Handlist of western medieval manuscripts currently or formerly in the collections of Sir Alfred Chester and Edith Beatty Manuscripts were usually given multiple numbers during their time in the Beattys’ collection. For the purposes of this list in part one the numbers given in Eric Millar’s catalogue will be used as the main reference (although other numbers will be listed where these are known). The Millar references are the numbers found in the manuscripts, usually at the top of the inside cover or first flyleaf. Entries in this handlist are presented as follows: Major reference number (alternative numbers) Author and title of work, in the form (or forms) in which it appears in catalogue entries for the MS Acq. = Source and date from which the MS was acquired with price paid if known. Last known whereabouts of MS Dis. = Date and means by which MS was disposed of with price paid if known. Common abbreviations: ACB = Alfred Chester Beatty EB = Edith Beatty Quaritch = Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Part 1: Manuscripts included in E. G. Millar, The Library of A. Chester Beatty: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts 2 Vols (Oxford, 1927-30). W MS 1 (W MS 0) Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (fragment) Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 36275), 4 th Aug. 1924, £20. 1 New York, Morgan Library MS M 826 (http://corsair.the morgan.org/cgi- bin/Pwebrecon.cgi ?BBID=158923) Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7 th Jun. 1932, lot 1, £48, to Quaritch. W MS 2 (W MS 1) Homilary (The Ottobeuren Homilary) Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 8400), 23 rd Feb. 1923, £880. 2 Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale, VE 1190 Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9 th May 1933, lot 34, £680, to Maggs Bros. 1 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Phillipps-Robinson C. 719, letter from ACB to Mr Fitzroy-Fenwick dated 4 th Aug. 1924 and countersigned by Fenwick 9 th Aug. 1924. 2 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Phillipps-Robinson C. 719, agreement between ACB and Mr Fenwick dated 23 rd Feb. 1923.
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Handlist of western medieval manuscripts currently or formerly in the
collections of Sir Alfred Chester and Edith Beatty
Manuscripts were usually given multiple numbers during their time in the Beattys’ collection. For
the purposes of this list in part one the numbers given in Eric Millar’s catalogue will be used as the
main reference (although other numbers will be listed where these are known). The Millar
references are the numbers found in the manuscripts, usually at the top of the inside cover or first
flyleaf.
Entries in this handlist are presented as follows:
Major reference number
(alternative numbers)
Author and title of work, in the form (or forms) in which it appears in catalogue entries for the MS
Acq. = Source and date from which the MS was acquired with price paid if known.
Last known whereabouts of MS
Dis. = Date and means by which MS was disposed of with price paid if known.
Common abbreviations:
ACB = Alfred Chester Beatty
EB = Edith Beatty
Quaritch = Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
Part 1: Manuscripts included in E. G. Millar, The Library of A. Chester Beatty: A Descriptive
Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts 2 Vols (Oxford, 1927-30).
W MS 1 (W MS 0) Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (fragment)
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 36275), 4th Aug. 1924, £20.1
New York, Morgan Library MS M 826 (http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=158923)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun. 1932, lot 1, £48, to Quaritch.
W MS 2 (W MS 1) Homilary (The Ottobeuren Homilary)
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 8400), 23rd Feb. 1923, £880.2
Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale, VE 1190
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9th May 1933, lot 34, £680, to Maggs Bros.
1 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Phillipps-Robinson C. 719, letter from ACB to Mr Fitzroy-Fenwick dated 4th Aug. 1924 and countersigned by Fenwick 9th Aug. 1924. 2 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Phillipps-Robinson C. 719, agreement between ACB and Mr Fenwick dated 23rd Feb. 1923.
W MS 3 (W MS 1A)
Augustine and Jerome, Theological Works, Commodianus, Carmen Apologeticum
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 12261), 4th Aug. 1924, £850.3
London, British Library, Add. MS 43460 Dis. = private sale to Wilfred
Merton, who ‘immediately offered to transfer it to the [British] Museum at cost price’, 1933.4
W MS 4 (W MS 1B)
Datiani, Epistola; Fulgentius, De Veritate Praedestinationis etc.
