Western Manuscripts and Miniatures [ Sotheby's, auction catalogue, sale date: 6 December, 1993 ]

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, Priscian, Isidore of Seville, Stjerome, St.Augustine, St. Gregory, and of the Schwabenspiegel; Books of Hours, including one entirely in French and two richly illustrated in Rouen in the workshop of the Master of the Geneva Latini, and a fine Florentine Book of Hours illustrated by Francesco Roselli and Monte del Fora. Vendors included "the late Philip Robinson,... the late Robin Howard ... the Lord O'Hagan, M.E.P Top fore-edge corners of front wrapper, title-page and a preliminary leaf cut away, five or six ink corrections or marginal marks, otherwise Near Fine.