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‎Production Line of Happiness‎

‎Yale, Yale University Press/ MoMA, 2014 Original publishers paper-covered boards, 190 pages, 21 x 27 cm, ENG text. ISBN 9780300203905.‎

‎ paperback volume charting the thirty-year career of a widely celebrated, American-born conceptual artist Representing Christopher Williams's first publication with a major American museum, this illuminating and unusual volume is equal parts artist's book and exhibition catalogue. Over the course of his thirty-year career, Williams (b. 1956) has crafted photographs that engage-often through uncanny mimicry-the conventions of photojournalism, picture archives, and commercial imagery, as well as their sociopolitical contexts and implications. The book includes a trio of essays by curators Mark Godfrey, Roxana Marcoci, and Matthew S. Witkovsky, which explore Williams's engagement with his artistic peers and predecessors, with cinema (particularly the film-essay), and with the methods and modes of display and publicity in the art world, in addition to a transcript of a talk Williams delivered on the work of John Chamberlain. These more conventional contributions are "interrupted" by additional historical and contemporary textual and visual materials that were selected by the artist himself and are occasionally presented in facsimile form. An exhibition history, bibliography, and illustrated list of works round out the publication. ‎

‎EARLY ENGLISH WATERCOLOURS AND SOME COGNATE DRAWINGS BY ARTISTS BORN NOT LATER THAN 1785.‎

‎, Bath, Kingsmead Reprints / Mrs. E. Williams, 1970,, bound in blue cloth with goldimprint on back, illustrated dustjacket, frontispice, 225 x 305mm., 266pp., b/w illustrations ISBN 901571369.‎

‎A fine and outstanding book with a diversity of landscape and portrait reproductions by artists like Peter de Wint, Samuel Scott and William Taverner, to name but a handful. Good condition.‎

‎Architecture of Disjuncture. Mediterranean Trade and Cathedral Building in a New Diocese (11th-13th Centuries)‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, xvi + 157 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:80 b/w, 1 col., 15 tables b/w., 15 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503581088.‎

‎Summary Through careful analysis of the Romanesque cathedral of Molfetta (in Apulia, southern Italy), Williams demonstrates how the commercial boom of the medieval Mediterranean changed the way churches were funded, designed, and built. The young bishopric of Molfetta, emerging in an economy of long-distance trade, competed with much wealthier institutions in its own diocese. Funding for the cathedral was slow and unpredictable. To adapt, the builders designed toward versatility, embracing multi-functionalism, change over time, specialization, and a heterogeneous style. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction: Studying Architecture at the Joints 1. A Disjointed Program: Form, Function, and Finances 2. The Joints of Process: Design Change Through Constructional Episodes 3. The Joints of Expertise: Design Choice Across the Division of Labor 4. The Joints of Geography: Geology, Travel Pathways, and Knowledge Cabotage Conclusion: A Mediterranean Building Strategy Appendix 1: Construction Chronology of Molfetta Cathedral (c. 1100 - 1300) Charts Illustrations Bibliography‎

‎Manichaean Prayer and Confession Book‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, xxvi + 198 pages, Size:210 x 297 mm, Illustrations:128 col., Language(s):English, Sogdian. ISBN 9782503597904.‎

‎Summary The Manichaean Prayer and Confession Book is the best-preserved Manichaean book found in the Turfan area and the only one which survives in the form of a bound codex. It constitutes a precious treasure-trove of information on its three Iranian languages, on the Manichaean religion itself, and on Manichaean codicology and book-art. The surviving parts of this beautifully decorated miniature paper codex include Middle Persian and Parthian hymns and readings for the Bema festival, the high-point of the Manichaean liturgical calendar, followed by an elaborate confessional formula for the Elect in the Sogdian language. Until now this manuscript has been accessible for scholarship only from its 1937 edition in German by W. B. Henning, titled 'Ein manichäisches Bet- und Beichtbuch' (BBB). This new edition provides the first English translation by Nicholas Sims-Williams, the first codicological study by Zsuzsanna Gulacsi and an introduction by John S. Sheldon. It also includes the supplementary Sogdian texts which Henning added to his 'BBB'. It incorporates magnificent colour photos, codicological diagrams, and digital reconstructions never seen before. This beautifully-produced volume appropriately inaugurates the Series Iranica of the Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum.‎

