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697 [Book of Hours Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1360 B+   $130.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 3.5 x 5 inches) This simple, but delicately crafted vellum leaf, was created during the Middle Ages. It is written in brown ink with red rubrics. The single illuminated initial is painted in gold on a blue and red background.

698 [Book of Hours Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1430 B+   $100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.3 x 5.8 inches) Handsome vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours. It was written in a regular book hand in the style of the Rouen scriptoriums. The leaf is illuminated on both sides with numerous initials and line fillers in red, blue, white and burnished gold leaf. The text is from the Office of the Blessed Virgin, None. On recto is text from Ecclesiastes 24. Both recto and verso are decorated with a simple...

699 [Book of Hours Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1450 A   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.5 x 6.3 inches) A beautiful vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours. It is written in a regular Gothic book hand with numerous illuminated initials and line fillers and borders of acanthus leaves and flowers on both sides. The large initial on the verso includes a tiny flower. The text includes Psalms 12 and 42.

700 [Book of Hours Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1470 B+   $130.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.5 x 6 inches) A lovely vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, created in or near Rouen. Both sides have many illuminated initials and line fillers in red, blue, white and liquid gold. The verso has a panel with a pen work vine dotted with flowers and fruit. The text is from Psalms 42 and 128.

701 [Book of Hours Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1480 A+   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5.2 x 7 inches) A lovely manuscript from a French Book of Hours. It is written in a regular book hand on high quality vellum with a border of acanthus leaves and flowers on the recto. A red flower adorns the center of a large, finely wrought initial, highlighted in burnished gold along with many smaller initials in red, blue, white and gold, and line fillers in the same palette. The text on the recto is from P...

702 [Book of Hours Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1480 A   $170.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.5 x 6.5 inches) This is an unusual vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours. It is written in a batarde letter with many vertical strokes, ruled in red, with the initials painted in blue and gold and alternately with gold leaf. The text is from the Hours of the Virgin, Lauds, the Psalms 62 and 66.

703 [Book of Hours Leaf] Manuscripts Anonymous 1570 A   $160.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.3 x 6.4 inches) A wonderful vellum leaf from a Parisian Book of Hours. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The recto includes a finely illuminated large initial M, and both sides have several smaller initials and delicately painted line fillers. The text is from the Office of the Dead, part of Psalm 137, and the whole Canticle of the Virgin, the Magnificat.

704 Folio CCLXV [Last Judgement] Incunabula Schedel 1493 B+   $400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.7 x 17 inches) This dramatic depiction of the Last Judgment shows Christ seated on the rainbow throne with his feet resting on an orb, flanked by the Virgin Mary and St. John. The lily of mercy and the sword of justice are on each side of his head. Included are two angels wakening the dead from their graves with most of them being received into heaven by St. Peter and an unfortunate few being led by devils to ...

705 Folio XXXI [Worship of the Golden Calf] Incunabula Schedel 1493 B+   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.7 x 16.8 inches) The recto contains a dramatic illustration of the children of Israel worshiping the golden calf as Moses descends from the mountain and breaks the Ten Commandments. The verso includes an illustration of the angels sealing the Arc of the Covenent.

706 Folio CCI [Crucifixion of William of Norwich] Incunabula Schedel 1493 A+   $350.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12 x 17 inches) Full sheet of Latin text with the woodcut illustration of the crucifixion of William of Norwich, a Christian boy supposedly ritually tortured and crucified by the Jews. This medieval myth was the first recorded instance of the blood libel in Europe against Jews. The balance of the sheet contains several portraits.

707 [Book of Hours Leaf] Early Printing Thielman Kerver 1507 B+   $70.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.3 x 6.6 inches) Superb vellum leaf from this important transitional period when books began to be printed from movable type, decorated with metal-cut illustrations and combined with hand-painted illuminated initials. It is printed on vellum in black and red with many initials hand painted in red, blue and gold. The ornamental border on both sides illustrate important scenes from Genesis 1. On the recto God is ...

708 [Antiphonal Leaf] Music Anonymous 1700 A   $275.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.8 x 9 inches) A nice, sturdy vellum leaf from an antiphonary. Both sides with seven staves of five-line music, written in black and red ink. The recto side includes a large initial decorated in filigree penwork in blue ink that extends into the margin.

709 [Antiphonal Leaf] Music Anonymous 1720 B   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13 x 21 inches) A large vellum leaf from an antiphonary. Both sides with five staves of five-line music, written in black and red ink. The sturdy sheet of vellum includes two large initials on the recto.

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