Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
10-14 June 1901
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/85
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    2: ALEXANDER. CY COMMENCE LE PREMIER LIVRE DEL ESTORIE LE ROY ALLIXAUNDRE & DES ALTRES ROYS QUE DEVANT LUY & APRES LUY EL ROYALME DE MACEDOINE REGNERENT. (XVI) | small folio *,* MS. OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, ON VELLUM, ff. 76, neatly written in semi-gothic letter, long lines, 40 to a page, with numerous orna- mental penletters. In calf binding, with inlayings in black in grolier- esque scrolls, with title and fleurons in gold in centres, g.e. by Thompson, of Paris. The margins indicate that the MS. has been through several English hands from the time of Q. Elizabeth. Some of them bear signatures such as “ Vm. Grey” ; ‘Thomas Harington ” ; “ Blenore Harington” ; ‘To my loving friend Richard Gerson” ; ‘** Eliza- beth de gratia Angle ffranc. et hibern.”; “ Rob. Watson”; “ Edward Stell,” &e. 10. Autiacus [Pierre d’Ailly, Card.] 1. PETRI DE ALLYACO CARDINALIS CAMERACENSIS MEDITATIONES DEVOTA SUPER SEPTEM PSALMOS PG:NITENTIALES CUM PR&FATIONE. 2. ORATIO PRO FINALI CONCORDANTIA. 3. ORATIO DEVOTA VALDE ET UTILIS AB EODEM DOMINI CARDINALI EDITA. 4, ORATIO VALDE DEVOTA PER MAGISTRUM NICHOLAUM DE CLAMENGIIS | COMPOSITA. 5. PROTESTATIO DEVOTA A DOMINO PETRO DAILLY CARDINALI CAMERA- CENSI EDITA. (CLXXVI) small 4to *,* MS. OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, ON VELLUM, ff. 32, in a cursive hand, WITH SMALL ILLUMINATED INITIALS and marginal decorations. At the beginning is written : Aux Celestins d’Amiens, and at the end : Celestinorum Sancti Antonii de ambianis. In crimson velvet binding. vi 1. ALPHABETUM NARRATIONUM (PER QUEMDAM ARNULPHUM COMPILATUM). Prologue begins: Antiquorum patrum exemplo didici non nullos ad virtutes inductos fuisse narrationibus edificatoriis et exemplis. Work begins: Abbas. Abbas non debet esse nimis rigidus. Colophon : In hoc libello sunt octoginte & xviij narrationes vel circiter. See a copy of this work, with the compiler’s name, described in the
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