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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
Folder 132
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 132
Identifier: Folder 132
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 Manuscripts and Printed Books, 1961-06-06
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 132
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Finely decorated English twelfth-century manuscripts from St. Osyth's Abbey, Essex; a thirteenth-century manuscript from Norwich Cathedral; a fourteenth-century manuscript of Rolle of Hampole Pricke of Conscience; The Helmingham Codex of The Canterbury Tales; The only known manuscript of an anonymous English translation of The Dicts and Saying of the Philosophers; A fifteenth-century collection of French Ballades and Poetry, Hitherto unknown and largely unpublished; the Helmingham Herbal...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1961-06-06
Folder 133
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 133
Identifier: Folder 133
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 Marquess of Bute Library from Dumfries House, Ayrshire, 1961-10-16/18
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 133
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(A further portion of the valuable library from Dumfries House, Ayrshire, largely formed by John, third Earl of Bute 1719-92; Prime Minister, 1760-63. Also included in this catalog Americana, early printed books, travel, early Italian literature, bibliography, books on the arts, and architecture.)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1961-10-16/18
Folder 134
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 134
Identifier: Folder 134
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
Important Western and Oriental Mss. and Miniatures, 1961-12-11
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 134
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Including items from the collection of Thomas E. Marston, Esq.; a good Troyes Horae; an attractive pontificale from the collection of Thomas Edwards of Halifax; a fine gospel lectionary illuminated by Maître Francois from the Dyson Perrins collection; and an important psalter and breviary for the use of St. Martin De Laon, fourteenth century from the Arenberg Collection. A good thirteenth century Durandus; Giovanni Maria Filelfo's Cicero, De officiis, annotated in his hand; a Roman Ms....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1961-12-11