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 12260), 4th Aug. 1924, £750.5
Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale, VE 1006
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun. 1932, lot 2, £760, to Negrati.
W MS 5 (W MS 1C; 5)
Augustine, Sermons
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 12264), 4th Aug. 1924, £800.6
Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale, VE 1357
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 24th Jun. 1969, lot 38, £48000, to Leo S. Olschki.
W MS 6 (W MS 1D)
Eugippius, Excerpts from St Augustine
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 12263), 4th Aug. 1924, £850.7
Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale, VE Sessor 590
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9th May 1933, lot 36, £390, to Maggs Bros.
W MS 7 (W MS 2; 7)
Bede, Commentary on the Canonical Epistles and Apocalypse
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 12262), 23rd Feb. 1923, £280.8
Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale, VE 1347
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec. 1968, lot 1, £1700, to L. S. Olschki.
3 See n. 1 above. 4 E. G. Millar, ‘Three Manuscripts from the Chester Beatty Collection’, BMQ (1933) p. 18. 5 See n. 1 above. 6 See n. 1 above. 7 See n. 1 above. 8 See n. 2 above.
W MS 8 (W MS 3; 109)
Gospel Book (The Tours Gospels)
Acq. = through Quaritch, 1919, £1775.9
New York, Morgan Library MS M 860 (http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=159109)
Dis. = sold 1952 by EB through Maggs Bros to the Morgan Library for £15750.10
W MS 9 (W MS 4; 8A & 8B; 87)
Gospel Book Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 2165/21787), 17th Dec. 1920, £1500.11
New York, Morgan Library MS M 862 (http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=159129)
Dis. = sold 1952 by EB through Maggs Bros to the Morgan Library for £7875.12
W MS 10 (W MS 5; 104)
Gospel Book Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 14122) by EB, 17th Dec. 1920, £500.13
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum W 751 (http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W751/)
Dis. = sold 1952 by EB through Maggs Bros.14
W MS 11 (W MS 6) Capitularies of Charlemagne, Louis the Pious and Charles the Bald (Ansegisi Capitula)
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 10190), 23rd Feb. 1923, £500.15
Yale, Beinecke Library MS 413 (http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3527259)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 24th Jun. 1969, lot 40, £24000, to H. P. Kraus Inc.
9 S. de Ricci, ‘Les manuscrits de la collection Henry Yates Thompson’, Bulletin de la Société francaise de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures (1926), p. 32. 10 London, National Archives, T218/409. 11 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Phillipps-Robinson C. 719, letter from ACB to Fenwick dated 17th Dec. 1920. Sale was approved by Court 20th Dec. 1920 and the manuscripts came into the possession of ACB and EB in January 1921. 12 London, National Archives, T218/409. 13 See n. 11 above and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Phillipps-Robinson C. 719, letter from ACB to Fenwick of 30th Dec. 1920. 14 http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W751 (accessed 19.11.2015). 15 See n. 2 above.
W MS 12 (W MS 7) Canons of the Council of Aix-la-Chapelle
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 6546), 23rd Feb. 1923, £250.16
Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale VE 1348
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec. 1968, lot 3, £14000, to L. S. Olschki.
W MS 13 (W MS 9) Canons of the Council of Aix-la-Chapelle
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 389), May 1923, £400.17
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer Cod. Bodmer 68 (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/fmb/cb-0068)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 24th Jun. 1969, lot 39, £19000, to Martin Breslauer.
W MS 14 (W MS 8) Councils and Decretals (Canones Conciliorum et Decreta Romanorum Pontificum (Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana))
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 390), May 1923, £450.18
Princeton, Scheide Library
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 24th Jun. 1969, lot 41, £12000, to Bernard M. Rosenthal Inc.
