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[Auction catalogue].
Western Manuscripts and Miniatures;
expert in charge, Christopher de Hamel.
Published London: Sotheby’s, 20th June 1989.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Howards Printers, Slough.
Size: 210×270×11mm.
Page count: 143pp, illustrations throughout, colour and monochrome.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the page edges on this copy are somewhat grubby, corners curled; the spine is not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
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Weight without packaging: 612g.

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Describes 78 lots, including a 2‑vol. ms of the Grandes Chroniques de France with 10 miniatures by the Virgil Master, Paris, c 1410; an early gothic Psalter with 19 miniatures, Brabant, c.1250-75; the charter of Godwine, Earl of Kent, to Leofwine the Red, c.1013-20, in Anglo-Saxon; a long-lost portion of the 7th‑c. rental of St. Martin’s Abbey in Tours, written in Merovingian cursive; documents & charters of King John, Philip Augustus, Ferdinand the Catholic, Sixtus IV, Leo X, and Philip II; mss of texts by Vegetius, St. Bernard, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Raymond of Penafort, Walter Burley, and Michele Zopello; cuttings from the Speculum Humanae Salvationis & of a Perugian Matricola, both with miniatures; five 13th‑c. Bibles; three Breviaries; twenty-one Books of Hours from the 13th c. to 1568, including examples from Paris, Lyons, Rouen, Tours, Tournai, Ghent, Bruges, Delft, Genoa & Bologna; mss formerly in the libraries of Calixtus III, Archbishop Thos. Rotherham, the Wizard Earl of Northumberland, Prince Fürstenberg, Baron Wolkenstein, the King of Spain, the Duke of Wellington, Apostolo Zeno, Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Sir Thos. Phillipps, Manuel Johnson, the Tarleton family, & the church of St. Michael in Temamang in the province of Gojang; mss in Latin, Greek, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Church Slavonic, Coptic, Arabic, & Ge’ez.

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