| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Catalogue of Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : comprising Persian, Mughal and provincial Indian miniatures, including a portrait in popular Mughal style and an example by Aga Riza Jahangiri ; Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit and Burmese manuscripts ; Italian miniatures, and eight leaves from a manuscript illuminated by Niccolò da Bologna ; a miniature prayer-book from Reading ; a twelfth-century English lectionary ; an English MS of William Briton's Summa super difficilia Biblie ; and a register of the Diocese of Canterbury ; a fine southern French or Spanish psalter, 13th century ; manuscripts from Constance, Cologne and the abbey of Mallersdorf ; fine French books of hours ; a Netherlands horae with miniatures under Italian influence ; and a French horae, c. 1525, of fine quality, written in a roman script ; The Cancionero Onate-Castaneda, an important manuscript authority for Castilian poetry of the 15th century |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby & Co., 1964 |
| Physical desc. |
48 pages, [7] leaves of plates ; illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
07/12/1964 |
| Including property of Duke of Northumberland, Rt.Hon. Earl Bathurst, R.J.R. Arundell, Miles Burkitt, Miss Beatrice Greenough and Dr. Eli Moschcowitz. |
| Annotated, with lots 102, 126, and 127 marked with an X; entry for lot 128 cut out. |
| Date & place of sale |
Monday 7 December, 1964, London |
| Person as subject |
Northumberland, Hugh Algernon Percy -- Duke of -- 1914-1988 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Bathurst, Henry Bathurst -- Earl -- 1762-1834 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Arundell, R.J.R. -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Burkitt, Miles Crawford -- 1890-1971 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Greenough, Beatrice -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Moschcowitz, Eli -- b.1879 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Bu 1290 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- InE 1414 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- InE 1511 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- InE 1512 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- InE 1513 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- InE 1514 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- InE 1651 |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