W MS 15 (W MS 9B)
Eutropius, Breviarum ab Urbe Condita (The Maffei Eutropius)
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 3075), 4th Aug. 1924, £275.19
Oslo, Schøyen Collection, MS 50 (http://www.schoyencollection.com/history-collection-introduction/roman-history-collection/roman-history-ms-50) Deaccessioned.
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9th May 1933, lot 38, £220.
16 See n. 2 above. 17 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Phillipps-Robinson C. 719, corrected offer in letter from ACB to Fenwick of 21st May 1923. 18 See n. 17 above. 19 See n. 1 above.
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 3674), 17th Dec. 1920, £230.20
London, British Library, Egerton MS 3089 (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8738&CollID=28&NStart=3089)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9th May 1933, lot 39, £250, to Quaritch.
W MS 17 (W MS 10; 100)
Gospel Book (The Stavelot Gospels)
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 12348), 17th Dec. 1920, £800.21
Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W 017
n/a
W MS 18 (W MS 15; 94)
Gregory the Great, Homilies on Ezechiel
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 934/2708), 17th Dec. 1920, £270.22
[sold at Sotheby’s 20th Jun. 1978 (Abbey Sale), lot 2976] Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec.
1968, lot 4, £10000, to Maggs Bros.
W MS 19 (W MS 16; 57; 122)
Gospel Book (The Mostyn Gospels)
Acq. = Sotheby’s sale 13th Jul. 1920 (Mostyn Sale), lot 40, £2500.23
New York, Morgan Library MS M 777 (http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=143954)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun. 1932, lot 4, £1500.
W MS 20 (W MS 12; 24)
Gospels of Matthew and Mark
Acq. = from Leon Gruel, Feb. 1920.24
Yale, Beinecke Library MS 402 (http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3592243)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 24th Jun. 1969, lot 43, £7500, to H. P. Kraus.
20 See n. 11 above. 21 See n. 11 above. 22 See n. 11 above. 23 London, Quaritch Archives, Commission Book for 1917-1920, p. 1500. 24 Millar, vol. 1 p. 75.
W MS 21 (W MS 16A)
Missal (Le Mans Missal)
Acq. = privately Paris 1924.25
New York, Morgan Library MS G 17 (http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=76952)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9th May 1933, lot 40, to Rosenthal.
W MS 22 (W MS 17; 106)
Bible, Genesis-Ruth (The Walsingham Bible)
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 4769), 17th Dec. 1920, £2000.26
Dublin, Chester Beatty Library W 022
n/a
W MS 23 (W MS 18; 84)
Lectionary (The Trond Lectionary)
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 3535), 17th Dec. 1920, £360.27
New York, Morgan Library MS M 883 (http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=159472)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9th May 1933, lot 41, to Quaritch.
W MS 24 (W MS 19; 91)
Minor Prophets, glossed
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 21948), 17th Dec. 1920, £285.28
New York, Morgan Library MS M 962 (http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=145526)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9th May 1933, lot 42, £560, to Quaritch.
W MS 25 (W MS 20; 110)
Augustine, Works
Acq. = Quaritch, 1920.29
Harvard, Houghton Library MS Richardson 26 (http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:939450)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun. 1932, lot 6, to Maggs Bros.
W MS 26 (W MS 21; 110)
Augustine, Treatises Against Heresy
Acq. = Quaritch, 1920.30
San Marino, Huntingdon Library, HM 31151 (images available through the ‘Digital Scriptorium’)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec. 1968, lot 6, £5000, to Maggs Bros.
25 Millar, vol. 1 p. 76. 26 See n. 11 above. 27 See n. 11 above. 28 See n. 11 above. 29 Millar, vol. 1 p. 94. 30 Millar, vol. 1 p. 96.
W MS 27 (W MS 22; 43)
Luke’s Gospel, glossed
Acq. = Quaritch, 1920.31
[sold at Sotheby’s 7th Jul. 2009, lot 19, http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/western-manuscripts-and-miniatures-and-the-korner-sale-l09740/lot.19.html]
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec. 1968, lot 7, £3200, to Charles W. Traylen.
