| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Catalogue of fine Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : comprising Persian and Indian miniatures ; a Samaritan Pentateuch, 13th/14th century ; and the Mahdi's Koran, removed from his tomb at the time of the capture of Khartoum ; French, Flemish, Italian, Spanish, German and English miniatures, of the 12th to the 16th century ; and a remarkable series of Mexican seventeenth-century illuminations, including the property of the late Professor Vladimir Simkhovitch of New York City ; English, French, Flemish and Italian books of hours, including the property of G.H. Tolson, Esq. [...] also a finely decorated Utrecht book of hours, the property of W. Mack, Esq. of Blaricum, Netherlands |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby & Co., 1960 |
| Physical desc. |
57 pages, [16] leaves of plates ; illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
11/07/1960 |
| Including property of Dr. E.G. Millar, Professor Vladimir Simkhovitch, New York, A.M. Woodward, G.H. Tolson and W. Mack, Netherlands. |
| Two bookmarks inserted: one, torn, marked 'Ethiopic MS' at lot 37; another marked 'Coptic MS, Greek MS' at lots 108 and 109. |
| Date & place of sale |
Monday 11 July, 1960, London |
| Person as subject |
Millar, Eric George -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Simkhovitch, Vladimir G. (Vladimir Gregorievitch) 1874-1959 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Woodward, A. M. (Arthur Maurice) b. 1883 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Tolson, G.H. -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Mack, W. -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, European -- Catalogs |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
