| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Catalogue of Western manuscripts and miniatures : including the only known manuscript of the Book of Margery Kempe, the oldest English autobiography, c. 1440 ; a hitherto unrecorded English illustrated apocalypse with 94 half-page miniatures, c. 1320 ; Middle English manuscripts including the South English legendary, in verse, fifteenth-century ; a fragment of a poem about Robin Hood ; and a document of Sir John Fastolfe, 1433 ; Italian Renaissance manuscripts, including copies of Ovid (in a contemporary gilt binding), Cicero and Virgil ; Romanesque manuscripts, including portions of a St. Augustine, written at Canterbury Cathedral and last recorded in 1508 ; Jerome, Contra Jovinianum, mid-twelfth century ; and an Ivo of Chartres from the library of Giovanni Visconti, Duke of Milan ; two thirteenth-century illuminated psalters, one from the medieval library of Rheims Cathedral ; fine books of hours including one of exceptional size, with 15 large and 47 small miniatures, Flanders, c. 1450 ; and a hitherto unrecorded Dutch breviary illuminated by the master of Catherine of Cleves, Utrecht, 1440 |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby's, 1980 |
| Physical desc. |
97 pages, 22 unnumbered leaves of plates ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
24/06/1980 |
| Property of Dr. F.G. Emmison, M.B.E., the Lincoln Memorial University, Captain M.E. Butler-Bowdon, the late Right Rev. Monsignor David McRoberts and others. |
| Includes a loosely inserted printed list of price estimates. |
| Reference to CB manuscripts formerly in the collection: page 78, lot 84 (Italian breviary in Latin, bought by Chester Beatty from 'Dobell and in his possession by February 1924'; ACB gifted the manuscript to Eric George Millar). |
| Date & place of sale |
Tuesday 24 June 1980, London |
| Person as subject |
Emmison, F. G. (Frederick George) 1907-1995 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Butler-Bowdon, M.E. -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| McRoberts, David -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Corporate name |
Lincoln Memorial University -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, European -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Romanesque -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance -- Catalogs |
