Western Manuscripts and Miniatures : including the Armagnac Breviary. illuminated for Jean du Roussay, Paris, before 1407. [ Sotheby's, auction catalogue, sale date: 23 June, 1987 ] by Sotheby's - 1987

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 23rd June, 1987. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 264 pp, plates (some colour). 150 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: the Armagnac Breviary, illuminated for Jean du Roussay, Paris, before 1407; the Bible of Santa Cecilia in Rome, 2 volumes, 9th and 11th century; romanesque manuscripts including a Homiliary, two Psalters, an Origen from Lambach Abbey, and a Greek Lectionary from Constantinople; romances of Alexander the Great, Sir John Mandeville, and L'Abuze en Court; classical and humanist texts, including books by Ovid, Horace, Cicero, Petrarch, and William Horman; 25 Books of Hours, including examples from Florence, Perugia, Paris, Tours, Anjou, Amiens, Auvergne, Bourges, Troyes, Bruges, Delft, Utrecht and Germany; a Bull of Pius V addressed to central America, and the earliest known South American choirbook; an archive of charters issued in Palestine during the Siege of Acre, 1191; a collection of 28 Greek manuscripts from the library of Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906); manuscripts from the Christian Orient including a Synaxarium illuminated for the Empress Sabla Wengel of Ethiopia, 1646; manuscripts in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, French, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Langue d'Oc, Italian, Portugese, German, Dutch, Russian, Coptic, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Ge'ez andTigrijnya. Front wrapper faintly creased, otherwise near Very Good.