Box Sotheby's
Container
Contains 992 Results:
Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1980-06-24
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 304
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(The only known manuscript of the Book of Margery of Kempe, the oldest English autobiography, c.1440; a hitherto unrecorded English illustrated Apocalypse with 94 half-page miniatures, c.1320; Middle English manuscripts including the South English Legendary, in verse, fifteenth century; a fragment of a poem about Robin Hood; and a document of Sir John Fastolfe, 1433; Romanesque manuscripts including portions of a St. Augustine written at Canterbury Cathedral and last recorded in 1508;...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1980-06-24
Folder 305
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 305
Identifier: Folder 305
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The manuscript and book auction catalogs were purchased for the sake of those pursuing bilbiographic research on manuscripts and rare books who might find valuable sale and provenance information in the catalogs. They record auctions that took place mainly through Bloomsbury, Sotheby's and Christie's, spanning from the nineenth through the late twentieth centuries. Similary, the donation received of jewelry auction catalogs are intended for those purusing research on the history of jewelry...
Dates:
1815-1997; bulk 1920-1997; Other: Date acquired: 2000
Folder 127
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 127
Identifier: Folder 127
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The manuscript and book auction catalogs were purchased for the sake of those pursuing bilbiographic research on manuscripts and rare books who might find valuable sale and provenance information in the catalogs. They record auctions that took place mainly through Bloomsbury, Sotheby's and Christie's, spanning from the nineenth through the late twentieth centuries. Similary, the donation received of jewelry auction catalogs are intended for those purusing research on the history of jewelry...
Dates:
1815-1997; bulk 1920-1997; Other: Date acquired: 2000
Catalogue of a selection from The Library of Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet: The Sixth Portion, 1960-10-31/11-01
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 128
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The manuscript and book auction catalogs were purchased for the sake of those pursuing bilbiographic research on manuscripts and rare books who might find valuable sale and provenance information in the catalogs. They record auctions that took place mainly through Bloomsbury, Sotheby's and Christie's, spanning from the nineenth through the late twentieth centuries. Similary, the donation received of jewelry auction catalogs are intended for those purusing research on the history of jewelry...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1960-10-31/11-01
Folder 129
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 129
Identifier: Folder 129
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The manuscript and book auction catalogs were purchased for the sake of those pursuing bilbiographic research on manuscripts and rare books who might find valuable sale and provenance information in the catalogs. They record auctions that took place mainly through Bloomsbury, Sotheby's and Christie's, spanning from the nineenth through the late twentieth centuries. Similary, the donation received of jewelry auction catalogs are intended for those purusing research on the history of jewelry...
Dates:
1815-1997; bulk 1920-1997; Other: Date acquired: 2000
The Dyson Perrins Collection Part III: Catalogue of Fifty-Nine Illuminated Manuscripts, 1960-11-29
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 129
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(The property of the late C. W. Dyson Perrins, Esq, DCL, FSA.)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1960-11-29
Folder 130
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 130
Identifier: Folder 130
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The manuscript and book auction catalogs were purchased for the sake of those pursuing bilbiographic research on manuscripts and rare books who might find valuable sale and provenance information in the catalogs. They record auctions that took place mainly through Bloomsbury, Sotheby's and Christie's, spanning from the nineenth through the late twentieth centuries. Similary, the donation received of jewelry auction catalogs are intended for those purusing research on the history of jewelry...
Dates:
1815-1997; bulk 1920-1997; Other: Date acquired: 2000
Catalogue of Important Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1961-04-11
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 130
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Fine French, Italian and Spanish Miniatures, many from the Crawford of Lakelands or Holford Collections, including a very fine Emiliam 14th Century miniature and examples by the "Master of the manuscript of St. George", Bartolomeo della Gatta and Vincenzo Raimondi; The Psalter of Robert Blakeney, last Abbot of Tynemouth; Cartularies of St. John's Priory, Kirkby and of St. Mary Magdalene's Priory, Monkbretton; A fine French Romanesque MS. of Hugo de Sancot Victore; A good Decretals of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1961-04-11
Folder 131
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 131
Identifier: Folder 131
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The manuscript and book auction catalogs were purchased for the sake of those pursuing bilbiographic research on manuscripts and rare books who might find valuable sale and provenance information in the catalogs. They record auctions that took place mainly through Bloomsbury, Sotheby's and Christie's, spanning from the nineenth through the late twentieth centuries. Similary, the donation received of jewelry auction catalogs are intended for those purusing research on the history of jewelry...
Dates:
1815-1997; bulk 1920-1997; Other: Date acquired: 2000
Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts, Printed Books and Americana, 1961-06-05
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 131
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Dante, La Divina Commedia, the first edition with woodcut illustrations, Brescia, 1487; Hours of the Virgin, printed on Vellum, Valencia, 1486; Pliny, Historia naturalis, Venice, N. Jenson, 1472; Strabo, De situ orbis, Sweynheym and Pannartz, 1473; English Literature: The Book of Hunting, Hawking and Heraldry, St. Albans, 1486; Barnaby Googe, The Shippe of Safegarde, 1569; The first and second Prayer Books of Edward VI, 1549-52; Works by Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas Browne, A letter to a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1961-06-05