Catalogue of Fine Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1960-07-11
Scope and Contents
(An important 13th Century Medical Miscellany from Cluny; and an interesting 15th Century Arzneibuch; A 14th Century manuscript of Dante; an interesting manuscript by Dante's kinsman, Buonacorso degli Elisei; the best manuscript of Frescobaldi's Viaggio in Egitto; humanistic MSS. of Juvenal and St. Augustine's Confessions; a Breviary of the Abbey of San Severino, Naples; a manuscript written by Leonhardus Rosenheyn of Basle; a Vitae Sanctorum eremitorum from the Carthusian Monaster of St. Barbara, Cologne; and Pope Julius II's Appian; A very finely decorated Utrecht Book of Hours.)
Dates
- created: 1960-07-11
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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