AVRIL, François, Maxence Hermant, Françoise Bibelot, Très riches Heures de Champagne. L’enluminure en Champagne à la fin du Moyen Age. Paris, Editions Hazan, 2007. 215 pp., ills., ISBN 978-2-7541-0188-2. € 25. Catalogue of an exhibition on tour in Châlons-en-Champagne, Troyes and Reims, 2007-2008. BARBER, Richard, Bestiary. Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764. 208 pp., 136 ills. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2006. ISBN-13: 978 0 85115 753 5. $27.95. A delightful translation of one of the finest, and most beautiful, examples of a medieval Bestiary. Reprint of the 1992 edition. BEACH, Alison I. (ed.), Manuscripts and monastic culture. Reform and renewal in twelfth-century Germany. Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2007 (Medieval Church Studies: 13). 347 pp., ills., ISBN 978-2-503-51528-1. € 54,90. Ten scholarly contributions on the topic, derived from papers delivered during a conference held in 2002 at the monastery of Admont, Austria. BERGEN, Wilhelmina van, De Meesters van Otto van Moerdrecht. Een onderzoek naar de stijl en iconografie van een groep miniaturisten, in relatie tot de productie van getijdenboeken in Brugge rond 1430. Amsterdam, F&N Boekservice/Eigen Beheer, 2007. 526 pp., ills., no ISBN. Important dissertation on the commercialization of the production of manuscripts in 15th century Bruges. With cd-rom.

BOSCHI ROTIROTI, Marisa (ed.), I manoscritti datati delle province di Grosseto, Livorno, Massa Carrara, Pistoia e Prato. Firenze, SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007 (Manoscritti datati d’Italia: 16). 112 pp., ills., ISBN 978-88-8450-246-9. € 102. With cd-rom.

BRÄM, Andreas, Neapolitanische Bilderbibeln des Trecento. Anjou-Buchmalerei von Robert dem Weisen bis zu Johanna I. Wiesbaden, Reichert, 2007. 2 vol., 488 pp. and 866 pl., ISBN 978-3-89500-503-9. € 248. Profound analysis of eight bibles, illuminated in Naples between 1310 and 1365. BRAUN-NIEHR, Beate, Die theologischen lateinischen Handschriften in octavo der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Teil 1: Ms. theol. lat. oct. 66-125. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz.

Kataloge der Handschriftenabteilung. Erste Reihe: Handschriften. Band 3. 365 pp., ISBN 978-3-447-05183-5. € 78. La BRETAGNE carolingienne. Entre influences insulaires et continentales. PECIA Volume 12. During the Carolingian era Brittany preserved certain unique particularities. Five articles address diverse aspects of this rich period. 172 pp., col. ills. ISSN 1761 4961. € 40. Online ordering : [see the site] or write to PECIA - 4, Jacques Duclos - Bte 451 - 93200 Saint-Denis - Fax 01 42 35 15 22 - pecia@wanadoo.fr

BRETSCHER-GISIGER, Charlotte, Rudolf Gamper, Katalog der mittelalterlichen Handschriften der Klöster Muri und Hermetschwil. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2005. 463 pp., ills., ISBN 3-85951-244-7. € 116. Comprises 156 descriptions of medieval manuscripts preserved in Swiss archives and libraries, with an illustrated introduction.

BRUNOLD, Ursus, & Jürg L. Muraro (eds.), Necrologium Curiense. Mittelalterliche Toten- und Jahrzeitbücher der Kathedrale Chur. Codices C, D, E und G des Bischöflichen Archivs Chur. Faksimile. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2008. 320 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-85951-270-2. € 134. Magnificent facsimile of the 12th-15th century necrologia from the cathedral of Chur in Switzerland; with brief codicological descriptions, but unfortunately without transcriptions or indices.

