The Written Word: Inscriptions, Texts and Illuminated Manuscripts from 3200 B.C. to the Invention of Printing in the XVth Century

by Pierpont Morgan Library

$20 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

First edition

New York: The Pierpoint Morgan Library, 1945. First edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, front cover with color illustration mounted a few nicks at edges . Very good. Item #400185 FIRST EDITION. This exhibition was held 14 December 1944 to 14 April 1945. It commenced with examples of Mesopotamian seals and clay tables and concluded with 41 manuscripts from the Fourteenth and

• Binding: Wrappers

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