital. Critique of the Political Economy. Translated from German. Volume One. Book I [all].). - [FIRST TRANSLATION INTO ANY LANGUAGE OF ""THE BIBLE OF MARXISM""]‎

‎S.-Peterburg, N.I. Poliakov, 1872. Large 8vo. In a nice recent half calf binding with gilt lettering to spine and five raised bands. First few leaves with light soling and a closed tear and a few marginal repairs to title-page. pp. 11-18 with repairs to upper outer corner. Closed tears to last leaf, otherwise a fine copy. XIII, (3), 678 pp. (wanting the half-title).‎

‎First Russian edition (first issue, with the issue-pointers), being the first translation into any language, of Marx' immensely influential main work, probably the greatest revolutionary work of the nineteenth century.Marx' groundbreaking ""Das Kapital"" originally appeared in German in 1867, and only the first part of the work appeared in Marx' lifetime. The very first foreign translation of the work was that into Russian, which, considering Russian censorship at the time, would seem a very unlikely event. But as it happened, ""Das Kapital"" actually came to enjoy greater renown in Russia than in any other country"" for many varying reasons, it won a warm reception in many political quarters in Russia, and it enjoyed a totally unexpected rapid and widespread success. The first Russian translation of ""Das Kapital"" came to have a profound influence the economic development of of Russia. It was frequently quoted in the most important economic and political discussions on how to industrialize Russia and the essential points of the work were seen by many as the essential questions for an industrializing Russia. "" ""Das Kapital"" arrived in Russia just at the moment that the Russian economy was recovering from the slump that followed Emancipation and was beginning to assume capitalist characteristics. Industrialization raised in the minds of the intelligentsia the question of their country's economic destiny. And it was precisely this concern that drew Mikhailovsky and many of the ""intelligenty"" to ""Das Kapital""."" (Resis, p. 232).The story of how the first printing of the first translation of ""Das Kapital"" came about, is quite unexpected. As the ""triumph of Marxism in backward Russia is commonly regarded as a historical anomaly"" (Resis, p. 221), so is the triumph of the first Russian edition of ""Das Kapital"". The main credit for the coming to be of the translation of ""Das Kapital"" must be given to Nicolai Danielson, later a highly important economist in his own right. The idea came from a circle of revolutionary youths in St. Petersburg, including N.F. Danielson, G.A. Lopatin, M.F. Negreskul, and N.N. Liubavin, all four of whom participated in the project. Danielson had read the work shortly after its publication and it had made such an impact on him that he decided to make it available to the Russian reading public. He persuaded N.I. Poliakov to run the risk of publishing it. ""Poliakov, the publisher, specialized in publishing authors, Russian and foreign, considered dangerous by the authorities. Poliakov also frequently subsidized revolutionaries by commissioning them to do translations for his publishing house. Diffusion of advanced ideas rather than profit was no doubt his primary motive in publishing the book."" (Resis, p. 222). Owing to Danielson's initiative, Poliakov engaged first Bakunin, and then Lopatin to do the translation. Danielson himself finished the translation and saw the work through press. It was undeniably his leadership that brought Marx to the Russian reading public. In fact, with the first Russian edition of ""Das Kapital"", Danielson was responsible for the first public success of the revolutionizing work. ""Few scholars today would deny that ""Das Kapital"" has had an enormous effect on history in the past hundred years. Nonetheless, when the book was published in Hamburg on September 5, 1867, it made scarcely a stir, except among German revolutionaries. Marx complained that his work was greeted by ""a conspiracy of silence"" on the part of ""a pack of liberals and vulgar economists."" However desperately he contrived to provoke established