Herold Vzdornov, comm. Kievskoj Psaltyri. (Kyiv Psalter of 1397) Issledovanie O Kievskoj Psaltyri (An Exploration of the Kiev Psalter) Moscow 1978. 2 vols. Hardcover in DJ. Very Good/Very Good
Quarto 172, 231 pp. Some plates tipped in. In Russian with an 11 page summary in English.

 “The Kyiv Psalter, also called the Spyridon Psalter, is unique. It is the only preserved Slavonic manuscript of its kind dating to the period before the fifteenth century. It is also anachronistic, produced in 1397 but illustrated in a style typical of the eleventh century. A marginal Psalter, it was a very valuable treasure in the medieval period as “the book of Psalms is of all books, the mother.”

“Book assesses the role of the city of Shiraz in Iranian book production between the early fourteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. It is the first detailed analysis of all aspects of the book – illumination, codicology, illustration, calligraphy, and binding – during this significant era when the look of the book was transformed. Four periods of change are identified: the years following 1340 until the end of Injuid rule in Shiraz; the later 1350s and the 1360s, during Muzaffarid rule; the years from 1409 to 1415, when the Timurid prince Iskandar Sultan was governor of Shiraz; and the decade (1435-45) following the death of Ibrahim Sultan, Iskandar’s cousin and successor as governor. Although the focus is Shiraz, the author’s comparative and chronological approach to the material means production elsewhere in Iran is also considered, while the results of the study increase our understanding of the history and development of the arts of the book not only in Shiraz, or even Iran as whole, but also in other centers of the Islamic world that followed the Iranian model. Highlights of this book, which is heavily illustrated with exquisite illuminated manuscript pages, are its examination of illumination, an overlooked area of book production; the codicological aspects of the manuscripts, including paper and text layout; and the development of nasta’liq script. “

Pamela Long, David McGee and Alan Stahl. The Book of Michael of Rhodes. A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript – 3 vols. MIT Press 2009. Pictorial hardcover. Very Good. Remainder stamp on bottom fore edge Quarto Vol 1 Facsimile 519 color plates, Vol 2 Transcription and Translation 679 pp Vol 3 Studies 370 pp

H.P. Kraus. Cimelia . Catalogue 165. A Catalogue of Important Illuminated and Textual Manuscripts published in commemoration of the sale of The Ludwig Collection. Kraus. 1983 Limited to 600 copies. Hardcover in Dj . Very Good/Very Good Quarto 167 pp Tipped in color plates

HP Kraus. Catalogue 200. The Printed Book. A Choice Selection of Two Hundred Early Books including over One Hundred and Fifty Incunabula, Marking the Completion of Fifty Years in our present location. Kraus no date @ 1995 Limited to 800 copies. Brown cloth spine, with brown and tan boards. Unused. Quarto 243 pp