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Catalogue of Highly Important Printed Books & Manuscripts, 1960-05-31

 Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 124
Identifier: Item 1

Scope and Contents

(A very finely illuminated Bruges Manuscript of the Chroniques de France, c.1475; A Florentine miniature of the Nativity, c.1480; A richly illuminated Bruges Horae by the 'Master of the Prayer-Books'; Two books printed by Caxton: Vocabulary, 1480, one of four known copies, and Laurentius Gulielmus, Epitome Margaritae eloquentiae, the unique copy; Chronicles of England, Anterp, G. Leeu, 1493; eight rare tracts, 1470-73, bound in one vol. by the 'Scales' binder; Maydeston, Directorium sacerdotum, R. Pynson, 1501, the only perfect copy known; York Manual, 1509, Processional, 1516-17 and Missal, 1517; Robert Recorde, The Castle of Knowledge, 1556; and two rare broadside ballads on the burning of Beccles, 1586; The Waldseemuller World-map, one of only two copies known; one of the first two maps to bear the name America; bound in a copy of Ptolemy's Cosmographia, Ulm, 1486; Pagano, Le Gloria e l'honore de ponti tagliati, 1554, the only recorded copy of the first edition, in the original woodcut covers.)

Dates

  • created: 1960-05-31

Creator

Extent

From the Collection: 621 Volumes

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Western Michigan University Special Collections Repository

Contact:
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