W MS 28 (W MS 22A)
Zacharias Chrysopolitanus, In Unum ex Quatuor
Acq. = Sotheby’s sale 27th Jul. 1925, lot 201, £700.32
The Wormsley Library
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9th May 1933, lot 43, to Quaritch.
W MS 29 (W MS 23; 92)
Job, glossed Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 3344), 17th Dec. 1920, £285.33
Dublin, Chester Beatty Library W 029
n/a
W MS 30 (W MS 24; 39)
Bible, Isaiah to 1 Corinthians
Acq. = from Leon Gruel, 1920.34
Yale, Beinecke Library MS 414 (http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3592276)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 24th Jun. 1969, lot 44, £12000, to H. P. Kraus Inc.
W MS 31 (W MS 14; 95)
Bede, Expositio in Lucam (Commentary on St Luke)
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 1092), 17th Dec. 1920, £250.35
Harvard, Houghton Library MS Typ 202 (http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:3
715484)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun. 1932, lot 7, £150, to Quaritch.
31 Chester Beatty Library Archive, Western Manuscripts: Old General Catalogue. 32 London, Quaritch Archives, Commission Book for 1921-1926 p. 1852. 33 See n. 11 above. 34 Millar, vol. 1 p. 104. 35 See n. 11 above.
W MS 32 (W MS 27; 96)
Peter Lombard, Commentary on the Psalms
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 4597), 17th Dec. 1920, £250.36
36 See n. 11 above. 37 See n. 11 above. 38 London, Quaritch Archives, Commission Book for 1921-1926 p. 1644. 39 Millar, vol. 1 p. 117. 40 Chester Beatty Library Archive, Western Manuscripts: Old General Catalogue. 41 Chester Beatty Library Archive, Western Manuscripts: Old General Catalogue.
W MS 38 (W MS 39)
The de Brailes Leaves
Acq. = Dr Rosenbach, New York, Nov. 1920, $6000.42
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum MS 330 Dis. = privately to the Fitzwilliam
Museum with the aid of the National Art Collections Fund, 1932, £3500.
W MS 39 (W MS 30)
Psalter (fragment)
Acq. = privately in Holland, 1922.43
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 24th Jun. 1969, lot 46, £18000, to Quaritch.
Acq. = Sotheby’s sale, 4th May 1926, lot 29, £2050.46
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum MS 16 (http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1483/unknown-maker-gospel-lectionary-ottonian-late-10th-century/)
Dis. =
W MS 43 (W MS 13A)
Augustine, De Civitate Dei
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 12269), Nov. 1925, £1500 by EB.47
Dublin, Chester Beatty Library W 043
n/a
42 Millar, vol. 1 p. 122; see also British Library Add MS 52657 f. 54. 43 Millar, vol. 1 p. 127. 44 Chester Beatty Library Archive, Western Manuscripts: Old General Catalogue. 45 Millar, vol. 1 p. 134. 46 London, Quaritch Archives, Commission Book for 1926-1930, p. 1906. 47 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Phillipps-Robinson C. 719.
W MS 44 (W MS 24A; 133)
Peter Lombard, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles
Acq. = ‘from a Spanish collector through the late S. Babra, Barcelona, 1927’.48
New York, Morgan Library MS M 939 (http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=160096)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec. 1968, lot 9, £17000, to E. P. Goldsmith & Co. Ltd.
W MS 45 (W MS 19A; 134)
Cassiodorus, Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita
Acq. = Sotheby’s sale, 12th Dec 1927, lot 56, £280.49
[sold at Sotheby’s 7th Jul. 2009, lot 20, http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/western-manuscripts-and-miniatures-and-the-korner-sale-l09740/lot.20.html]
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec. 1968, lot 10, £3400, to Charles W. Traylen.
W MS 46 (W MS 18A; 135)
Gratian, Decretum (Decretals)
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 1036), 23rd Feb. 1923, £395.50
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum MS W. 777 Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec.
