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[Auction catalogue]:
Western Manuscripts and Miniatures.
London: Sotheby's, 29 November 1990.
Paperback, stitch bound.
210x270x23mm.
354pp inc. many illustrations, mostly full colour.
English.
Fair to good condition: covers slightly grubby with some general wear, centre of the spine creased; some curling to the corners; evidence of handling throughout, and some staining to the lower edge inside the front cover and through the first few pages; some annotation to the front blank endpaper, otherwise appears to be free of marking.
1258g.
166 lots described, predominantly medieval or renaissance, with a few later; including the Northumberland Bestiary, England, c. 1250, with 112 miniatures, the Petites Heures of Etienne Chvalier, Tours, c. 1470, with 120 miniatures, and the Fekula Collection of Russian manuscripts including the two oldest Russian manuscripts in private hands; with Bibles & Psalters, including the Bible of Jean Budé, with 81 miniatures; Hebrew manuscripts, including one of the earliest extant copies of Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch, mid-thirteenth century; many Books of Hours, including one of the earliest manuscripts of the Use of Sarum, c. 1285, and Books of Hours illuminated by or in the style of Pseudo-Jacquemart, the Master of the Coronation of the Virgin, the Master of the Harvard Hannibal, the Master of Charles of France, Maître François, the Master of Morgan 366, and the Master of Zweder von Culemborg; texts by Cicero, Lactantius, St. John Cassian, St. John Climacus, St. John Chrysostom, St. Benedict, Andrew of Caesarea, St. John Damascene, Priscian, Bonizo of Sutri, St. Bernard, Arnold de Seehusen, Franciscus de Mayronis, Johann Nider, Jean Gerson, Thomas à Kempis, Giovanni Pontano; Italian humanistic manuscripts, including texts copied by the scribes Pietro Ursuleo, Niccolo de'Ricci, and Federico Veterano; manuscripts in Latin, French, German, Dutch, Middle English, Anglo-Norman, Italian, Church Slavonic, Russian, Armenian, and Ge'ez; manuscripts from the monasteries of St. Martin in Tournai, Fontaine-Notre-Dame in Valois, the Capuchins of Gournay-en-Bray, Rebdorf in Bavaria, and Santa Hustina in Padua, and from the libraries of St. Dionysius the Wonderworker, Thomas Gascoigne, the Manzoli family, Charlotte of Savoy, Louis XII and Anne of Brittany, the Marquise de Montespan, Catherine the Great, Thomas Pennant, Guglielmo Libri, Sir Edward Dering, Sir Thomas Phillipps, C. W. Dyson Perrins, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, William Randolph Hearst, and the Dukes of Northumberland; medieval documents, including charters of Henry II, Henry VI, and Edward IV; single leaves and miniatures, including a leaf from the Arenberg Psalter made in 1239 for the son of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.
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