economists to take up ""Das Kapital""'s challenge to their work, his efforts came to nought. But in October 1868 Marx received good news from an unexpected source. From Nikolai Frantsevich Danielson, a young economist employed by the St. Petersburg Mutual Credit Society, came a letter informing Marx that N. P. Poliakov, a publisher of that city, desired to publish a Russian translation of the first volume of ""Das Kapital""" moreover, he also wanted to publish the forthcoming second volume. Danielson, the publisher's representative, requested that Marx send him the proofs of volume 2 as they came off the press so that Poliakov could publish both volumes simultaneously. Marx replied immediately. The publication of a Russian edition of volume 1, he wrote, should not be held up, because the completion of volume 2 might be delayed by some six months [in fact, it did not appear in Marx' life-time and was only published ab. 17 years later, in 1885]" and in any case volume 1 represented an independent whole. Danielson proceeded at once to set the project in motion. Nearly four years passed, however, before a Russian translation appeared. Indeed, a year passed before the translation was even begun, and four translators tried their hand at it before Danielson was able to send the manuscript to the printers in late December 1871."" (Resis, pp. 221-22). This explains how the book came to be translated, but how did this main work of revolutionary thought escape the rigid Russian censors? ""By an odd quirk of history the first foreign translation of ""Das Kapital"" to appear was the Russian, which Petersburgers found in their bookshops early in April 1872. Giving his imprimatur, the censor, one Skuratov, had written ""few people in Russia will read it, and still fewer will understand it."" He was wrong: the edition of three thousand sold out quickly"" and in 1880 Marx was writing to his friend F.A. Sorge that ""our success is still greater in Russia, where ""Kapital"" is read and appreciated more than anywhere else."" (PMM 359, p.218). Astonishingly, Within six weeks of the publication date, nine hundred copies of the edition of three thousand had already been sold.""Under the new laws on the press, ""Das Kapital"" could have been proscribed on any number of grounds. The Temporary Rules held, for example, that censorship must not permit publication of works that ""expound the harmful doctrines of socialism or communism"" or works that ""rouse enmity and hatred of one class for another."" The Board of Censors of Foreign Publications was specifically instructed to prohibit importation of works contrary to the tenets of the Orthodox Church or works that led to atheism, materialism, or disrespect for Scriptures. Nor did the recent fate of the works of Marx and Engels at the hands of the censors offer much hope that ""Das Kapital"" would pass censorship. As recently as August 11, the censors of foreign works had decided to ban importation of Engels' ""Die Lage der arbeitenden Klassen in England"", and, according to Lopatin, the censors reprimanded Poliakov for daring to run announcements on book jackets of the forthcoming publication of ""Das Kapital"". By 1872 the censors had prohibited the importation and circulation of all works by Marx and Engels except one - ""Das Kapital"". The book, as we shall see, had already won some recognition in Russia shortly after its publication in Germany. Not until 1871, however, did the censors render a judgment on the book, when the Central Committee of Censors of Foreign Publications, on the recommendation of its reader, permitted importation and circulation of the book both in the original language and in translation. The official reader had described the book as ""a difficult, inaccessible, strictly scientific work,"" implying that it could scarcely pose a danger to the state. [...] The length and complexity of the book prompted the office to divide the task of scrutinizing it between two readers, D. Skuratov, who read the first half of the book, and A. De-Roberti, who read the last half. Skuratov dutifully listed objectionable socialist and antireligious passages, taking special note