1968, lot 11, £4000, to Maggs Bros.
W MS 47 (W MS 27A; 136)
Gospel Book (The Seitenstetten Gospels)
Acq. = Jacques Rosenthal, 1927.51
New York, Morgan Library MS M 808 (http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=147059)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9th May 1933, lot 47, £1150.
W MS 48 (MS W 31A; 137)
Gradual (The Seitenstetten Gradual), (catalogued as a Missal by Millar)
Acq. = Jacques Rosenthal, 1927.52
New York, Morgan Library MS M 855 (http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=158991)
Dis. = sold by EB, 1951, to Morgan Library.53
48 Millar, vol. 2 p. 1. 49 London, Quaritch Archives, Commission Book for 1926-1930, p. 2033. 50 See n. 2 above. 51 Millar, vol. 2 p. 13. 52 Millar, vol. 2 p. 17. 53 http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=158991 (accessed 14.11.2015)
Bible Acq. = from P. M. Barnard, Tunbridge Wells, 1917.54
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec. 1969, lot 48, £800, to Quaritch.
W MS 50 (W MS 39A; 45)
Bible Acq. = privately from Mrs Wallace Watts, 1926.55
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec. 1968, lot 13, £2200, to N. Israel.
W MS 51 (W MS 41; 46)
Bible (The Bible of Jean Bude)
Acq. = purchased privately, through S. C. Cockerell.56
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1997.320 (http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/466297)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9th May 1933, lot 48, to Perimayne.
W MS 52 (W MS 43D; 48)
Bible Acq. = privately from Arthur Severn Esq., 1926.57
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec. 1968, lot 16, £1700, to Martin Breslauer.
W MS 53 (W MS 43C; 47)
Bible Acq. = privately from Arthur Severn Esq., 1926.58
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 24th Jun. 1969, lot 50, £3000, to Rainer.
W MS 54 (W MS 42; 50; 108)
Bible in 4 Vols. (The Duprat Bible)
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 4259), 20th Dec. 1920, £2000.59
Boston Public Library MS 1532
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun. 1932, lot 13, £600.
54 Millar, vol. 2 p. 26. 55 Millar, vol. 2 p. 29. 56 Millar, vol. 2 p. 32. 57 Millar, vol. 2 p. 37. 58 Millar, vol. 2 p. 42. 59 See n. 11 above.
W MS 55 (W MS 25; 45; 50*)
Bible Acq. = Quaritch, 1918.60
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun. 1932, lot 14, to Quaritch.
W MS 56 (W MS 44A; 51)
Bible Acq. = Myers and Co. New Bond St, 1927.61
Milan, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense AC IX 36 Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec.
1968, lot 17, £2000, to Dr Radaeli.
W MS 57 (W MS 44; 52; 85)
Bible Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 447), 20th Dec. 1920, £135.62
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 24th Jun. 1969, lot 51, £6000, Bernard de Gabrielli.
W MS 58 (W MS 43B; 53)
Missal (fragment)
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 4448), 4th Aug. 1924, £285.63
Oxford, Lincoln College MS Lat. 150 (E)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 24th Jun. 1969, lot 52, £3500, to Maggs Bros.
W MS 59 (W 39B; 54)
Bede, De Temporum Ratione; Chronicle of Dore Abbey (Treatises on the Compotus; of Natural Things; Chronicles of Robert Losinga, Bishop of Hereford, and of Hugh of St Victor; and annals of Dore Abbey)
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 12200), 4th Aug. 1924, £675.64
London, British Library Egerton MS 3088 (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8747&CollID=28&NStart=3088)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9th May 1933, lot 49, £270, to Quaritch.
60 Millar, vol. 2 p. 54. 61 Chester Beatty Library Archive, Western Manuscripts: Old General Catalogue. 62 See n. 11 above. 63 See n. 1 above. 64 See n. 1 above.
