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Sale Price 2.78 2.78 3.09 Original Price 3.09 (10 off) Add to Favorites The Queen ISABELLA BREVIARY Deluxe Art Book: Silk, Hardcover, Dust-jacket 352 pages 9x13 in Medieval Illuminated Manuscript. MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS LEAF, c. Please contact Adrien Legendre to book an in-person appointment. Illuminated Manuscript Border Medieval Decorative Frame Vintage Digital Paper Pack. RARE Medieval Vellum Illuminated Manuscript Book of Hours Leaf w/ Gold, c.1480.

Prior to the sale in New York, the manuscripts from the Rosenberg Collection will be on tour and exhibited at Christie’s Paris from 18–23 March. Illuminated manuscript leaf (c1475) from a French Book of Hours with a colorful, vivid miniature of Mary and God on vellum. The printed books comprise the most extensive collection of incunabula offered for sale in decades: over 200 volumes printed in the 15 th century, many in their original bindings, in addition to a dozen Books of Hours, mostly printed on vellum, of the early 16 th century.Īll proceeds from the sale will benefit designated museums for the support of their Rare Book departments. Several were owned by some of the most important collectors of their time – from the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to Henry Yates Thompson and William Randolph Hearst. Each stands out for its jewel-like artworks, its sumptuous illumination or its understated elegance. The illuminated manuscripts offered for sale represent the culmination of 15 th- and 16 th-century European manuscript painting. The National Art Library at the V&A holds over 300 Western illuminated manuscripts dating from the 11th to the early 20th century, including books of hours. His wife Elaine was an influential Fellow of The Morgan Library and deeply involved with MoMA and the Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Alexandre’s gallery in New York won acclaim with exhibitions that ranged from Renaissance bronzes to Cezanne and Picasso, American modernists and contemporaries from England and Italy. Alexandre Rosenberg, founding president of the Art Dealers Association of America, was the son of the pre-eminent French art dealer Paul Rosenberg, who represented giants of modern art such as Picasso, Matisse and Braque.

These results are a reflection of the unrivalled service offered by Christie’s as market leader in the field and as the only international auction house with a dedicated team of illuminated manuscript specialists.Christie’s is honoured to present one of the most important collections of illuminated manuscripts and early printed books to have appeared at auction: the collection of Elaine and Alexandre P. The first edition of the complete works of Plato, printed by the nuns of San Jacopo di Ripoli from 1484-1485, achieved a world record-breaking price for any book by Plato and for any book chiefly printed by women (USD$1,026,000). The entire sale saw exceptional results and sell-through rates (98%) with the top lot, the splendid Hours by the Master of the Paris Bartholomeus Anglicus (USD$3,63,000) joining the select handful of manuscripts that have fetched over a million dollars in the past 50 years. The Rosenberg collections of illuminated manuscripts and of early printed books were both the highest totals achieved at auction in these categories in decades. It has been a privilege and a delight to have been able to work with the illuminated manuscripts and early printed books from this collection, and it shows once again how strong the market is for items of impeccable provenance, condition and quality. This edition was translated by Marsilio Ficino, one of the greatest scholars of Greek in the Renaissance and printed in Florence by the nuns of San Jacopo di Ripoli.Įugenio Donadoni, Senior Specialist, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, London, comments, “This was a once-in-a-generation auction, and an emphatic endorsement of the exquisite taste and discerning eye of Alexandre and Elaine Rosenberg. The second top lot of the collection a complete first edition of the works of Plato which set a world auction record any work by Plato and totaled $1,026,000, above the estimate of $200,000-400,000. Leading the collection was a masterpiece of book painting, the illuminated example of the work of the Master of the Paris Bartholomeus Anglicus, a Parisian Book of Hours, circa 1440 which achieved $3,630,000, exceeding its estimate of $1,500,000-2,500,000.