[Rarebooks] FS: Meta Harrsen. Interesting associations

[Nina W. Matheson]

For consideration today:

Palazzo di Venezia, Roma.   Mostra storica nazionale della miniature. Catalogo
Firenze, Sansoni [1953]. Meta Harrsen's copy in a red buckram binding with 
her initials on the backstrip and 1954 date stamped at the foot of the 
backstrip. Very good, with original wrappers bound in. Inscribed on the 
front endpaper: "Meta Harrsen, gift of Signora Arcamone, Nov. 24, 1953 in 
Rome" (Guido Arcamone was then Direttore Generale delle Accademie e 
Biblioteche). 11 pp. of Harrsen's autograph notes laid in. April 10, 1969 
a.l.s. from Carl Nordenfalk to "Dear Miss Harrsen" laid in pointing out a 
splendid book of Hours in the Bibl. Naz., Naples, with identifying details. 
Harrsen and Nordenfalk were both recognized authorities on illuminated 
manuscripts. This is an excellent association. No copies in WorldCat. 104 
numbered plates, plus color plates not included i n t his total.  $75

Harrsen, Meta.  Italian manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library, 
descriptive survey of the principal illuminated manuscripts of the Sixth to 
Sixteenth centuries, with a selection of important letters and 
documents.  New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953. Original green cloth. 
 From the library of Elizabeth Mongan. Pencilled inscription from Betty 
Mongan to B. B. [Bernard Berenson] erased from the front free endpaper. 
Otherwise fine in rubbed original paper box with a crack at the foot of the 
backstrip. Mongan lined through the attribution of plates 68-70 and marked 
plates 64, 55, 48, 36, 35, 33, 31, 29, 27, 24, 22, 13-15, 11, 9 with "x"s. 
79 pp. 5 mounted color plates in the text. 78 numbered black-and-white 
plates at the end of the text. One of 750 numbered copies.  $85

Harrsen, Meta, comp.   Central European manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan 
Library.  New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958. Original blue cloth. 
Edges faintly foxed, otherwise fine in original black box with a crack at 
the foot of the front joint. One of 850 copies. An 86-page catalog of the 
manuscripts with seven numbered colored plates in the text, followed by 90 
numbered black-and-white plates. Binding decoration rendered in woodcut by 
Fritz Kredel from the Berthold Missal.  $100


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