W MS 60 (W 50; 55; 71)
Hours (The Salvin Hours)
Acq. = Sotheby’s sale, 23rd Mar. 1920 (Yates Thompson Sale), lot 35, £2000.65
London, British Library Add. MS 48985
Dis. = presented to the British Museum, 1955.
W MS 61 (W MS 50B; 57)
Psalter Acq. = privately from R. G. L. Barrett, Esq. 1924.66
Dublin, Chester Beatty Library W 061 n/a
W MS 62 (W MS 50C; 58)
Conrad of Saxony, Speculum Beate Marie Virginis
Acq. = Sotheby’s sale, 5th May 1926 (Brollemann-Mallet sale), lot 155.67
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9th May 1933, lot 50, to Quaritch.
W MS 63 (W MS 51; 59; 124)
Antiphoner (Beaupré Antiphoner) 4 Vols.
Acq. = Sotheby’s sale 22nd Jun. 1921 (Yates Thompson Sale), lot 67, £1510.68
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum W. 759 -762 (http://art.thewalters.org/detail/31958)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun. 1932, lot 15, £1850, to Spanish Art Gallery.
W MS 64 (W MS 50A; 56)
Hours (The Ruskin Hours)
Acq. = privately from Dr S. C. Cockerell, 1924.69
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum MS Ludwig IX 3 (http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1387/unknown-maker-ruskin-hours-french-about-1300/)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun. 1932, lot 16, £2900, to Quaritch.
65 London, Quaritch Archives, Commission Book for 1917-1920, p. 1446. 66 Millar, vol. 2 p. 75. 67 Millar, vol. 2 p. 80. 68 London, Quaritch Archives, Commission Book for 1921-1926, p. 1586. 69 Millar, vol. 2 p. 103.
W MS 65 (W MS 37; 60)
Aristotle, De Caelo et Mundo, Meteora, Metaphysica
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 3383), 23rd Feb. 1923, £165.70
[sold Sotheby’s, 7th Jul. 2009, lot 35, (http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/western-manuscripts-and-miniatures-and-the-korner-sale-l09740/lot.35.html)]
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale, 3rd Dec. 1968, lot 15, £5800.
W MS 66 (W MS 48; 61; 146)
Gratian, Decretum (Decretals)
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 125), 17th Dec. 1920, £480.71
Dublin, Chester Beatty Library W 066
n/a
W MS 67 (W MS 57; 62; 97)
Justinian, The Codex of Justinian, Books I-IX
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 3339), 17th Dec. 1920, £330.72
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun. 1932, lot 17, £600, to St J. Hornby.
W MS 68 (W MS 52; 63; 102)
Augustine, De Civitate Dei, books I-XXII
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 4600), 17th Dec. 1920, £190.73
Harvard, Houghton Library MS Typ 228
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 9th May 1933, lot 51, £120, to Goodyer.
W MS 69 (W MS 49; 64)
Peter of Poitiers, Compendium in Genealogia Christi (Roll Chronicle)
Acq. = Maggs Bros., 1923, £1260.74
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer Cod. Bodmer 183
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 24th Jun. 1969, lot 54, £3200, to Martin Breslauer.
70 See n. 2 above. 71 See n. 11 above. 72 See n. 11 above. 73 See n. 11 above. 74 Chester Beatty Library Archive, Western Manuscripts: Old General Catalogue.
W MS 70 (W MS 51A; 65)
Flores Historiarum
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 3897), 4th Aug. 1924, £600.75
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec. 1968, lot 18, £6000, to Weinreb & Douwma Ltd.
W MS 71 (W MS 60D; 66)
Psalter Acq.= Quaritch, after 1924.76
Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes MS 15 (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/cl0015)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec. 1968, lot 19, £23000, to Charles W. Traylen.
W MS 72 (W MS 2; 54; 68)
Augustine, La Cité de Dieu, books I-X (in French)
Acq. = Francis Edwards.77
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun. 1932, lot 18, to T. H. Riches.