‎MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA,‎

‎, The University of Arizona Press, 1995, Bound, half cloth, pictorial dustwrapper, frontispice in colour, 175 x 260mm., 508pp., all colour illustrations.‎

‎For over 20 years this book has been respected as the definitive reference on arizona minerals. Photography editor Wendell E. Wilson. Third edition.‎

‎JAPANESE PRINTS: REALITIES OF THE "FLOATING WORLD",‎

‎Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1983 Illustrated cardboard cover in colour, oblong format : 210 x 185mm., 66pp., b/w illustration. ISBN 0910386714.‎

‎March 8 through May 8, 1983. Book is in good condition.‎

‎England and the Continent in the Tenth Century. Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876-1947),‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 Hardback, XXVI 573 p., 49 b/w ill., 11 b/w tables, 15 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503532080.‎

‎Dedicated as a memorial to the great historian of England and the Continent in the eighth century, Wilhelm Levison, this book provides the widest and most in-depth exploration to date of relations between England and the Continent during an equally crucial period, the tenth century. The volume, which comes out of a sustained collaboration between English and Continental universities, contains thematically arranged essays by established leading specialists and also by younger scholars. By building on the approaches used by Levison as well as other methods that have been developed in the decades since his death, these essays tackle a broad range of questions: What routeways and modes of contact linked England with the Continent? How similar were attitudes to rulership and dynastic strategies? How did the law, the working of government, and the organization and culture of the church differ between England and the Continent? How was the past seen and represented on the two sides of the English Channel? In answering these questions, this volume offers news ways of exploring the links and developing the comparison between England and the Continent in the century after the collapse of the Carolingian Empire, a formative period for the development of Europe. Studies in the Early Middle Ages (SEM 37). Languages: English, Old English, Old Norse. New.‎

‎DE JUNKERS. ROMAN.‎

‎Amsterdam, De Bezige Bij/Meulenhoff, 1970 Paperback, originele uitgeversomslag in kleur door Wout Muller, 20x12.5 cm., 282 pp. + 3.‎

‎Literair Paspoort nr. 42.‎

‎Illustrated Beatus:The Tenth and Eleventh Centuries ,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2000 Hardback, 319 p., incl. 480 ills., 235 x 335 mm. ISBN 9780905203935.‎

‎This third volume of the Corpus deals in detail with six manuscripts from the period around the year 1000, discussing the location of production, the work of the outstanding - and often identifiable - illuminators and scribes, as well as the codicology. This third volume of the Corpus deals in detail with six manuscripts from the period around the year 1000: the Urgell Beatus; the San Millan Beatus in the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid, which through unfinished, preserves the style of Castile and Leon in the significant period of the first millenium; the Escorial Beatus, notable for its heavy opulent frames; the Facundus Beatus, Madrid, named after the scribe and perhaps master of the Fernando and Queen Sancha of Castile; the Fanlo Beatus in New York, which survives in only few pages copied in the seventeeth century by Lastanosa, as he himself attested; and the exceptionally beautiful San Server Beatus in Paris, probably made in Gascony. All the illustrations in these manuscripts are reproduced to provide a visual conspectus of exceptional richness. Each catalogue entry discusses the location of production, the work of the outstanding - and often identifiable - illuminators and scribes, as well as the codicology. Importantly the currents of influence which find expression in these manuscripts are examined: the pictorial vocabularies of the Mozarabic, Islamic and Carolingian worlds, a fusion which gives these works their strange potency. As in Volume II Professor Williams carefully analyses the style and relates each manuscript to the system of Branches into which these works were set by earlier scholars. A short, general, historical introduction to the manuscripts explains the evolution of the characteristically Spanish pictorial vocabulary. Every inscription has been transcribed, and the volume includes an exhaustive Bibliography and relevant Tables. Languages: English.‎

‎ëtudes britanniques. Le Gouvernement de la Grande-Bretagne par R. B. McCallum. Le droit anglais par J. L. Brierly. Les ëglises en Grande-Bretagne par A. T. P. Williams .... Les syndicats par Mary Agnes Hamilton. Les journaux par Ivor Thomas‎

