Highlights from Books, Manuscripts & Music, from Medieval to Modern

Highlights from Books, Manuscripts & Music, from Medieval to Modern

Highlights from Books, Manuscripts & Music, from Medieval to Modern

Highlights from Books, Manuscripts & Music, from Medieval to Modern

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The Pelican Hours, Book of Hours (Use of Paris), in Latin, on vellum, illuminated by the Master of Jean d’Albret, the Master of the Chronique Scandaleuse, and the Master of the Triumphs of Petrarch (France, Paris), c.1490–1500

The Pelican Hours, Book of Hours (Use of Paris), in Latin, on vellum, illuminated by the Master of Jean d’Albret, the Master of the Chronique Scandaleuse, and the Master of the Triumphs of Petrarch (France, Paris), c.1490–1500

An illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours depicting the Crucifixion by the Master of Guillebert de Mets, on vellum, in Latin, (Southern Netherlands, probably Ghent), c. 1440–50

An illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours depicting the Crucifixion by the Master of Guillebert de Mets, on vellum, in Latin, (Southern Netherlands, probably Ghent), c. 1440–50

Giovanni Domenico Cassini | Theoriae motus cometae anni MDCLXIV [bound with] Lettere astronomiche..., Rome, 1665, two extremely rare and important first editions in one volume

Giovanni Domenico Cassini | Theoriae motus cometae anni MDCLXIV [bound with] Lettere astronomiche..., Rome, 1665, two extremely rare and important first editions in one volume

Antoine Phérotée de La Croix | Algemeene Weereld-Beschryving, Amsterdam, 1705, first edition in Dutch, 3 volumes, contemporary hand-colouring, heightened with gold

Antoine Phérotée de La Croix | Algemeene Weereld-Beschryving, Amsterdam, 1705, first edition in Dutch, 3 volumes, contemporary hand-colouring, heightened with gold

[Jane Austen] | Mansfield Park, 1814, first edition, 3 volumes, the Methven Castle copy

[Jane Austen] | Mansfield Park, 1814, first edition, 3 volumes, the Methven Castle copy

Richard Wagner | Autograph vocal part relating to Wagner's arrangement of Gluck's "Iphigénie en Aulide", 1847

Richard Wagner | Autograph vocal part relating to Wagner's arrangement of Gluck's "Iphigénie en Aulide", 1847