A selection of items from regional salerooms
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1. Estimated at £200,000-300,000, the Hours of Isabella d’Este sold for £340,000 (plus 24% buyer’s premium) at Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures on July 10. This opulent manuscript on 240 leaves of parchment was created c.1490 by the Florentine brothers Gherardo and Monte di Giovanni del for Isabella d’Este (1474-1539), daughter of Ercole I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, and the wife of Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis de Mantua.