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• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Switzerland

• 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)
• Nouveaux mélanges d'archeologie, d'histoire et de littérature sur le moyen age (Firmin-Didot, 1874), by Charles Cahier and Arthur Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reproductions from illuminated manuscripts. (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1923), by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, D. H. Turner, Eric George Millar, and J. A. Herbert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of illumination, as practised during the middle ages : with a description of the metals, pigments, and processes employed by the artists at different periods (Bell and Daldy, 1870), by Henry Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buchmalerei des frühen Mittelalters. (Furche-Kunstverlag, 1925), by Heinrich Ehl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gospels of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany, 1055-1115 : nineteen plates in gold and colour and twelve in monochrome from the manuscript in the library of John Pierpont Morgan (Privately printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, 1917), by George F. Warner, J. P. Morgan, J. Pierpont Morgan, Roxburghe Club, and Italy) San Benedetto in Polirone (Monastery : San Benedetto Po (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Concordance of Bodleian shelf-marks for vols.1-3 and addenda (Oxford, 1974), by Bodleian Library, J. J. G. Alexander, Otto Pächt, and B. C. Barker-Benfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Psalterillustration im Mittelalter (Finnischen Litteratur-Gesellschaft, 1895), by J. J. Tikkanen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Un antichissimo codice biblico latino purpureo conservato nella chiesa di Sarezzano presso Tortona : dissertazione critico-storica con note illustrative (Tipografia arcivescovile di G.B. Pogliani e c., 1872), by Ambrogio Amelli, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vorkarolingische miniaturen (Im Selbstverlage des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft, 1916), by Ernst Heinrich Zimmermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Pariser Miniaturmalerei : von der Zeit des hl. Ludwig bis zu Philipp von Valois und ihr Verhältnis zur Malerei in Nordwesteuropa (Quelle & Meyer, 1907), by Georg Vitzthum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zoomorficheskīe init︠s︡īaly grecheskikh i glagolicheskikh rukopiseĭ X-go--XI-go stol. v Biblīoteki︠e︡ Sinaĭskago monastyri︠a︡. (Tip. I. N. Skorokhodova], 1903), by Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai) and N. P. Kondakov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guide to the art of illuminating and missal painting (George Rowney and Co., 1862), by W. Audsley and George Ashdown Audsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the art of illuminating and missal painting (George Rowney and Co., 1862), by W. Audsley and George Ashdown Audsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the art of illuminating and missal painting (George Rowney and Co., 1862), by W. Audsley and George Ashdown Audsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Initial-Ornamentik des VIII. bis XIII. Jahrhunderts. (A. Dürr, 1882), by Karl Lamprecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Apokalypse in den Bilderhandschriften des Mittelalters : eine kunstgeschichtliche Untersuchung (C. Gerold's Sohn, 1885), by Theodor von Frimmel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Psalterillustration im Mittelalter (K.W. Hiersemann, 1895), by J. J. Tikkanen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Arts and crafts in the middle ages : a description of mediaeval workmanship in several of the departments of applied art, together with some account of special artisans in the early Renaissance (L.C. Page, 1908), by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of beautiful miniatures reproduced in facsimile from original paintings chiefly of the 14th and 15th centuries : the period when the great masters of miniature painting flourished, and whose works are now preserved in the celebrated ecclesiastical and public libraries of Germany and Austria, where they are seen and admired by multitudes (John Davis, publisher, 24, Queen Victoria Street, E.C., 1857), by Ludwig Lott, John Davis, and Chromo-Typographie & Kunstverlag von Ludwig Lott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Un Psautier provençal de 1265. (J. Baer, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les primitifs et leurs signatures (P. Geuthner, 1913), by F. de Mély (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The hand book of mediaeval alphabets and devices (Henry George Bohn, 1856), by Henry Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire romaine de Tite-Live, traduction française de Pierre Bersuire : reproduction des 63 miniatures des manuscrits français 273 et 274 de la Bibliothèque nationale. (Imprimeurs-éditeurs Berthaud frères, Catala frères, successeurs, 1907), by Livy, Pierre Bersuire, Henri Auguste Omont, and Bibliothèque nationale de France (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Einleitende Erörterungen zu einer Geschichte der deutschen Handschriftenillustration im späteren Mittelalter ([publisher not identified], 1894), by Rudolf Kautzsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miniature anglaise du dixième au treizième siècle (Van Oest, 1926), by Eric George Millar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale