SOTHEBY'S catalog Illuminated MANUSCRIPTS & Miniatures

SOTHEBY'S: LONDON, 3 december 2008 (Sale LO8241).

An exquisite selection comprising 37 lots meticulously described and profusely illustrated by highest quality color photographic reproductions. with estimates given in British pounds and Euros.

Lots include

• THE HAUSBUCH OF ABBESS ELIZABETH DE BIERBAIS OF NIVELLES ABBEY, IN LATIN AND FRENCH, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Nivelles, Belgium, c.1280], preserved in a magnificent fifteenth-century blind-tooled leather over massive wooden boards;
• BOOK OF HOURS ILLUMINATED BY THE MASTERS OF ZWEDER VAN CULEMBORG, IN DUTCH, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Utrecht, c.1430];
• THE VISMARI HOURS, BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF ROME, IN LATIN AND ITALIAN, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Milan, c.1500];
• THE COURTENAY COMPENDIUM, A COLLECTION OF ENGLISH AND NEAR- AND FAR-EASTERN HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS INCLUDING MARCO POLO'S 'DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD', THE ANONYMOUS ENCOMIUM EMMAE REGINAE, GILDAS' 'RUIN AND CONQUEST OF BRITAIN', WILLIAM OF TRIPOLI'S 'STATE OF SARACENS AND MOHAMMEDANS', AND OTHER ACCOUNTS OF MEDIEVAL ISLAM, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [England (probably Breamore Abbey or Glastonbury Abbey), late 14th century];
• MACER FLORIDUS, DE VIRIBUS HERBARUM AND A LEECHBOOK CONTAINING 162 MEDICAL RECIPES, IN MIDDLE ENGLISH AND LATIN, INCLUDING MIDDLE ENGLISH VERSE, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [England, c.1450];
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  Format:

  Large quarto: 27 cm x 21 cm. 95 pages. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Illustrated end-papers. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions of lots described (including many full-page illustrations).

  Condition:

  Near Fine. Very light shelf-wear to edges of wrappers, small harmless crease near fore-edge; otherwise like new.

  
  
  

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