Western Manuscripts and Miniatures [ Sotheby's, auction catalogue, sale date: 6 December, 1993 ] by Sotheby's - 1993

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the first sale held on 6th December, 1993. Printed wrappers, 4to,. 91 pp, plates (some colour), ills. 75 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: two thirteenth-century medical manuscripts, one from the medieval library of Clare College, Cambridge, and both once in the library of Helmingham Hall; an apparently autogragh manuscript of Savonarola's sermons of 1490-91; fragments of manuscripts probably looted by the Saracens from the sack of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187; fragments of five manuscripts in Beneventan minuscule; medieval documents, including two from the thirteenth-century Cistercian abbey at Stanlaw, manuscripts in Latin, Greek, French, Anglo-Norman, Dutch, Middle High German, Armenian and Hebrew; manuscripts of texts by Pliny the Younger, Cicero, Frontinus, Prudentius, St.Basil, Guibert de Tournai, Benvesino de Riva. Clement V, Jacopo delle Marca, and William Lyndwood; and fragments of other manuscripts of Ovid, Priscian, Isidore of Seville, Stjerome, St.Augustine, St. Gregory, and of the Schwabenspiegel; Books of Hours, including one entirely in French and two richly illustrated in Rouen in the workshop of the Master of the Geneva Latini, and a fine Florentine Book of Hours illustrated by Francesco Roselli and Monte del Fora. Vendors included "the late Philip Robinson,... the late Robin Howard ... the Lord O'Hagan, M.E.P Top fore-edge corners of front wrapper, title-page and a preliminary leaf cut away, five or six ink corrections or marginal marks, otherwise Near Fine.