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Western Manuscripts & Miniatures, 1981-12-08

 Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 322
Identifier: Item 1

Scope and Contents

(The Grandes Chroniques de France, illuminated for Jean, Duc de Berry, Paris c. 1375; the Bible of Auline Abbey, Paris, c.1220; a series of musical manuscripts and fragments, including a piece written for Exeter Cathedral before the Norman Conquest; fine Middle English manuscripts including copies of Higden's Polychronicon, London, c.1420, The Brut Chronicle, c. 1450, and the oldest known Latin-English Dictionary, c.1480; a fragment of a ninth-century service book; Romanesque manuscripts including a Cassian from Kirkham Priory in Yorkshire, and a Gospel of St. Mark, glossed; Italian Renaissance manuscripts illuminated for the Prince of Salerno, Lorenzo de'Medici, Alfonso of Aragon, and others; charters and documents including Royal Letters Patent of King John, Henry III, Edward I, Edward III, Richard II, and Edward IV; single leaves and miniatures, including two by Bartolomeo Caporali, 1486.)

Dates

  • created: 1981-12-08

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:
Western Michigan University Libraries, Special Collections
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