of Marx's harsh attack on the land reforms General Kiselev had instituted in the Danubian Principalities. But in his report Skuratov dismissed these attacks as harmless, since they were imbedded in a ""colossal mass of abstruse, somewhat obscure politico-economic argumentation."" Indeed, he regarded the work as its own best antidote to sedition. ""It can be confidently stated,"" he wrote, ""that in Russia few will read it and even fewer will understand it."" Second, he said, the book could do little harm. Since the book attacked a system rather than individual persons, Skuratov implied that the book would not incite acts threatening the safety of the royal family and government officials. Third, he believed that the argument of the book did not apply to Russia. Marx attacked the unbridled competition practiced in the British factory system, and such attacks, Skuratov asserted, could find no target in Russia because the tsarist regime did not pursue a policy of laissez faire. Indeed, at that very moment, Skuratov stated, a special commission had drafted a plan that ""as zealously protects the workers' well-being from abuses on the part of the employers as it protects the employers' interests against lack of discipline and nonfulfillment of obligations on the part of the workers."" Repeating most of Skuratov's views, De-Roberti also noted that the book contained a good account of the impact of the factory system and the system of unpaid labor time that prevailed in the West. In spite of the obvious socialist tendency of the book, he concluded, a court case could scarcely be made against it, because the censors of foreign works had already agreed to permit importation and circulation of the German edition. With the last barrier removed, on March 27, 1872, the Russian translation of ""Das Kapital"" went on sale in the Russian Empire. The publisher, translators, and advocates of the book had persevered in the project for nearly four years until they were finally able to bring the book to the Russian reading public."" (Resis, pp. 220-22). The Russian authorities quickly realized, however, that Skuratov's statement could not have been more wrong, and the planned second edition of the Russian translation was forbidden"" thus it came to be published in New York, in 1890. That second edition is nearly identical to the first, which can be distinguished by the misplaced comma opposite ""p. 73"" in the table of contents (replaced by a full stop in the 2nd ed.) and the ""e"" at the end of l. 40 on p. 65 (replaced by a ""c"" in the 2nd ed.). A third edition, translated from the fourth German edition, appeared in 1898. Volumes 2 and 3 of ""Das Kapital"" appeared in Russian translation, also by Danielson, in 1885 and 1896.See: Albert Resis, Das Kapital Comes to Russia, in: Slavic Review, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Jun., 1970), pp. 219-237.‎

‎[LIVRE DHEURES FLAMAND A L'USAGE D'UTRECHT . En latin, manuscrit enluminé sur parchemin / FLAMISH BOOK OF HOURS FOR THE USE OF UTRECHT. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment.]‎

‎SLND [Pays-Bas ou Belgique, circa 1470-1480]. 1470 1 vol in-12° (186 x 135 mm) manuscrit de [110] ff. de parchemin rédigé à lencre sur réglures tracées à lencre pâle de: [1] f. bl.), [6] ff. Note manuscrite de mariage à l'encre brune sur la 1ére contre-garde datée 1590. (calendrier calligraphié à l'encre brune et rouge sur 32 lignes avec lettrines enluminées), [102] ff. avec texte calligraphié sur 20 lignes, textualis formata ; 14 miniatures pleine page, 22 vignettes enluminés (Péricopes, Obsecro te, O intemerata et suffrages), initiales champies peintes dorées à la feuille avec entrelacs de fleurs trilobées en leur centre (sur six lignes), initiales champies dorées à la feuille (sur deux lignes) parfois avec antennes filigranées et fleuries, initiales dorées ou filigranées dans le texte, encadrements sur fonds criblé doré avec feuilles dacanthe bleues et oranges et petite végétation simple aux couleurs vives, bouts de lignes à lencre rouge et bleue avec un écu doré au milieu (litanies), rubriques, [1] f. bl. (rares salissures, traces dusage ou de frottements, corps douvrage demeuré frais et avec des coloris très vifs). Plein veau à entrelacs d'époque Renaissance avec vestiges de cires colorées et médaillon central (XVIe s.), dos à 5 nerfs orné, plats à riche décors dentrelacs dans encadrement de filets avec frise de feuillages et oiseaux, trace de cire blanche, bleue et rouge dans les entrelacs, roulette sur les coupes, tranches dorées, écoinçons et fermoirs de laiton. (restaurations au dos, petites usures ou défauts dusage)‎

