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A selection of illuminated manuscripts from the 13th to the 16th centuries [other title:] Property of Mr. J.R. Ritman and sold for the benefit of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam (catalogue of an auction conducted by Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2000)

London, Sotheby’s, 2000
(27 cm), 264 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 57 lots. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Included in sale were 26 Books of Hours; the highest price was achieved for a copiously illuminated 14th-century Metz Hours, £200,000 (against the reserve; subsequently in Tenschert’s Catalogue 23, 2001, item 2; and Sourget’s Catalogue 29, 2004, item 1). Saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 2000, p.408. First “selection” only (second and third sales were conducted by Sotheby’s on 19 June 2001 and 17 June 2003). ¶ Annotated, partly priced.

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