| Corporate Author |
H.P. Kraus (Firm) |
| Title |
Thirty-five manuscripts : including the St. Blasien psalter, the Llangattock hours, the Gotha missal, the Roger Bacon (Voynich) cipher MS |
| Publisher |
New York : H.P. Kraus, [1962] |
| Physical desc. |
86 pages, 67 pages of plates ; illustrations (tipped-in, some colour), plates (1 folded) ; 36 cm. + 1 booklet (28 unnumbered pages : illustrations, 33 cm.) |
| Note |
Catalogue 100. |
| Booklet in back pocket: H.P. Kraus anniversary publication: '30 years, 1932-1962'. |
| Includes a loosely inserted printed price list from H.P. Kraus, in US dollars; annotated at lot 20 (Roger Bacon cipher manuscript) in the hand of A. Chester Beatty: '£5,600. See clipping Daily Telegraph. Probably $56,000, not £. £20,000'. |
| At lot 20: a loosely inserted newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph (19 June 1962) on the Bacon manuscript for sale in New York for '£56,000'; and a newspaper clipping from the New York Times (18 June 1962), chiefly on the same manuscript. |
| Includes a loosely inserted article from the New Yorker (14 July 1962), with cover, on the catalogue and the sale. |
| Includes a handwritten list (R.J. Hayes) of the 35 manuscripts on sale, with prices converted to UK sterling, and a total of £492,460. |
| Also includes four leaves from a pocket notebook, in the hand of A. Chester Beatty, detailing prices and calculations of the manuscripts on sale. |
| Subject |
Rare books -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Greek -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Latin -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, European -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance -- Catalogs |
| Fine bindings -- Catalogs |
