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1 Catalogue of important historical, medieval and literary mss., valuable printed books, Oriental miniatures, mss. and printed books [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1948   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
2 Catalogue of important Western and Oriental illuminated manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Persian and Indian miniatures ; a royal MS of Timur's Memoirs, presented by the son of Akbar Shah II to the Earl of Amherst ; a fine copy of Sa'di's Bustan ; two Armenian illustrated Gospels ; albums of Indian flower and bird drawings ; a fine album of Moghul miniatures ; and twenty leaves from a hitherto unknown imperial album, painted by Jahangir's court artists for his son, Prince Khurram, afterwards the Emperor Shah Jahan ; fine Tuscan and Sienese miniatures ; and a miniature by Apollonio de Bonfratellis from a MS executed for Pope Pius V... [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1959   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
3 Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Persian miniatures of the 15th to 19th century, and an interesting album of Persian miniatures and calligraphy ; Mughal, Deccani, central Indian, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures ; a collection of Kalighat watercolours drawings and fine Indian watercolour drawings of birds, c. 1800 ; an Armenian manuscript of the Psalms, 1595, and other Turkish, Persian, Kashmiri, Sanscrit, Ethiopian, Arabic and Syrian manuscripts; Persian lacquer bookbindings [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1968   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
4 Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: including Mughal miniatures of the 17th to 19th century, including a portrait of a European lady, c. 1660-80, and a 17th-century portrait of a girl of the Mughal court ; eight miniatures from a ragamala series, Bikaner, dated 1685 ; Deccani, Rajasthani, and central Indian miniatures of the 18th and 19th century ; Company school pictures ; Pahari miniatures in the styles of Guler, Kangra and Mandi ; Persian painted lacquer panels and pen-boxes including a pen-box by Muhammad Isma'il, dated 1861-2 ; Persian miniatures of the 15th to 19th century, including three illustrations from a manuscript of Hafiz-i Abru's Majma'al- Tavarikh, Herat c.1425 ; and miniatures of the Qazwin, Bukhara, Shiraz, Isfahan and Qajar schools ; Armenian, Ethiopic, Syriac, Burmese, Malay, Arabic and Persian manuscripts, including illuminated Qur'ans of the 16th century [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1970   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
5 Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: including Mughal miniatures of the 16th to 19th century including a leaf from the Baburnama, c. 1590 ; two miniatures from the Chester Beatty Akbarnama c. 1600-10 ; a leaf from a Shahnama, c. 1620 ; a miniature of two mullahs, c. 1570-80 ; a page from a historical manuscript, c. 1590-1600 ; Deccani, Rajasthani, and Pahari miniatures including a miniature of an elephant hunt, Kotah c. 1770-80 ; two ragamala illustrations, Kulu, c. 1700-10 ; Persian and Turkish miniatures of the 15th to 19th century including a leaf from a Shahnama, Turkish, early 17th century ; three miniatures from the Majma-al-Tavarikh, c. 1425 ; two leaves from the Zafar Nama, 1436 ; a miniature by Ramazan 'Ali, dated 1816 ; Persian painted lacquer and calligraphy ; Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit, Ethiopic, Turkish and Thai manuscripts, including a Kalpasutra, dated 1636 ; Qur'an manuscripts of the 12th to 19th century ; a Persian anthology, Golconda, 1629-30 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1971   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
6 Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: including a fine portrait of a youth holding a sprig of narcissus, by Farrokh Beg, c. 1610-15 ; Mughal miniatures of the 17th to 19th century including two miniatures from a Shahnama, c. 1610 ; Emperor Bahadur Shah I on a hunting expedition, c. 1710 ; Rajasthani, Pahari, Central Indian, and Deccani miniatures of the 17th to 19th century including examples from Malwa, Sirohi, Amer, Bundi, Mewar, Jodhpur, Nathdwara, Malpura, Jaipur, and Datia ; Company school pictures including a mouse deer painted by Zayn al-Din for Lady Impey, 1777 ; Ethiopic, Arabic, and Persian manuscripts and calligraphy ; Persian miniatures of the 15th to 19th century, and Persian lacquer [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1972   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
7 Catalogue of valuable printed books, autograph letters, and historical documents, and a few Oriental manuscripts, and miniatures, etc. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1952   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
