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1.	[no image]	The Lindisfarne Gospels: A Masterpiece of Book Painting from The British Library Publishing Division Price: $28.30 Customer Review: The scope of this book is best described by the chapter titles: 1) Lindisfarne and Saint Cuthbert 2) The men who made the manuscript 3) The text of the Gospels 4) The script 5) How the manuscript was made 6) The great decorated pages 7) The smaller initials 8) Some comparisons (with contemporary... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		The Sherborne Missal from University of Toronto Press Price: $25.71 Customer Review: A superb book. There is no one better qualified than Janet Backhouse to discuss any illuminated manuscript from the middle ages. There is no illuminated manuscript from the middle ages more splendid than the Sherborne Missal. Put the two together, and the only conceivable way the result could... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		The Illuminated Manuscript from Phaidon Press Price: $5.89 Customer Review: This is a great book for someone just developing an interest in illuminated manuscripts. Its primarily a picture book, but also contains a lot of information on the how's and whys of these beautiful books and is easy to refer back to. The author is English so a good many of the plates are from... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library from British Library Price: $36.82 Customer Review: Although this is an overview book, there is so much here to recommend it to the artist. I do C&I for my historical group (SCA) and this is such a wonderful source!	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		The Hastings Hours (Illuminated Gift) from Pomegranate Price: $21.50 Customer Review: The original copy of the Hastings Hours is held in the British Library and was written around 1480. This is a small book reproduces, in colour, a selection of the main carpet pages from the manuscript. Although not a full reproduction of the entire manuscript this is still a lovely book. There... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII from Getty Publications Price: $20.62	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		Medieval Birds in the Sherborne Missal (Medieval Life in Manuscripts) from University of Toronto Press Price: $17.92 Customer Review: If you are curious about bird illustrations before Audubon....this is a great example of what was done in the Medieval Manuscripts. Although small, it is packed with full page illustrations. It appears that the color representation are very close to the original works. I highly recommend this book... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		Medieval Rural Life in the Luttrell Psalter (Medieval World in Manuscripts) from The British Library Publishing Division Customer Review: A lovely book with large color photos of some of the pages of the original Luttrell Psalter. Wonderful representation of rural life in the 13th century. My only quibble is that some of the nicer larger images stradle two pages which means that some of the details are lost in the gap between the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.	[no image]	The Isabella Breviary from British Library Price: $35.88	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art from British Museum Press Price: $189.45	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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