Das BUCH der Liebenden / Histoire d’amour sans paroles: Ms. 388 du Musée Condé à Chantilly. [I: Faksimileausgabe. II:] Patricia Stirnemann, Michel Zink, Kommentar zur Faksimileausgabe. Madrid, Eikon Editores, 2005. 2 vols., [26] and 83 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-87560-430-6. € 590. A love story in pictures from early 16th century France, with commentary. CALIS, Piet, Vondel. Het verhaal van zijn leven (1597-1679). Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, 2008 464 pp., ills., ISBN 9 789029 081481 € 35. Excellent biography of Holland’s greatest poet of the 17th century. CARPENTER, David, Calendar of the Fine rolls of Henry III (1216-1248). 2 vols. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2007. 616 pp. ISBN-13: 978 1 84383 337 6. $ 190. A window into the 13th century is provided by the publication of these important documents - a crucial source for medieval history. CAVALLO, Guglielmo, Giovanna Nicolaj (eds.), Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters. 2nd series: Ninth century. Part LXXXVIII: Italy LX. Modena, Nonantola I. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2008. 140 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-85951-230-6. € 550. Contains 36 charters, dated 781-898. CAVALLO, Guglielmo, Giovanna Nicolaj (eds.), Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin charters. 2nd series: Ninth century. Part CI: Switzerland IV. Sankt Gallen II. Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf, 2008. 152 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-85951-246-7. € 550. Contains 55 charters, dated 814-820. CLARK, Willene B., A medieval book of beasts. The second-family bestiary. Commentary, art, text and translation. Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 2006. 280 pp., ISBN 9780851156828. £ 75. Concerns London, British Library, ms. Add. 11283 (ca. 1180)

CLEMENS, Raymond, Timothy Graham, Introduction to manuscript studies. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2007. 301 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-8014-3863-9 / 978-0-8014-8708-8. $ 85 / € 35,50. A lavishly illustrated new resource handbook on codicology, some palaeography, and medieval manuscript studies in general.

CLOUZOT, Martine, Images de musiciens (1350-1500). Typologie, figurations et pratiques sociales. Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 (Collection «Épitome musical»). 353 pp., ils., ISBN 978-2-503-52345-5. € 125. Reworked thesis from 1995 on music in Burgundian society.

COULSON, F.T., & A.A. Grotans (eds.), Classica et Beneventana. Essays presented to Virginia Brown on the occasion of her 65th birthday. Turnhout, Brepols, 2008 (Textes et études du Moyen Âge: 36). 444 pp., ills., ISBN 978-2-503-52434-4. € 42,64. Festschrift in honour of one of the world’s leading authorities in Latin palaeography and especially Beneventan script. DECLERCQ, Georges (ed.), Early medieval palimpsests. Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2007 (Bibliologia. Elementa ad librorum studia pertinentia: 26). 155 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-52480-1. € 53.

Proceedings of the contact forum ‘Vroegmiddeleeuwse palimpsesten - Early medieval palimpsests’, Brussels, 8 February 2007. DESACHY, Matthieu (dir.), Le scriptorium d’Albi: les manuscrits de la cathédrale Sainte-Cécile (VIIe-XIIe siècles). Rodez, Éditions du Rouergue, 2007 174 p., col. Ills. (Trésors écrits albigeois, II) ISBN 978-2-8415-6887-1. € 40. Catalogue to the exhibition of 13 September- 15 December 2007. L’ENFER de la Bibliothèque : Éros au secret. Sous la dir. de Marie-Françoise Quignard et de Raymond-Josué Seckel, avec la collab. d’Éric Walbecq. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2007, 460 p. ISBN 978-2-7177-2379-3. € 38. Catalogue to the exhibition of 4 December 2007 – 31 March 2008.

[FABIAN, Claudia, Bettina Wagner (eds.)], Katalogisierung mittelalterlicher Handschriften in internationaler Perspektive. Vorträge der Handschriftenbearbeitertagung vom 24. bis 27. Oktober 2005 in München. Herausgegeben von der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2007 (Beiträge zur Buch- und Bibliothekswesen: 53). 221 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-447-05667-1. € 58.

FISHER, Celia, The medieval flower book. London, The British Library, 2007. 128 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-7123-4945-1. £ 20. Alphabetically arranged presentation of flowers depicted in BL-manuscripts, with some facts on their history, significance and use in daily life.

GAMESON, Richard, The earliest books of Canterbury Cathedral. Manuscripts and fragments to c. 1200. London [etc.], The Bibliographical Society / The British Library [etc.], 2008. 414 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0948170-166 / 978-07123-5008-2. £ 60 (members £ 30). First time catalogue of the 42 manuscripts dating from the 9th-13th centuries, each illustrated in colour. Das GEBETBUCH Karls des Kühnen. Ms. 37, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. [I: Faksimileband. II:] Antoine De Schryver, Kommentar. [Luzern], Faksimile Verlag Luzern, 2007. 2 vols., ills., ISBN 978-3856721107 and 978-3856721114. GREBE, Anja, Goldenes Mittelalter. Geschichte der Buchmalerei. Ostfildern, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2007. 160 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-7995-0184-2. € 39,90.

