Book of Hours (Use of Paris)
Hours of the Holy Cross (Compline)
F-shop
Bloomington, IN, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 24), no. 30
Parke-Bernet Galleries, London, Wilson's Ornithology, Boswell papers, other material : collected by the late Ormond G. Smith, removed from his New York City home and sold by order of the heir, Gerald H. Smith ; selections from the library of the late Florence Mathews of New York, sold by order of United States Trust Company of New York and G. Forrest Butterworth, Jr., executors, Milton's 'Paradise Lost', Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield, from the library of Adelaide B. Baylis, New York, illuminated and other manuscripts of the XIII-XVI centuries, Phillips' Ducks, Audubon's Birds of America ; property of two mid-western private collectors, flower prints ... sets of standard authors and other properties. 23 February 1939, Lot 217 (Printed, Handwritten, or Typescript)
Original Condition
Page Height
187 mm
Page Width
127 mm
Number of Columns
1
Number of Lines
14
Numbering
189 folios
More about the Condition
Includes 7 minatures with borders more elaborately decorated and embellished.
History
Provenance
Offered by Bernard Quaritch cat. 240 (1905), no. 230 and cat. 290 (1910), no. 253;
Sold by Quaritch to C. L. Ricketts in 1922;
C. L. Ricketts, in S. de Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the
United States and Canada I:634, no. 116;
Sold by Parke-Bernet Galleries, 23 February 1939, lot 217.
Other available descriptions
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Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, Massachusetts) LIS 464 (Fall 2017) observations
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de Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: American Council of Learned Societies, 1935-1937.
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Quaritch 1905 Catalogue (lot 230)
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