Author: JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY.
Title: [Sale] Catalogue of Western Illuminated Manuscripts, the Property of The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island. and comprising the Bequests of John Nicholas Brown and Louisa Dexter Sharpe Metcalf including The Ottobeuren Gradual and Sacramentary and the Psalter of the Prince d'Anjou from the collection of Horace Walpole. 18 May 1981. Sale Code: WALPOLE.. NEAR FINE COPY WITH ESTIMATES
Description: Sotheby,, 1981. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with fine coloured facsimile as frontispiece, 12 fine coloured facsimiles (8 full-page) and numerous facsimiles (a number full-page) in monochrome; original green boards printed in black, a near fine copy. WITH THE PRINTED LIST OF ESTIMATES LOOSELY INSERTED. The catalogues lists 19 lots. The catalogue includes an introduction to the John Carter Brown Library by Thomas Adams and list of sources. The Ottobeuren Gradual was purchased by Kraus for over GBP700,000.

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