Bible Picture Book (Holkham MSS 666)

Total price paid is for 12 manuscripts and 83 printed books. The other MSS acquired were Secreta Secretorum (Holkham MS 458) written for presentation to Edward III 1326; a magnificent Latin Bible (Holkham MS 7) owned by the Anti-Pope Clement VII; early 9th century MS of the Orations of Cicero (Holkham MS 387) made at the monastery of Cluny; Latin Gospels also from the 9th century (Holkham MS 17) written for the Abbey of Schuttern in Bavaria; an early 11th century compilation of Roman and Visigothic Law (Holkham MS 210); a late 12th century treatise on land surveying: Agrimensores Romani (Holkham MS 411) and a bilingual Psalter (Holkham MS 22) written in Greek and Latin in parallel columns; Poggios Facetiae written in 1461 by Felice Feliciano (Holkham MS 480); early 16th century group of treatises headed by a sermon of St John Chrysostom (Holkham MS 70) and lastly Holkham MS 750 a large sheet of vellum cut from an 11th century Bible or Psalter containing coloured drawings of musical instruments mentioned in the Old Testament. Illustrated as plates III IV and V of AR. Add MSS 49672 - 49683