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France 86as19 Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis. A Symposium. Edited by Paula Liber Gerson.New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986, 304 pages, many black and white illustrations, plans. The front bottom cover of the dust jacket is missing the tip. Overall, very good in dust jacket. $22.50 Box A 2
Contents: Foreword / Philippe de Montebello -- Preface / Paula Lieber Gerson -- Introduction: Suger's life and personality / John F. Benton -- Suger's monastic administration / Giles Constable -- Suger, theology, and the Pseudo-Dionysian tradition / Grover A. Zinn -- The liturgy at Saint-Denis: a preliminary study / Niels Krogh Rasmussen -- Suger's views on kingship / Andrew W. Lewis -- Suger and the Capetians / Eric Bournazel -- A note on Suger's understanding of political power / Michel Bur -- Good words, social ties, and the hope for salvation / Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis / Clark Maines -- Suger and the symbolism of royal power: the seal of Louis VII / Brigitte Bedos Rezak -- Suger's church at Saint-Denis:… Read More

RL 1345 Powell, Susan. Advent and Nativity Sermons from a Fifteenth-century Revision of John Mirk's Festial. (Middle English Texts 13) Edited from B.L. MSS Harley 2247, Royal 18 B XXV and Gloucester Cathedral Library 22. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 1981, 150 pages, notes, glossary, bib, appendixes. Paperback. Fine soft cover in publisher's original red with black lettering. At the very bottom of the back cover and the blank page there is red bleeding through, maybe an inch long and 1/16 of an inch tall. Else a fine copy. Don't think if the book was published in hardcover. Laid in is an offprint discussing Royal 18 B XXV by Powell and Alan J. Fletcher.
Seven medieval homilies from the Festial (Book of Festivals). Contains Middle English text with commentary in modern English.

France113adl Alain de Lille, c. 1128 – 1202/03. Alan of Lille: Anticlaudianus, or the Good and Perfect Man Translation & commentary by James J. Sheridan. (Series:Medieval Sources in Translation, No. 14). Toronto, Canada: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1987, 251 pages, bib, index. Paperback, in very good to fine condition, clean and tight. Only detraction is a pretty minor scrape to front cover. $30.00 Box A 113
Alain de Lille (Alan of Lille) (Latin: Alanus ab Insulis; c. 1128 – 1202/03) was a French theologian and poet. He was born in Lille, some time before 1128. His exact date of death remains unclear as well, with most research pointing toward it being between 14 April 1202, and 5 April 1203. As a theologian, Alain de Lille opposed scholasticism in the second half of the 12th century. His philosophy is characterized by rationalism and mysticism. Alan claimed that reason, guided by prudence, could discover most truths about the physical order without help; but in order to… Read More

Middle Ages deac Duckett, Eleanor Shipley. Alcuin, friend of Charlemagne, his world and his work. New York: Macmillan, 1951, xii, 337p, bib, index. Good to very good. $19.50 Box 27
Contents: Alcuin in York -- Continental background, 717-782 – The Frankish court and school -- The world outside the court -- Alcuin in Frankland, 782-796: writings for the church -- Alcuin in Tours: earlier years -- Alcuin in Tours: later.
In this work, the author describes the times in which Alcuin lived, both in Anglo-Saxon England and on the continent of Europe. The author also covers Alcuin's work as head of the School of York, as head of the Palace School of Charlemagne, and as abbot of the Monastery and School of Tours; his revision of the text of the Liturgy and of the Bible; his various writings on education and on doctrine; his connection with the famous Caroline script; and his part in various secular and ecclesiastical movements.

Americana cmac Carroll, Michael P. American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination: Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, 219 pages, bib, index. Like new in dust jacket. $5.00 Box 2027

HBS 106 Catholic Church. Anglo-Saxon litanies of the saints. (Series: Henry Bradshaw Society, vol. 106). Edited by Michael Lapidge. London; Rochester, NY, USA: Published for the Henry Bradshaw Society by the Boydell Press, 1991, xv, 328 pages, bib, indexes. Introductory material in English; text in Latin. Fine copy of the hardcover. Signature of previous owner on front lining paper. Fine copy. $45.00

Ireland 12r14a Ryan, Patrick J., 1936- . Archbishop Miler Magrath, 1522-1622: the enigma of Cashel. Roscrea, County Tipperary: Lisheen Publications, 2014, xvi, 304 pages, illustrations (black and white, and color), maps, portraits, genealogical table, bib, index. Fine copy of a nice looking hardback, plasticized cover has full color illustrations of Magrath on front cover panel and St. Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel on back cover.
Signed by Ryan on title page. Very Uncommon. $100.00 Shelf H

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O'Connell, Robert J. Art and the Christian Intelligence in St. Augustine.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978, xiii, 251p, notes, index. Book is in very good condition in dust jacket, only distraction is a smudge on flyleaf where old pencil price has been erased. $15.00
Contents: Cassiciacum: Providence and the ladder of beauty -- Art, the arts, and eternal art -- Groundwork for the De Musica -- The De Musica -- Art in the Confessions -- The artistry of the Confessions -- Augustine s later aesthetic --Toward a contemporary Augustinian aesthetic.