‎Somptueux livre dheures à lusage dUtrecht produit à Bruges vers 1470-1480, manuscrit illustré de 36 peintures polychromes dont 14 à pleine page et 22 miniatures et orné de frises dans les marges et de nombreuses lettrines, miniatures identifiées de la main de lartiste « "le Maître du livre de la chasse de Philippe de Clèves". Livre de liturgique destiné aux fidèles catholiques laïcs, le livre d'heures permettait de suivre la liturgie des Heures. Il se distingue du bréviaire ou psautier qui était réservé aux clercs. Fruit dun long développement initié au XIVe siècle pour rendre la liturgie accessible aux laïcs, sa production brille de mille feux au XVe siècle. Les artistes rivalisent dinvention pour orner de leur main ces précieux volumes de dévotion privée. Les frères de Limbourg et Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, Simon Bening et le Livre dheures de Hennessy, Jean Fouquet et les Heures dÉtienne Chevalier, mais aussi une myriade de maîtres encore anonymes à limage du Maître de Bedford, en marquent les grands jalons jusquà lirruption de limprimerie qui en standardise la production. En complément de ce recueil de prières liées aux heures de la journée, le livre d'heures comporte le plus souvent un calendrier pour suivre l'évolution de la liturgie tout au long de l'année, et parfois des psaumes, les évangiles et des offices particuliers. Au moyen âge, avant lavènement de limprimerie, en raison du prix très élevé des manuscrits et de leur faible diffusion, Il est souvent le seul livre possédé par les familles qui parfois y notent leur état civil : mariage, naissances, décès. Cest le cas de notre livre dheures qui porte sur le premier contre plat cette émouvante inscription à lencre brune : « Ce dernier jour de septembre 1590, nous [Nom effacé : Claude Le Paige] lieutenant des gardes de son altesse de Bar Le Duc dune part et Alix de la Taxe dautre part avons épousée en face de la sainte église Catholique au lieu de Mircourt ». Avec sous les signatures lindication « Age 36 ans » et « Agée de 17 ans » et en dessous : « il mourut le 9 mai de lan 1610. Elle mourut le 14 septembre en lan 1622 » Notre manuscrit est entièrement rédigé en latin sur 108 feuillets recto verso. Il débute par les 12 pages du Calendrier à lusage de Rome/Utrecht : Variantes : 19 mars : Landoaldi pbri, 31 mars : Valerie v., 17 avril : Rufi mr., 7 mai : Gaudencii mr ( Godehardus ?), 14 mai : Corone Virginis, 21 mai : Valentis mr., 5 juillet: Donati mr. , 12 juillet: cleti pp., 5 sept. : Saturnini mr (rien à cette date dans CoKL), 12 sept. : Ypoliti, 12 oct. : Marvelli mr., 20 oct. : Asterius mr., 6 nov. : Winnoci abb.. - ff. 7r-9v : Péricopes évangéliques - ff. 11r-14v : Heures de la Croix - ff. 15r-18 : Heures du Saint Esprit - ff. 18r-20 : Missa Beate Marie - ff. 21-23 : Obsecro te et O Intemerata - ff.24-31 : Suffrages (Sainte Trinité, Saint Jean-Baptiste, Saint Pierre, Saint Paul, Saint Jean, Saint André, Saint Laurent, Saint Jacob, Saint Martin, Saint Nicolas, Sainte Catherine, Sainte Agathe, Sainte Barbara, Sainte Marguerite, Sainte Marie-Madeleine, Sainte Anne) - ff. 33r-69v : Heures de la Vierge à lusage de Rome : 33r : Matines 43r: Laudes 50r: Prime (antienne «Assumpta es », capitule « Que est ista » ) f.53r: Tierce f.56r: Sexte - f.59r: None (antienne «Pulchra es » et capitule « In plateis sicut ») f.62r: Vêpres 67r: Complies. - ff. 71r-74v : Officium beate Marie quod dicitur per totum adventum - ff. 76r- 81 : Psaumes pénitentiels - ff. 82-85v : Litanie et pétitions - ff. 87r-108v : Office des morts à lusage de Rome (suivant le relevé de Knud Ottosen, ordre des réponds : 14, 72, 24, 46, 32, 57, 68, 28, 40). Ce livre dheure fait partie dun corpus