Facsimiles of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: Misc. Secular Texts

Das Bestiarium aus Peterborough = The Peterborough Bestiary.  Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, MS 53 (fol. 189-210).  [Stuttgart] : Faksimile Verlag Luzern, c2003.  2 v. : ill. ; 37 cm. Edition of 1480 copies.   [pt. 1] Facsimile -- [pt. 2.] Kommentar zur Faksimile-Edition.  Commentary includes transcription of Latin text and English translation by Christopher de Hamel and German translation by Hans Zotter.
PA8275 .B4 P37 2003  LSC - Restricted Use Link to catalog

Bodleian Library. Manuscript Bodley 764.  Book of Beasts : a Facsimile of MS Bodley 764.   Introduction by Christopher de Hamel.  Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2008.  36 p., 137 leaves : col. facsims. ; 30 cm.  Full facsimile reproduction of a 13th century illuminated manuscript, a bestiary, created in England, perhaps in Salisbury, possibly commissioned by Roger de Mohaut.
ND3399 .B66 2008 Art Restricted Link to catalog

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1194-1250.  De arte venandi cum avibus.  Das Falkenbuch Friedrichs II. : cod. Pal. lat. 1071 der Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.  Kommentar von Dorothea Walz und Carl Arnold Willemsen.  111 leaves 222 unnumbered pages, 86 pages : color facsimile ; 20 cm.  Glanzlichter der Buchkunst; Bd. 9. Facsim. in Latin, commentary in German.
SK321 .F83 2000 Art Link to catalog

Gaston III Phœbus, Count of Foix, 1331-1391.  The Hunting Book of Gaston Phébus: manuscrit français 616, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale.  Introduction by Marcel Thomas and François Avril; commentary by Wilhelm Schlag.  [276], 80 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.  Series: Manuscripts in miniature; no. 3.  Facsim. of original French text.  London : Harvey Miller, [1998].
SK25 .G29 1998 Art Link to catalog

Gaston III Phœbus, Count of Foix, 1331-1391.   Phébus des déduiz de la chasse des bestes sauvaiges et des oyseaux de proye.  Le livre de la chasse : manuscrit français 616 d. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, Gaston Phœbus ; introduction et commentaires, Marcel Thomas, François Avril, Duc de Brissac ; traduction en français moderne, Robert und André Bossuat.  Paris : Club du livre, c1976.  2 v. : col. ill. ; 36 cm.  First published in 1507 under title: Phébus, des déduiz de la chasse des bestes sauuaiges et des oyseaux de proye.  [Vol. 1] consists of introduction and commentaries (xviii, 58 p.); [v. 2] is facsimile of manuscript (138 leaves).
SK25 .G37 1976  v1, v2  Library Service Center - Restricted Use Link to catalog

The Hereford world map : mappa mundi.  London : Folio Society, c2010.  1 map : col. ; 143 x 120 cm. + 2 commentaries.  Full-color facsimile of map produced ca. 1300, and preserved at Hereford Cathedral, England.  Issued in fabric-lined wooden map box (14 x 128 x 14 cm.).  [Commentaries]: [v. 1.] The Hereford world map : introduction / P.D.A. Harvey -- [v. 2.] The Hereford world map : a transcription and translation of the legends with a commentary / Scott D. Westrem.  Map data: not to scale.
G3200 1300 .H47 2010 MAP;  G3200 1300 .H47 2010 Text v. -v.2 Woodson Research Center Link to catalog

Histoire d'amour sans paroles.  Buch der Liebenden.  [Simbach] : Müller und Schindler, 2005.[1]. Fascimile -- [2]. Das Buch der Liebenden = Histoire d'amour sans paroles : ms. 388 du Musée Condé à Chantilly / Kommentar zur Faksimileausgabe, Patricia Stirnemann, Michel Zink.  Commentary in French and German. Guillaume, de Lorris, fl. 1230. Roman de la rose.  Musíc Condé. Bibliothèque. Manuscript. 388. 
ND3399 .G854 H57 2005 Library Service Center - Restricted Use Link to catalog

Homer. Mss. (Cod. Ambrosianus F. 205 inf.)  Ilias Ambrosiana ; Cod. F. 205 P. inf., Bibliothecae Ambrosianae Mediolanensis.  Berna, U. Graf, 1953.    ivii p., 105 facsims. (part mounted col.) on 88 l. 35 cm.  A fourth edition of this codex, giving a more exact reproduction, and including the introduction to the third (1905) edition by Antonio Maria Ceriani with the addition of an appendix by Aristide Calderini, and the "Pictarum codicis Homerici descriptio historica" by Angelo Mai.  Homer.--Illustrations.  Manuscripts, Greek--Facsimiles.
PA4033 .A4 1953 Library Service Center - Restricted Use Link to catalog

