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Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1962-06-18

 Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 137
Identifier: Item 1

Scope and Contents

(The Waltham Abbey Bible, with the Abbey's Library Catalogue- one of only two examples privately owned; two manuscripts from the Abbey of Royaumont; The Morimondo Lectionary, from the Dyson Perrins collection; a glossed St. Matthew from the Abbey of Weissenau; and Bede's Homilies from the Library of the Cologne Carthusians. A very fine Besancon Book of Hours from the Phillips Collection; A Geneva Horae, in the earliest known Northern European gold tooled binding of the Renaissance; the Missal of Jean II D'Amboise, Bishop of Langres, splendidly bound by Derome le Jeune; and the Stathum Hours, the only known English MS. mentioned in extant brass; A very fine series of eighteen miniatures by Nicolo da Bologna from a choirbook given c.1394 by Archbishop Nicolo Guinigi to the Certosa of Lucca; and the Melbury House Codex of Piers Plowman.)

Dates

  • created: 1962-06-18

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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