| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Catalogue of Western manuscripts and miniatures : including the Hours of Nicolas von Firmian, Flanders, c.1490 ; the Books of Solomon, glossed, Paris, c. 1170 ; the St. Benno's College manuscript on medieval Welsh poetry, c. 1630 ; a large Flemish book of hours, with 12 full-page miniatures ; two Aristotle manuscripts, one from the Library of Coluccio Salutati ; the romance of Sydrach, with the arms of Jeanne of Navarre, c. 1360 ; fine Spanish grants of arms and confirmations of nobility ; the archives of Cistercian nunnery of Poliola ; a collection of over 500 seals from Utrecht and the Netherlands ; single leaves and miniatures including some illustrated antiphoner fragments and a leaf of a twelfth-century Josephus ; two illustrated Hebrew scrolls of Esther |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby's, 1980 |
| Physical desc. |
103 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
10/12/1980 |
| Property of the Trustees of the Robinson Trust, Mark Lansburgh, Heythrop College, London, the Earl of Sandwich, 1943 settlement, and others. |
| Includes a loosely inserted printed list of price estimates. |
| Reference to a a CB manuscript formerly in the collection: p. 71, lot 102 (Hours of Nicholas von Firmian, ACB no. 'W Mss 127.III', sold Sotheby's 9 May 1933, lot 68, bought by Rosenthal). |
| Date & place of sale |
Wednesday 10 December 1980, London |
| Person as subject |
Lansburgh, Mark -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Sandwich, George Charles Montagu -- 9th -- Earl of -- 1874-1962 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Corporate name |
Robinson Trust |
| Heythrop College (University of London) |
| Subject |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, European -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Catalogs |
| Books of hours -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Hebrew -- Catalogs |
