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Manuscript Masterpieces from The Schøyen Collection

The lots offered for sale here are the highlights of one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of manuscripts ever assembled: The Schøyen Collection. The importance of the materials in this collection goes far beyond the scope of a private collection, or even a national public collection. The sale spans 1,300 years of cultural history and includes world heritage manuscripts such as the Crosby-Schoyen Codex, the Holkham Hebrew Bible and the Geraardsbergen Bible, but also Greek literature, humanist masterpieces, a book owned by a Saint, early English law, a historically important Scottish chronicle, and the earliest known book-binding. - Highlights of the sale will be available for preview on the following dates: Christie’s New York 2 April, 10am – 5pm3 April, 10am – 5pm4 April, 10am – 5pm5 April, 10am – 5pm6 April, 10am – 5pm7 April, 1pm – 5pm8 April, 10am – 5pm9 April, 10am – 5pm Please note that the exhibition will open at 1pm on 7 April Christi

Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collection of Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg totals $12,405,625

Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collection of Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg totals $12,405,625 First Edition of Plato in any Language. Printed by the nuns of San Jacopo di Ripoli, Florence, 1484-1485. Price Realized: $1,026,000. © Christie s Images Ltd 2021. NEW YORK, NY .-Christie’s Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collection of Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg totaled $12,405,625 and was 98% sold by lot and 92% sold by value with bidders from 23 countries participating. All proceeds from the sale will benefit The Morgan Library, the Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA and the Redwood Athenaeum, a further testament to Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg’s philanthropy and generosity.

Curious Objects: The Book of Hours: A Medieval Best-Seller

Curious Objects: The Book of Hours: A Medieval Best-Seller
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Christie s announces highlights included in the Classic Week auctions

Christie s announces highlights included in the Classic Week auctions A rare contemporary broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence: the Goodspeed-Sang-Streeter copy. Continental Congress, 1776. © Christie s Images Ltd 2021. $700,000-900,000 NEW YORK, NY .-Christie’s announces that Classic Week, a marquee series of seven live and online auctions that feature pieces from antiquity to the 20th century. Sales will be held from 8-23 April and include Old Master paintings and sculpture, European Art, Antiquities, Books and Manuscripts and two single-owner auctions, The Kagan Collection and The Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg Collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed books. The exhibition at Christie’s Rockefeller Center will be by appointment only starting 17 April.

Artdaily - The First Art Newspaper on the Net

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   Excavated in 1900 by Paul du Chatellier in a barrow and forgotten for a century, this ornamented slab was recently rediscovered in the Musée d’Archéologie nationale (MAN – Museum of National Archaeology) and was the subject of a significant study that allowed it to be interpreted as the oldest cartographical representation of a known territory in Europe, a probable marker of the political power of a principality of the early Bronze Age. BREST (AFP) .- A Bronze-age slab first uncovered in 1900 in western France is the oldest map in Europe, according to a study released this week. The 4,000-year-old object, known as the Saint-Belec slab, is engraved with markings that represent part of the Black Mountains region of western France, said Yvan Pailler, an archaeologist and one of the authors of the study published in the Bulletin of the French Prehistoric Society. Today, it is the oldest map of a territory in Europe, he said. You can see

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