Sales catalogue 30: Marks and Co

Date:
c.1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/14
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 30: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM MORRIS WITH HIS BOOK LABEL. 1719 PSALTERIUM DAVIDIS, cum Carenpartio et Canrticis,ad Usam ANGLICANUM, tlluminated manuscript, beautifully written in large gotbic characters, dy an English Scribe, on 141 leaves of stout vellum (13% by 9 in.), 22 long lines to a page, calendar in red and black, every page wiih numerous tnitials tn solid gold on tlluminated backgrounds, rectangular dtviston marks tn red, blue and gold, fintshed with Chinese white ; seven pages with large richly wluminated historiated capitals and borders round the enttre page, comprising grotesque birds (the pelican, &c.), and other figures, tipped with foliage : The miniatures within the capitals comprising: Psalm 1, initial B. King _ David with harp ; Psalm 26, initial D... Figure of King David ; Psalm 38, initial D. King David walking in a field; Psalm 68, initial S. Jonah and the Whale; Psalm 80, initial E. King David sitting and striking two bells; Psalm 97, initial C... Four monks singing from a book on a lectern, and Psalm 109, initial D.. A representation of God the Father with God the Son. Catchwords on the last page of each quire are within riband scrolls. Folio, contemp. oaken boards covered with leather, with three of the original brass bosses (old repair at joints), Anuglish, Karly XIVth. Cent. £120/-/- The English origin of this magnificent manuscript is unmistakable, the calligraphy and ornamentation being characteristic, while the Calendar contains quite a number of English Saints, including St. Wulstan, St. Edward, King and Martyr, St. Cuthbert, St. Dunstan, St. Augustine, St. Kenelm, Xe. The second leaf of quire 6, containing Psalms 52 and 53, is missing, otherwise the manuscript is consecutive as follows : Calendar 12 pages ; Psalms of David 245 (should be 247) pages; Canticles of Hezechiah, Te Deum Laudamus, Benedicite (from the book of Daniel), and the Benedictus, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. 25 pages. 1720 PSALMORUM.—ParapHrasis PonticA PsaLmMorum ODavipis. Auctore ARTURO JoNsTono, Scoto. Accesserunt ejusdem Cantica Evangelica, Symbolum Apostolicum, Oratio Dominica, Decalogus, 12mo., contemp. calf (worn), Aberdoniw, Hdwardus Rabanus, 1637 £1/5/- Short Title Cataiogue, No. 2366. “The Editio princeps of one of the most elegant of the modern Latin Poets.” Former owner’s note on fly-leaf. 1721 PULCI (Luca) Craivro Canvanzo, con la Giostra de Magnifico Lorenzo de Medici ; insieme con la Epistole composte dal Medesimo Pulci, woodcut initials, sm. 4to., eighteenth century russia, blind tooled, In Fiorenza, nella Stamperia de Grunts, 1572 £1/5/- 1722 PYTHAGORAS.—Dacinr (Anpri) La Vin de PytHacors, ses SYMBOLES, ses VERS Dorsz, La Vis& d’Himrocuss, et ses CoMMENTAIRES sur les Vers DorEz de PytrHacorE, rétablis sur les Manuscrits, et traduits en Francois avec remarques, 2 vols in one: sm. 8vo., contemp. vellum, Paris, Chez Rigaud, 1706 £1/1/- QUAKERS. 1723 [BRITTEN (Ws.)] Stneyt Muntine: a Wonpsr to the Worx, yet practised by the Apostles and owned by the Prorie of Gop, scornfully called QuakgrRs, First Epition, 14 pages, sm. 4to, modern boards, Printed for Robert Wilson, 1660, 12/~ 1724 [CAMM (Joun) 2] A Trvun Inrornmation to the Nation, from the Prope called QUAKERS : being a Brief Account of the Proceedings of some of the Magistrates in and about the City of Lonpon against the aforesaid People, from the Third of July to the last day of August, 1664, composed and published . . . by J. C., 14 pages, sm. 4to., unbound, Printed tn the year 1664 _ 10/-
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