[SCA-AS] Book Search: Mediaeval European Jewelry

[Chris Laning]

Chiara wrote:
>This books sounds realy familiar to me .. as in I think it is in my
>library but if you can find yours quicker please contact Mistress
>Dyan.
>
>Thanks! :)
>
>------------------------- Original Message -------------------------
>Subject: help!
>From:    "Dyan Johnson" <calendre57 at yahoo.com>
>Date:    Wed, July 19, 2006 8:13 am
>To:      "Chiara Francesca Arianna d'Onofrio" <chiara at io.com>
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>
>Greetings!
>  If you own this book & can help me, please contact me off list! I
>need a scan or copies of 2 pages that have been damaged. Ronald W.
>Lightbown, Mediaeval European Jewellery, Trustees of the V&A Museum
>1992.

HA. <grin>

This is a huge, expensive and thoroughly wonderful book. Our University library has it (about a mile from my house...) Are these color pages you need, or black and white, and which ones? I may have photocopies at home (I'm at work right now).

I know very few people who own this themselves -- it was $200 new, so it's mostly in libraries. I should have bought it then -- it wasn't in print very long, and secondhand copies  immediately went up to $500+ (if you can find them at all!) as soon as it went out of print. There has been some lobbying of the V&A and of Boydell Publishing, agitating for a reprint, but it's such a huge undertaking I don't know if it will ever happen.

Hope this helps. I have photocopies at home of the chapters on gifts of jewelry, on badges, on pomanders and on paternosters, so if you need something there, I can have it for you this evening.

Regards,
Christian de Holacombe

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