de dix manuscrits attribués à lartiste « "le Maître du livre de la chasse de Philippe de Clèves" ("the Master of Philip of Cleves's Livre de la chasse"), actif aux Pays Bas de Des détails de plusieurs miniatures ont permis au chercheur du CNRS Anno Wijsman, auteur dun corpus sur cet artiste, de lidentifier par comparaison avec les autres manuscrits : Tête du Christ sur la miniature de la trinité, profil de David en prière Les éléments floraux des frises sont très similaires à d'autres livres d'heures de la région de Bruges produits à cette époque, notamment le graphisme et les couleurs des feuilles d'Acanthe. Liste des miniatures à pleine page : - f.10v : Crucifixion avec la Vierge et saint Jean ; à larrière-plan un paysage de bosquets. - f.14v : Pentecôte dans le Cénacle. La Vierge est entourée des apôtres dans un édifice aux arcades ouverte laissant apercevoir lenceinte dun domaine. - f.17v : Nativité et adoration des anges. La Vierge tient lenfant Jésus devant deux anges agenouillés, dans un édifice gothique à colonnes et aux fenêtres en ogive. - f.31v : Annonciation. La chambre de la Vierge est de teintes orange et vert ; Gabriel porte une longue cape rouge. - f.41v : Visitation. La Vierge et Elisabeth se rencontrent sur le seuil dune chaumière devant une imposante bâtisse lacustre à toit pointu et chien-assis, flanquée dune tour médiévale à toiture bleue, avec pont-levis à larrière. Une entrée par leau est visible derrière la Vierge. - f.47v : Nativité. Lenfant jésus dans son ovale dor est encadré par Marie, Joseph et lange au second plan, ses ailes déployées, dans une sorte de seuil entre intérieur et extérieur dun bâtiment aux fenêtres à croisées. - f.50v : Annonciation aux bergers. Devant un paysage alternant diverses saisons avec à larrière-plan un château médiéval, deux bergers au milieu de leurs moutons reçoivent les rayons du message solaire. - f.53v. : Adoration des Mages. Deux des trois rois mages sont debout, un autre agenouillé. - f.56v. Présentation au Temple. La Vierge est accompagnée de Joseph et dune servante. - f.59v. : Massacre des Innocents. Hérode est représenté debout ordonnant de son sceptre à un soldat, à droite, dabattre son épée sur un nouveau-né couché nu sur le sol ; au loin, une scène montre un soldat tuant le bébé quune femme porte dans ses bras.- f.64v : Fuite en Égypte. La Vierge avec lenfant est sur un âne, précédés par Joseph ; au loin une colonne dont la statue se brise est placée au milieu dun paysage de bosquets. - f.68v. : Assomption de la Vierge. La Vierge au ciel, agenouillée devant le Père, le Christ et lEsprit Saint, reçoit son couronnement dans un écrin flamboyant or et rouge bordé dazur. - f.73v. : Le Roi David. Agenouillé en prière au premier plan, sa harpe et sa couronne posées par terre, il reçoit les rayons divins ; à larrière-plan, un paysage darbres et de montagnes est complété sur la gauche par un château médiéval. - f.84v : Résurrection de Lazare. Jésus debout parmi plusieurs personnages sur un fond de monastère gothique. Les initiales enluminées sont particulièrement soignées ainsi que les frises composées de fleurs diverses dont des feuilles dacanthe et des coquelicots. Les 24 miniatures des saints sont dune grande finesse, avec force de détails à limage du petit diable ailé représenté sur la première, derrière St Jean. Source iconographique précieuse historiquement, les décors, premiers et arrières plans des grandes peintures sont tout aussi finement exécutées, figurant villes, châteaux, habitations et des personnages du moyen âge. Son élégante reliure dépoque renaissance est légèrement postérieure. Cependant le corps douvrage, avec ses larges marges, semble ne pas avoir été rogné et il est possible quelle ait remplacé une première reliure fragile, comme du velours. Provenance : Claude Le Paige (circa 1552-1610), marié à Alix de La Taxe en 1590 à Mircourt [Mirecourt, commune française de Loraine] (inscription sur le premier contre plat transcrite plus haut). Il était le fils de Gérard Le Paige et Isabeau Hardy. Il fut anobli à la prière de l'Electeur de Cologne, par lettres de Charles duc de Lorraine, données à Nancy le 23 novembre 1585, pour