LONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) – A army letter from King Henry VIII and a sheet of music written in Mozart’s personal hand on the age of 17 are amongst heaps being provided at public sale home Christie’s “Worthwhile Books and Manuscripts” sale in London subsequent week.
Written in July 1513 – a month earlier than the English victory on the Battle of the Spurs, Henry’s letter to his lieutenant-general in France calls on him to seize the city of Thérouanne and recruit German mercenaries preventing for the French to come back battle for the English.
The letter has an estimate of 25,000 kilos to 35,000 kilos ($30,702 – $42,983).
“Whereas we do sometimes see Henry VIII letters developing, what’s notably uncommon about this one is that it’s a marketing campaign letter, it’s about struggle, it’s about his technique,” Mark Wiltshire, specialist within the books and manuscripts division at Christie’s London, informed Reuters.
“It’s about him as a kind of Machiavellian determine making an attempt to work out precisely the easiest way of defeating his opposition.”
[1/5] An individual holds a uncommon signed letter from King Henry VIII to his Lieutenant-Common in France earlier than the English victory on the Battle of the Spurs and autograph music manuscript by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at Christie’s in London, Britain December 7, 2022. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska
Additionally on supply on the Dec. 14 public sale is an autograph music manuscript written by Mozart in 1773 when he was residing in Salzburg, to have a good time a household good friend’s commencement from college.
The sheet of music, which options the opening 15 bars of the second motion of the Serenade in D main for orchestra, is the spotlight amongst a set of music heaps, together with autograph letters by composers Felix Mendelssohn, Hector Berlioz and Johannes Brahms.
It has an estimate of 80,000 kilos – 120,000 kilos.
“There’s at all times nice pleasure when something like this from Mozart comes up,” Wiltshire mentioned.
($1 = 0.8143 kilos)
Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Enhancing by Alison Williams
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