Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat der Handschrift Hs 728 Der Codex rotundus
Subtitle: Dombibliothek Hildesheim
Contributors: Brinkmann, Bodo
Series: Volumen CXIX der Reihe Codices selecti; Codices selecti phototypice impressi -- v. 119, 119*
Publisher: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Graz
Language: lat; fre
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9783201019545; 9783201019552
Subjects: Facsimiles; Books of hours; Historiated initials; Flemish Illumination of books and manuscripts; Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); French Manuscripts; Liturgy; Texts; Illustrations; Prayers and devotions; Latin; French; Library; Influence; Codex rotundus; Catholic Church; Dombibliothek zu Hildesheim
Other titles: Codex rotundus; Codex rotundus :
Work titles: Books of hours (Ms. Codex rotundus)
Notes: Title from colophon of facsimile volume.

Full-color facsimile of a manuscript book of hours produced in Bruges, ca. 1475-1480. The manuscript is circular in shape, and contains 3 full-page miniatures and 30 historiated initials. It was first owned by Duke Adolph III of Cleves, and is currently preserved in the Dombibliothek of Hildesheim under the shelfmark 728. Issued in full gilt leather with 3 brass clasps; housed in a plexiglas box 28 x 13 x 13 cm. Published in an edition of 480 numbered copies, with an additional 20 unnumbered copies produced.

The 2 volumes comprise: [Faksimile] (c2012; 266 leaves ; 10 cm in diam.); Kommentar = Commentary / Bodo Brinkmann ; [translation by Roth & Roth] (2012; 137 p. : col. ill., facsims. ; 25 cm)

Includes bibliographical references (commentary, p. 137).

Facsimile in Latin and French; commentary in German and English.