Jun 13, 2002 - Sale 1939

Sale 1939 - Lot 152

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
300 POUND BREVIARY FACSIMILE (MANUSCRIPT REFERENCE.) Le Breviare Grimani de la Bibliotheque S. Marc a Venise. Introduction by G. Coggiola. 1581 plates, including 300 in color. 3 text volumes (in French) and 12 volumes of plates. Folio, text volumes in wrappers, spines defective, scattered soiling and wear, tear on cover of Volume 1; plates loose as issued in original cloth portfolios, variously worn, including dampstaining to rear cover of portfolio 9 affecting last several plates. sold as is.<> Leiden and Amsterdam, 1903-10

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A gargantuan, 300-pound facsimile of the 1478 breviary produced by John Memling and other artists of Bruges, purchased by Cardinal Grimani, and now in the library of St. Mark's in Venice.<