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21 Catalogue of fine Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Persian and Indian miniatures ; a Samaritan Pentateuch, 13th/14th century ; and the Mahdi's Koran, removed from his tomb at the time of the capture of Khartoum ; French, Flemish, Italian, Spanish, German and English miniatures, of the 12th to the 16th century ; and a remarkable series of Mexican seventeenth-century illuminations, including the property of the late Professor Vladimir Simkhovitch of New York City ; English, French, Flemish and Italian books of hours, including the property of G.H. Tolson, Esq. [...] also a finely decorated Utrecht book of hours, the property of W. Mack, Esq. of Blaricum, Netherlands [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1960   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
22 Catalogue of fine Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising a Mamluk miniature of the 14th century ; six miniatures from a Herati MS of the period of Shah Rukh ; fine miniatures by Mu'in Musawwir and Govardhan ; a series of miniatures of Christian subjects by Mughal artists of the period of Akbar ; and other Persian, Mughal and provincial Indian miniatures, including a collection of lively Kalighat drawings ; a portion of a twelfth-century Qur'an ; a fifteenth-century Persian Nizami ; a sixteenth-century Shiraz Nizami ; a seventeenth-century Bukharan Nizami ; and a Hafiz from the collection of the Emperor Jahangir ; French and Italian miniatures, including two by a follower of Lorenzo Monaco and a Perugian example by a follower of Matteo di Ser Cambio ; a fine and rare Perugian illuminated office from the Dyson Perrins collection [...] and a fine series of Nuremberg illuminated choirbooks ; a finely illuminated breviary for the abbey of St. Peter of Blandin, Ghent [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1965   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
23 Catalogue of fourteen illuminated manuscripts and fifteen early printed books (including five Pigouchet horae on vellum), together with the Credo of Charles V in gold & enamel case, and a picture of the Battle of Cannae, ascribed to Jean Foucquet, the property of Henry Yates Thompson [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1921   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
24 A catalogue of illuminated and other manuscripts, together with some works on palaeography [Sales Catalogue] Bernard Quaritch (Firm) 1931   Shelf Location: Box 66.
Number of Holdings: 1.
25 Catalogue of illuminated miniatures and single leaves from the ninth to the sixteenth century: a pair of illuminated leaves, from the long-lost text of the Hours of Etienne Chevalier, by Jean Fouquet, Paris 1452-56 ; thirty long-lost illuminated fragments from the Bible of Conradin of Hohenstauffen, c.1260-68 (in five lots) ; The Visitation, a miniature from a book of hours, from the workshop of the Boucicaut Master, 1408 ; Lancelot on horseback defeating one of the four knights, a miniature from Lancelot, The quest for the Holy Grail and The death of King Arthur, Paris, c.1430 ; Pentecost, a large historiated initial 'C', Milan, c.1430 ; Christ before Pilate, a miniature from a book of hours, probably by Jean Colombe under Fouquet's influence, Tours, c.1470 ; twenty-five miniatures from a book of hours, in the style of Jean Bourdichon, Loire Valley, late 15th century ; Mass of St. Gregory, a miniature from a book of hours, Ghent or Bruges, c.1500 ; David and Bathsheba, a large miniature from a book of hours, Paris, early 16th century ; a single manuscript leaf from a northern French ninth-century bible, taken from the Book of Zacharias ; a single manuscript leaf from the Ghistelles Hours, Flanders, c.1300 ; Christ enthroned adored by seven angels, and an angel blowing a trumpet, two large historiated initials from the same choirbook, probably Rimini, early 14th century ; four scenes from the life of Christ, on a single large illuminated leaf, north eastern France, c.1350 ; and the Flight into Egypt, a large miniature from a book of hours, northern France, possibly Rouen, c.1480. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1981   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
26 Catalogue of important Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising a long series of Indian illustrations of the Life of Krishna, late 18th century, the property of Mrs F.K. Smith ; Persian illuminated MSS of Firdawsi, Nizami, etc. [...] and Chroniques de Normandie, c. 1400, finely illuminated, from the Clumber collection [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1960   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
27 Catalogue of important Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures [...] including Persian, Mughal and provincial Indian miniatures ; a Mamluk fourteenth-century manuscript and a handsome Shiraz Yusuf and Zulaykha, from the collection of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt ; a fifteenth-century Italian Hebrew Mahazor ; and a finely decorated Hebrew Bible [...] and a magnificent Florentine Lactantius, from the MacCarthy, Phillipps and Chester Beatty collections [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1961   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
28 Catalogue of important Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising the property of Prince Michael Radziwill [...] including Persian and Indian miniatures, including examples of the periods of Akbar and Jahangir ; a magnificent manuscript of the Gullistan of Sa'di, written in Herat in 1500 for Sultan Husayn Mirza and illustrated with eight miniatures attributed to Bihzad ; fine French, Italian and Spanish miniatures, many from the Crawford of Lakelands or Holford collections, including a very fine Emilian fourteenth-century miniature and examples by the 'Master of the manuscript of St. George', Bartolomeo della Gatta and Vincenzo Raimondi... [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1961   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
29 Catalogue of important Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising a fine miniature by Muhammad Zaman ; ten miniatures from a Herati MS of the period of Shah Rukh ; and other Persian, Mughal and provincial Indian miniatures ; a fifteenth century Shiraz Nizami ; a sixteenth century Persian Anwar i Suhayli ; and other Persian, Armenian and Ethiopic manuscripts [...]a Petrarch written by the scribe Bartolomeo di Sanvito ; an illuminated manuscript written for the Royal Library of Naples [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1966   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