Homer.  Mss.  Iliias picta.  Comentarios de las miniaturas por D. Enrique Celis Real, Doctor en Filología Clásica.   Valencia, España: Ediciones Grial, 2009.
Full color facsimile of the surviving fragments of the Ilias Picta, or the Ambrosian Iliad, held in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan (Cod. F. 205 Inf.). The 52 miniatures, cut from the illuminated vellum manuscript, are of Homer's Illiad and was produced in Constantinople between 493 and 508 C.E.  Text of fragments in Greek with commentary in Spanish.
ND3395 .H7 I44 2009 Library Service Center - Restricted Use Link to catalog

Livre du Chastel de labour. German & French (Middle French) Das Buch vom erfüllten Leben = le livre du Chastel de labour, Jacques Bruyant, 14th c.; Kommentar, Eberhard König und Gabriele Bartz; mit einem Beitrag von William Lang; Übersetzung der Dichtung Siegbert Himmelsbach.  [Lucerne, Switzerland] : Faksimile Verlag Luzern, c2005.  2 v. : ill. (some col.), facsims. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.  "Widener I, The Free Library of Philadelphia."   Allegory.
ND3399 .B7 L58 2005 [v.1] – 2  Library Service Center - Restricted Use Link to catalog

Talbot, Charles H., Franz Unterkircher, and Marthe Dulong. Medicina Antiqua. Libri Quattuor Medicinae. Fac-simile du Codex Vindobonensis 93, Conserve a Vienne a la Bibliotheque Nationale d’Autriche, accompagne de la traduction francaise des textes latins. Paris: (Club du Livre), 1978. 2 vols. I. 150pp. commentary volume including essays by Talbot and Unterkircher on early medicine, its iconography, depictions in art, etc. French translation of the Latin manuscript by Marthe Dulong, bibliographic notes, detailed catalogue. II. Facsimile volume of 134 leaves of plates on simulated vellum (numbered 26-160) with color reproductions.
RS81 .M43 1978 v1-2 Library Service Center – Restricted Use Link to catalog

Agnese, Battista, active 16 th century. Vollstandige Faksimile –Studienausgabe in Einzelblattern des Portolan-Atlas von Battista Agnese (1546) aus dem Besitz der Russischen Nationalbibliothek in St. Petersburg/herausgegen von Arthur Durst. 21 leaves, color maps, facsimiles. Commentary volume by Tamara P. Woronowa, 32 pp., illustrations.
G1001 .A4 1546 .D8 1993 + supplement Library Service Center – Restricted Use Link to catalog

Reiner Musterbuch:  Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat des Musterbuches aus Codex Vindobonensis 507 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek.   Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1979.  2 volumes.  Series: Codices selecti phototypice impressi, v. 64, 64*.  Facsimile volume; commentary volume by Franz Unterkircher.   First half of the 13^th century, illuminator’s manual.
Art NC75 .R34 R43 1979 Link to catalog

Roman de la Rose.  Der Rosenroman des Berthaud d'Achy: Urb. lat. 376: Entstanden Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts.  Author(s):  Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230.;  Berthaud,; d'Achy,; active 12th century-13th century.  Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. ; Manuscript.; Urb. lat. 376.  Series:  Codices e Vaticanis selecti quam simillime expressi iussu Ioannis Pauli PP II consilio et opera curatorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae; Nr. 71; Variation: Codices e Vaticanis selecti ; v. 71. Zürich: Belser Verlag,1987.
2 volumes, 130, [2] leaves; 193, [7] pages): illustrations, color facsimile; 36 cm.
Facsim. of: Codex Urbinatus latinus 376, identified as the work of the scribe Berthaud d'Archy (v.1).  Text of the ms. in Old French.  Commentary by Eberhard König in German.
PQ1527 .A1 1300a Library Service Center -- Restricted Use Link to catalog

Das Turnierbuch für René d'Anjou (Le Pas de Saumur): aus dem Besitz der Russischen Nationalbiblioth[e]k in St. Petersburg. Codices selecti phototypice impressi ; v. 104.  Graz:  Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt;  Verlag Nasledije der Akademie der Wissenschaften Russlands, 1998.
Full-color facsimile of the manuscript codex produced in 15th cent. for René d'Anjou.  In Middle French.
PQ1572 .P355 1998  LSC - Library Use Only Link to catalog

Separately cataloged commentary volume with transcription of the text and contributions by N. Elagina and others has title:  Das Turnierbuch für René d'Anjou (Le Pas de Saumur) ... Kommentarband.  167 pages, illustrations, genealogical table; 38 cm.
PQ1572 .P3553 1998 LSC - Library Use Only Link to catalog

Virgil.  Georgica. Liber 3-4. Selections.  Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat von Codex Vaticanus Lat. 3225 aus dem Besitz der Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana.  Title on slipcase: Vergilius Vaticanus Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat von Codex Vaticanus Lat. 3225 aus dem Besitz der Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana.  77 leaves : 50 col. ill. ; 24 cm.  Full-color facsimile of the codex containing major fragments of the Georgics, books 3-4, and of the Aeneid (on leaves 11-76).  A commentary volume intended for use with this facsimile was issued in 1984 as: Vergilius Vaticanus / David H. Wright.
PA6804 .A73 1980  Library Service Center - Restricted Use Link to catalog

