Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
30 January 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/438
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    47 48 49 50 Or peseel 52 53 4 I SIZES MIXED Cicero (M. Tullius) Rhetorica ad heresinum, Manuscript on vellum, 142 Ul. (7Zon. by 44in.), long lines, 18 to a page, initial letter with a miniature of a man holding a book ; border finely painted in gold and colours (slightly rubbed), other initials of floral design extending along the margins in gold and colours, headings in red, a wormhole through the first 16 Il., velvet g. e. ; from the Library of Dr. Hawtrey 8vo. XV CENT. Cicero (M. Tullius) Liber Rhetorice, Manuscript on paper, 107 J/., long lines, 30 to a full page, an initial in red and blue, others in red, rubricated, first leaf and other leaves repaired, boards folio. XV CENT. Cicero. Rhetorica, Manuscript on paper, 107 Jl., long lines, large wmtial in red, several leaves damp-stained, oak boards, half vellum, wants clasp 4to. [ITALIAN] Xv CENT. Cicero (M. Tulluis) Rhetorica, Manuscript on vellum, 114 JI. (441n. by 3in.), long lines, 21 to a page, initials in red, vellum Svo. XV CENT. Cicero (M. Tulluis) Rhetorica, Manuscript on vellum, 54 ll. (Siin. by 54in.), long lines, 33 to a page, wants two leaves, calf [Colophon]... p. me Jacobuz M. Johanis de arasseis de Zonio, die XXI Nouembris Ano dni millimoquadringimo sexagimo quinto . . .8vo. 1465 Cicero. Rhetorica, M. Tullij Ciceronis cum Commento, gothic letter, last leaf repaired, green vellum, Lyons, Anthony Blan- chard, 1526—Boethius, de Consolatione philosophica and de disciplina scholarium, printer’s device on title coloured by hand, boards, Lyons, J. Clein, S. A. (circa 1500) (2) Cicero (M. Tullius) De Senectute, Manuscript on vellum, 72 UW. (7hin. by 5in.), long lines, 24 to a page; on the first page a painted border of foliage heightened with gold and the arms of the Abbey of St. Albans, other initials in gold and colours, russia leather, gilt sm. 4to. XV CENT. Cicero (M. Tullius) Tusculanae Quaestiones, Manuscript on paper, 66 Il. (104in. by 8in.), long lines, 37 to a page, rubricated, written in an Italian hand; on the first page a pen and ink drawing of the scribe with ornamental foliage extending the length of the text, vellum folio. [Colophon] Scriptus engubi per Petru Bisna- dellu Omoneseg. folio. XIV CENT.
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