‎Horizons de France Broch D'occasion bon tat 01/01/1945 194 pages ‎

‎ëtudes britanniques. Le Gouvernement de la Grande-Bretagne par R. B. McCallum. Le droit anglais par J. L. Brierly. Les ëglises en Grande-Bretagne par A. T. P. Williams .... Les syndicats par Mary Agnes Hamilton. Les journaux par Ivor Thomas‎

‎Horizons de France Broch D'occasion tat correct 01/01/1945 194 pages ‎

‎"Kamrowski et Amada".‎

‎ 2010 Crayons gras et mine de plomb, signé en bas à droite, 2010, 25 x 31.5 cm., encadré. ‎

‎Esquisse préparatoire, sur papier, d'une illustration originale de l'ouvrage "Rubio y Morena" de Tennessee Williams, page 17. Kamrowski nu, allongé sur son lit, fumant cigarettes sur cigarettes, se laisse observer par une silhouette, celle de la mexicaine Amada.Jacques de Loustal, né à Neuilly sur Seine en 1956, est un scénariste, dessinateur, auteur de bandes dessinées et de carnets de voyage. Après des études d'architecture, il fit parti de l'équipe de Métal Hurlant. En quelques années il est devenu l'un des piliers de la bande dessinée. "Illustrateur de l'émotion, coloriste hors pair, il sait comme personne restituer un silence, une atmosphère" (in galerievuesurmer.com).Thomas Lanier Williams III, dit Tennessee Williams, né le 26 mars 1911 à Columbus dans le Mississippi aux États-Unis et mort le 25 février 1983 à New York, est un dramaturge et écrivain américain dont de nombreuses uvres furent portées au cinéma. Dur chemin que celui de l'écrivain Kamrowski le menant enfin sur des hauteurs "Jusqu'à ce qu'il soit seul, invisible et capable de pleurer". ‎

‎A collection of Six Lino Cuts ‎

‎London N/P 1937 Une collection attrayante de six gravures sur lino de Kathleen Williams. Il s'agit de (1) "Kew" un bateau, probablement sur la Tamise. 16cm x 9cm. Collé sur une carte et placé sous un passe-partout de 21cm x 15.5cm. Utilisé comme carte (de Noël ?) et signé à l'intérieur. (2) Sans titre - Un chalet sous la neige. Collé sur une feuille de carte pliée, et utilisé comme carte cadeau (carte de Noël ?) signée par Williams, félicitant un ami pour la publication d'un tableau. 10cm x 11cm sur une carte de 14cm x 13cm. (3) "Monnow Bridge, Avonmouth" daté au crayon de Noël 1937. 16cm x 12cm. (4) Sans titre, Une maison Tudor datée de Noël 1937. 15cm x 11cm. (5) Sans titre. Un moulin à vent. daté de janvier 1938. 14cm x 9cm. (6) Sans titre, un bouquet de fleurs, sans date. 16,5cm x 10,5cm. Une belle collection. Dans l'ensemble en bon état, avec des marques dans les coins où elles ont été collées dans un album à un moment donné. Nous ne savons pas grand-chose sur l'artiste. Il y a une note au crayon sur l'un des cadres, qui indique qu'elle a fréquenté la Slade School of Art de 1931 à 1934, mais nous n'avons pas trouvé d'autres détails biographiques.‎

‎First edition. An attractive collection of six lino cuts by Kathleen Williams. These are: (1) "Kew" a boat, presumably on the Thames. 16cm x 9cm. Pasted onto card and laid under passe partout of 21cm x 15.5cm. used a a (christmas?) card and signed inside. (2) Untitled - A cottage under snow. Pasted onto a folded sheet of card, and used as a gift card (Christmas card?) by signed by Williams, congratulating a friend on the publication of a picture. 10cm x 11cm on card of 14cm x 13cm. (3) "Monnow Bridge, Avonmouth" dated Xmas 1937 in pencil. 16cm x 12cm. (4) Untitled, A Tudor house dated Xmas 1937. 15cm x 11cm. (5) Untitled. A Windmill. dated Jan 1938. 14cm x 9cm. (6) Untitled, a bunch of flowers, no date. 16.5cm x 10.5cm. A nice collection. Overall in good condition, with marking to the corners where they have been pasted into an album at some point. We can find little about the artist. There is a pencilled note on one of the frames, which states that she attended Slade School of Art from 1931-1934, but we can find no other biographical details. .‎

