Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
April 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/463
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lor 308—continued. single outer borders to every page (not occupied by the large miniatures), hundreds of ornamental initials in gold and colours and considerable textual ornament, apparently wants a single leaf at end, old ved morocco gilt, line borders, corner and central ornaments, g.e. sm, 8vo. XV CENT. 309 Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, cum Kalendario. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Flemish XIVth century], 100 //. (74 by 5 in.), written in gothic letter, 19 dines to a page, 12 pages with initials in red and blue on a background of gold, the text within a painted frame-work surrounded by a delicate border of floral design painted in gold and colours, numerous finely painted sinaller initials, early binding of leather over oak boards stamped in blind (rubbed and clasps missing) XIV CENT. 310 Hora. Heures a lusaige de Rome nouuellement imprimées esquelles a plusieurs belles hystoires de Ja bible auec les figures de l’apocalipse La.dance macabre et plusieurs autres, lit. goth. Jong lines, 22 toa page, PRINTED ON VELLUM, within woodcut borders of Biblical subjects, the dance of death, arabesques, grotesques, ete. Kerver’s large device on the title (rubbed), anatomical man, 12 small wocdeuts of the Occu- pations of the Months and the Zodiacal signs within archi- tectural borders; 18 full-page woodcuts representing the usual subjects, all within architectural borders, numercus smaller miniatures and initial letters, red morceco gilt ccn- sisting of a panel with a large coat-of-arms surrounded by conventional borders with an ornament of scroll-work and birds in the angles, g. e. Paris, Thielman Kerver, 1507 A-Q 4 in eights. The woodcuts and initials are finely illuminated. The Property of Violet Viscountess Melville, 11, Lowndes Street, S.W. 311 Adams (Frank) Writing Tables, with a Kalendar for XXIIJII yeeres, with sundry necessarye rules, black letter, ¢¢te within a woodcut border, 10 specially prepared tablets for writing on, 6 plates, with woodcuts of various English and Foreign coins, stamped leather over oak boards (clasps missing) ; sold not subject to return : Made at London by Franke Adams... . dwelling in Thames streete, at the sign of the black Raven neere London bridge, 1584 x” VERY RARE. The only edition noticed by Lowndes is that of 1594. The following sentence oceurs in this work: “‘In the yeere 1459 the noble science of Printing of Bookes, was
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