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Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1963-06-10

 Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 140
Identifier: Item 1

Scope and Contents

(A tenth-century Latin Gospels; A Bull of Pope Paschall II, 1113; and a tenth-century fragment in Anglo-Saxon minuscules; a finely illuminated thirteenth-century Bible; an English fourteenth-century Psalter; fine French and Flemish Books of Hours; an unusual Dutch prayerbook, c.1450; an illustrated fifteenth-century Italian Medical MS.; Heraldic MSS.; a Graduale, written and illuminated at Cremona by Ludovico de Gacis in 1489 for the Franciscan convent at Belluno, the only signed work by this artist; a thirteenth-century manuscript from Cîteaux; a Bible from Whitham Abbey, Somerset; Statutes of England from Coggeshall Abbey, Essex; Woodford's Tractatus Contra J. Wycliff, from the Library of Robert Reade, Bishop of Chichester; MSS. Relating to the See of Canterbury; and Ordinances concerning the Chantry of Thomas More in St. Paul's churchyard, 1424-32.)

Dates

  • created: 1963-06-10

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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