Art 1000 Anker, Peter and Aron Andersson. The Art of Scandinavia. Two volumes. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1970, 457 pages, bib, index, illus; 399 pages, bib, index, fine copies in dust jacket. Covers the period from A.D. 400 to approximately A.D. 1200. It is chock full of beautiful photographs and illustrations. The photos of the stave churches are especially interesting. Very attractive set. The set: $25.00

Catholic Church bjas Bilinkoff, Jodi, 1955- The Avila of Saint Teresa: religious reform in a sixteenth-century city. Ithaca; London : Cornell University Press, 1989, xv, 218 pages, ill., maps, index, bib. Very good in dust jacket. $12.50 Box 4118

France btcf The Baptism and Temptation of Christ: The First Day of a Medieval Passion Play. The baptism and temptation of Christ; the First Day of a Medieval French Passion Play. Edited and translated by John R. Elliott, Jr. and Graham A. Runnalls.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978, ix, 153p., b/w front., notes, bib. Has remains of an old pencilled price on front free endpaper, good to very good copy. $11.50 Box a114

Gaelic 018 Beatha San Froinsias. Edited by Padraig O Suilleabhain, O.F.M. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1957, xlvi, 142p, notes, index, corrigenda. (Volume IV of Scribhinni Gaeilge na mBrathar Mionur). Spine little dull, offsetting on endpapers from cover cloth, good copy. $65.00

HBS 1963 Catholic Church. The Bec Missal. (Series: Henry Bradshaw Society, vol. 94). Edited by Anselm Hughes. London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1963, xv, 302 pages, bib, index. Signature of previous owner on front lining paper. Some pages still uncut, most opened, some a little clumsily. Near fine copy of the hardcover. $42.50
Dom Anselm Hughes 1889-1974, editor

HBS 88 Catholic Church. The Benedictionals of Freising: (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. lat. 6430). (Series: Henry Bradshaw Society, vol. 88). Edited by Robert Amiet; with additional material by C. Hohler and B. J. Wigan. London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1974, xiv, 147 pages: facsim., notes, bib, index. Most pages uncut; few have been clumsily opened. Signature of a previous owner on front lining paper. French commentary; Latin text. Very good copy of the hardcover. $37.50

Middle Ages 103ke (Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153). Wolfenbütteler Symposion (27th: 1990). Bernhard von Clairvaux: Rezeption und Wirkung im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit. Herausgegeben von Kaspar Elm. (Series: Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien; Bd. 6). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994, 436 pages: illustrations, bib, index. Fine bright copy of the hardcover. $65.00 Box A 103
Contents: Die Rezeptions- und Wirkungsgeschichte Bernhards von Clairvaux: Forschungsstand und Forschungsaufgaben/Ulrich Kopf -- Historischer Schriftsinn und ironische Weltbetrachtung: Buchmalerei im frơhen Citeaux und der Stein des Anstosses/ Ursula Nilgen -- Der heilige Bernhard von Clairvaux im Mittelalter von der historischen Person zur Kultgestalt/ Adriaan H. Bredero -- The reception of St. Bernard in England/ Christopher Holdsworth -- A saint's afterlife: Bernhard in the Golden legend and in other medieval collections/ Brian Patrick McGuire -- Bernhard von Clairvaux im spatmittelalterlichen Gebetbuchern/… Read More

Gaelic 019 Bethu Phatraic. The Tripartite Life of Patrick. Edited with translation and indexes by Kathleen Mulchrone. I. Text and Sources. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1939, x, 158p. Volume II, the translation, was never published. Very good to fine copy. $35.00
"The present edition is based on the text of the late fifteenth century manuscript, Egerton 93, British museum, London ... [and] is ... the first edition of the Tripartite life in its uninterpolated form as compiled in the reign of Cenn Gégán, king-bishop of Cashel, during the years 895-901"--Preface.

Gaelic 020 An Bheatha Dhiadha no an tSlighe Rioghdha. Edited by Anselm O Fachtna, O.F.M. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967, xxx, 262p, notes, glossary. (Volume IX of the Scribhinni Gaeilge na mBrathar Mionur series). Offsetting on endpapers from cover cloth, some shelf wear, very slight bowing to cover. Good to very good. In Irish.
$37.50

HBS 58/61 Catholic Church. The Bobbio missal: a Gallican mass-book (ms. Paris. Lat. 13246). (Series: Henry Bradshaw Society, volumes, 58/61). Text edited by E.A. Lowe; notes and studies by André Wilmart, E.A. Lowe and H.A. Wilson. London: Boydell Press for the Henry Bradshaw Society; Rochester, NY, USA: Boydell & Brewer, 1991. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Text of the missal in Latin; editorial matter and studies in English and French. Signature of previous owner on front lining paper. Fine copy of the hardcover. $50.00
(This is a 1991 reprint. 2 volumes in 1 (vii, 198; 159 pages): facsimiles. -See original publication: London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1920-1924.
Uniform Title
Missal (Ms. Bobbio missal)
Other Title
Gallican mass-book (ms. Paris. Lat. 13246)
Contributors:
E. A Lowe (Elias Avery), 1879-1969
André Wilmart 1876-1941
H. A Wilson (Henry Austin), 1854-1927
Edited by E.A. Lowe, Andre Wilmart and H.A. Wilson.
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Edition of a non-Roman sacramentary found by… Read More

Ancient world 439 Braulio of Saragossa, ca 585-651. Braulio of Saragossa: Fructuosus of Braga. (Iberian fathers: Volume 2). Translated by Claude W. Barlow. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1969, v, 243 p, bib, index. Like new copy. (Fathers of the church: a new translation; v. 63). $14.50

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Buaidh na Naomhchroiche. Edited with notes by Padraig O Suilleabhain, O. F. M. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1972, xlviii, 549p, notes, glossary, index. Little shelf wear, good copy. 17th century translation of Savonarola's Triumphis Crucis into Gaelic by Fr. Bonaveantur O Conchuir. Book is in Irish and Latin, the glossary in Irish and English. $40.00