Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Universitätsbibliothek Graz: Die illumnierten Handschriften 1400 bis 1500, Band 1. Textband, Tafel- und Registerband

The second largest public collection of medieval manuscripts in Austria is held by the University of Graz Library. Most of its collection comes from the former library of the Jesuits in Graz as well as the libraries of various secularized monasteries in the region. The present catalogue is an index of the part of the collection that is of art historical interest, and includes 122 descriptions of manuscripts from the 15th and 16th centuries. In addition, 52 illuminated incunabula and 80 less decorated manuscripts are presented with regard to their relation to one another and to the rest of this important corpus of visual media. The 812 colour reproductions and 68 reproductions in black and white give an impression both of monastic book production in the late medieval period and of the output of the most important book illumination centres of the 15th century in Austria, southern Germany and Bohemia. Printed with the support of the Fund for the Promotion of Academic Research.