Vergilius Vaticanus : vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat des Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3225 der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana : commentarium, David H. Wright.  Graz, Austria : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1984.  107 p., [14] p. of plates : facsims. ; 25 cm.  Commentary intended for use with the full-color facsimile of the ms. issued in 1980 under title: Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat von Codex Vaticanus Lat. 3225 aus dem Besitz der Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana.  Virgil--Illustrations.  Illumination of books and manuscripts, Roman. Commentary intended for use with the full-color facsimile of the ms. issued in 1980 under title: Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat von Codex Vaticanus Lat. 3225 aus dem Besitz der Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana. See entry above.
PA6804 .A73 1980 suppl  Library Service Center - Restricted Use Link to catalog

Villard, de Honnecourt, active 13th century.  Album de Villard de Honnecourt.  Cuaderno de Bocetos de Villard de Honnecourt de la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia, Ms Fr 19093.   Burgos : Siloé, arte y bibliofilia, 2018.    Facsimile of the sketchbook/portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt, containing around 250 detailed drawings depicting birds... religious figures; architecture, including details from the cathedrals at Chartres, Rheims, and Laon; church furnishings; detailed diagrams of mechanical devices; along with written descriptions of technical procedures, mechanical devices, and suggestions on drawing humans, animals. The manuscript original was created circa 1220-1240.
NA1053.V6 A4 2018  Library Service Center - Restricted Use Link to catalog

Sachsenspiegel: die Dresdner Bilderhandschrift Mscr. Dresd. M 32: vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat der Handschrift aus der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden. Textband im Auftrag der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden mit Förderung des Freistaates Sachsen, des Deutschen Sparkassen- und Giroverbandes und der Ostdeutschen Sparkassenstiftung im Freistaat Sachsen. Eike, von Repgow, approximately 1180-approximately 1233.  Hrsg. von Heiner Lück unter Mitarbeit von Thomas Haffner, Marion Perrin und Jörn Weinert.  Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2006. Text volume to accompany the 2002 facsimile edition: Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat des Dresdner Sachsenspiegels. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2002. (see entry for ART KK205.45 .D73 2002 v.1-2).  405 pages: illustrations; 37 cm.  Series:  Codices selecti phototypice impressi, 107.
KK205.45 .D73 2006   Library Service Center – Restricted Use Link to catalog

Sachsenspiegel: die Wolfenbütteler Bilderhandschrift Cod. Guelf. 3.1 Aug. 2⁰.   Eike von Repgow; herausgegebem von Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand.  Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 2006. Variant title:  Vollstandige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat des Wolfenbütteler Sachsenspiegels, Cod. Guelf. 3.1 Aug. 2⁰ der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.  Series: Codices selecti phototypice impressi, v. 111-111*.  Herzog August Bibliothek.  Manuscript. Cod. Guelf. 3.1 Aug. 2o.  Reprint of facsim. originally issued 1993.  Commentary v. includes transcription of original Middle Low German text and parallel modern German translation; commentary in German.
KK205.45 .W65 2006 v.1 -v.3  Library Service Center – Restricted Use Link to catalog

Sachsenspiegel.  Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat des Dresdner Sachsenspiegels : mscr. Dresd. M 32 der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek--Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden.  Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2002.  2 volumes (92 leaves; 77, 2 unnumbered pages); color illustrations, facsimile; 30-36 cm.  Series: Codices selecti phototypice impressi, v. 107. Facsimile of the manuscript created between 1347 and 1363, possibly in Meissen for Margrave Friedrich III, and now housed at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek--Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden under shelfmark M32.  Title of commentary vol.: Dresdner Bilderhandschrift des Sachsenspiegels: Interimskommentar by Lueck Heiner.
KK205.45 .D73 2002 v.1 –v.2  Library Service Center – Restricted Use Link to catalog

Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat des Heidelberger Sachsenspiegels: Cod. Pal. germ. 164 der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg.   Sachsenspiegel. German & Low German.  Eike, von Repgow, approximately 1180-approximately 1233.  Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, ©2009-2010.  3 volumes: color illustrations, facsimiles; 32-34.  Codices selecti phototypice impressi, v. 115.  Full-color facsimile of the manuscript produced in the early 14th century, currently preserved at the Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg under the shelfmark Cod. Pal. germ. 164.  The original text is attributed to Eike von Repgow.  Kommentarband and Textband edited by Gernot Kocher and Dietlinde Munzel-Everling.  [1]. [Faksimile] (c2009; 36 leaves; 32 cm.) -- [2]. Textband (2010; 136 pages; 34 cm).-- [3]. Kommentarband (2010; 162 pages: illustrations; 34 cm)
KK205.45 .H44 2009 v.1 – 3 Library Service Center – Restricted Use Link to catalog

For an English translation of this legal text, see:

The Saxon Mirror: A Sachsenspiegel of the Fourteenth Century.  Translated by Maria Dobozy.  Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, [1999].  263 pages.  Includes bibliographical references and index.
KK205.6 .S2313 1999 Link to catalog