Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
February-March 1904
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/163
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    5in.), written in neat lettres batardes, long lines, 22 to a full page, with red rubrics, with 6 large and very BEAUTIFUL PAINTED ILLUMINATED INITIAL MINIATURES of scenes in the life of the Psalmist, each page having a lateral border of richly painted natural flowers, fruits and birds on a gold ground ; with many hundred illuminated ornamental capitals by a first rate Flemish scribe and illuminator {a later hand (16th century) has written a Calendar and a continuation of the Psalmes on 45 ll. of vellum and paper in italic characters|, contemporary oaken binding, stamped leather (worn), clasp large square 8vo. late SHC. XV Hymni, Cantici, Preces, &¢. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM (253 Jl. 64 by 45 in.), written im qothte letters, long lunes, 16 to a full page, by a German scribe, with square musical notes ; a full page minature of the Virgin and Infant Jesus and Joseph; 10 pages each with a large and fine painted ornamental and figured initial, with rich marginal decorations of flower scrolls, cherubs and other Jigures, capitals and small initials painted in blue and red throughout, old plain leather on oaken boards (WELL PRESERVED) thick small 8vo. SAC. XV Ezekielis, Zacharie, &c.; Te Deum Laudamus, Symbolum Athanasii ; Litania Sanctorum, &c. lit. goth. magna, red and black, long lines, 25 to a full page, 97 Il. with signs. a-o 7 (ay blank), 2 Ul. repaired, otherwise good (apparently not in Hain), half bound . Ato. absque ulla nota | 14—] et Symbolis, ltt. goth. 3 columns, rubricated, blue and red painted capitals, vellum sm. 4to. | Norwmb.| Ant. Koberger, 1494 Secundam Consuetudinem Sancti Dominici cum Calendario, ltt. goth. red and black, double columns, cuts on title, one of David in text, border in compartments, and ornamental intials, Venet. expensis L. A. Junie, 1535—Anthems for Holy Days, with Music, 67 Jl. of MS. in large gothic letters with musical notes, with inscription on first leaf : SORORIS CLEMENTI BOIARDE DE REGIO, S#c. XVI; in 1 vol. original Venetian binding, oak boards, leather, stamped in arabesques with inscriptions, “8S. Clementia Boiards” and “ E. G. B. Manbrini,” clasp (re-backed) sm. 8vo This Sor Clementia Boiardo was probably a relation of Mateo Maria Boiardo, the author of the “ Orlando Innamorato.” Litanie. Hymni Ecclesiastici. [cum Calendario], lit. goth. red and black, Regnault’s device on title, cut of the Creator at end of Psalter ; contains 8 prel. ll. Psalter fol. CXXX, Tabula 2 Ul. numbered » Hymnt totius Anni, Fol. LV II and Tabula Hymnorum 3 ll. unnumbered, half morocco, VERY RARE 8vo. Parisiis apud Magdalena Boursette Vidwam Fr. Regnault, Anno Salutis 1552
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