Great Libraries of the World - Treasures of the Getty Museum

Lot 1025 limit € 380

with 10 elaborate facsimiles, individually behind passe-partout, including: 1. The women at the grave (Ottoman, Mainz or Fulda, approx. 1025-1050), 2. St. Matthew at the writing desk (Gospel, Helmarshausen, ca. 1120-1140), 3. The Creation of the World (Stemheim Missal, Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Michael, Hildesheim, ca. 1170-1180), 4. Annunciation (miniature from a Psalter, Würzburg , ca. 1240), 5. Initial C: David playing the carillon (master of the Ingeborg Psalter, probably Noyon, after 1205), 6. Two fishermen on a sea monster (bestiary, Franco-Flemish, ca. 1270), 7. Die vocation of St. Peter and Andrew (Master of the Brussels Initials, Missal, Bologna, 1389-1404), 8. St. Michael defeats demons (Lieven van Lathem / Nicolas Spierinc, prayer book of Charles the Bold, Ghent or Antwerp, 1469 and ca. 1471), 9. The moderate and the excessive (Master of the Dresden prayer book, fragment of the Faits et dits memorables des romains, translation by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas Gonesse after Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, Bruges, ca. 1475-1480), 10. Bathsheba bathing (Jean Bourdichon, miniature from the Book of Hours of Louis XII, Tours, 1498-1499), Gütersloh : Faksimile Verlag, 2009, one of 1995 copies, here the number 1153, in an elaborate leather case with a magnificent medallion (approx. 47.5 x 33.5 x 8.5 cm), beautiful condition as new