Show Ancient Manuscripts in Saxon Anglo And Latin Bring High Prices in Sale Of Literary Treasures es in New York Petition American Colonist Colonists s Sent to George III Alsoto Also Alsoto to Be Sold NEW YORK Jan 29 T Some iP-Some Some 70 years ears ago JO the sturdy sheriffs of th the city of Lincoln in England came int into possession of ot two manuscripts on oil ve vel lum The script was Latin and An Anglo Anglo- lo- lo Saxon strange and unintelligible an anfor and for three centuries the smooth pAges were used to chronicle nominations elections and md other political happenings happen ings Lags of the da day Last st night those two volumes volume fetched at a rare book boo auction in the American Art association Anderson An Anderson derson galleries One was the eighth century Lincoln Psalter one of two or three uncia uncial manuscripts remaining in private hands which brought and the theother theother theother other was the incomparable Anglo Saxon manuscript of or the thc Blickling Buckling homilies which brought Both have hwe been for tor the last century century cen tury in the libraries cf the Marquess of who now has auth authorized their sale with other literary rarities Last Lost nights night's session of the auction tion netted for 89 items The remainder will be sold tonight WILL SELL PETITION The Thc hammer also will fall tonight on the olive branch petition which John Hancock and other colonials sent to King George III In as a final peace overture a year before they drafted ed edthe the Declaration of Independence King George spurned it and lost an empire Tonight the collectors of or Americana will fight for it with dollars dol dol- lars There were other othel remarkable prices price last night the psalter a treasure treas treas- ure of early English art that remained unknown to scholars for centuries bringing the high price of It is a l volume of exquisite beauty compared to which the sober Lincoln psalter and the yellowed homilies looked quite undistinguished rAYS PAYS Dr A. A S. S W. W Rosenbach bought both th the Lincoln and psalters while Bernet J J. J Beyer a n dealer bought boucht the BUckling Blickling homilies Beyer also walked of oU with three other items for or which including the homilies he planked down a total of It is believed that these purchases purchase ses all are destined for one or the other othe of Americas America's famous collections or possibly for a museum |