| Corporate Author |
Sam Fogg Rare Books & Manuscripts (Firm) |
| Title |
Illuminated manuscripts |
| Publisher |
London : Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts, 1998 |
| Physical desc. |
141 pages ; colour illustrations ; 30 cm. |
| Note |
Sales catalogue with an exhibition held 27 January to 12 February 1999, at the Blumka Gallery, New York. |
| Catalogue 20 |
| Reference to a manuscript formerly in the collection of A. Chester Beatty: page 36, lot 10, Histoire ancienne of Jacques d'Armagnac; detailed provenance information, including: 'The book was then lost from view until 21 June 1923 when Mrs Beatty [Edith Beatty] obtained it from Bernard Quaritch, now recently rebound in two volumes, as a present for her husband, as recorded as an inscription on the fourth fly-leaf. It became Western MS 74 [W 74] in the Chester Beatty collection, and was sold in his first sale at Sotheby's, 7 June 1932, lot 20. It was bought there by the Spanish Art Gallery, and sold to William Randolph Hearst...'. |
| Subject |
Manuscripts, Latin -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Slavic -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, European -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance -- Catalogs |
| Books of hours -- Catalogs |
| Antiphonaries -- Catalogs |
| Fine bindings -- Catalogs |
| Historiated initials -- Catalogs |
