Auction on
16 June 2018 - 14:30 (CEST) -
Salle 9 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
A more than honourable score for the second session of the sale of manuscripts belonging to the liquidated company Aristophil, after a somewhat shaky start mired in scandal last December. €7.6 M were garnered (€2.5 M more than the estimate announced) by seven thematic sales staged at Drouot between 16 and 20 June. Apart...
€2,210,000 "The Great Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza", Italy, Milan, c. 1471-1476, Book of Hours according to the rite of Rome, in Latin and Italian, illuminated manuscript on parchment with six historiated initials attributed to the Master of Ippolita Sforza (active in Milan c. 1450-1475). Paris, Drouot, 16 June, Aguttes auction house.
€2,210,000 "The Great Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza", Italy, Milan, c. 1471-1476, Book of Hours according to the rite of Rome, in Latin and Italian, illuminated manuscript on parchment with six historiated initials attributed to the Master of Ippolita Sforza (active in Milan c. 1450-1475). Paris, Drouot, 16 June, Aguttes auction house.
A more than honourable score for the second session of the sale of manuscripts belonging to the liquidated company Aristophil, after a somewhat shaky start mired in scandal last December. €7.6 M were garnered (€2.5 M more than the estimate announced) by seven thematic sales staged at Drouot between 16 and 20 June. Apart from an unsuccessful meeting with postal history and the heroes of aviation under Artcurial's…
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