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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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Collection of leaves from Psalters, in Latin, decorated or illuminated manuscripts on parchment
0 GBP
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Two leaves from an Antiphonal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [eastern France (perha
1,200 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Two leaves from a large English manuscript of Petrus Riga, Aurora, in the first redaction of Aegi
0 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Leaf from a Registrum Brevium, a register of writs, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
1,500 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Leaf from a copy of Innocent IV, Apparatus in Quinque Libros Decretalium, in Latin, manuscript on
1,100 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Leaf from copy of William Durandus, Rationale Divinorum, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Germa
0 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Leaf from a gargantuan copy of Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica, in Latin, decorated manuscr
1,000 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Leaf from a copy of Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae, in Latin with occasional word in Greek,
480 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy, first
1,500 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Leaf from a large Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy (Bologna), second hal
600 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Three zoomorphic initials with bird and human faces, probably from a Canon Law manuscript on parc
0 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Leaf from an early Choirbook, with a large decorated initial incorporating a dragon, in Latin,
750 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Leaf from an Antiphonal, most probably of Franciscan Use, with a large illuminated initial, in La
1,100 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Leaf from a copy of Justinian, Corpus Iuris Civilis, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
900 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Three leaves from Innocent IV, Apparatus in Quinque Libros Decretalium, in Latin, manuscript on
2,000 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Leaf from a Promissione Ducale, the oath sworn by the doge of Venice, with two historiated initia
3,000 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Christ before Pilate, in a finely executed historiated initial, from a known Book of Hours, in La
5,000 GBP
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Leaf from an early Book of Hours, Use of Rome, with a miniature of Christ enthroned as the Salva
3,000 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Text leaf from the Chester Beatty Hours of 1408, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment
900 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Collection of leaves from early French Books of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscripts on parch
5,000 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Ɵ Book of Hours, Use of Besançon, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript codex on parchment
4,500 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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A funeral scene, miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Paris, in Latin, illuminated ma
1,600 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Miniature of Pope St. Gregory’s vision, on a leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Angers, in Latin,
1,400 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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The Agony in the Garden, a large miniature from a Book of Hours, with a text leaf from the same,
0 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Leaf from a Book of Hours with a finely painted border with a dog and three monkeys, in Latin,
0 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Rome, with a notably realistic painting of a frog in the margin
700 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Leaf from a large illuminated Pontifical, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France, fifteenth ce
0 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Two leaves from a Calendar, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France (perhaps central), fifteent
300 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Small fragment of Geremia da Montagnone, Compendium Moralium Notabilium, citing Cicero, Seneca,
600 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Cuttings with decorated borders from a medieval manuscript, on parchment [Low Countries, late fif
6,000 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Leaf with a miniature from a Book of Hours, with stamp-signature of the Masters of Otto van Moerd
5,500 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Two leaves from an antiphonal from a Flemish charterhouse, with initial and decorated border, in
1,000 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Two leaves from an opulently illuminated Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, manuscript on parc
850 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Twenty-six leaves from a Book of Hours, each with delicately painted flowers attributable to Corn
0 GBP
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Leaf from a Psalter-Hours or Prayerbook of Brigittine Use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parc
5,500 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Leaves from an English Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment
0 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Two leaves with the Crown of Thorns and the Wounds of Christ in historiated initials, from a Book
3,200 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Two leaves from a notably large English Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchm
1,200 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Collection of leaves from devotional books, in Latin, illuminated manuscripts on parchment [Engla
2,000 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Leaf from a calendar with near-contemporary addition of St. Bridget of Sweden, from a Book of Hou
1,800 GBP
2,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook, with rabbits playing music and dancing in the margin, in Lati
0 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Large initial enclosing St. Jerome writing, on a cutting from a grand Bible, in Latin, manuscript
2,800 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Pentecost, in a large historiated initial on a cutting probably from a Gradual, in Latin, illumin
0 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Two cuttings with illuminated initials from a copy of Augustine, Tractate on John, in Latin, manu
0 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Leaf with a full-page miniature of St. Lucy of Syracuse, from a prayerbook in German, illustrated
1,800 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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The original sin and the expulsion from the garden, miniatures perhaps from a Rosary, in German
950 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Lot 108
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Leaf from the Llangattock Breviary, with two historiated initials, in Latin, illuminated manuscri
5,000 GBP
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Bifolium from the Llangattock Breviary, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Italy (Fer
6,000 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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St. Andrew holding his cross, in a large initial on a cutting from a Gradual, illuminated manuscr
9,000 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Two leaves from a Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Spain, c. 1500-10]
700 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Collection of leaves from Italian illuminated manuscripts, in Latin, on parchment [fourteenth and
0 GBP
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Two leaves of John of Wales, Communiloquium or Summa collationum, in Latin, illuminated manuscrip
1,800 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Leaf from Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, in Latin, decorated manus
850 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Terence, Phormio, in the humanist script of Giuliano di Antonio of Prato, in Latin verse, pale re
1,200 GBP
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Leaf from Seneca the younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, in fine humanist script, in Latin,
2,400 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Leaf from the Psalter with Passion Sequences copied by Pietro Ursuleo of Capuo, in Latin, opulent
0 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Adam de Montaldo, Tertia pars passionis, Latin verse on the Passion of Christ, fine humanist manu
4,200 GBP
2,000 - 4,000 GBP
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The frontispiece leaf from an extremely early copy of the Apocalypsis Nova, attributed to the mys
0 GBP
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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