| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Catalogue of fine Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : comprising a Mamluk miniature of the 14th century ; six miniatures from a Herati MS of the period of Shah Rukh ; fine miniatures by Mu'in Musawwir and Govardhan ; a series of miniatures of Christian subjects by Mughal artists of the period of Akbar ; and other Persian, Mughal and provincial Indian miniatures, including a collection of lively Kalighat drawings ; a portion of a twelfth-century Qur'an ; a fifteenth-century Persian Nizami ; a sixteenth-century Shiraz Nizami ; a seventeenth-century Bukharan Nizami ; and a Hafiz from the collection of the Emperor Jahangir ; French and Italian miniatures, including two by a follower of Lorenzo Monaco and a Perugian example by a follower of Matteo di Ser Cambio ; a fine and rare Perugian illuminated office from the Dyson Perrins collection [...] and a fine series of Nuremberg illuminated choirbooks ; a finely illuminated breviary for the abbey of St. Peter of Blandin, Ghent |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby & Co., 1965 |
| Physical desc. |
84 pages, [25] leaves of plates ; illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
05/07/1965 |
| Including property of Woodrow Wyatt, Rt.Hon. Vis. Massereene and Ferrard, Dr. A.N.L. Munby and the Long Island Historical Society. |
| Ref. to CB manuscripts: p. 15, lot 53; p. 35, lot 159; p. 40, lot 175 (Per 162); p. 42, lot 177 (Per 276). |
| Date & place of sale |
Monday 5 July 1965, London |
| Person as subject |
Wyatt, Woodrow -- 1918-1997 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Massereene and Ferrard, John, Skeffington -- Viscount -- 1914- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Munby, A. N. L. (Alan Noel Latimer) 1913-1974 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Corporate name |
Long Island Historical Society -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Bu 1298 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Thi 1368 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Thi 1369 |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, European -- Catalogs |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
