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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    298. JEAN. NOUVELLE ORTOGRAFE FRANSEZE, QUI N’A JAMAIS ETE IMPRIMEE, pp. 652. (CCCCXXXVII) folio At the end: Propositions faictes au public par Alexandre Jean, Ecri- vain et Arithméticien, de la vraie et naturelle ortographe, &c. pp. 4. *,* MS. OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, ON PAPER, finely written. Old French green morocco gilt. 299. JEAN DESOUHAUDE. CI COMMENCE LE LIVRE QUI EST LORLOGE DE SAPIENCE LE QUEL FIST FRERE JEAN DE SOUHAUDE (sic instead of SOUHAUBE or SOUABE) DE LA NATION DALEMAIGNE DE LORDRE DES FRERES PREES- CHEURS. (CCLII) small 4to Begins: Salemon en son livre de sapience ou premier chapitre dit . . . Colophon: Cy fine la table du livre de lorloge de sapience. Deo gratias. J hellevin. *,* MS. OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, ON VELLUM, ff. 268, neatly written in lettres batardes, long lines, 30 to a page, rubricated, painted ornamental capitals in blue and red ; a miniature of the author reading at head of first page. Old calf gilt. See Paulin Paris, tom. iv, pa. 155. 300. JEHAN DE CHAMPIGNY. LES COMPTES DE LEXECUTION DU TESTAMENT DE FEU MAISTRE JEHAN DE CHAMPIGNY, CHANOINE DE TROYES, 1399- 1406. (CCCCXXXIX) folio *,* MS. OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY, ON VELLUM, ff. 134, written in French legal characters ; some corners damaged. Green vellum. 301. JEHAN DE CouRCY. CHRONIQUE GENERALE DITE DE LA BOURCACHARDIERE, PAR JEHAN DE COURCY, CHEVALIER NORMAND, SEIGNEUR DE Bourc ACHARD, (XXXVII) large folio *,* MS. OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, ON VELLUM, 2 vols. vol. I, ff. 178, vol. II, ff. 159, finely written in bold lettres batardes, double columns, 54 lines. A MAGNIFICENT BOOK WITH LARGE ILLUMINATIONS AND BORDERS. The large paintings are 6 in number measuring 9 by 8 inches, and represent (1) The Exit from the Ark and the Building of Cities. [See PLATE]. (2) Meeting of King Priam of Troy and Helen (3) The Conquests of the Trojans (4) The Building of the Tower of Babel (5) Fortune distributing her Gifts (6) The Siege of Jerusalem.
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