| Title |
Catalogue of Western manuscripts and miniatures : to be sold with the Gospels of Henry the Lion ; and including the earliest known complete set of illuminated playing cards, probably Lille, c. 1475 ; the Giant Bible of St. Maximin in Trier, late eleventh century ; twelfth-century manuscripts including a missal, a Gregory the Great, and a Vitae Sanctorum from Weissenau Abbey ; Italian humanistic manuscripts, including copies of Virgil, Sallust, and Martial ; the only known illustrated manuscript of Andreas Capellanus on the art of love, Frankfurt, c. 1503 ; English manuscripts including the Mohun Chronicle, sermons of Michael of Hungary in a contemporary Oxford binding, the prayerbook of Elizabeth of York, and sermons of Henricus Herpius bequeathed to St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster Palace, in 1492 ; prayerbooks, breviaries, processionals, missals, and books of hours, including a Rouen book of hours with 58 very large miniatures, c. 1465, and the hours of the Cardinal de Boisy, Tours, c. 1510, with 84 miniatures ; single leaves and miniatures, including illuminated leaves from Boccaccio's De Casibus in Middle English and in French, and miniatures from Paris, c. 1250, the Holy Land, c. 1300, London, c.1390, and Zwolle, c. 1470 |
| Property of the Trustees of the Thomas F. Flannery, Jr., Trust of Chicago, the Kiplin Hall Trust, Sir Rivers Carew, Bt., John Blythe Barrymore, and others. |
