Catalogue of Important Western and Oriental Manuscripts And Miniatures, 1960-02-01/02
Scope and Contents
(A Flemish 14th Century Psalter; A Psalter from Evesham Abbey; and French and Flemish Books of Hours, including examples by the "Maître aux yeux Brides" and from the Atelier of the Bedford Master; An important Spanish Bible, and a fine Tuscan Bible, both of the 13th Century; An Early Ms. of Ovid's Ars Amandi, c. 1300; And the only known MS. of Martin of Aachen's Liber Acuisitionis Terre Sancte, from the Libri and Phillipps Collections; A fine Parisian Psalter of c. 1350; and a Book of Hours illuminated for Lorenzo the Magnificent by Franceco d'Antonio del Cherico; A very important Spanish Horae illuminated by the artist of the Breviary of Martin of Aragon; English manuscripts of St. Bonaventura, Magna Carta and of the Lume as Lays and other poetry; A Bruges Calendar by the "Master of the Prayer-Books"; and Chroniques de Normandie, c. 1400, finely illuminated, from the Clumber Collection.)
Dates
- created: 1960-02-01/02
Creator
- From the Collection: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm) (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: Sotheby's (Firm) (Publisher, Organization)
Extent
From the Collection: 621 Volumes
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Western Michigan University Special Collections Repository
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