des ducs de Bourgogne. (C. Muquardt, 1842), by Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, Wigle van Aytta, and chevalier Marchal (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Sammlung Franz Trau. (Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1905), by Austria) Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Vienna, Franz Trau, and Franz Trau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of astrological and mythological illuminated manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages (C. Winter, 1915), by Fritz Saxl, Harry Bober, Hans Meier, and Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les manuscrits à peintures de la Cité de Dieu de Saint-Augustin (Pour la Société des bibliophiles françois, É. Rahir, 1909), by A. Laborde and France) Société des bibliophiles françois (Paris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die frühmittelalterlichen Handschriften des Abendlandes (Karl W. Hiersemann, 1923), by Hermann Julius Hermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Anglo-Saxon house : its construction, decoration and furniture together with an introduction on English miniture drawing of the 10th and 11th centuries ... (O. Schmidt, 1893), by George Taylor Files (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miniature anglaise du dixième au treizième siècle (Van Oest, 1926), by Eric George Millar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)
• Collection of beautiful miniatures reproduced in facsimile from original paintings chiefly of the 14th and 15th centuries : the period when the great masters of miniature painting flourished, and whose works are now preserved in the celebrated ecclesiastical and public libraries of Germany and Austria, where they are seen and admired by multitudes (John Davis, publisher, 24, Queen Victoria Street, E.C., 1857), by Ludwig Lott, John Davis, and Chromo-Typographie & Kunstverlag von Ludwig Lott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 11th-16th century works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College ;, 2006), by Nancy Netzer, McMullen Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Boston Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Selection of X-XV century medieval miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection : January 9-February 14, 1971. (New Jersey State Museum, 1971), by New Jersey State Museum and National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Illuminated manuscripts : catalogue. (Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1874), by Burlington Fine Arts Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of an exhibition of mediaeval and other manuscripts and jewelled book-covers arranged in the main library (The University Press ;, 1912), by John Rylands Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medieval and renaissance illuminated manuscripts. : A loan exhibition, November 25, 1953 - January 9, 1954. (Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co. Museum, 1953), by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mediaeval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts; a loan exhibition, November 25, 1953-January 9, 1954. ([Los Angeles, 1953), by Los Angeles County Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Over middeleeuwsche vlaamsche miniaturen (s.n., 1904), by G. J. Boekenoogen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)
• Ordo of Sens ([France, 1326), by Wilfred Merton, John Eliot Hodgkin, Queen Jeanne d'Evreux, King of France Charles IV, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), Sotheby's (Firm), Inc Martin Breslauer, H.P. Kraus (Firm), and Notre-Dame de Reims (Cathedral) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petri de Riga Aurora seu Biblia versificata ([France?, 1250), by approximately 1140-1209 Peter Riga, Katharine Adams, Wilfred Merton, Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, W.J. Leighton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), Puttick and Simpson, Inc Martin Breslauer, and H.P. Kraus (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un Psautier provençal de 1265. (J. Baer, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• On a ms. pontifical of a bishop of Metz of the fourteenth century (Westminster : Printed by Nichols and Sons, 25, Parliament Street, 1895., 1895), by E. S. Dewick and J.B. Nichols and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Einleitende Erörterungen zu einer Geschichte der deutschen Handschriftenillustration im späteren Mittelalter ([s.n.], 1894), by Rudolf Kautzsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die älteste illustration der Eneide des Heinrich von Veldeke (J.H.E. Heitz, 1921), by Margareta Hudig-Frey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eine deutsche Malerschule um die Wende des ersten Jahrtausends : kritische Studien zur Geschichte der Malerei in Deutschland im 10. und 11. Jahrh. (F. Lintz'sche Buchdruckerei, 1891), by Wilhelm Vöge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eine thüringisch-sächsische Malerschule des 13. Jahrhunderts (J. H. E. Heitz, 1897), by Arthur Erich Georg Haseloff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hortus deliciarum (Impr. strasbourgeoise :, 1879), by Herrad of Landsberg, G. Keller, and A. Straub (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Einleitende Erörterungen zu einer Geschichte der deutschen Handschriftenillustration im späteren Mittelalter ([publisher not identified], 1894), by Rudolf Kautzsch (page images at HathiTrust)

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