services militaires rendus. ( Porte d'azur, à deux pigeons affrontés d'argent, membrés et becqués de gueules, posés sur un montjoye d'or, & surmontés d'une croisette de même, & pour cimier un lion naissant d'argent, tenant de sa patte droite une épée d'armes emmanchée d'or). Cette famille est originaire de la ville d'Angers. Son aïeul, Eustache-Alexandre Le Paige, qui était né dans cette ville, et se disait issu d'une famille noble, revenant des guerres d'Italie où il avait servi le roi en qualité de capitaine, sous le commandement du seigneur de la Trémoille, en passant à Basincourt, duché de Bar, épousa en 1500, Isabeau de La Chaussée. Il fixa sa demeure au dit Basincourt, où il est inhumé en la paroisse dudit lieu (Nobiliaire ou armorial général de la Lorraine et du Barrois Par Ambroise Pelletier, p. 474). Ex-libris manuscrit du XVI e siècle au contre plat inférieur : « François Bey ». Ouvrage dans un exceptionnel état de conservation, très frais plus dun demi-millénaire après sa production. Biblio : « Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.357, 580-581 » ; "Miniatures flamandes 1404-1482, Bernard Bousmanne et Thierry Delcourt, 2012". 1 vol. 12mo (186 x 135 mm) manuscript of [110] ff. of parchment written in ink on rules drawn in pale ink of: [1] f. bl.), [6] ff. handwritten marriage note in brown ink on 1st counterguard dated 1590. (calendar calligraphied in brown and red ink on 32 lines with illuminated initials), [102] ff. with calligraphy on 20 lines, textualis formata ; 14 full-page miniatures, 22 illuminated vignettes (Pericopes, Obsecro te, O intemerata and suffrages), gilt painted champie initials with interlacing three-lobed flowers in their center (on six lines), gilt champie initials (on two lines) sometimes with filigree and flowery antennae, gilded or watermarked initials in the text, frames on gilded cribbed background with blue and orange acanthus leaves and small simple vegetation in bright colors, line ends in red and blue ink with a gilded shield in the middle (litanies), rubrics, [1] f. bl. (rare soiling, traces of use or rubbing, body of the book still fresh and with very vivid colors). Full calf with Renaissance interlacing with vestiges of colored wax and central medallion (XVIth c.), spine with 5 ornate nerves, boards with rich interlacing decorations in a framing of fillets with frieze of foliage and birds, trace of white, blue and red wax in the interlacing, roulette on the edges, gilt edges, spandrels and brass clasps, ; restorations to the spine (minor wear or defects of use). Sumptuous book of hours for use in Utrecht produced in Bruges around 1470-1480, manuscript illustrated with 36 polychrome paintings including 14 full-page and 22 miniatures and decorated with friezes in the margins and numerous initials, miniatures identified by the hand of the artist "the Master of Philip of Cleves's Livre de la chasse". A liturgical book intended for the lay Catholic faithful, the Book of Hours allowed them to follow the Liturgy of the Hours. It differs from the breviary or psalter which was reserved for clerics. The result of a long development initiated in the 14th century to make the liturgy accessible to the laity, its production shines with a thousand lights in the 15th century. Artists competed with each other to decorate these precious volumes of private devotion with their own hands. The Limbourg brothers and the Très Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry, Simon Bening and the Hennessy Book of Hours, Jean Fouquet and the Hours of Étienne Chevalier, as well as a myriad of still anonymous masters such as the Master of Bedford, marked the major milestones until the advent of printing, which standardized their production. In addition to this collection of prayers linked to the hours of the day, the book of hours most often includes a calendar to follow the evolution of the liturgy throughout the year, and sometimes psalms, gospels and particular offices. In the Middle Ages, before the advent of printing, because of the very high price of manuscripts and their poor distribution, it was often the only book owned by families who sometimes noted their civil