‎Tom Williams Quintet - Introducing Tom Williams (CD)‎

‎Criss Cross Jazz CD 1992 "1 CD ""Tom Williams Quintet - Introducing Tom Williams"" ; 1. Thursday the Twelfth 2. The End of a Love Affair 3. The Pursuit of Happiness 4. There Goes My Heart 5. Peace 6. Windmill 7. Let's Wait... And See 8. Aggression ; très bon état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande."‎

‎Caravaggio : The Complete Works XL ‎

‎, Taschen, 2009 Hardcover, 25 x 34 cm, 3.19 kg, 306 pages, dustjacket, in very good condition, Full Page illustrations in colour / b/w, English. **book is as new !, ISBN 9783836555814.‎

‎Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Celebrated by some for his naturalism and his revolutionary pictorial inventions, he was considered by others to have destroyed painting. Few other artists have provoked such controversy and so many contradictory interpretations right up to modern times.On the heels of Caravaggio year 2010, this work offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio's entire oeuvre, with a catalogue raisonné of his works. Five introductory chapters analyze his artistic career from his training in Lombard Milan and his triumphal rise in papal Rome, up to his dramatic final years in Naples, Malta, and Sicily. The spotlight thereby falls upon the radical nature and innovative force of Caravaggio's art and its influence in all of Europe. Our understanding of Caravaggio's work has been substantially broadened in recent decades by major exhibitions, restoration campaigns, new attributions, and archival discoveries. The new catalogue raisonné offers a detailed overview of the artist's entire oeuvre based on the latest research. Every painting is reproduced in large-scale format, with spectacular details that offer dramatic close-ups and set new standards in print quality. A new photographic campaign has been undertaken, enabling the smallest details to be reproduced on a large scale for the first time. They reveal all the more clearly Caravaggio's virtuosity and his enormous ability to capture the viewer's attention and to build a communicative bridge between the worlds of picture and viewer. Sequences of spectacular details grouped by subject allow us to experience Caravaggio's ingenious rhetoric of looks and gestures and their theatrical staging in paint.‎

‎Rubio y Moreno.‎

‎ 2010 Paris, 2010, Les Francs Bibliophiles, Atelier Idem, in-4 oblong en feuilles sous chemise cartonnée toilée rouge, sous étui toilé bleu, 55 pages. Joints signés un dessin à la mine de plomb et une épreuve réhaussée. ‎

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‎Rare et bel exemplaire signé par l'artiste IX sur X BFK Rives d'un tirage global de 125 exemplaires avec un bel envoi dessiné d'une voiture. Jacques de Loustal, né à Neuilly sur Seine en 1956, est un scénariste, dessinateur, auteur de bandes dessinées et de carnets de voyage. Après des études d'architecture, il fit parti de l'équipe de Métal Hurlant. En quelques années il est devenu l'un des piliers de la bande dessinée. "Illustrateur de l'émotion, coloriste hors pair, il sait comme personne restituer un silence, une atmosphère" (in galerievuesurmer.com).Thomas Lanier Williams III, dit Tennessee Williams, né le 26 mars 1911 à Columbus dans le Mississippi aux États-Unis et mort le 25 février 1983 à New York, est un dramaturge et écrivain américain dont de nombreuses uvres furent portées au cinéma. Dur chemin que celui de l'écrivain Kamrowski le menant enfin sur des hauteurs "Jusqu'à ce qu'il soit seul, invisible et capable de pleurer". En 12 lithographies Loustal l'accompagne. Menu lithographié signé. Nous joignons une esquisse préparatoire, sur papier, de la planche de la page 9 à la mine de plomb signée en bas à droite, 26 x 33 cm. Ainsi qu'une épreuve réhaussée à l'encre de Chine et lavis, signée en bas à droite, 23 x 28 cm. ‎

‎"Rubio y Morena".‎

‎ 2010 Gouache, pastel, et encre, 2010, 18.5 x 25.6 cm, signée en bas à droite, encadrée. ‎

