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Catalogue of Important Western and Oriental Manuscripts And Miniatures, 1960-02-01/02

 Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 121
Identifier: Item 1

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

Extent

From the Collection: 621 Volumes

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Western Michigan University Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Western Michigan University Libraries, Special Collections
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