Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March-April 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/915
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    295 Horae B. V. M. cum CALENDARIO, in Flemish, Onser vrauwen getide, InLuMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 131 JI. written in a clear upright gothic hand, with 15 WELL- EXECUTED FULL-PAGE MINIATURES in arched compartments surrounded by borders, full illuminated borders to 18) other pages, 36 half borders or panels, large es utials and portraits of saints, modern blue velvet bind ing with gilt filigree clasp XQ 9 8vo (184 mm. by 127 mm.). Flemish, xv spin, 2s A * Most of the full borders show the characteristics of the fj Ghent-Bruges school, naturalistic birds, flowers and V/ insects in relief on a liquid gold background, but the decoration is various and some borders are more archaic in treatment with leafy sprays and arabesques. 4 e OR Sek the ut [See ILLUSTRATION. | 296 INDULGENCE OF PorE Sixtus IV, PRINTED FROM A WOOD BLOCK, granting privileges to those contributing to the Crusade, cut in gothic characters, Forma Confessionals, 13 lines, Forma absolutionis 8 lines, one margin defective affecting two words of text, some wormholes, aS from having been used in a binding aN (185mm. by 283 mm.). [? Munich], 14 ~ > ** Block printed Indulgences are of the greatest rarity. The name of the Subcommissary granting the Indulgence, N woodcut like the rest of the text, is Petrus Gardianus, praedicator conventus Monacensis. Cf. Copinger II, 5540 and lot 297. contributing to the Crusade, two woodcut headings, and \ 20 lines of text, gothic letter, wormed and left-hand marr py °° gin defective, discoloured from having been used im ‘ee binding (201 mm. by 279 mm.) [Niirnberg, Printer of the Rochus Legende, 1482] ** This Indulgence, from a very rare press, is identical in text with the woodcut indulgence lot 296. The name of the subcommissary, Johannes Kauffmann, is filled in in manuscript. 29% INDULGENCE OF Pops Sixtus IV. granting privileges to those ( \/ J 298 Indulgence of Pope Innocent VIII, granting privileges io) those contributing towards the rebuilding of the oe hospital at St. James of Compostella, parts of two copies which have never been cut asunder, gothic letter, woodcut seal of St. James of Compostella (280 mm. by 195mm.) 1497 , Cet,
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