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• Illumination of books and manuscripts, French -- France

• French illumination of books and manuscripts

• The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Anne D. Hedeman (HTML at UC Press)

• The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2008), by Timothy Husband, contrib. by Margaret Lawson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• La Peinture Médiévale à Paris, 1300-1500 (2 volumes in French; Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, c1987-1990), by Charles Sterling (page images at wpi.art)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Illuminated Manuscripts, by J. A. Herbert (page images at CMU)
• A Manual of Illumination on Paper and Vellum (eighth edition; London: Winsor and Newton, ca. 1861), by John W. Bradley, T. G. Goodwin, and J. J. Laing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New (third edition; London and New York: G. Bell and Sons, 1905), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Illuminations in The Robert Lehman Collection (Robert Lehman Collection series v4; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), by Sandra Hindman, Mirella Levi D'Ancona, Pia Palladino, and Maria Saffiotti Dale (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Illuminations in The Robert Lehman Collection (Robert Lehman Collection series v4; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), by Sandra Hindman, Mirella Levi D'Ancona, Pia Palladino, and Maria Saffiotti Dale (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Illuminations in The Robert Lehman Collection (Robert Lehman Collection series v4; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), by Sandra Hindman, Mirella Levi D'Ancona, Pia Palladino, and Maria Saffiotti Dale (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Illuminations in The Robert Lehman Collection (Robert Lehman Collection series v4; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), by Sandra Hindman, Mirella Levi D'Ancona, Pia Palladino, and Maria Saffiotti Dale (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Illuminations in The Robert Lehman Collection (Robert Lehman Collection series v4; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), by Sandra Hindman, Mirella Levi D'Ancona, Pia Palladino, and Maria Saffiotti Dale (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Illuminations in The Robert Lehman Collection (Robert Lehman Collection series v4; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), by Sandra Hindman, Mirella Levi D'Ancona, Pia Palladino, and Maria Saffiotti Dale (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images: Persian Painting of the 1330s and 1340s (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), by Marie Lukens Swietochowski and Stefano Carboni, contrib. by A. H. Morton and Tomoko Masuya (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Book Arts of Isfahan: Diversity and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Persia (Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, c1995), by Alice Taylor (multiple formats via The Getty)

• The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Anne D. Hedeman (HTML at UC Press)

• The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2008), by Timothy Husband, contrib. by Margaret Lawson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• La Peinture Médiévale à Paris, 1300-1500 (2 volumes in French; Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, c1987-1990), by Charles Sterling (page images at wpi.art)

• The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Anne D. Hedeman (HTML at UC Press)

• La Peinture Médiévale à Paris, 1300-1500 (2 volumes in French; Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, c1987-1990), by Charles Sterling (page images at wpi.art)

• Persian Miniatures: A Picture Book (1940), by M. S. Dimand (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images: Persian Painting of the 1330s and 1340s (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), by Marie Lukens Swietochowski and Stefano Carboni, contrib. by A. H. Morton and Tomoko Masuya (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Book of Kells (second edition; London et al.: The Studio, 1920), by Edward Sullivan (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Hortus Deliciarum (black and white scan of an annotated reprint, with captions in Latin and notes in French; Strasbourg: Schlesier and Schweikhardt, 1901), by Herrad of Landsberg, contrib. by A. Straub and G. Keller (page images in reverse order at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Der St. Galler Folchart-Psalter: Eine Initialenstudie (in German; St. Gallen, Fehr, 1912), by Franz Landsberger
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Caedmon Poems, Translated Into English Prose (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1916), trans. by Charles W. Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Book of Thel (multiple copies), by William Blake (Java-dependent page images at blakearchive.org)

• A King's Book of Kings: The Shah-nameh of Shah Tahmasp (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976), by Stuart Cary Welch (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Mirror of the Invisible World: Tales from the Khamseh of Nizami (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975), ed. by Peter J. Chelkowski, contrib. by Priscilla Parsons Soucek and Richard Ettinghausen (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Laurence B. Kanter, Barbara Drake Boehm, Carl Brandon Strehlke, Gaudenz Freuler, Christa C. Mayer-Thurman, and Pia Palladino (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Cloisters Apocalypse: An Early Fourteenth-Century Manuscript in Facsimile (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), contrib. by Florens Deuchler, Jeffrey Hoffeld, and Helmut Nickel (PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Kathryn M. Rudy (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• A Medieval Mirror: Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1324-1500 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by Adrian Wilson and Joyce Lancaster Wilson (illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European Perspective (Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2017), ed. by Karen Pratt, Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer, and Ad Putter (PDF in Germany)

• Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1983), by Annemarie Schimmel and Stuart Cary Welch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Emperors' Album: Images of Mughal India (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), ed. by Stuart Cary Welch, contrib. by Annemarie Schimmel, Marie Lukens Swietochowski, and W. M. Thackston (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Illuminations in The Robert Lehman Collection (Robert Lehman Collection series v4; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), by Sandra Hindman, Mirella Levi D'Ancona, Pia Palladino, and Maria Saffiotti Dale (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Laurence B. Kanter, Barbara Drake Boehm, Carl Brandon Strehlke, Gaudenz Freuler, Christa C. Mayer-Thurman, and Pia Palladino (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1983), by Annemarie Schimmel and Stuart Cary Welch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Emperors' Album: Images of Mughal India (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), ed. by Stuart Cary Welch, contrib. by Annemarie Schimmel, Marie Lukens Swietochowski, and W. M. Thackston (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)