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The Roger Martin Collection of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures and other properties
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The Roger Martin Collection of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures and other properties

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Auction dates
06 Jul 2021 14:00 BST
Viewing dates
02 Jul 2021 10:00 - 17:00 BST
03 Jul 2021 11:00 - 16:00 BST
04 Jul 2021 11:00 - 16:00 BST
05 Jul 2021 10:00 - 17:00 BST
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There are 142 lots within this auction
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Leaf from a copy of Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, in pre-Caroline Germanic minuscule, in Latin
24,000 GBP
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Three cuttings from a large and elegant Carolingian copy of Gregory the Great, Homiliary, in Latin
10,000 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Fragment of a leaf from a Homiliary, with large coloured initials, in Latin, decorated manuscript
3,200 GBP
2,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Leaf from a Sacramentary or Ritual, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [probably France
2,800 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Leaf from an early copy of Arator, De Actibus Apostolorum, in Latin verse, with an apparently un
4,000 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Two cuttings from an early Liber Pontificalis, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [perhaps Poland,
0 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Single leaf from a Homiliary by either Haimo of Halberstadt or Haimo of Auxerre, in Latin, manusc
0 GBP
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Leaf from a notably early Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, c. 1000
1,900 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Leaf from Jerome, Commentary on Matthew 27:47-56, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [probably Ger
1,100 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Bifolium from a copy of Hrabanus Maurus, De Laudibus Sanctae Crucis, in Latin verse, manuscript
3,200 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Leaf from an early Noted Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, eleventh
0 GBP
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Leaf from a Sacramentary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [probably Italy, last decad
1,600 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Leaf from a Sacramentary, with a large decorated initial, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Germ
2,800 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Leaf from a Missal, of Cistercian Use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Austria or
1,000 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Two leaves from a Gospel Lectionary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, twelft
0 GBP
1,800 - 2,500 GBP
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Cutting from a Lectionary, with fine line-drawn Christ and St. Peter in an initial, in Latin, man
0 GBP
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Leaf from a treatise on the Calendar, in Latin, finely decorated manuscript on parchment [France
2,800 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Opening leaf from a copy of Gratian, Decretum, with a large white-vine initial, in Latin, decorat
2,200 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Fragment of a bifolium from Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, in Latin, manuscript on parchment
1,200 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Leaf from a Sequentiary, mentioning both France and Paris, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Fra
800 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Fragment from a leaf from a Bible or Gospel Book, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Fra
500 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Two bifolia from a copy of Papias the Grammarian, Elementarium Doctrinae Rudimentum, in Latin wit
4,800 GBP
2,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Bifolium from a Peter Lombard, Magna Glossatura in Epistolas Pauli, with two large illuminated init
1,300 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Leaf from a Glossed Gospel of John, of great refinement and with numerous gold initials, in Latin
2,800 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Leaf from a Psalter, with Great Gloss of Peter Lombard, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchme
1,300 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Leaf from a Lectionary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, early thirteenth ce
6,500 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Two leaves from an early Psalter-Hours, with numerous penwork drolleries of a hanged man, a cow
2,000 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Four leaves from a lavishly illuminated Psalter, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [northern Engl
4,800 GBP
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Leaf from a Psalter, with a large historiated initial, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchm
0 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Leaf from a finely illuminated Psalter, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [southern
850 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Leaf from a Psalter or Psalter-Hours, with large illuminated initial, in Latin, manuscript on par
0 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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David Harping in a historiated initial on a leaf from a Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript
1,800 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Leaf from a Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, in Latin, decorated manuscript on par
0 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Leaves from the Tollemache-Wardington Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Franc
7,000 GBP
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Leaf from a pocket Bible of tiny proportions, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [France
400 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Collection of leaves from medieval Bibles, in Latin, decorated or illuminated manuscripts on parc
0 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Leaf from Peter Lombard, Magna Glossatura in Epistolas Pauli, in Latin, decorated manuscript on
0 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Two leaves from a copy of Peter Lombard, Libri Quattour Sententiarum, in Latin, manuscript on par
800 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Leaf from an early copy of Gratian, Decretum, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [France
700 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Collection of leaves from legal manuscripts, in Latin, on parchment [thirteenth to fourteenth cen
4,000 GBP
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Leaf from Philip the Chancellor, Sermons on the Psalms, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [northe
600 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Three leaves from a copy of William Peraldus, Summa de Vitiis, in Latin, decorated manuscript on
700 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Leaf from Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, with ano
500 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Lower part of a large leaf from a copy of Aristotle, Metaphysica, in the Latin translation of Wil
600 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Leaf from the celebrated Beauvais Missal, with three animal-headed drollery creatures, in Latin
5,500 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Leaf from the celebrated Beauvais Missal, with a single animal-headed drollery, in Latin,
4,000 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Three leaves from the gargantuan ‘Bohun Bible’, each with an illuminated initial, manuscript in
2,200 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Leaf from the St Albans Abbey Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern Fran
950 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Leaf from the St Albans Abbey Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern Fran
900 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Leaf from the St Albans Abbey Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern Fran
850 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Three leaves from a grand lectern Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Flanders,
3,800 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Two leaves from a richly illuminated Breviary, in Latin with French rubrics, manuscript on parchm
3,000 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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SS. Cosmas and Damian in a historiated initial on a bifolium from a Dominican Breviary, in Latin
3,000 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Two leaves from an early Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [southern
900 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Five leaves from an early Book of Hours, of Dominican Use, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on pa
3,500 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Leaf from an early Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [France (probably
0 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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