| Title |
Catalogue of Western manuscripts and miniatures : including a book of hours, in Dutch with 21 full-page miniatures by the Master of Guillebert de Mets, Southern Netherlands, c. 1430 ; a book of hours with 22 full-page miniatures and 150 historiated initials, Verdun, c. 1300 ; other books of hours, including two Parisian examples, c. 1450, in contemporary blind-stamped bindings, and a London manuscript of c. 1390 ; the Grandes Chroniques de France, with 22 miniatures, Paris, c. 1330 ; a Chronicle of world history with 155 coloured drawings copied from a lost fresco by Masolino, Florence, c. 1450 ; Italian humanistic manuscripts including a treatise on marriage illuminated for Tommaso Tebaldi, Milan, c. 1440, and the Rule of St. Benedict, Florence, 1502, both in contemporary bindings ; bibles, including a Gospel book in Greek, 10th century ; medieval texts, including copies of Gregory the Great, Eusebius, Avicenna, Alcoatim and Peter Comestor ; liturgical manuscripts including four in the German language, all in contemporary bindings, a missal from St. Bavo's Abbey in Ghent, and manuscripts of Cistercian, Franciscan, and Dominican use, and of the use of Uzes, Sarum, and St-Amand in Rouen ; documents, including a diploma of Otto III, 1001, and one signed by the Queen of Portugal ; a military treatise presented to Louis XIV ; single leaves and miniatures, including a Wycliffite leaf and two fine miniatures by Simon Bening, Bruges, c. 1530 |
| Reference to manuscripts formerly in the collections of: A. Chester Beatty (page 5, lot 3, W 116, part of lot 14, Sotheby's sale, 3 Dec 1968); and Wilfred Merton (page 118, lot 81, Hours of the Virgin, use of Paris, c. 1460, includes Merton's book label dated 1918). |
