| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
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. |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby & Co., 1952 |
| Physical desc. |
20 pages, [7] leaves of plates ; illustrations (1 color) ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
10/11/1952 |
| Including property of W. Charles Fewtrell, Rt. Hon. Lord Rennell of Rodd, Rt. Hon. Lord Kenyon, Lt.-Col. T.A. Thornton and Sir Derrick Julius Wernher. |
| Annotated by J.V.S. Wilkinson, indicating lots 54 (Burmese album, property of Mrs. S.M. Westlake, £26), 55 (Panorama of eight scenes, property of W. Charles Fewtrell, £20), and 69 (John Kameniates. Account of the Sack of Salonica, £10 [W 146]) were bought via Maggs Bros. |
| Includes a loosely inserted printed list of prices and buyers' names. |
| Date & place of sale |
Monday 10 November 1952, London |
| Person as subject |
Fewtrell, W. Charles -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Rennell of Rodd, Francis James Rennell Rodd -- Baron -- 1895-1978 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Kenyon -- Lord -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Thornton, T.A. -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Wernher, Derrick Julius -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Bu 1202 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Bu 1203 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- W 146 |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, European -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Burmese |
| Manuscripts, Greek |