HAEMERS, Jelle, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Hanno Wijsman (eds.), Entre la ville, la noblesse et l’état: Philippe de Clèves (1456-1528) homme politique et bibliophile. Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 (Burgundica: 13). 294 pp., ills., ISBN 978-2-503-51912-8. £ 40. Acts of an international colloquium on urban society in the medieval Netherlands.

HÄRTEL, Helmar, Tradition als Herausforderung. Zimelien aus den Sammlungen der Herzog August Bibliothek. Eine Führung von der Spätantike bis zur Reformation. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2007. 94 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-447-05535-2. € 30,70. Catalogue of the exhibition of treasures held in Wolfenbüttel in honour of the 80th birthday of Paul Raabe. HARTZELL, K.D. Catalogue of Manuscripts written or owned in England up to 1200 containing Music. 746 pp., 8 ills. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2006. ISBN-13: 978 1 84383 281 2. $170. An exhaustive catalogue of all the manuscript containing music in the medieval period, published in association with the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. HEERTUM, Cis van, Libertas Philosophandi. Spinoza als gids voor een vrije wereld. Amsterdam, In de Pelikaan, 2008, 336 pp., ills. ISBN 97A-90-71608-24-7. € 25. With 13 well accessible essays (in Dutch) of Spinoza experts and a catalogue to the exhibition in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica.

HILG, Hardo (ed.), Lateinische mittelalterliche Handschriften in Quarto der Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg. Die signaturengruppe Cod. I.2.4º und Cod. II.1.4º. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2007. 623 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-447-05420-1. € 98. Volume 1,3: third part of the ‘Erste Reihe’.

HOLLANDER, August den, Erik Kwakkel, Wybren Scheepsma (eds.), Middelnederlandse bijbelvertalingen. Hilversum, Verloren, 2007 (Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen: 102). 207 pp., ills., ISBN 978-9065509642. € 25. Volume with 13 articles on the translations of the Bible into Dutch since the end of the 13th century. HOMMEL, Nelly de, & Jos Koldeweij, Flemish Apocalypse. Barcelona, Moleiro, 2005. 220 pp., ills., ISBN 978-84-88526-98-4.

HOOGVLIET, Margriet, Pictura et scriptura. Textes, images et herméneutique des mappae mundi (XIIIe-XVIe siècle). Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 (Terrarum Orbis: 7). 390 pp., ills., ISBN 978-2-503-52065-0. € 80. This study, defended as a dissertation in Groningen in 1999, shows that medieval ideas survived in the cartography of the 16th century. HÜRKEY, Edgar J. (ed.), Schätze aus Pergament. Mittelalterliche Handschriften aus Frankenthal. Frankenthal, Erkenbert-Museum, 2007. 200 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-00-022493-5. Catalogue of the exhibition held in the Erkenbert-Museum 19 September - 25 November 2007.

HUNT, Tony, Miraculous Rhymes: The Writings of Gautier de Coinci. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2007. 224 pp. ISBN-13: 978 1 84383 126 5. $85 A study of wordplay and rhetorical style in the work of Gautier de Coinci (1177/8-1236. See also below: KRAUSE

JACKSON, Deirdre, Marvellous to behold. Miracles in medieval manuscripts. London, The British Library, 2007. 160 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-7123-4946-8. $ 35. Lavishly illustrated with 118 miraculous images – not restricted to religious works. JANSE, Antheun, Ingrid Biesheuvel (eds.), Johan Huyssen van Kattendijke-kroniek. Die historie of die cronicke van Hollant, van Zeelant ende van Vrieslant ende van den Stichte van Utrecht. Den Haag, Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, 2005 (Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën, Kleine Serie: 102). CLXXIV + 630 pp., ills., ISBN 90-5216-140-2. € 70. Exemplary edition of one of the last medieval chronicles in private hands.

JANSSENS, Jozef D., In de schaduw van de keizer. Hendrik van Veldeke en zijn tijd (1130-1230). Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2007. 207 pp., ills., ISBN 978-9057305283. € 29,95. This richly illustrated publication reflects on Veldeke in European context.

