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Folder 347
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 347
Identifier: Folder 347
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 Manuscripts & Miniatures, 1985-06-25
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 347
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
London (A seventh-century insular bifolium from Eusebius's Historia Ecclesiastica; Prayerbooks and Service Books including the Ashley Psalter, c.1300-1310; Books of Hours including a fourteenth-century example of the Use of Metz and one by the Fastolf Master, Paris, 1420-25, the Hours of Francoise de Dinan, Rennes, c.1420-25; a Book of Hours from the workshop of the Master of Claude de France, Tours, c.1510 and two miniature Venetian examples of c.1500; Charters of the Village of Windrush,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1985-06-25
Folder 348
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 348
Identifier: Folder 348
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 Manuscripts & Miniatures, 1985-11-26
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 348
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
London (The St. Hubert Gospels, a ninth-century Franco-Saxon Evangeliary with twenty full-page illuminations; two twelfth-century manuscripts of Ovid's Metomorphoses, one within fifty years of the earliest known manuscript of the text; one of the smallest of all known manuscripts, a thirteenth-century Psalter with eight full-page miniatures, less than two inches high; Prayerbooks and Service Books including a Psalter of Parc Abbey, Louvain, and the constitutions of the nunnery of St. Mary...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1985-11-26
Folder 349
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 349
Identifier: Folder 349
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 Manuscripts & Miniatures, 1986-06-24
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 349
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
London (The only surviving portion of the illustrated Verse of Life of St. Thomas Becket attributed to Matthew Paris, St. Albans or Westminster, c.1230-40; a Book of Hours with seventeen large miniatures by the Boucicaut Master, Paris, c.1415; Henry VII's copy of the Statutes of the Golden Fleece, Flanders, c.1491; one volume of the Grammont Abbey Bible, Flanders, c.1200, and a glossed Apocalypse, Italy, early thirteenth-century; English manuscripts including a Wycliffite Gospel Book from...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1986-06-24
Folder 350
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 350
Identifier: Folder 350
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 Manuscripts & Miniatures, 1986-12-02
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 350
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
London (Books of Hours with miniatures by the Boucicaut Master, c.1412, and by the Coetivy Master, c.1460, both in contemporary bindings; a German Romanesque Psalter of c. 1165; a Liege Book of Hours of c. 1300 with 15 miniatures; manuscripts of Gariopontus, c.1200, and of Sacrobosco, Gregory the Great, and Nicholas de Lyra; Bibles, including one from the medieval college of South Malling in Sussex and another with 84 miniatures now being sold at Sotheby's for the eighth time since 1745; a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1986-12-02
Folder 351
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 351
Identifier: Folder 351
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 Manuscripts & Miniatures, 1987-06-23
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 351
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
London (The Armagnac Breviary, illuminated for Jean du Roussay, Paris before 1407; the Bible of Santa Cecilia in Rome, 2 volumes, ninth and eleventh century).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1987-06-23