Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
16 March 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/636
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Lot 45—continued. dragons, wyverns, birds and grotesque animals. The spaces outside the circles are filled with dots. ** [Wants title, and last leaf defective. One joint broken. | Not m Weale. 46 Comestor (Petrus) Historia Scholastica 8vo. Jean Crespin. Lyons, 1526 Brown calf. Two panels. Three bands. Binder G.R I. Panel (126 by 84 mm.). Divided into four compartments, each containing a saint—St. George with sword and shield standing over the dragon, St. Barbara with a palm branch and three-windowed tower, St. Michael with sword and shield attacking Lucifer, St. Katherine with the sword and wheel. Behind her are the binder’s initials G.R. Round the panel runs the inscription : “Quid quit agas/ prudenter agas et/respice finem/O mater dei memento mei.” Il. Panel (83 by 125 mm.). In the centre is a shield ensigned with a Royal crown and bearing the Royal arms, 1 and 4 the fleurs-de-lys of France, 2 and 3 the lions passant of England, supported by the dragon and greyhound. In the background are tufts of herbage and stars. In the right hand corner is the moon and a shield bearing the arms of the City of London, in the left the sun and a shield, with the cross of St. George. Round the panel runs the inscription : ‘“‘Laudate dominum | de terra / dracones et omnes | abyssi. GR.” ** [Fine impressions of the panels: in very good condition. In a padded case. | I. Weale, p. 125, no. 120. II. Weale, p. 125, no. 119. [See ILLUSTRATION. | 47 Cominaeus (P.) De rebus gestis Ludovici 8vo. Christian Wechel. Paris, 1545 Black calf. One panel repeated. Fwe bands. Binder I. B Panel. In the centre a full-length female figure, clothed in a long flowing robe, stands upon a pedestal inscribed Fides. She is in the act of walking, with her hands folded on her breast, and she looks upwards to the left, where there is a cross 2 amidst clouds, and the words Meritum Christi. Behind her head is the word Spes, and behind her feet the word B Charitas. In the space in front of her, to the left of the panel, is the inscription: “‘In te die spe/ raui no con/fundar in/eternum,/ in iusticia/tua libera/me & eri/ pe me, Psal | 70 |. A narrow border runs round the panel, with the inscription: “QVONIAM IN| ME SPERAVIT LIBERABO | EVM PROTEG/ AM EVM / QVO ; &C: PSAL 90]. Interrupted at each corner by a quatrefoil. In the bottom left hand corner are the binder’s initials 1.8. and mark. ** «(The upper cover much worn and the back damaged. Loose in binding. Cf. 76, 77, 145: for reproductions see Hulshof and Schretlen, De Kunst der oude Boekbinders, pl. XXXvI1; Schmidt, Bucheinbinde .. . zii Darmstadt, pl. 27; Davenport, Cameo Bookstamp CL; Archivo ... de la Casa de Medinaceli,
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