30 Catalogue of important Western and Oriental manuscripts, drawings and autograph letters and some printed books: the property of A.M.W. Curzon-Howe-Herrick, Esq., the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, the Hon. Basil Feilding, G.M.T. Foljambe, Esq., H.S.H. Prince Nicolai Lieven, the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society, H.I.H. Prince Ali Vassib of Turkey, the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Willink, Bt., and others ; including an early Timurid manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, c. 1436 ; a fine album of Indian paintings, Delhi, 1836 ; the original drawings of Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 1715 ; a large-paper copy of Redoutés 'Les roses' with the plates in two states, 1817-24 ; forty-six letters written by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, 1787-96 ; a fine Flemish manuscript book of hours, c. 1460 ; the Herrick papers ; and the celebrated Warwick MSS of Sir Fulke Greville's Poems and dramas. [Sales Catalogue] Christie, Manson & Woods 1968   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
31 Catalogue of single leaves and miniatures from Western illuminated manuscripts: including seventy-seven miniatures from a hitherto unknown English illuminated Apocalypse, York c.1280 ; miniatures by or in the style of Jacquemart de Hesdin, the Luçon Master, the Boucicaut Master, the Bedford Master, the Montauban Master, the Master of the Murano Gradual (? Belbello da Pavia), the Master of the Geneva Bocaccio, Willem Vrelant, Simon Marmion, Maitre François, Jean Colombe, the Master of the Burgundian Prelates, Jean Bourdichon, the Dresden Master, the Master of Morgan 85, Gerard Horenbout, Vincenzo Raimondi, Simon Bening, and the Spanish Forger ; and hitherto unknown fragments of a fourth-century Psalter commentary and a fifteenth century English motet [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1983   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
32 Catalogue of the Bute collection of forty-two illuminated manuscripts and miniatures [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1983   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
33 Catalogue of the celebrated collection of botanical books: with coloured plates ; with some Western and Oriental manuscripts, the property of the Society of Herbalists ; including Andrew's Geraniums, 1805 [...] an illuminated Persian MS of Dioscorides [...] a fine copy of the first edition of Thornton's Temple of flora... [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1958   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
34 Catalogue of the renowned collection of Western manuscripts, the property of A. Chester Beatty, Esq. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1932   Shelf Location: BR ; LEC.
Number of Holdings: 3.
35 Catalogue of twenty-eight illuminated manuscripts and two illuminated printed books, the property of Henry Yates Thompson [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1919   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
36 Catalogue of twenty-six illuminated manuscripts and eight fifteenth century books printed on vellum: the property of Henry Yates Thompson, of 19 Portman Square, London [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1920   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
37 Catalogue of Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising miniatures from an album assembled at Lucknow, c. 1785 ; a fine miniature by Makar ; a fine album of Indian miniatures of the 18th century, and other Persian, Mughal and provincial Indian miniatures ; Persian, Turkish and Ethiopic manuscripts ; a commentary of the Gospel of St. Matthew in Greek [c. 1100] ; the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in Greek, 1634, in a contemporary Rumanian binding, and other Greek manuscripts... [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1966   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
38 Catalogue of Western, Hebrew and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: the property of Lord Piers Brudenell-Bruce, Sri Ram Gopal, Christopher Lorimer, Esq., Colonel Joseph W. Weld, O.B.E., T.D, and others [Sales Catalogue] Christie, Manson & Woods 1970   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
39 Catalogue of Western illuminated manuscripts, with a few Oriental manuscripts and printed books relating to manuscripts: comprising handsomely bound books relating to manuscripts, the property of W. Charles Fewtrell, Esq., the property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Kenyon ; a remarkable fifteenth-century Ethiopian psalter, believed to have been acquired by an early Portuguese explorer, the property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rennell of Rodd, K.B.E., C.B. ; French, English and Dutch books of hours, the property of W. Charles Fewtrell, Esq. ; a thirteenth-century Bible from the abbey of St. Martin d'Ainay in Lyons, the property of Lt.-Col. T.A. Thornton, C.V.O. ; a psalter written by William Fairfax of Walton, 1464, the property of T. Metcalf, Esq. ; an album of Turkish drawings of Officers of the Porte which has descended in the owner's family since the seventeenth century ; a Burmese album from King Theebaw's palace at Mandalay ; a Greek account of the sack of Salonica in 904 A.D. ; a book of hours written and illuminated for Nicolas Beese of Ghent, 1502 ; a Bourges early sixteenth-century horae ; an attractive English book of hours ; and an important English fifteenth-century collection of rare medical and poetic texts ; also, a sumptuous book of hours of the school of Bruges, the property of the late Sir Derrick Julius Wernher, Bt. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1952   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
40 Catalogue of Western manuscripts and miniatures, and a Hebrew manuscript: including a highly important and hitherto unknown Pontifical, (England, c. 1000), Raymundus de Pennaforte's Summa de paenitentia, (?England, before 1291), Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, (England, 14th century), and other English manuscripts and charters; Bruni's De primo bello punico, Florence, 1469, The epistles of St. Paul, (France, c. 1520), in the style of Geofroy Tory; a fine Flemish Hours of the Virgin, (c. 1440), probably from the atelier of the master of the golden scrolls, an attractive small book of hours, (Paris, c. 1470), with decoration of high quality, a good Rouen book of hours, (c. 1435), a Bavarian Diurnal, (c. 1450) and other Spanish, Italian, Flemish, English, French and German books of hours and psalters; Maimonides's Guide to the perplexed, Spain 1476 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1971   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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