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

Auction dates
04 Dec 2018 13:00 GMT
Viewing dates
30 Nov 2018 09:30 - 17:30 GMT
01 Dec 2018 11:00 - 16:00 GMT
02 Dec 2018 11:00 - 16:00 GMT
03 Dec 2018 09:30 - 17:30 GMT
04 Dec 2018 09:30 - 16:00 GMT
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There are 101 lots within this auction
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The Evangelist John, with his attribute and pointing to a copy of his Gospel
7,000 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Two fragments of John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew, in Beneventan minuscule, in Latin
4,000 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Bible, Leviticus, probably copied by a female scribe, in Latin, manuscript on parchment
0 GBP
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Fragment of two leaves from the Liber Glossarum, an early Carolingian Latin encyclopedia
4,000 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Cutting from a Lectionary with a Romanesque initial with bird heads, manuscript in Latin on parchmen
700 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Leaf from a Noted Breviary with a very large white-vine initial, in Latin
900 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Bifolium with a large white-vine initial, from a copy of Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos
1,500 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Ɵ Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
2,700 GBP
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Cutting from a Noted Missal, with music in Beneventan neumes, in Latin, manuscript on parchment
500 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Leaf from a lectionary, with readings for the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, in Latin
780 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Leaf from a large and handsome Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
350 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Leaf from a Psalter, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment
300 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Fragment from a Missal or Breviary, with readings for the Office of St. Stephen, in Latin, decorated
0 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Leaf from a Glossed Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
480 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Leaf from a monumental Lectern Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
500 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Leaf with entries for the Interpretations of Hebrew names from a University Bible
0 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Leaf from a University Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment
0 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Leaf from the ‘Bohun Bible’, a monolithic Lectern Bible, manuscript in Latin on parchment
1,200 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Bifolium from Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
1,900 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Leaf from a Processional, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France or Low Countries, c. 1400]
0 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Leaf from a copy of a Homiliary with a text ascribed to Bede, in Latin
500 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Four leaves from Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
350 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Calendar leaf for December, from a Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment
650 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Bifolium from a Renaissance Book of Hours
450 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Collection of leaves from Breviaries and Books of Hours
1,500 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Bifolium from a copy of Justinian, Digest, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
300 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Leaf from Cicero, De Inventione, in Latin, humanist manuscript on parchment
650 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Bifolium from Gerard of Cremona (also de Sabloneta), Practica Joannis Serapionis
1,400 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Dante Alighieri, Commedia: Inferno X, 1-90, in Tuscan Italian, single leaf
10,000 GBP
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Substantial fragment of a codex of Ugolinus Pisanus
3,000 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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An elephant and a unicorn fighting, on a cutting from an illustrated medieval manuscript
0 GBP
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Aristotle, Poetics, in Greek, manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Venice)], late fifteenth or early
4,200 GBP
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Grammatical text, in Greek, manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Venice)
4,200 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Ɵ The Four Gospels in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper
19,000 GBP
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Ɵ Ibn Shaddad, History of Aleppo, in Arabic, produced for patron in France, decorated manuscript
2,600 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Leaf from a large Lectionary, in Coptic with Arabic rubrics, manuscript on paper
300 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Leaf from a pocket prayerbook, in Coptic, illustrated manuscript on paper
0 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Ɵ Readings for masses throughout the entire liturgical year according to the Eastern Calendar
6,500 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Leaf from a Bible (Pentateuch), in Samaritan, from a manuscript codex on parchment
0 GBP
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Charter issued by ‘W[alter]’ prior of Thornholme, for John Malerb
300 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Charter of Hugh de Neville for estates in Denby, West Riding, Yorkshire, to Byland Abbey
1,600 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Doctoral diploma issued by the University of Bologna, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment
0 GBP
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Collection of leaves attesting to the dawn of the postal service in Parma, in Italian
0 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Collection of charters, wills and related documents, in Latin and English, on paper and parchment
220 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Gargantuan royal inspeximus, recording King James II’s reissuing of a Tudor document
0 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Illuminated geometric initial on a leaf from a Lectern Bible, in Latin, on parchment
6,000 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Bifolium from a large Lectionary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
3,000 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Baruch writing, in a historiated initial on a leaf from a University Bible, in Latin
0 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Cato the Elder lecturing to Scipio Africanus and Gaius Laelius Sapiens
0 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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King David and other sinners kneeling in prayer, tiny miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours
550 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Job on the Dungheap, large miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin
1,000 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Ɵ Carta Executoria de Hidalguía of Pedro Guillem de las Casas in the city of Jaén, in Spanish
0 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Ɵ Terence, Comoediae, in Latin, illuminated humanist manuscript on paper and parchment
25,000 GBP
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Ɵ Vegetius, De re militari (extract), and Pomponius Laetus, De magistratibus, De sacerdotiis
4,200 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Ɵ Substantial fragment from a codex of Aristotle, decorated manuscript on parchment
0 GBP
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Ɵ Galen, Ars medicinalis in the translation of Johannitus (Hunayn ibn Ishaq) with commentary
36,000 GBP
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Ɵ Zacharias Chrysopolitanus, in Latin, illustrated manuscript on paper and parchment
0 GBP
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Ɵ Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo, Sermones ad heremitas, in Latin, manuscript on paper
7,000 GBP
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Ɵ Substantial fragment from two Missals, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
0 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Ɵ The Horwer Missal, written by Johannes Horwer for the Church of Schwerzenbach, in Latin
40,000 GBP
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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