status: marriage, births, deaths. This is the case of our time book which bears on the first counter plate this moving inscription in brown ink: "This last day of September 1590, we ... [Name erased: Claude Le Paige] lieutenant of the guards of his highness of Bar Le Duc on the one hand and Alix de la Taxe on the other hand have married in front of the holy Catholic church at the place of Mircourt". With under the signatures the indication "Age 36 years" and "Aged 17 years" and underneath: "he died on May 9 of the year 1610. She died on September 14 in the year 1622". Our manuscript is entirely written in Latin on 108 double-sided sheets. It begins with the 12 pages of the Calendar for the use of Rome/Utrecht: Variants: March 19: Landoaldi pbri, March 31: Valerie v., April 17: Rufi mr., May 7: Gaudencii mr. ( Godehardus ?), May 14: Corone Virginis, May 21: Valentis mr., July 5: Donati mr. July 12: cleti pp., Sept. 5: Saturnini mr. (nothing at this date in CoKL), Sept. 12: Ypoliti, Oct. 12: Marvelli mr., Oct. 20: Asterius mr., Nov. 6: Winnoci abb. - ff. 7r-9v : Evangelical pericopes - ff. 11r-14v : Hours of the Cross - ff. 15r-18 : Hours of the Holy Spirit - ff. 18r-20 : Missa Beate Marie - ff. 21-23 : Obsecro te and O Intemerata - ff.24-31 ff. 24-31 : Suffrages (Holy Trinity, St. John the Baptist, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John, St. Andrew, St. Lawrence, St. Jacob, St. Martin, St. Nicholas, St. Catherine, St. Agatha, St. Barbara, St. Margaret, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Anne) - ff. 33r-69v : Hours of the Blessed Virgin according to the usage of Rome : 33r : Matins - 43r : Lauds - 50r : Prime (antiphon " Assumpta es ", capitulum " Que est ista ") - f.53 r: Tierce - f.56r: Sexte - f.59r: None (antiphon "Pulchra es" and capitula "In plateis sicut") - f.62r: Vespers - 67r: Compline. - ff. 71r-74v: Officium beate Marie quod dicitur per totum adventum - ff. 76r- 81: Penitential psalms - ff. 82-85v: Litany and petitions - ff. 87r-108v: Office of the dead according to the usage of Rome (according to Knud Ottosen, order of the answers: 14, 72, 24, 46, 32, 57, 68, 28, 40) This book of hours is part of a corpus of ten manuscripts attributed to the artist "the Master of Philip of Cleves's Book of the Hunt", active in the Netherlands from 1470 to 1490. Details of several miniatures allowed CNRS researcher Anno Wijsman, author of a corpus on this artist, to identify it by comparison with other manuscripts: Head of Christ on the miniature of the trinity, profile of David in prayer The floral elements of the friezes are very similar to other books of hours from the Bruges region produced at this time, notably the graphics and colors of the Acanthus leaves. List of full-page miniatures: - f.10v : Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John; in the background a landscape of groves. - f.14v : Pentecost in the Upper Room. The Virgin is surrounded by the apostles in a building with open arches, showing the enclosure of an estate. - f.17v: Nativity and adoration of the angels. The Virgin is holding the baby Jesus in front of two kneeling angels, in a gothic building with columns and ogival windows. - f.31v: Annunciation. The Virgin's room is colored orange and green; Gabriel wears a long red cloak. - f.41v: Visitation. The Virgin and Elisabeth meet on the threshold of a thatched cottage in front of an imposing lacustrian building with a pointed roof and a dormer window, flanked by a medieval tower with a blue roof and a drawbridge at the back. An entrance through the water is visible behind the Virgin. - f.47v: Nativity. The infant Jesus in his golden oval is framed by Mary, Joseph and the angel in the background, his wings spread, in a sort of threshold between the interior and exterior of a building with cross windows. - f.50v: Annunciation to the shepherds. In front of a landscape alternating between different seasons, with a medieval castle in the background, two shepherds in the midst of their sheep are receiving the rays of the solar message. - f.53v. Adoration of the Magi. Two of the three wise men are standing, another is kneeling. - f.56v. Presentation in