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[Auction catalogue].
Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, to be sold with the Froissart of Cardinal d’Amboise and including the Prayerbook of the Antipope Clement VII: Sotheby’s, London 18th June 1991.
Published London: Sotheby’s, 1991.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Saunders & Williams, Sutton.
Size: 209x270x15mm.
Page count: 280pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the covers, a bit of wear on the edges with the corners starting to curl and fray; pages somewhat yellowed with age; the spine has a couple of coloured dots taped on at the top, but is not creased from reading; previous owner’s signature on the front endpaper, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 954g.

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Contents: please note, although the Amboise Froissart was included in this sale, it had its own separate catalogue and so is not included in this volume. Otherwise catalogues 154 items, including: mss. & miniatures of the Boucicaut Master, Master of Jean Rolin II, Maître François, Master of the Livre du Sacre, the Apocalypse Master, Master of Jijsbrecht van Brederode, Master of Beatrijs van Assendelft, Ambrogio da Marliano, Antonio di Nicolò, Gherardo del Fora, Francesco Rosselli, Master of the Vitae Imperatorum, & others; mss. from the Sforza Library & Aragonese royal library, Dominican Convent in Valencia, abbey of San Pietro in Savigliano, Cistercian abbey of Cerreto, Franciscan convent in London, Kempten Abbey, & Buxheim Abbey; mss. from libraries of Antonio Berberini, Baron de Montesquieu, Duc de la Vallière, Marquess of Bute, Earl of Ashburnam, Lord Aldenham, W. E. Gladstone, Edmond de Rothschild, Sir Thomas Phillipps, Victor von Klemperer & the Six family of Amsterdam; Italian humanistic mss. including Cicero, Servius, Terence, Juvenal, Sallust, Petrarch, Leonardo Bruni Aretino, & the Lactantius of Guglielmino Tanaglia; Bibles including a 10th‑c. Greek Gospel book & 13th‑c. English Bible with miniatures, epistles & Gospels in French; Hebrew fragments; texts by Dante, Ovid, Jacopo da Cessolo, Bendetto Gareth, Jaume Domènech, Johannes Birk, Colard Mansion, & Allain Château-Tournant; 2 Missals including that of Etienne de Longwy; Books of hours & prayerbooks, including the prayerbooks of Clement VII & Beatrijs van Assendelft & the smallest known book of hours.

Illustrations: throughout, monochrome and colour
Maps & plans: no

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: references given with individual entries if appropriate
Index: no

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