Christie’s is also the world’s leading auction house in the valuation and sale of archives, with major sales including papers of poets and prime ministers industrialists and opera singers. Lawrence’s dagger, Nelson’s quill pen and Lucian Freud’s paintbrushes. We regularly negotiate private sales of early Western manuscripts to clients in Europe, Britain, Asia and the USA: most significantly Bodmer Papyrus XIV‒XV, the 2nd-century copy of the Gospels of Luke and John (now in the Vatican Library) the St Cuthbert Gospel (now in The British Library) the Breviary of Saint-Louis de Poissy (now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France) and the Clumber Park Chartier (now at the Beinecke Library).Ĭhristie’s offers a wide array of manuscripts within this field: from medieval papal bulls, charters and royal documents to autograph letters by Nelson, Austen, Goethe and Einstein music manuscripts by Bach and Beethoven and association objects such as T.E. We hold the auction record for a manuscript (Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Hammer for $30.1 million) and for an illuminated manuscript (the Rothschild Prayerbook, which we have sold twice: in 1999 for £7.5m and in 2014 for $13.6m) and have held some of the most notable collection sales (most recently The History of Western Script: Important Antiquities and Manuscripts from the Schøyen Collection). In addition to our richly varied general sales that are held twice a year at each sale site, notable private collections in recent years have included the Bibliothèque Paul Destribats (2019) Important Books, Atlases, Globes from the Collection of Nico and Nanni Israel (2019) Important Scientific Books from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune (2019) Bibliothèque Marc Litzler (2019) Russian America & Polar Exploration: Highlights from the Martin Greene Library (2017).Ĭhristie’s is the only major international auction house with a dedicated team of medieval and Renaissance manuscript specialists and with regular sales in this category. We boast an unparalleled depth of knowledge in the many sub-categories that comprise this field: incunabula science and medicine natural history travel and cartography Judaica art, architecture and photography Americana (which we sell in New York) Livres d’Artiste (which we sell in Paris) Russian books and illustration and comic art. We are also at the forefront of digital sales, presenting themed series of online-only auctions ( On the Shoulders of Giants, from 2018‒2020 Einstein letters, from 2017‒2018 Quentin Blake drawings, from 2018‒2019 Write Me and Tell Me Your Heart: Leonard Cohen’s Letters to Marianne, 2019).Ĭhristie’s has achieved record results for works by significant contributors to the printed word: from Shakespeare to Dickens, Petrarch to Baudelaire, Tolstoy to Faulkner, as well as Newton, Darwin, Einstein and George Washington. With an international team of 15 renowned specialists and live auctions held throughout the year in London, Paris and New York, we are the market leaders in this category. The text in this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.Christie’s Books and Manuscripts Department offers for sale the best of the world’s printed books, maps, medieval manuscripts, autograph letters and archives. Sweating sickness recipe: CUL, MS Ll.1.18 (f. Images of manuscripts reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library (CUL) and the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge (TCC), as follows: *The twelve College Libraries included are: Clare, Corpus Christi, Emmanuel, Gonville & Caius, Jesus, King’s, Magdalene, Pembroke, Peterhouse, Sidney Sussex, St John’s and Trinity.
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