‎Jacques de Loustal, né à Neuilly sur Seine en 1956, est un scénariste, dessinateur, auteur de bandes dessinées et de carnets de voyage. Après des études d'architecture, il fit parti de l'équipe de Métal Hurlant. En quelques années il est devenu l'un des piliers de la bande dessinée. "Illustrateur de l'émotion, coloriste hors pair, il sait comme personne restituer un silence, une atmosphère" (in galerievuesurmer.com).Thomas Lanier Williams III, dit Tennessee Williams, né le 26 mars 1911 à Columbus dans le Mississippi aux États-Unis et mort le 25 février 1983 à New York, est un dramaturge et écrivain américain dont de nombreuses uvres furent portées au cinéma. Dur chemin que celui de l'écrivain Kamrowski le menant enfin sur des hauteurs "Jusqu'à ce qu'il soit seul, invisible et capable de pleurer". Dessin original servant à l'illustration de la page 9 de Rubio y Morena. La lumière tamisée, ainsi que le cadrage serré, théâtralisent la scène et lui donne un caractère cinématographique. ‎

‎Rubio y Moreno.‎

‎ 2010 Paris, 2010, Les Francs Bibliophiles, Atelier Idem, in-4 oblong en feuilles sous chemise cartonnée toilée rouge, sous étui toilé bleu, 55 pages. Joints signés un dessin à la mine de plomb et une épreuve d'essai réhaussée signée. ‎

‎Rare et bel exemplaire signé par l'artiste 44 sur 100 BFK Rives d'un tirage global de 125 exemplaires avec un bel envoi dessiné d'une voiture. Jacques de Loustal, né à Neuilly sur Seine en 1956, est un scénariste, dessinateur, auteur de bandes dessinées et de carnets de voyage. Après des études d'architecture, il fit parti de l'équipe de Métal Hurlant. En quelques années il est devenu l'un des piliers de la bande dessinée. "Illustrateur de l'émotion, coloriste hors pair, il sait comme personne restituer un silence, une atmosphère" (in galerievuesurmer.com).Thomas Lanier Williams III, dit Tennessee Williams, né le 26 mars 1911 à Columbus dans le Mississippi aux États-Unis et mort le 25 février 1983 à New York, est un dramaturge et écrivain américain dont de nombreuses uvres furent portées au cinéma. Dur chemin que celui de l'écrivain Kamrowski le menant enfin sur des hauteurs "Jusqu'à ce qu'il soit seul, invisible et capable de pleurer". En 12 lithographies Loustal l'accompagne. Nous joignons une esquisse préparatoire, sur papier, de la planche de la page 21 à la mine de plomb signée en bas à droite, 26 x 33 cm. Ainsi qu'une épreuve rehaussée à l'encre de Chine et lavis, signée en bas à droite, 23 x 31 cm. Annotation de l'artiste sur le dessin à la mine de plomb. ‎

‎Dictionary of Manichaean Texts. Volume III, 2: Texts from Central Asia and China (Texts in Sogdian and Bactrian). Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, Pages: xlvi + 323 p. 210 x 297 mm. ISBN 9782503594521.‎

‎This part of the Dictionary of Manichaean III.2 Texts covers all extant Manichaean texts in Chinese from the Tang period and a large number of excerpts on Manichaeism and the Manichaean church from Chinese historical, institutional, literary and polemical sources. The Dictionary of Manichaean Texts in Chinese contains nearly 5,000 words and phrases, including Chinese words and phrases, words transcribed from Middle Iranian and Aramaic, and Buddhist/Indian words transcribed from Sanskrit. Entries are generally given in standard characters (but includes manuscript allographs) and in standard pinyin transcription. Definitions, explanatory comments, and cross-references are provided, as well as a lenghty English Index. Languages: English, Chinese.‎

‎Vie et mort des étoiles , (Les étoiles et le cosmos - La formation des étoiles - Complexes géants de nuages moléculaires dans la galaxie - Des étoiles très jeunes dans la constellation d'Orion - La formation des étoiles et la structure des galaxies - Epsilon Aurigae - Un objet superlumineux dans le grand nuage de Magellan - Le spectre étrange de SS 433 - Les étoiles symbiotiques - La couronne solaire - Les cycles d'activité des étoiles - Les Novae et leurs enveloppes - Les vents stellaires - Etoiles émettrices de rayons X dans les amas globulaires - Les émetteurs de rayons Gamma - Les ondes gravitationnelles émises par un pulsar - Les quasars : Des témoins du début de l'Univers - Un mirage gravitationnel)‎

