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Highest Auction Prices 2004
Someone posted this in rec.arts.books. I thought it might be of interest to
this group. Francis A. Miniter http://www.americanaexchange.com/New...&page=1&id=214 |
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"Francis A. Miniter" wrote: Someone posted this in rec.arts.books. I thought it might be of interest to this group. Francis A. Miniter http://www.americanaexchange.com/New...&page=1&id=214 Very interesting, thanks! I'm fascinated by the year's top seller, the Macclesfield Psalter (1,685,600 GBP). http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live...p?lot_id=47XL2 It's presumably from the same artisans as the well-known Gorleston (~1315) and Douai (~1330) Psalters, falling between the two if certain similar images were done in sequence. The Douai was effectively eliminated by the end of WWI. "As the German armies were advancing towards Douai in the autumn of 1914, the authorities buried the precious Psalter for safety in a zinc box in the forecourt of the library. When the box was removed at the end of the First World War, the Psalter was found to have been almost entirely destroyed by water and acidity." So don't protect your books by burying them in zinc boxes, no matter who tells you it's a good idea. Luckly, the two had been compared (and copied apparently, or at least described in great detail) in 1905. The Gorleston has been at the British Museum since 1958. This new little (108x170mm/4.25x6.69in) book similarly has (mostly) the same text and hundreds of illuminated illustrations, some that sound very bizzare, not unlike Bosch's work hundreds of years later. I don't know much about Psalters. It seems strange to have such 'irreverent' art decorating religious texts! The Macclesfield is in pieces and pretty beaten up. I can't begin to guess how this happened: "...upper margins cropped close with loss of upper extremities of much illumination..." I wonder if the Sotheby's catalogue has more pictures. -- It always comes and finds you - It will always hear you cry I cross my wooden leg, and I swear on my glass eye It will never leave you high and dry, never leave you loose It's harder to get rid of than tattoos |
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