8 Catalogue of valuable printed books, autograph letters and historical documents, Western & Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising a heraldic collection, including manuscripts by Sir Robert Cooke and Sir Bevill Skelton ; also works in English literature, notably the first edition of Omar Khayyam, 1859, in wrappers, uncut [...] a group of medieval Egyptian and Mesopotamian miniatures ; Mughal miniatures by Hunhar and Mir Kalan ; and a highly important sixth-century biblical manuscript from the monastery of St. Catherine of Sinai, the property of D. Maclaren, Esq. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1954   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
9 Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated manuscripts, autograph letters & historical documents &c. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1938   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
10 Catalogue of Western and Oriental illuminated manuscripts and miniatures: comprising a magnificent Shah-namah with 54 miniatures of the school of Shiraz, dated 1457, the property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Teignmouth [...] an important horae from the Phillipps Collection with two miniatures by an outstanding Italo-French artist of about 1400, the property of Sir Thomas Barlow, OBE [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1952   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
11 Catalogue of Western and Oriental illuminated manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Persian, Tibetan and Siamese illustrated manuscripts; an interesting early Quran written in kufi characters, and another, dated 1327 A.D., in Egyptian script; Mogul, Rajput and Persian miniatures, and a remarkable Armenian miniature of the Nativity... [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1953   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
12 Catalogue of Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Persian, Mughal and provincial Indian miniatures, including a portrait in popular Mughal style and an example by Aga Riza Jahangiri ; Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit and Burmese manuscripts ; Italian miniatures, and eight leaves from a manuscript illuminated by Niccolò da Bologna ; a miniature prayer-book from Reading ; a twelfth-century English lectionary ; an English MS of William Briton's Summa super difficilia Biblie ; and a register of the Diocese of Canterbury ; a fine southern French or Spanish psalter, 13th century ; manuscripts from Constance, Cologne and the abbey of Mallersdorf ; fine French books of hours ; a Netherlands horae with miniatures under Italian influence ; and a French horae, c. 1525, of fine quality, written in a roman script ; The Cancionero Onate-Castaneda, an important manuscript authority for Castilian poetry of the 15th century [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1964   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
13 Catalogue of Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Persian, Jain, Mughal, provincial Indian and Tibetan miniatures, including works by Muhammed Yusuf and Muqim of Bukhara ; a fine miniature of the Akbar period and a seventeenth-century example from Bijapur ; a fourteenth-century Mamluk binding ; and a finely illuminated Bukharan MS of the Sayings of Ali ; Aristotle's Organon, written by Damianus Guidotes, from San Francesco della Vigna, Venice ; a Greek gospel lectionary of 1655, written by Joasaph ; a 12th century Armenian gospels from Antioch and a 15th century Armenian gospels from Melitene ; French, Italian and Flemish miniatures, including examples by Simon Bening and Prayerbook Master of c. 1500 ; and a splendidly illuminated Spanish leaf ; an English 13th century psalter, in the original binding ; a book of hours of York Use ; an English ms. of Bede ; manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbeys of Pontigny and Val-Notre-Dame ; a good Italian 13th century bible ; and a fine Parisian bible of c.1300 ; illuminated books of hours from Artois, Rouen and Paris ; 16th century Spanish grants of arms, 18th century certifications of arms and the finely written and illuminated grant of the lordship of Valparaiso de Abajo, 1631 ;the Dartmouth hours, with 27 miniatures, c. 1440-50 ; the St. Cyprian of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and Bohemia ; one of five known manuscripts of the prose version of Deguileville's Pélerinage de vie humaine, from the library of Charlotte of Savoy, Queen of France, illustrated by a follower of the Master of King René. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1964   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
14 Catalogue of Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures: comprising Persian, Mughal and provincial Indian miniatures ; a thirteenth century Old Testament ; a prayer book with twelve miniatures by Master Pancraz, c. 1430 ; the Roucy hours of the Virgin, c. 1430 ; the Orsini/Amboise hours of the Virgin, c. 1500 ; Hours of the Virgin illuminated by followers of Jean Fouquet ; Boccacio's De Casibus virorum illustrium, written and illuminated in Lombardy, c. 1510 ; English medieval documents [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1965   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
15 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.
