Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 8,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
(BIBLE IN LATIN. NEW TESTAMENT. GOSPELS.) Book of Kells. Ms. 58, Trinity College Library, Dublin. Complete color facsimile with volume of commentary in German. Together, 2 volumes. Folio, facsimile in original white morocco over wooden boards in publisher's black leather case with gilt- and blind-stamped Celtic strapwork decoration and onlaid openwork metal fittings, commentary volume in original 1/4 white morocco. Lucerne, 1990
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one of 1480 sets of the first full-color facsimile of one of the masterpieces of medieval manuscript illumination, the famed Insular Gospels dating from circa 800.