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Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1966-12-12

 Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 162
Identifier: Item 1

Scope and Contents

(A commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew in Greek, [c.1100]; the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in Greek, 1634, in a contemporary Rumanian binding; Statutes of the City of Cividale del Friuli [c.1376]; St. Isadore of Seville's Etymologiae [? Spain, c.1270]; a thirteenth-century sketch map of Jerusalem and the surrounding country; a manuscript from the Library of Hildebrand Brandenberg of Biberach; a fine Humanistic manuscript of Justinus; Eusebius's Historia Ecclesiastica [England, late twelfth-century]; a fine manuscript of Trevisa's translation of Higden's Polychronicon [c.1400]; one of the earliest recorded manuscripts of Mandeville's Travels, and other English manuscripts of the twelfth to fourteenth-century.)

Dates

  • created: 1966-12-12

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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