Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MANUSCRIPT ON THIN VELLUM (323 Jl. 8 by 53 in.) written in neat gothic letters, in double columns of 59 lines, by an Anglo-Norman or Northern French scribe, with numerous ornamental pen-letters and mar- ginal decorations, fly-leaves with ancient MS. Homilies and a Table of the Seven Deadly Sins, boarded crimson velvet binding sm. 4to. SAC. XIV | On the fly-leaf at end are some Old English verses (temp. James I) written by one ‘‘ Ltzchard Smartford,” part of which seems to be a quotation from an old Play on Antony and Cleopatra: ‘To thee yet dere thought [though] most disloiall Lord whom Impious love keeps in a barbarous land, thi wronged wife Octavia sendeth word, of the unkind wounds recived by thy hand ; great Antony O let thin ets (sic) aford but to permet thy hart to understand the hurt thou doust (sic) and doe but reade her teares that stil is thin thought (sic) thou wilt not be hers.” Interpretationibus Hebraicorum Nominum, &c. MANUSCRIPT ON THIN VELLUM (356 J/. 8 by 53 in.) written in small neat gothte letters, by a Southern French or Italian scribe, in double columns of 60 lines, rubricated, numerous ornamental pen-letters with marginal decorations, head titles in blue and red, boarded purple velvet binding square 8v0. SAC. XIV et Interpretationibus Hebr. Nom. MANUSCRIPT ON THIN VELLUM (377 Ul. 74 by 4$ in.) written in small neat gothic letters, red and black, im double columns of 53 lines, by a Northern French or Anglo-Norman scribe, with numerous fine but small illuminated ornamental and figured mitials, many with elongations in the margins of Saints, grotesques and ornaments, and hundreds of ornamental pen-letters, &c. modern blue MOrocco, g. e. 8vo. SC. XIV MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM (280 Jl. 12 by 82 in.) written in neat gothic letters, dowble columns, 42 lines, with 24 VERY FINELY PAINTED AND RICHLY ILLUMINATED MINIATURES and large ornamental initials, some of the miniatures being in 2 compartments (3 damaged), new boarded morocco, with antique blind and gilt ornaments, g. ¢. sm. folio. Sc. Xv (1453) A portion of the Old Testament only, from I Kings to end of Malachi, and many leaves wanting in between, and some miniatures torn out. Those that remain intact are good examples of Dutch illumination of the middle of the XVth century. An inscription at end shows the MS. to have been written at Diepenveen in Holland in 1453. gustanda et amplexanda,” MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM (92 Jl. 64 by 47 in.) very beautifully written in neat roman letters, long lines, 25 to a full page, the first page having a finely illuminated border of flowers with an historiated miniature initial, the Lion of Flanders in the bottom margin, many wluminated ornamental initials and ornaments in the teat, boarded purple velvet 8vo. SAC. XV C 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31815662_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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