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Auction catalogue:
Western Manuscripts and Miniatures; expert in charge, Christopher de Hamel.
London: Sotheby's, 20th June 1989.
[No ISBN].
Paperback, stitch bound.
210x270x11mm.
143pp, illustrations throughout, colour and monochrome.
English.
Edges somewhat grubby some curling to the corners; otherwise overall good condition.This item £10.00
612g.
Describes 78 lots, including a 2-vol. ms of the Grandes Chroniques de France with 10 miniatures by the Virgil Master, Paris, c. 1410; an early gothic Psalter with 19 miniatures, Brabant, c.1250-75; the charter of Godwine, Earl of Kent, to Leofwine the Red, c.1013-20, in Anglo-Saxon; a long-lost portion of the 7th-c. rental of St Martin's Abbey in Tours, written in Merovingian cursive; documents & charters of King John, Philip AUgustus, Ferdinand the Catholic, Sixtus IV, Leo X, and Philip II; mss of texts by Vegetius, St. Bernard, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Raymond of Penafort, Walter Burley, and Michele Zopello; cuttings from the Speculum Humanae Salvationis & of a Perugian Matricola, both with miniatures; five 13th-c. Bibles; three Breviaries; twenty-one Books of Hours frm the 13th c. to 1568, including examples from Paris, Lyons, Rouen, Tours, Tournai, Ghent, Bruges, Delft, Genoa & Bologna; mss formerly in the libraries of Calixtus III, Archbishop Thos. Rotherham, the Wizard Earl of Northumberland, Prince Fürstenberg, Baron Wolkenstein, the King of Spain, the Duke of Wellington, Apostolo Zeno, Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Sir Thos. Phillipps, Manuel Johnson, the Tarleton family, & the church of St Michael in Temamang in the province of Gojang; mss in Latin, Greek, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Church Slavonic, Coptic, Arabic, & Ge'ez.
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