| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Catalogue of fine Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : comprising illuminated leaves from an Eastern French fourteenth-century biblical manuscript, the property of Gerald Reitlinger, Esq. ; an attractive Parisian early fifteenth-century Office of the Virgin, the property of Mrs. Nadine Wesley Smith ; interesting medieval text, and humanistic, MSS. ; a richly decorated French Renaissance horae, the property of E. Korner, Esq. ; also, the Andre de Coppet collections: part I, the property of the late Mr. Andre de Coppet of New York [...] comprising an exceptional Mesopotamian 13th century MS with 110 drawings ; a Sanscrit 15th century illuminated MS ; Spanish and English Romanesque MSS ; the Beaulieu Abbey Cantulary ; Mandeville's Itinerarium ; an interesting Venetian binding, perhaps from San Giorgio Maggiore ; MSS of the Vaticinia Pontificum, with fine drawings ; a handsomely decorated Speculum humanae salvationis ; a very attractive Bruges horae ; a MS from the library of Margaret of York ; and a noble Froissart, from the Clumber collection |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby & Co., 1954 |
| Physical desc. |
31 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
06/12/1954 |
| Including property of Gerald Reitlinger, Mrs. Nadine Wesley-Smith, E. Korner, and Andre de Coppet (first part of his collection). |
| Copy 1: annotated by J.V.S. Wilkinson, including three loosely inserted leaves of his notes on lots 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 40, 41, and 42 (between pages 6 & 7). |
| Copy 2: illustrated catalogue with 11 leaves of plates (one folded); includes a printed label from Maggs Bros. Ltd. pasted onto the front cover; no annotations. |
| Date & place of sale |
Monday, 6 December, 1954, London |
| Person as subject |
Reitlinger, Gerald -- 1900-1979 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Wesley-Smith, Nadine -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Korner, Eric -1980 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| De Coppet, Andre -- 1892-1953 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- InE 1631 |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, European -- Catalogs |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- Catalogs |
