The Lorsch Gospels.
New York: George Braziller, Inc., [1967]. Hardcover. Folio. Quarter vellum with gilt lettering and red cloth, slipcase. (Ca. 400pp). Extensive illustrations (some color). Fine/very good. Item #49311
A lovely and fresh copy of this outstanding facsimile, with a fine copy of the accompanying 24pp folio illustrated introductory pamphlet by Braunfels. The Codex Aureas of Lorsch or "Lorsch Gospels," named after the German monastery where it was likely created, is an illuminated Gospel volume penned in Latin in two-column format between 778 and 820. Part of the original resides at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome, the other part at the Biblioteca Documentara Batthyaneum in Alba Julia, Rumania, with a couple of the ivory panels at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London -- but all appear together here for the first time as a single unified text in this large and magnificent production. Colophon at rear notes limitation to 1,000 numbered copies (here unnumbered).
Price: $475.00