Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1963-06-10
Scope and Contents
(A tenth-century Latin Gospels; A Bull of Pope Paschall II, 1113; and a tenth-century fragment in Anglo-Saxon minuscules; a finely illuminated thirteenth-century Bible; an English fourteenth-century Psalter; fine French and Flemish Books of Hours; an unusual Dutch prayerbook, c.1450; an illustrated fifteenth-century Italian Medical MS.; Heraldic MSS.; a Graduale, written and illuminated at Cremona by Ludovico de Gacis in 1489 for the Franciscan convent at Belluno, the only signed work by this artist; a thirteenth-century manuscript from Cîteaux; a Bible from Whitham Abbey, Somerset; Statutes of England from Coggeshall Abbey, Essex; Woodford's Tractatus Contra J. Wycliff, from the Library of Robert Reade, Bishop of Chichester; MSS. Relating to the See of Canterbury; and Ordinances concerning the Chantry of Thomas More in St. Paul's churchyard, 1424-32.)
Dates
- created: 1963-06-10
Creator
- From the Collection: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm) (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: Sotheby's (Firm) (Publisher, Organization)
Extent
From the Collection: 621 Volumes
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Western Michigan University Special Collections Repository
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