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Catalogue of Fine Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1960-07-11

 Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 126
Identifier: Item 1

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

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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