Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
April 1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/702
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Lor 767—continued. Thanne callid was onto my remembraunce ffortune the double with her wauyng wheele That neu’ was ne shalbe of substaunce ffor to endure with noon in peyn nor weele Her gittys ar to be (?) rewfid ne dele ffor whanne they be most iofully resteynyd With further chaunge thei ar ou’ throwyn z weved. After the poem is written an alphabet of majuscules and minuscules, ending “ Per me John Southerne Anno 1576.” The presence of this poem in the same metre as The Court of Sapience at the end of the other manuscript suggests that the two were already bound together in 1576. Two ENGLISH MANUSCRIPTS OF VERY CONSIDERABLE IMPORTANCE AND (APART FROM THE LOSS OF FIVE LEAVES) IN FINE CONDITION. [See ILLUSTRATION. | 768 Magni (JACOBUS) SOPHOLOGIUM, gothic letter, 188 leaves, wants first and last (both blank), headlines, capitals and paragraph marks in red and blue, rubricated, worm-holes affecting a few letters at beginning and end, otherwise @ FINE COPY, stamped morocco, gilt and gauffred edges by R. Riviere of Bath [Hain, *10469 ; Proctor, *329 | [Strassburg, Printer of ““ Henricus Ariminensis,” c. 1475] 769 VeEcIus (MAPHAEUS) DISCEPTATIO TERRAE, SOLIS ET AURI, et alia opuscula, roman letter, 40 leaves (a-g4 in sixes), headings and woodcut initials gilt, other initials supplied in gold, ruled in red throughout, green morocco gilt, inside borders, g. e. by DEROME LE JEUNE, WITH HIS TICKET [ Hain, *15933 ; Proctor, 6068 | Milan, Guillaume Le Signerre, 13 May, 1497 * * The third known book from this press. 770 WytFLIetT (CORNELY) DESCRIPTIONIS PLOLEMAICAE AUGMEN- TUM sive Occidentis Notitia Brevi commentario illustrata, FIRST EDITION, engraved title and 19 double-page maps of America or parts of America, original vellum, FINE COPY Louvain, Jean Bogard, 1597 END OF SALE. Printed by J. Davy & Sons, Ltd., 8-9, Frith-street, London, W., England.
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