Western Manuscripts & Miniatures, 1985-11-26
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 348
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
London (The St. Hubert Gospels, a ninth-century Franco-Saxon Evangeliary with twenty full-page illuminations; two twelfth-century manuscripts of Ovid's Metomorphoses, one within fifty years of the earliest known manuscript of the text; one of the smallest of all known manuscripts, a thirteenth-century Psalter with eight full-page miniatures, less than two inches high; Prayerbooks and Service Books including a Psalter of Parc Abbey, Louvain, and the constitutions of the nunnery of St. Mary Magdalene, Siena.)
Dates
- created: 1985-11-26
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
Contact:
Western Michigan University Libraries, Special Collections
Zhang Legacy Collections Center
1650 Oakland Drive
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5307 US
(269) 387-8490
lib_rbr@wmich.edu
Western Michigan University Libraries, Special Collections
Zhang Legacy Collections Center
1650 Oakland Drive
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5307 US
(269) 387-8490
lib_rbr@wmich.edu