KARL DER KÜHNE (1433-1477). Kunst, Krieg und Hofkultur. Herausgeg. von Susan Marti, Till-Holger Borchert & Gabriele Keck. Bern, Brugge, Stuttgart. 382 pp., col. ills. ISBN 978-3-7630-2513-8. Catalogue to the superb exhibition in the Historisches Museum in Bern and later in the Bruggemuseum & Groeninge Museum. KÖNIG, Eberhard, Die Grandes Heures de Rohan. Eine Hilfe zum Verständnis des Manuscrit latin 9471 der Bibliothèque nationale de France. Simbach am Inn, Verlagsbuchhandlung Anton Pfeiler jun., 2006. 122 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-9810655-2-7. € 58.

KORS, Mikel, De bijbel voor leken. Studies over Petrus Naghel en de Historiebijbel van 1361. Ingeleid door Geert H.M. Claassens. With an English summary. Leuven, Encyclopédie Bénédictine, 2007. 208 pp., ills., ISBN 978-2-503-52661-4. € 50.

KRAUSE, Kathy M., & Alison Stones (eds.), Gautier de Coinci. Miracles, music and manuscripts. Turnhout, Brepols, 2006 (Medieval texts and cultures od Northern Europe: 13). 486 pp., ills., ISBN 978-2-503-52060-5. $ 108. Essays on the French poet and composer Gautier de Coinci (†1236), as a result of an interdisciplinary conference in Pittsburgh. See also above: HUNT

LAPIDGE, Michael, The Anglo-Saxon library. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008. 407 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-923969-6. $ 55. First full-length account of the nature and holdings of Anglo-Saxon libraries from the 6th-11th centuries; paperback edition of the 2006 publication. LEGARE, Anne-Marie (ed.), Livres et lectures de femmes en Europe entre Moyen Âge et Renaissance. Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2007. 378 pp., ills., ISBN 978-2-503-51882-4. € 120. Texts of the contributions to the international colloquium held at Lille, 24-26 May 2004. MANOSCRITTI datati delle province di Frosinone, Rieti e Viterbo, a cura di Lidia Buono, Roberta Casavecchia, Marco Palma, Eugenia Russo. Volume 17 of the series "Manoscritti datati d’Italia", see for more information: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo: http://www.sismel.it/tidetails.asp MANUSCRIPT STUDIES in the Low Countries. Proceedings of the ‘Groninger Codicologendagen’ in Friesland, 2002. Edited by Anne Margreet W. As-Vijvers, Jos. M.M. Hermans & Gerda C. Huisman. Groningen/Leeuwarden: Egbert Forsten/Fryske Akademy, 2008 (Boekhistorische Reeks III). xvi, 389 pp. ISBN 978 90 6980 144 5. €65. Unfortunately, the last work of Jos Hermans who for many years inspired and organized the ‘Groninger Codicologen dagen’.

MARCHIOLI, Nicoletta Giovè, Leonardo Granata, Martina Pantarotto, I manoscritti medievali di Vicenza e provincia. Venezia, Regione del Veneto, Giunta Regionale / Firenze, SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007 (Biblioteche e archivi: 17; Manoscritti medievali del Veneto: 3). 225 pp., ills., ISBN 978-88-8450-238-4. € 173. With cd-rom. MCKITTERICK, Rosamund, Charlemagne. The formation of a European identity. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 460 pp., 8 maps, 11 tbls. ISBN 13-9780521716451 € 26 (pbk, will also be available in hardback £ 45 ISBN 13-9780521886727). MIGLIO, Luisa, Governare l’alfabeto. Donne, scrittura e libri nel Medioevo. Roma, Viella, 2008 (Scritture e libri del Medioevo, 6). For more information see: http://www.viella.it/Edizioni/VielCatEd.htm MORGAN, Nigel, The Douce Apocalypse. Picturing the end of the world in the Middle Ages. Oxford, Bodleian Library/University of Oxford, 2007. 115 pp., ills, ISBN 978-1-85124-360-0. € 45. Second volume in the Treasures from the Bodleian Library series, on one of the finest medieval apocalypse manuscripts, datable in the third quarter of the 13th century.

