Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/711
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    98/128 page 92
    600 601 G02 603 604 roman letter, 17 leaves, wants last leaf (? blank, or with device only), marginal notes on the last four leaves slightly defective, unbound |[Hain-Copinger, *13236; Proctor, *6152| Florence, Antonio Miscomim, 26 May, 1491 cut of a man making his confession to a priest seated on .a bench, with a devil hovering over his head, on fol. 1, slight water-stains, wrappers | Reichling, 618; not in Hain, Copinger, or Proctor | [| Naples, c. 1480] Apparently printed in type 1* (Haebler) of Matthias of Olmiitz; a note inside the book however ascribes it to Franciscus | de Tuppo. Reichling says “ ? Florentiae,” but no type of this character was used at Florence, and the book was almost cer- tainly printed at Naples. Hispaniae Principis, gothic letter, 13 leaves, wants last (blank), woodcut initials, wrappers [ Ham, *4550; Pellechet, 3330 (two copies only); Proctor, 3886 | [Rome, EH. Silber, aft. 1 Dec. 1497] by Antonio Pizamani], gothic fetter, 486 leaves, slight water- stains, GG 3 and 4 misbound before Ge 1, vellum | Hain, *1541; Pellechet, 1093 (three copies only); Proctor, *4793 | Venice, Hermann Lichtenstein, 7 Sept. 1490 torum, gothic fetter, 210 leaves, ff. 5 and 210 blank, two columns, device at end, initials supplied in blue and red, slight water- stains, vellum | Hain, *4477; Pellechet, 3285; Proctor, 4915| Venice, G. Arrwabenus, 7 July, 1489 Cy cOmence la Premiere Partie de monseigneur le Duc Jehan de Bourgne Conte de flandres dartois de Bourgne sur le fait de la mort de monsr le Duc dorleans propose p maist’ Jaques petit docteur en theologie et conseillier dud[ict] Duc de Bourgne a Paris en hostel du Roy a saint pol le viij Jour de Mars lan mil ceec et vij (and copies of other documents, treaties, letters patent, etc.), MANUSCRIPT on paper, written in a curse book- hand, 89 ll. on the furst page A LARGE INITIAL P ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLOURS, WITH THE ARMS OF PHILIP THE GOOD, Duke oF Burcunpdy (1396-1467), FoR WHOM THE BOOK WAS WRITTEN, marginal decoration of pen-work spirals and flowers in red and green, 16th Century blind-stamped calf, green silk ties I'rench, XV CENT. (1435) the Golden Fleece. ‘The collar of the Order is round his arms
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