the Temple. The Virgin is accompanied by Joseph and a servant girl. - f.59v. Massacre of the Innocents. Herod is depicted standing and ordering a soldier on the right with his sceptre to strike down his sword on a newborn child lying naked on the ground; in the distance, a scene shows a soldier killing the baby a woman is carrying in her arms. f.64v: Flight into Egypt. The Virgin with the child is on a donkey, preceded by Joseph; in the distance a column whose statue is breaking is placed in the middle of a landscape of groves. - f.68v. Assumption of the Virgin. The Virgin in heaven, kneeling before the Father, Christ and the Holy Spirit, receives her coronation in a flamboyant gold and red box bordered with azure. - f.73v. King David. Kneeling in prayer in the foreground, his harp and crown on the ground, he receives the divine rays; in the background, a landscape of trees and mountains is completed on the left by a medieval castle. - f.84v: Resurrection of Lazarus. Jesus stands among several figures against the background of a Gothic monastery. The illuminated initials are particularly well done, as are the friezes composed of various flowers including acanthus leaves and poppies. The 24 miniatures of the saints are of great finesse, with many details such as the small winged devil represented on the first one, behind St John. Historically valuable iconographic source, the backgrounds, foregrounds and backgrounds of the large paintings are equally finely executed, depicting cities, castles, homes and characters of the Middle Ages. Its elegant Renaissance binding is slightly later. However, the body of the book, with its wide margins, seems not to have been trimmed and it is possible that it replaced a first fragile binding, like velvet. Provenance : Claude Le PAIGE (circa 1552-1610), married to Alix de La Taxe in 1590 in Mircourt [Mirecourt, French commune of Loraine] (inscription on the back of the first cover transcribed above). He was the son of Gérard Le PAIGE and Isabeau HARDY. He was ennobled at the request of the Elector of Cologne, by letters from Charles Duke of Lorraine, given to Nancy on November 23, 1585, for military services rendered. (Door Azure, 2 doves affrontee Argent, membered and beaked Gules, set on a montjoye Or, & surmounted by a crosslet of the same, & for crest a newborn lion Argent, holding from its right paw a sword of arms hilted in gold). This family is from the city of Angers. His grandfather, Eustache-Alexandre Le Paige, who was born in this city, and said he came from a noble family, returning from the Italian wars where he had served the king as a captain, under the command of the lord de la Trémoille, passing through Basincourt, duchy of Bar, married in 1500, Isabeau de La Chaussée. He fixed his residence at the said Basincourt, where he is buried (Nobiliary or armorial general of Lorraine and Barrois By Ambroise Pelletier, p. 474). Handwritten ex-libris from the 16th century on the lower cover : François Bey. Work in an exceptional state of conservation, very fresh more than half a millennium after its production. Biblio : « Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.357, 580-581 » ; "Miniatures flamandes 1404-1482, Bernard Bousmanne et Thierry Delcourt, 2012".‎

‎Galsworthy John. Galsworthy J. A Modern Comedy. Book 1. The White Monkey. Book ‎

‎Galsworthy John. Galsworthy J. A Modern Comedy. Book 1. The White Monkey. Book 2. The Silver Spoon. Book 3. Swan Song. Modern Comedy. Book 1. White Monkey. Book 2. Silver Spoon. Book 3. Swan Song. In English /Galsworthy John. Golsuorsi D. A Modern Comedy. Book 1. The White Monkey. Book 2. The Silver Spoon. Book 3. Swan Song. Sovremennaya komediya. Kniga 1. Belaya obezyana. Kniga 2. Serebryanaya loka. Kniga 3. Lebedinaya pesnya. In English. Presented by M. Urnov. Comment by N. Matveev. M. Progress 1976. Contact us for details or to request photos of available books. Delivery of this book could take longer than normal due to additional handling time before shipping, and no rush delivery options are available. Please let us know if you have a specific date by which you need to receive your order. SKUalb91448c347450e30a‎