Catalogue of important Western manuscripts and miniatures ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction by Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 and 35 New Bond Street, W.1 ... ; day of sale: Wednesday, 8th July, 1970
Publisher: Sotheby & Co.
Published: 1970
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Notes: 132 lots.

Sale code: ANJOU.

Includes the earliest surviving Charter, 948, from San Millan de la Cogella, the Bull of the canonisation of St. Dominic, Rietti, 1234, and other charters and bulls of the 11th to 16th century; the Brut chronicle, in English, (c.1437); Catherine Tollemache's Book of secrets, (c.1500); Hilton's The scale of perfection, (c.1510); Lydgate's The fall of princes, (c.1475), formerly in the possession of Mary Sidney, Mother of Sir Philip Sidney; Ortolf von Baierland's Arzneibuch, (c. 1465); an interesting miscellany comprising medicine, prophecy and a Sienese chronicle, (c.1450); an extensive collection of astronomical tables, (c.1480); Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Trattate di architettura, (c.1500); a fine illuminated Psalter in Greek (?Constantinople, 11th or 12th century); Ovid's Les Héroides, in French prose, (c.1400); Pius II's Letter to the Sultan Mahomet II, (before 1470); La perle poetique, (c.1485); Lemaire's Le triomph de Notre Dame, (c.1503); a splendidly decorated Digulleville, Le pelerinage de vie humaine, (c.1470); Machzor le'gon ha'kipurim, (Avignon, late 14th century); a fine glossed Gospel book (early 13th century); a handsome signed and dated psalter and hymnal, Genoa, 1501; an important book of hours, the work of a fine provincial contemporary of the Boucicaut master; an interesting Flemish book of hours, (c.1500); a Parisian book of hours, (c.1460), and another in the style of Jean Bourdichon, (c.1490); and other French, Flemish, Italian and English books of hours and bibles.

Place of sale: London.