Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
April 1902
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/92
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    159 Brpt1a Sacra LATINA, Editio Vulgata, cum Prologis 8. Hieronymi et Interpr. Heb. Nom. MANUSCRIPT ON UTERINE VELLUM (522 ll. 52 by 4 in.) written in small neat gothic letters, 2n double columns of 49 lines, in red and black, by an Italian scribe (2), painted initial on first page, and many ornamental pen-letters and marginal decorations, modern brown morocco, broad inside borders, joints, g. e. arms on sides, gilt clasps thick sm. 8vo. SC. XIII *,* The scribe’s name is given at end of the Apocalypse: ‘‘ Quis Scripsit Scribat ; Virgilius Spé dno Vivat. Amen.” 160 Bripira Sacra LATINA, Editio Vulgata, cum Prologis 8. Hieronymi et Interpr. Hebr. Nom. MANUSCRIPT ON THIN VELLUM (378 ll. 84 by 5 in.) finely written in small neat gothic letters, in double columns of 60 lines, by an Anglo-Norman or Northern French scribe, with 81 FINELY PAINTED AND ILLUMINATED INITIALS, some with elongations in the margins of grotesque birds, de. (a remarkable one in the margin of Gen. I), and many hundred ornamental pen-letters with marginal decorations, oaken boards covered with purple velvet 4to. SAC. XIII 161 Brpria Sacra Latina, Editio Vulgata, cum Prologis 8. Hieronymi, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM (346 Jl. 104 by 7 an.) written in neat gothic letters, on double columns of 58 lines, rubricated in red and blue, orna- mental pen-letters, by a Northern French scribe, oaken boards, stamped leather, an ecclesiastical document on vellum, dated 1442 on one of the fiy-leaves ; in very good condition sm. folio. SC. XIII 162 Biblia. Lrpr1 SALOMONIS REGIS ; id est Parabola, Ecclesiastes, Cantica Canticorum, Liber Sapientiz, et Ecclesiasticus cum Commentariis et Glossis, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM (228 Jl. 103 by 74 in.) finely written in gothic letters, the tert in a larger character, in 3 columns, 29 and 40 lines, numerous cabalistic notes in margins, ornamental pen- letters, capitals painted in blue and red, modern boarded brown morocco lettered ‘‘ Opera Rea (sic) Salomonis cum Cabbala” sm. folio. SC. XIII 163 Biblia Latina. Prophetz Majores et Minores. Isaiah—Malachi (com- plete), MANUSCRIPT ON STOUT VELLUM (189 Jl. 92 by 64 in.) written wm bold semt-gothte Ietters, long lines, 32 toa full page, running titles and capitals in blue and red, modern binding, oaken boards, crushed crimson morocco, inside dentelles, joints, by Tout 4to. SAC. XIII 164 Biblia Sacra Latina. Liber Ezechelis Prophets cum Glossa Origenis, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER AND VELLUM (128 Jl. 133 by 9 tn.), text in bold gothic letters, Gloss ina smaller character, by an English scribe, painted initials in red and blue (several Ul. damaged), contemporary oaken boards, fishskin folio. SC. XIII 165 Brpiia SACRA LaTINA; VERSIBUS ConscRipTA. [Begins] ‘ Dulci ut sapet modulantine qduta metri Incipit hic riga bibliotheca Petri.” [At end on last leaf but two in margin] ‘“ £zpliciunt Recapitulationes Veteris Testaumenti”; followed by ‘“ Egidius de Penitate Eterne” ; MANUSCRIPT ON STOUT VELLUM (340 Jl. 9 by 5 in.) written in small gothic characters, red and black, long lines, 33 to a full page, by a Northern French or Anglo-Norman scribe, with numerous ornamental pen-letters and marginal decorations, straight grained blue morocco, line tooled, g. e. (Roger Payne), from the Duke of Sussex’s library narrow 4to. SAC. XII
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