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Folder 137
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 137
Identifier: Folder 137
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
Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1962-06-18
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 137
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(The Waltham Abbey Bible, with the Abbey's Library Catalogue- one of only two examples privately owned; two manuscripts from the Abbey of Royaumont; The Morimondo Lectionary, from the Dyson Perrins collection; a glossed St. Matthew from the Abbey of Weissenau; and Bede's Homilies from the Library of the Cologne Carthusians. A very fine Besancon Book of Hours from the Phillips Collection; A Geneva Horae, in the earliest known Northern European gold tooled binding of the Renaissance; the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1962-06-18
Folder 138
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 138
Identifier: Folder 138
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
Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1962-12-10
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 138
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Illuminated Books of Hours from Rouen, Limoges and Lyons; A fourteenth-century Breviary from Penwortham, Lancashire; the Psalter of the Ashley family, of Ruthland; an Office of the Dead apparently from the library of Robert Holme, prior of Haverholme; the Psalter of the Bussy family of Hougham, Co. Linics., and other manuscripts relating to Lincolnshire. Pseudo-Bonaventura's Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesus Christ, in the English translation of Nicholas Love, prior of Mount Grace, the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1962-12-10
Folder 139
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 139
Identifier: Folder 139
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
Printed Books Autographed Letters, and Historical Documents, 1963-05-13/14
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 139
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(An unrecorded edition of Alexander de Villa Dei's Doctrinale, Daventer 1489; two very rare early Paris books, 1475-6; and other incunabula; the Genoa Polyglot Psalter, 1516; Monarde's Joyfull Newes out of the New-Found World, 1596; Schouten's Novi Freti, 1619; Saxton's Atlas of England and Wales, [1588].)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1963-05-13/14
Folder 140
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 140
Identifier: Folder 140
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
Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1963-06-10
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 140
Identifier: Item 1
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1963-06-10
Folder 141
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 141
Identifier: Folder 141
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
Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1963-12-09
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 141
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(A very fine Life of Christ with 48 miniatures from Atelier of Niccolo da Bologna; a very handsome Florentine Horace, written by the Scribe L.J., from the Huth collection; a finely illuminated Books of Hours from Rouen, the Southern Netherlands and Bruges (the last being the School of Willem Vrelant); a richly decorated Boccaccio, Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes infortunez, illuminated by Maître Francois.)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1963-12-09