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41 Catalogue of Western manuscripts and miniatures, and a Hebrew manuscript: including an illuminated roll chronicle, (England, c. 1250) ; the foundation charter of a grammar school in Cornwall, 1506 ; an important manuscript from the London Charterhouse, (15th century) ; a Cicero written in Florence in 1441 ; L'Instruction d'un jeune prince and Le chevalier délibéré, (c. 1485) ; the sermons and letters of Pope Leo I, (Pontigny, 12th century) ; two dated manuscripts of works by Nicolaus de Dinkelsbühl, 1427 and 1457 ; a breviary for the Augustinian canons of Rooclooster, 1477 ; a missal for the diocese of Breslau, (c. 1450) ; a fine series of illuminated French, Dutch and Flemish books of hours ; Ashendene Press books and manuscripts illuminated by Florence Kingsford (Lady Cockerell) ; and a Hebrew bible, (Spain, c. 1300) [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1972   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
42 Catalogue of Western manuscripts and miniatures: including miniatures from antiphoners illuminated in Augsburg, c. 1490, and Ghent or Bruges, c. 1510 ; royal and other charters, including series relating to Wolverhampton, the Hundred Years' War, and Guernsey ; bibles, including a glossed book perhaps from Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1175, and an extremely rare Wycliffite Bible in the earliest English translation, c. 1400 ; a Brute chronicle in Middle English, c. 1430 ; manuscripts from the Halliwell-Phillipps collection; books of hours, including one from the workshop of the Boucicaut master, Paris, c. 1420 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1977   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
43 Catalogue of Western manuscripts and miniatures: including a book of hours illuminated in the workshop of Jean Colombe, with 10 large and 43 small miniatures, c. 1480 ; unusual books of hours including a thirteenth-century copy, a German copy, and a copy entirely in the French language ; two fourteenth-century medical manuscripts ; the only known manuscript of an unpublished fourteenth-century French encyclopaedia ; Marsilius of Padua, Defensor Pacis, c. 1460, in a contemporary stamped binding ; an eleventh- or early twelfth-century fragment of the Hebrew Samaritan Pentateuch ; fine single miniatures including two of the twelfth century and the title-leaf of the celebrated Belluno gradual, signed by Ludovico de Gacis, 1489 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1978   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
44 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 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1980   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
45 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 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1980   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
46 Catalogue of Western manuscripts and miniatures: including the psalter of Anne Boleyn, 1529-32, in a fine English embroidered binding ; the bible of Norwich Cathedral, mid-thirteenth century ; the obit book of Monza Basilica, mid-twelfth century ; Le Neve's Equestrian book with 88 drawings of knights on horseback, c. 1460-80 ; a thirteenth- century Parisian bible with 76 historiated initials ; four thirteenth-century psalters including one with 130 historiated initials ; two manuscripts from Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria, 1813 ; manuscripts of texts by Sallust, Cicero, Usuardus, Henry de Bracton, Vincent of Beauvais and Boccaccio ; manuscripts in Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish and Russian ; fine bindings, including one of the early twelfth century, on dated 1468, and a fourteenth-century manuscript which has never been bound ; a pontifical, two missals, processionals, breviaries, choir-books, and a fine series of books of hours, including two Dutch examples and one in humanistic script, Florence, c. 1450; Spanish confirmations of nobility ; charters and documents, including several monastic grants and a long run of the court rolls of Cressingham in Norfolk ; single leaves and miniatures, including a historiated initial by Giovanni di Paolo, Siena, c. 1440, and a fragment in Beneventan script, c. 1100 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
47 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 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1983   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
48 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 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1984   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
49 The Chester Beatty Western manuscripts [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1968   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 7.
50 Choice books and manuscripts from distinguished private library: with an appendix of acquisitions from other sources [Sales Catalogue] H.P. Kraus (Firm) 1971   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
51 Choice manuscripts and books, bindings and autographs, outstanding for their beauty, rarity or importance: including Americana, first editions, incunabula, herbals, history of science, atlases, illuminated & text manuscripts, classical authors, prints, bindings, etc. [Sales Catalogue] H.P. Kraus (Firm) 1956   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
52 Choice manuscripts, books, maps and globes, important for the history of European civilization and the discovery of America: illuminated codices, early drawings, incunabula and illustrated books ; remarkable maps from the Prince Liechtenstein collection ; and globes from a private library [Sales Catalogue] H.P. Kraus (Firm) 1951   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
53 The Christmas collection of Jock Elliott [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2006   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
54 Codices manu scripti saeculorum IX. ad XIX: incunabula xylographica et typographica annorum MCCCCL ad MD [Sales Catalogue] Joseph Baer (Firm) 1921   Shelf Location: Box 69.
Number of Holdings: 1.
55 The Cortlandt F. Bishop library [Sales Catalogue] American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) 1938   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 5.
56 Distinguished books and manuscripts [Sales Catalogue] H.P. Kraus (Firm) 1957   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
57 The eightieth catalogue: remarkable manuscripts, books and maps from the IXth to the XVIIIth century, including many first descriptions of hitherto unknown items recently discovered [Sales Catalogue] H.P. Kraus (Firm) 1956   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
58 European bulletin 26 [Sales Catalogue] Maggs Bros 2008   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
59 European bulletin no. 23: illuminated miniatures, manuscripts and single leaves, 1000-1900 A.D. [Sales Catalogue] Maggs Bros 2004   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
60 European bulletin no. 25 [Sales Catalogue] Maggs Bros 2007   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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