‎Belin , Bibliothèque Pour la Science Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1985 Book condition, Etat : Bon relié, cartonnage éditeur blanc, illustré par une photographie de traces d'étoiles dans le ciel prise au laboratoire anglo-australien des îles Canaries In-4 1 vol. - 191 pages‎

‎très nombreuses illustrations dans le texte en noir et blanc, quelques-unes en couleurs nouvelle édition française, 1985 Contents, Chapitres : Hubert Reeves : Introduction : Les étoiles et le cosmos - Alan Boss : La formation des étoiles - Léo Blitz : Complexes géants de nuages moléculaires dans la galaxie - Gareth Wynn-Williams : Des étoiles très jeunes dans la constellation d'Orion - Nick Scoville et Judith Young : La formation des étoiles et la structure des galaxies - Margherita Hack : Epsilon Aurigae - John Mathis, Blair Savage, et Joseph Cassinelli : Un objet superlumineux dans le grand nuage de Magellan - Bruce Margon : Le spectre étrange de SS 433 - Minas Kafatos et Andrew Michalitsianos : Les étoiles symbiotiques - Richard Wolfson : La couronne solaire - Olin Wilson, Arthur Vaughan et Dimitri Mihalas : Les cycles d'activité des étoiles - Robert Williams : Les Novae et leurs enveloppes - Ray J. Weymann : Les vents stellaires - George W. Clark : Etoiles émettrices de rayons X dans les amas globulaires - Bradley Schaefer : Les émetteurs de rayons Gamma - Joel Weisberg, Joseph Taylor et Lee Fowler : Les ondes gravitationnelles émises par un pulsar - Patrick Osmer : Les quasars : Des témoins du début de l'Univers - Frédéric Chaffee : Un mirage gravitationnel - Index - Auteurs et Bibliographie cartonnage légèrement jauni, coins de la couverture légèrement frottés , légères tâches de rousseurs sur les deux premières et dernières pages, sinon en bon état, intérieur propre, papier à peine jauni‎

‎Masterpieces of Western Art: A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day: Part I From the Gothic to Neoclassism (Volume 1)‎

‎, Taschen, 1999 Hardcover, 760 pages, ENG, 325 x 250 x 55 mm, dustjacket, in Perfect Condition, a library on it's own, fully packed with illustrations in colour / b/w., hours of enjoyment. ISBN 9783822870310.‎

‎This volume traces the history of painting from medieval times to the late 20th century. The ten chapters each feature an introductory essay profiling the age and the achievements of the major artists, and then present selected works accompanied by searching commentaries‎

‎Chinese, Corean, and Japanese potteries‎

‎, Japan Society, New York, 1914 Original half cloth over paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine and front cover., 129 pages, in good condition, with plates, illustrations in b/w / colour.‎

‎ descriptive catalogue of loan exhibition of selected examples, the Chinese and Korean authenticated by R.L. Hobson ... and the Japanese by Edward S. Morse ... all exhibited under the auspices of the Japan society at the galleries of M. Knoedler & co ... New York, March 2-21, 1914 ... with a report on early Chinese potteries‎

‎art of dining. A history of cooking and eating.‎

‎London, The National Trust, 1993 Hard cover with dustjacket, 348pp., 25x25cm., illustr. throughout in col., fine condition. ISBN 9780707801735.‎

‎Illustrated Beatus: Introduction,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2000 Hardback, 224 p., incl. 141 ills. with 40 in colour, 235 x 335 mm.*NEW ISBN 9780905203911.‎

‎This richly illustrated volume introduces the reader to the textual and visual tradition of the Corpus of Illustrations of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, considering the life and work of Beatus in their historical, political and theological background. This richly illustrated volume introduces the reader to the textual and visual tradition of the Corpus. The life and work of Beatus are considered in their historical, political and theological background; styles and locations of production are analysed; the sources of the textual commentaries and the evolution of particular iconographical forms are examined; and finally the Mozarabic and Islamic characteristics of the illustrations are assessed. The startling colour plates show the range of style and form in examples from the earliest Beatus manuscript, the Silos Fragment, to the late Arroya Beatus and the Rioseco Fragment. The monochrome illustrations show comparative material covering influences from the Islamic Mediterranean to the Carolingian and Gothic styles of the North. A Table of Apocalypse subjects, Map, Bibliography and Index are also included. Languages: English.‎