16 Catalogue of Western and Oriental miniatures and manuscripts [...] including Mughal and Deccani miniatures ; Chinese rice-paper drawings ; Persian manuscripts, including one from the library of Aurungzebe ; fine Byzantine and Romanesque miniatures ; a Byzantine Evangelistarium of the 10th century ; a Hebrew MS of the 14th century ; a Bulgarian Gospels ; English and Continental MSS of the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries ; and an attractive and richly decorated book of hours of the school of Tours... [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1956   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
17 The Dyson Perrins collection [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1958   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 3.
18 The Wardington Library [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2005   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 4.
19 Western manuscripts and miniatures: including the St. Hubert Gospels, a ninth-century Franco-Saxon Evangeliary with twenty full-page illuminations ; two twelfth-century manuscripts of Ovid's Metamorphoses, one within fifty years of the earliest known manuscript of the text ; one of the smallest of all known manuscripts, a thirteenth-century psalter with eight full-page miniatures, less than 2" high ; a history of the world in French with fifty-one miniatures ; Honoré Bonet's L'Arbre des Batailles ; a group of manuscripts on civil and canon law, including Raymond of Peñafort, Berengario Fredoli, Baldo degli Ubaldi and the Summa Raymondi ; manuscripts of Walter Burley and Jacopo de Voragine, prayerbooks and service books, including a psalter of Parc Abbey, Louvain, and the constitutions of the nunnery of St. Mary Magdalene, Siena ; books of hours, including examples with miniatures by the Master of Guillebert de Mets and the Master of Margaret of York ; thirty-three Armenian Christian manuscripts from the collection of Haroutune P. Hazarian ; a group of manuscripts from the Christian Orient ; charters from Sempringham Priory, Newlands in Gloucestershire, in the ancient language of Langue d'oc of Edward I, Henry I and Henry III, and six original thirteenth-century tally sticks, the earliest form of stocks and shares ; fifty-four lots of single leaves and miniatures from the collection of Otto Ege ; miniatures by the Master of Adelaide of Savoy, the Master of the Murano Gradual, the Spanish Forger and a long-lost miniature from a known book of hours from the workshop of Jean Bourdichon [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1985   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
20 Western manuscripts and miniatures: including a manuscript of the letters of Abelard and Heloise ; and manuscripts in Latin, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, English, Anglo-Norman, Hebrew, Armenian, Syriac, Ge'ez, Sahidic, and Nahuatl ; and with illumination by Nicolo da Bologna, Venturino Mercati, Francesco d'Antonio del Chierico, the Master of the Cypresses, the Master of the Lallement Boethius, and others ; and including three illustrated Aztec manuscripts and a vast map, written on amatl paper ; two thirteenth-century bibles, one from the abbey of Santa Justina in Padua ; the Decretals of Gregory IX ; manuscripts of St. Cyprian, St. Leo, Peter Lombard, Pierre d'Ailly, and others, a roll chronicle of the kings of England ; liturgical manuscripts, including a vast Spanish antiphoner in a magnificent gilt binding ; illuminated books of hours from Paris, Rouen, Chartres, Angers, Troyes, Orleans, Bourges, Utrecht, Bruges, and elsewhere ; documents, including a royal charter of 1149 and Jewish contract of 1440 written in the synagogue of Jaca ; and single leaves and miniatures, including parts of a missal probably from Neubourg Abbey in Alsace, two thirteenth-century miniatures from Brabant, and a hitherto unrecorded bifolium in eighth-century Merovingian minuscule [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1995   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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