A valuable collection of illuminated and other manuscripts, and early editions of classical authors, originally formed about 1800 by Henry Ellis Allen, esq., B.A., and augmented by his son, Captain Samuel Allen; with a few important manuscripts from other sources
Publisher: Sotheby's
Published: 1920
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Art collections
Notes: Comprising the property of Coningsby C. Sibthorp, esq., and the property of the Rev. R. Pulleine, and including a fifteenth century Livy, with a magnificent decorated border; two exceptionally fine French books of hours, of the fifteenth century; a very important Livre d'odonnances de la Toison d'Or, with a superb portrait of Charles the Bold; fourteenth century manuscripts of Richard Rolle, Valerius Maximus, and the Fior di virtu; miniatures from illuminated manuscripts, etc.

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Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: Jan. 30, 1920.