MORRISON, Elizabeth, Beasts. Factual & fantastic. Los Angeles / London, The J. Paul Getty Museum / The British Library, 2007 (The Medieval Imagination). 104 pp., ills, ISBN 978-0-7123-4991-8. $ 19,95. First volume in a series of small, affordable books that will draw on manuscript illumination from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. OOY, Gilbert, La librairie des frères captifs. Les manuscrits de Charles d’Orléans et Jean d’Angoulême. Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2007 (Texte, Codex & Contexte: 4). 185 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-52540. € 41. Reconstruction of the library of two French princes during their captivity in England between 1415 and 1440. With an edition of Charles’ poem ‘Canticum Amoris’.

PARIGI, Maria Cristina, Patrizia Stoppacci (eds.), I manoscritti datati delle provincia di Arezzo. Firenze, SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007 (Manoscritti datati d’Italia: 15). 100 pp., ills., ISBN 978-88-8450-216-2. € 98. With cd-rom. PIERRAT, Emmanuel, Le livre des livres érotiques. Paris, Ed. du Chêne, 2007, 222 p., ISBN 978-2-84277-704-3 € 39,90.

RAPP, Andrea, & Michael Embach (eds.), Rekonstruktion und Erschließung mittelalterlicher Bibliotheken. Neue Formen der Handschriftenpräsentation. Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2008 (Beiträge zu den Historischen Kulturwissenschaften: 1). 186 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-05-004320-3. € 49,80. Articles resulting from a workgroup that met in Trier in April 2006. La REPRESENTATION de l’invisible. Trésors de l’enluminure romane en Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Valenciennes, Bibliothèque de Valenciennes, 2007. 95 pp. ISBN 2-902133. Catalogue to the exhibition of 15 October- 31 December 2007. SCOTT, Kathleen L., Tradition and innovation in later medieval English manuscripts. London, The British Library, 2007. 194 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-7123-4936-9. £ 45. An original investigation of motives for including pictures in manuscripts, of the role of the author in illustration, and of the traditional and innovative nature of visual representation in manuscripts of the 15th and early 16th centuries. SCUDIERI, Magnolia, Sara Giacomelli, Fra Giovanni Angelico. Pittore miniatore o miniatore pittore? Firenze, Giunti, 2007. 223 pp., ills., ISBN 978-88-09-05670-1. € 32. Catalogue of the exhibition in the Museo di San Marco, Florence, 20 December 2007 – 29 March 2008. SHEPARD, Dorothy M., Introducing the Lambeth Bible: a study of texts and imagery. Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2007. 320 pp., ills., ISBN 978-2-503-51511-3. € 95.

SMITH, Kathryn A., & Carol H. Krinsky (eds.), Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler. Studies in illuminated manuscripts. London [etc.], Harvey Miller, 2007. 428 pp., ills., ISBN 978-1-872-50103-1. € 166. Mainly concerning 13th and 14th-century English manuscript illumination, major fields of research interest of professor Freeman Sandler. STUTZMANN, Dominique, et Piotr Tylus, Les manuscrits médiévaux français et occitans de la Preussische Staatsbibliothek et de la Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Kataloge der Handschriftenabteilung. Erste Reihe: Handschriften. Band 5. 359 pp., ISBN 978-3-447-05467-6. € 82. THOMSON, R.M., Books and learning in twelfth-century England: The ending of ‘alter orbis’. The Lyell Lectures 2000-2001. Herts, Red Gull Press, 2006. 115 pp., ills., ISBN 978-0-9553702-0-5. Modified text of the lecture delivered at Oxford University in May 2001, concerning England’s engagement with continental Europe from 1066 to about 1200. VANWIJNSBERGHE, Dominique, "Moult bons et notables". L’enluminure tournaisienne à l’époque de Robert Campin (1380-1430). Paris [etc.], Peeters, 2007 (Corpus of illuminated manuscripts: 17). LXIII + 414 pp., ills., ISBN 978-9042917583. € 100. * WIECK, Roger S., e.a., Picturing piety: the book of hours. Paul Holberton Publishing, London 2007 (Les Enluminures. Catalogue: 13). 273 pp., ills., ISBN 978-1-9034706-5-7. € 50. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Les Enluminures, Paris, 11 September – 11 November 2007. WORM, Andrea, Das Pariser Perikopenbuch. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 17325 und die Anfänge der romanischen Buchmalerei an Rhein und Weser. Berlin, Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2008 (Denkmäler deutscher Kunst). 272 pp., ills., ISBN 978-3-87157-220-3. € 78.