ISBN10: 0271008377, ISBN13: 9780271008370, [publisher: Penn State University Press] Hardcover Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor wear to cover boards and spine. No markings or notations. The binding suffers moderate loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 3.82
[Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]
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Penn State University Press, Date: 1992. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor wear to cover boards and spine. No markings or notations. The binding suffers moderate loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1992. Penn State University Press ISBN 0271008377 9780271008370 [US]

Penn State University Press 1992-06-01 Hardcover Very Good First edition thus1992 Hardcover VG+/VG DJ; Minor shelf-wear. Free of any markings and no writing. For Additional Information or pictures, Please Inquire.

ISBN10: 0271008377, ISBN13: 9780271008370, [publisher: Penn State University Press] Hardcover First edition thus1992 Hardcover VG+/VG DJ; Minor shelf-wear. Free of any markings and no writing. For Additional Information or pictures, Please Inquire.
[Burlington, VT, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]

ISBN10: 0271008377, ISBN13: 9780271008370, [publisher: Penn State University Press] Hardcover May contain writing, notes, highlighting, bends or folds. Text is readable, book is clean, and pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD. May include library marks.
[Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]

London/ University Park: Modern Humanities Research Association/ The Pennsylvania University Press, Date: 1992. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on dj spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise very clean.). Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; black dust jacket with color illustration, tan and red lettering; mylar cover; color illustrated frontispiece; xvii, 228 pp, 49 unnumbered pages of bw and color plates. Text mainly in English, with some text in Latin. The Eadwine Psalter (Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.17.1) is arguably the most ambitious manuscript produced in England in the twelfth century. Over a dozen scribes and artists combined to produce a book which contains five different versions of the text of the Psalms, three in Latin, one in Old English, and one in Anglo-Norman, with a prologue, a commentary, and a concluding prayer to each Psalm. In addition, the most complex set of Psalter illustrations available, those from the ninth-century Utrecht Psalter, was adapted for the project; the largest known cycle of prefatory biblical pictorial narratives of the period was devised and appended as a pictorial preface; and every Psalm, prayer, and Canticle was given a set of fully illuminated major initials as well as gold and silver minor initials throughout. Several other noteworthy images feature in the book: a portrait of the 'Prince of Scribes', Eadwine himself, the depiction of a comet, and the ...

ISBN10: 0271008377, ISBN13: 9780271008370, [publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association/ The Pennsylvania University Press, London/ University Park] Hardcover Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; black dust jacket with color illustration, tan and red lettering; mylar cover; color illustrated frontispiece; xvii, 228 pp, 49 unnumbered pages of bw and color plates. Text mainly in English, with some text in Latin. The Eadwine Psalter (Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.17.1) is arguably the most ambitious manuscript produced in England in the twelfth century. Over a dozen scribes and artists combined to produce a book which contains five different versions of the text of the Psalms, three in Latin, one in Old English, and one in Anglo-Norman, with a prologue, a commentary, and a concluding prayer to each Psalm. In addition, the most complex set of Psalter illustrations available, those from the ninth-century Utrecht Psalter, was adapted for the project; the largest known cycle of prefatory biblical pictorial narratives of the period was devised and appended as a pictorial preface; and every Psalm, prayer, and Canticle was given a set of fully illuminated major initials as well as gold and silver minor initials throughout. Several other noteworthy images feature in the book: a portrait of the 'Prince of Scribes', Eadwine himself, the depiction of a comet, and the two plans of the precinct waterworks of Canterbury Cathedral Priory installed c. 1160. In ...
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