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Western Manuscripts & Miniatures, 1984-12-05

 Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 346
Identifier: Item 1

Scope and Contents

London (The Arenberg Missal, illuminated for Marcus Cruyt, Antwerp, c.1520; The Epiphany Missal of Cardinal Bernardino de Carvajal, Rome, c.1520-21; A Book of Hours by the Master of Claude de France, Tours, c.1515; Bibles including a glossed St. John, c.1160-80, three thirteenth-century Bibles and two of the fourteenth-century, one folio in size and the other signed by its scribe; manuscripts of Hugh of St. Victor, Bonaventura, and Sulpicius Severus (from the Hornby Abbey Collections); charters of Richard the Lionheart, the Earl of Warwick, and Charles VI of France; single leaves and miniatures, including a late Romanesque Resurrection and a version of a lost miniature by Albrecht Durer of the Death of Cresentia Pirkheimer.)

Dates

  • created: 1984-12-05

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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