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Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures
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Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures

Auction dates
10 Jul 2018 11:00 BST
Viewing dates
06 Jul 2018 09:30 - 17:30 BST
07 Jul 2018 11:00 - 16:00 BST
08 Jul 2018 11:00 - 16:00 BST
09 Jul 2018 09:30 - 17:30 BST
Auction currency
GBP
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There are 154 lots within this auction
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Fragment of a Book of the Dead with the Egyptian god Horus
0 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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A Funeral Procession and Funerary Sacrifices on fragments from a Book of the Dead
0 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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ǂ Account of the flooding of the Nile and the geography of the region around Canopus
10,000 GBP
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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ǂ The Bruce fragment of Melito of Sardis, Peri Pascha
0 GBP
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Ɵ Bible, Cantica Canticorum (Song of Songs 4:12-14 and 5:8-9)
15,000 GBP
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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ǂ Bible, Zechariah 14:21-Malachi 2:10
30,000 GBP
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Small fragment from a service book, with music in St Gall neumes
1,000 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Leo the Great, Tractatus LXXII
3,200 GBP
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Bifolium from a Ritual, with parts of rites for baptism and penitence
4,000 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Bifolium from a New Testament with readings from John and the Pauline Epistles
1,800 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Cicero, De Inventione
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis, ‘De Metallis’
2,000 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Prudentius, Psychomachia
1,150 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Fragment from a bifolium and a fragment from the same copy of Nonius Marcellus
800 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Isidore of Seville, Etymologies
0 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Leaf from an early Atlantic Bible (II Samuel 8-11)
1,900 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Two cuttings from an Atlantic Bible leaf (with parts of Nehemias)
3,400 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Bifolium from a Glossed Gospel of Matthew
600 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Leaf from a Glossed Bible
1,300 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Bifolium from a monumental Romanesque copy of Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job
1,600 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Gregory the Great, Homiliae in Ezechielem
1,000 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Leaf from a Missal with large acanthus-leaf encased initial
950 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Leaf from a Missal,
130 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Remains of two bifolia, one from a large Bible (III Kings), the other from a Lectionary
0 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Collection of fragments illustrating early medieval music,
0 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Fragment from a leaf of Florus of Lyon, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles,
650 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Fragment from a leaf of Hugh of Saint-Cher, Commentary on Luke
0 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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William Peraldus, Tractatus de Charitate, single leaf in situ on binding of a printed book
700 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Three cuttings from leaves from a miniature devotional text
0 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Small slip with the readings for the election of prelates with two delicately drawn pointing fingers
160 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Leaves from a German Bible translation, with short openings of readings in Latin
3,400 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Ɵ Bifolium from a Gratian, Decretum,
800 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Two leaves from a copy of Gratian, Decretum
600 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Leaf from a copy of Guido de Baysius, Rosarium, sive Commentarium in Decretum
300 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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An account book binding formed from leaves recovered from a thirteenth-century legal codex
0 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Two leaves (one bisected laterally) from a medical treatise on pustules, scaly skin infections
1,200 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Half-leaf from a copy of Aristotle, Metaphysica
0 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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A teaching collection made up from fragments and cuttings from medieval manuscripts
0 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Ɵ Fragment from the earliest known Malmesbury cartulary
4,500 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Cutting from a Psalter Commentary
500 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Magister Rufinus, Summa decretorum
0 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Bifolium from the Interpretations of the Hebrew Names from a notably large University
850 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Bifolium from the Interpretations of the Hebrew Names from a notably large University Bible
650 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Alexander of Hales, Summa theologica
0 GBP
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Aristotle, De Anima, book 3, with extensive gloss
0 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Cutting from a large illuminated English Missal
0 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Leaf from a copy of Peter of Blois, Epistles
900 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Single leaf from a compendium of Canon Law
600 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Robert Holcot, In Quatuor Libros Sententiarum Quaestiones
0 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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The last leaf from a Book of Hours with Tudor English ownership inscription in verse
400 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Single leaf from a monumental copy of Gregory the Great, Homilies
0 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Initial in form of dragon-headed man holding a book on a leaf from a decorated Bible
1,900 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Cuttings from a liturgical book with a large orange dragon, a historiated initial
700 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Leaf from an early and impressive Choir Book with a large initial ‘P’
0 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Leaf from an early Gradual with a decorated initial
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400 - 600 GBP
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Leaf from an early Gradual with a decorated initial
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400 - 600 GBP
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Large decorated initial, on a leaf from a very large manuscript choirbook
0 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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The Fool, in a historiated initial on a leaf from an illuminated Choir Psalter
0 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Bifolium from a large Missal
0 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Leaf from a Book of Hours
200 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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