Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. [ Sotheby's, auction catalogue, sale date: 2 December 2003 ] por Sotheby's - auction catalogue for the sale

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 22nd June 2004. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 27 cm,. 166 pp, colour plates, ills. 85 lots. llustrations throughout of illuminated manuscripts or fragments on vellum from Italy, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Flanders, Spain, including Cristoforo Buondelmonti's 'liber Insularum Archipelagi', a consular diptych on ivory from the early 6th century, etc. Neatly but regrettably colour-coded by the previous owner, a bookseller, with four coloured tape bands around the spine. Some scribbled prices and notes to contents, otherwise Near Very Good. Print-out of prices realized laid in.

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 17th June 2003. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 27 cm,. 114 pp, colour ills. Lots 50-97. Neatly but regrettably colour-coded by the previous owner, a bookseller, with four coloured tape bands around the spine. Some pencilled scribbled prices and notes to contents, otherwise Very Good. Print-out of prices realized laid in.

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the Hebrew manuscripts (lots 14 to 22) in the sale held on 8th July 2008. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 31 pp, colour plates, ills. Lots 14 to 22. A shortened version of the sale catalogue, limited to the lots with Hebrew manuscripts (lots 14 to 22).. Very Good.

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 7th December, 2004 . Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 27 cm,. 94 pp, plates, ills. 48 lots. Neatly but regrettably colour-coded by the previous owner, a bookseller, with four coloured tape bands around the spine. Some scribbled prices and notes to contents, otherwise Near Very Good. Print-out of prices realized laid in.

Sotheby's, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 0x0x0. Fine As New copy. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 103 pp, plates, ills. 33 lots.

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st June, 1988. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 161 pp, plates (some in colour). 126 lots. The items offered included: The Imhof Prayerhook, Antwerp, 1511, with 49 miniatures by Simon Bening; a Flemish Psalter with15 miniatures and over 100 marginal grotesques, c.1300; Books of Hours, including one with the device of Antoine Verard and over 500 large and small miniatures, Paris, c1510, a Book of Hours of Sarum Use with 49 miniatures by the Bedford Master, Paris, c.1425, a Dutch Book of Hours with 14 miniatures by the Zwolle Bible Master, Arnhem, c.1475, and a remarkable oval-shaped Book of Hours with mystical miniatures by the Doheny Master; Books of Hours illuminated in Utrecht, Liege, Bruges, Paris, Rheims, Rouen, Amiens, Florence and Venice; Psalters, Breviaries, Antiphoners, and Graduals; medieval texts including works by Usuardus, Petrits Riga, Johannes Marchisinus, Bartolomo da San Goncordia, Petrus de Crescentiis, Francesco… Ler mais

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 3rd December, 2002. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 27 cm,. 74 pp, colour ills.. Lots 51-81. Neatly but regrettably colour-coded by the previous owner, a bookseller, with four coloured tape bands around the spine. Some scribbled prices and notes to contents, otherwise Near Very Good. Print-out of prices realized laid in.

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the first sale held on 6th December, 1993. Printed wrappers, 4to,. 91 pp, plates (some colour), ills. 75 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: two thirteenth-century medical manuscripts, one from the medieval library of Clare College, Cambridge, and both once in the library of Helmingham Hall; an apparently autogragh manuscript of Savonarola's sermons of 1490-91; fragments of manuscripts probably looted by the Saracens from the sack of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187; fragments of five manuscripts in Beneventan minuscule; medieval documents, including two from the thirteenth-century Cistercian abbey at Stanlaw, manuscripts in Latin, Greek, French, Anglo-Norman, Dutch, Middle High German, Armenian and Hebrew; manuscripts of texts by Pliny the Younger, Cicero, Frontinus, Prudentius, St.Basil, Guibert de Tournai, Benvesino de Riva. Clement V, Jacopo delle Marca, and William Lyndwood; and fragments of other manuscripts of Ovid,… Ler mais

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the second sale held on 19th June, 1990. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 177 pp, plates, ills. 131 lots. Among the highlights noted were: the Donaueschingen Pontifical, Reichenau Abbey, second quarter of the ninth century; manuscripts in Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Middle English, Hebrew, Church Slavonic, Armenian, Arabic and Ge'ez; texts by Lucus Anneus Florus, Plutarch, Servius, Gregory the Great, Adalerus, Berno of Reichenau, Sacrobosco, Bonaventura, Bartholomeus Anglicus, Gregory IX, Bartolomeo da San Concordia, Matthew of Cracow, Antoninus of Florence, Leonardo Bruni and Amerigo Vespucci; manuscripts of the statutes of England and of canon law, chronicles, science, astronomy, mathematics, botany, sermons, virtues and vices, and the story of the Holy Grail; Bibles, including a third-century fragment of St. John's Gospel, and an important early thirteenth-century English Bible from the library of William Morris;… Ler mais

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the Hebrew manuscripts (lots 14 to 22) in the sale held on 8th July 2008. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 31 pp, colour plates, ills. Lots 14 to 22. A shortened version of the sale catalogue, limited to the lots with Hebrew manuscripts (lots 14 to 22).. Fine.