| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Catalogue of Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : comprising Persian, Jain, Mughal, provincial Indian and Tibetan miniatures, including works by Muhammed Yusuf and Muqim of Bukhara ; a fine miniature of the Akbar period and a seventeenth-century example from Bijapur ; a fourteenth-century Mamluk binding ; and a finely illuminated Bukharan MS of the Sayings of Ali ; Aristotle's Organon, written by Damianus Guidotes, from San Francesco della Vigna, Venice ; a Greek gospel lectionary of 1655, written by Joasaph ; a 12th century Armenian gospels from Antioch and a 15th century Armenian gospels from Melitene ; French, Italian and Flemish miniatures, including examples by Simon Bening and Prayerbook Master of c. 1500 ; and a splendidly illuminated Spanish leaf ; an English 13th century psalter, in the original binding ; a book of hours of York Use ; an English ms. of Bede ; manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbeys of Pontigny and Val-Notre-Dame ; a good Italian 13th century bible ; and a fine Parisian bible of c.1300 ; illuminated books of hours from Artois, Rouen and Paris ; 16th century Spanish grants of arms, 18th century certifications of arms and the finely written and illuminated grant of the lordship of Valparaiso de Abajo, 1631 ;the Dartmouth hours, with 27 miniatures, c. 1440-50 ; the St. Cyprian of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and Bohemia ; one of five known manuscripts of the prose version of Deguileville's Pélerinage de vie humaine, from the library of Charlotte of Savoy, Queen of France, illustrated by a follower of the Master of King René. |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby & Co., 1964 |
| Physical desc. |
75 pages, 15 plates (some folded) ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
06/07/1964 |
| Including property of 7th Earl of Dartmouth, the 5th and 7th Earl of Ilchester, Sir Bruce Ingram, Major the Hon. Baron Dimsdale, Lady Elwes and Major Charles Fellowes. |
| Also see: Christie, Manson & Woods, London sales catalogue (Catalogue of valuable printed books, manuscripts...) for 13 December 1962 (13/12/1962), which includes (between pages 48 and 49) two sales catalogue cuttings from this sale: one of lot 182 ('[Fortune telling], Burmese manuscript', 34 leaves, early 19th century [Bu 1288]) from page 36; the other of lot 183 ('Burmese manuscript' with 'Sinhalese' handwritten as a correction) from page 37 [InE 1500]; the other of Both cuttings are from another copy not in the CBL. |
| Date & place of sale |
Monday 6 July 1964, London |
| Person as subject |
Dartmouth, William Legge -- Earl of -- 1881-1958 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Ilchester, Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways -- Earl of -- b. 1874 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Ingram, Bruce -- b. 1877 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Dimsdale -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Elwes, Winefride Feilding -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Fellowes, Charles -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Nicolaus, George R. -- Library -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Bu 1288 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- InE 1500 |
| Qur'an -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Arabic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Burmese -- Catalogs |