W MS 73 (W MS 1; 55; 69)
Augustine, La Cité de Dieu, books XI-XXII (in French)
Acq. = Sotheby’s sale 23rd Mar. 1920 (Yates Thompson Sale), lot LIV, £850.78
Harvard, Houghton Library MS Typ 201 (http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/13556178)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun. 1932, lot 19, to Quaritch.
W MS 74 (W MS 57A; 71)
Histoire Ancienne
Acq. = Quaritch, 1923.79
Houston, James E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell Collection80 Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun.
1932, lot 20, £1200, to Spanish Art Gallery.
75 See n. 1 above. 76 Millar, vol. 2 p. 129, see also Sotheby’s sale, 27th Jul. 1925, lot 222. 77 Millar, vol. 2 p. 142. 78 London, Quaritch Archives, Commission Book for 1917-20, p. 1446. 79 Millar, vol. 2 p. 147. 80 E. Morrison and A. D. Hedeman (ed.), Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500 (Los Angeles, 2010), p. 169.
W MS 75 (W MS 53; 56a-56f; 70)
Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Historiale
Acq. = Sotheby’s sale, 3rd Mar. 1920 (Yates Thompson Sale), lot 55, £6700.81
Bibliothèque nationale de France MSS n.a.f. 15939-15944 (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8449690f.r=15939)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec. 1968, lot 20, £88000, to ‘de Gourlay’ (pseudonym for anonymous buyer).
W MS 76 (W MS 60B; 72)
Statius of Naples, Thebaid
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 1798), Nov. 1925, by EB, £7000.82
Dublin, Chester Beatty Library W 076
n/a
W MS 77 Private Devotions, written at Bruges by Iohannes de Ecclesia
Acq. = Sotheby’s sale 29th Jul. 1929, lot 8, purchased by Bros. and resold in the saleroom to EB.83
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 3rd Dec. 1968, lot 21, £14000, to Quaritch.
W MS 78 (W MS 60B; 72; 76)
Statutes and Matricola of the Guild of Innkeepers, Perugia
Acq. = Sabin, 1921.84
Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W 078 n/a
W MS 79 (W MS 74; 84A)
Bible (Bible of Cardinal Nicholas Albergati)
Acq. = privately from the executors of Sir George Holford, 1928.85
Yale, Beinecke MS 407 (http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3432849)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 24th Jun. 1969, lot 61, £85000, to H. P. Kraus.
W MS 80 (W MS 110A; 138)
Liber de Naturis Rerum
Acq. = privately from the Phillipps Collection (no. 134/3948), Nov. 1925, by EB, £450.86
Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W 080
n/a
81 London, Quaritch Archives, Commission Book for 1917-20, p. 1446. 82 See n. 47 above. 83 Millar, vol. 2 p. 217; The Chester Beatty Western Manuscripts: Part I, Sotheby’s catalogue, 3rd Dec. 1968, p. 67. 84 Millar, vol. 2 p. 230. 85 Millar, vol. 2 p. 232. 86 See n. 47, above.
W MS 81 (W MS 74; 91; 114)
Missal Acq. = purchased from Paul Gruppe, Berlin, 1920.87
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum MS Ludwig V 6 (http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1368/master-of-the-kremnitz-stadtbuch-master-michael-unknown-missal-from-the-collegium-ducale-austrian-about-1420-1430/)
Dis. = Sotheby’s sale 7th Jun. 1932, lot 22, to Rosenthal.
The creation of this list would not have been possible without the collaboration of many generous
scholars. In particular, I am very grateful to Hyder Abbas, Toby Burrows, Roy Flechner, Ramona
Fritschi, Mara Hofmann, Peter Kidd, Danielle Magnusson, Lynn Ransom, Bill Stoneman, Jill Unkel and
Catherine Yvard.
This research has been supported by the Irish Research Council.
Laura Cleaver
30.11.2015
All comments or corrections should be sent to Laura Cleaver at [email protected]
