Fine Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1965-07-05
Scope and Contents
(French and Italian miniatures, including two by a follower of Lorenzo Monaco and a Perugian example by a follower of Matteo di ser Cambio; a Perugian illuminated Office from the Dyson Perrins collection; Humanistic MSS. of Sallust and Ovid; a Sicilian Portolano; and a Milanese collection of classical inscriptions; a petition to Henry IV to preserve the right of sanctuary in Westminster Abbey; A thirteenth-century Bible; the Hours of Catherine de Vianden; a Sarum Horae of the School of Herman Scheerre; and other French, Flemish and Dutch Books of Hours; a thirteenth-century MS. of Perault's Summa Viciorum from the Austrian Abbey of Waldhausen; the very finely illuminated thirteenth-century Buxheim Psalter; a Breviary for the Monastery of St. Barbara at Cologne; a Vitae Sanctorum written for Gilles Barbiers, Suffragan Bishop of Bruges; a Breviary for the Abbey of SS. Ulric and Afra, Augsburg; and a fine series of Nuremberg illuminated choirbooks and a finely illuminated Breviary for the Abbey of St. Peter of Blandin, Ghent.)
Dates
- created: 1965-07-05
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
Western Michigan University Libraries, Special Collections
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