Search Results: Middle Ages from Minotavros Books

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo (super). Orig. brown cloth. xviii, 235 pp., [63 pp. B&W plates with 98 illustrations]. Spine cocked. A few light white scuffs to extremities. Else fine.

London: Oxford University Press, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. navy cloth. viii, 378 pp. Spine tilted and darkened, rubbed to extremities. Interior age toned. Some pencil marginalia and underlining.

London: Hutchinson, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Full black cloth. 306 pp. B&W reproductions and illustrations. Light rubbing to spine ends. Foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly stained and foxed in a few spots. Since its discovery in the Augsburg City Library, the Almanus Manuscript has been quoted by many but read by few. Its fame rests largely on the fact that it contains what was, at the time, the earliest known drawing of a fusee. But this is not the most significant thing about the manuscript. All the earlier texts on clockmaking are either descriptions of unusual pieces of clockwork or are general treatises on how to make clocks. This, however, is the notebook of a practical clockmaker, and is of singular value since it is the earliest known manuscript to describe a number of existing chamber clocks of all sorts and origins, amplified with a profusion of technical detail.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Anglo-Norman Texts. Orig. green cloth. vi, 105 pp. Slight bowing to front board. Mild rubbing to corners. Spine faded. White scuff to rear board. Small stain to ffep. Interior is bright and clean. The Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle was a Latin work, purporting to be by legendary warrior archbishop Turpin telling further stories of Charlemagne's crusade against Spain. Although probably written around 1140 at St Denis, it was accepted as genuine history in the middle ages, and was translated many times into French. The Anglo-Norman prose version by William de Briane is the third oldest translation. [Online Medieval Sources Bibliography].

Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1990. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Studies and Texts 93. Soft cover. xiii, 285 pp. Spine sunned, light bumping and creasing to edges. Light staining to fore- and tail edges. Else fine. Edited from the Manuscripts, with translations and commentary.

New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Princeton Paperback Printing. 349 p.p., incl. index, [8] p.p. illustrations. Light wear to edges. Small raised marks to bottom front cover, but otherwise in near fine condition.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger Inc, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Green paper boards. vi, 264 pp. B&W fold-out map at rear. Bruise to spine head. Dust jacket is edge worn, rubbed, a few small chips, short tear to head of front joint, soiled to rear.

Hertfoerdshire, England: Omega Books, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. 232 p.p. B&W photos/illustrations throughout with 7 full pages of colour photos taken by the author. Some creasing and small tears to dust jacket. Original brown cloth with gilt title on spine. Wear to spine caps and edges. Damp stain to index pages. Otherwise a clean, bright copy with beautiful illustrations and photos.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 18mo. Everyman's Library No, 578. Orig. green cloth. xiii, 264 pp., ads. Spine sunned, stain to spine foot, light chafing to spine ends. Ink ownership inscription to ffep.

New York: Basic Books, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Black cloth, 166pp. Illustrated. Fine in a very good d/w, a small tear to bottom of rear jacket. The Ismailis, an Islamic religious sect during the crusades were a legendary group of Assassins during the middle ages. The boo discusses their history, legends, myths and origins of the sect, as well as their socioeconomic impact on revolution and war in Syria and the Middle East.

New York: Holiday House, 1936. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo. 106 p.p. Quarter bound cloth, paper boards. Blue slip case and endpapers designed with flowers. Title pasted on front of slip case. Rubbing to corners of slip case. Browning to boards. Discolouration to spine. Otherwise, book is in near fine condition. The original Aucassin and Nicolette, from the 12th or 13th century, is an anonymous medieval story meant to be sung, similar to a prosimetrum.

Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1985. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 71 pp. Fine.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2004. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Full green cloth, gilt tilte to spine, blind T&H dolphin device to front board. 234 pp. Fold-out plate list. Colour reproductions of the tapestry, plus B&W photos throughout commentary text. Some sunning to dust jacket, else a very nice copy. In a museum in the small town of Bayeux in Normandy, specially devised to hold this single object, is a strip of linen nearly a thousand years old. It is 230 feet long - and about 20 inches high. On it, embroidered in brightly coloured wool, are figures of men, animals, buildings and ships. In a series of vivid scenes, with a running exploratory text in Latin, it relates to the invasion of England by William of Normandy and his victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Nothing remotely like the Bayeux Tapestry exists anywhere else, yet comparatively few people have been to Bayeux to see it and appreciate how totally absorbing it is. This book, which reproduces the Tapestry in full colour, has made it… Read More

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full black cloth, red lettering to spine. ix, 368 pp. Fine condition. Although most modern scholars doubt the historicity of King Arthur, parts of the legend were accepted as fact throughout the Middle Ages. Medieval accounts of historical King Arthur, however, present a very different king from the romances that are widely studied today. Richard Moll examines a wide variety of historical texts including Thomas Gray's Scalacronica and John Hardyng's Chronicle to explore the relationship between the Arthurian chronicles and the romances. He demonstrates how competing and conflicting traditions interacted with one another and how writers and readers of Arthurian texts negotiated a complex textual tradition. The first monograph to look at the impact of these historical texts on Arthurian literature, Before Malory is also the first to show how canonical vernacular romances interacted with chronicle texts that have since… Read More

New York: Capricorn Books, 1960. Soft cover. Very Good. 4.25" x 7" Soft cover. 296 pp. With more than 124 marvelous B&W illustrations. Covers age toned, creasing to joints, small stain to fore edge of front cover.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xiv, 393 pp. B&W illustrations. Bruise to foot of front cover, some light soiling to spine. The Book of Memory is a wide-ranging and amply illustrated account of the workings and function of memory in medieval society. Memory was the psychological faculty valued above all others in the period stretching from late antiquity through to the Renaissance. Mary Carruthers discusses memory systems as a kind of artificial intelligence, and considers carefully the ethical and literary values attached to memory training in medieval culture.

London: Blandford Press, 1987. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 192 pp. Spine sunned, small spots of wear to rear cover. Tiny chip to spine foot. Owner label inside front cover. Interior is age toned.

New York: Skira. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo (imperial). N.d., [ca. 1967?] Orig. blue card wraps, gilt titling, colour pictorial onlay to front. [4], 6 ff. colour plates. Sunning to extremities, a few rubbed spots to corners. Ink ownership inscription to title page. The art of the Middle Ages had been almost exclusively a religious art, unconcerned with the things of the world. These seven miniatures (including front cover art) of the fifteenth century show the change of outlook that was then taking place, the broadening of man's horizon, the awakening of interest in nature and the activities of daily life. Man was growing conscious of his place in this world, rather than the next, and was beginning to look around him with eager curiosity. Plates come from three manuscripts: Le Livre Des Echecz Amoureux et Des Echecz d'Amour ("The Book of Love's Checks and the Mishaps of Love"), Ms.Fr. 143 at Le Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Le Livre des Prouffitz Champetres ("The Book of Husbandry"), Ms. Fr. 5064,… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Revised and enlarged. Full red cloth. cxxxii, 395 pp. Spine sunned and cocked. Rubbing to extremities. Cracking to inner hinge at preface. Some pencil and ink marginlia. Ink ownership inscription to ffep.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Revised and enlarged. Full green cloth. cxxxii, 395 pp. Spine sunned and cocked. Rubbing and wear to extremities. Moderate staining to boards Cracking to inner hinge at preface. Interior bright and clean.