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727 Illuminated Leaf Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1450 +A   $600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5.2 x 8.3 inches) Superb vellum leaf with very wide margins from a French Book of Hours. The text is in a bold gothic book hand with rubrics in red and blue. The verso is illuminated with nine initials and seven line fillers painted in blue, red, white and liquid gold. Both sides include fine floral panels. In the lower margin is the catch word humiliata. A catch word was written on the last leaf of a q...

728 Illuminated Leaf Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1450 A   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.5 x 6.7 inches) Fine vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours illuminated in blue, red and burnished gold leaf with numerous large initials, line fillers and marginal pen work. The text is in a regular gothic book hand in brown/black ink with rubrics in red. The text is from Psalm 23.

729 Illuminated Leaf Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1460 +A   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 3.7 x 5.7 inches) A beautiful vellum leaf from the calendar in a Book of Hours. This leaf details the month of July beginning with the number of days and moons, followed by the saint's days (with the more important ones written in red). The large initials KL for kalender and the A initials (for Sundays) are beautifully illuminated in red, blue, white and burnished gold leaf.

730 Illuminated Leaf Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1460 A   $120.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 2.1 x 3 inches) This diminutive vellum leaf is from an Italian Book of Hours written in Naples. The book was so small that it must have been the property of a lady who carried it in her purse. There is one large initial in gold with beautiful blue and red pen work extending into the margin. The text is in a regular gothic book hand in brown ink with the rubrics in red. The text is from the Hours of the Virgin...

731 Illuminated Leaf Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1470 B   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 3.7 x 4.9 inches) A very rare and unusual vellum leaf from a Dutch Book of Hours. The border on the verso is illuminated in a sophisticated fountain-style array of acanthus leaves in red, green and dark blue. This decoration is often found in books illuminated by the Masters of the Haarlem Bible; these masters took their name from a three-volume bible made for the Knights of St. John in Haarlem, Holland. The tex...

732 Illuminated Leaf Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1480 A   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5.5 x 7.5 inches) A wonderfully decorated vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours. Both sides are richly embellished with tendrils of brightly colored flowers and small leaves and the text is embellished with six large initials in red, blue and gold. The text is from the Suffrages of Many Saints with prayers to St. Luke, St. Barnabe and St. Matthew.

733 Folio LXXVII [Alexandria] Incunabula Hartmann Schedel 1493 A   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.4 x 16.8 inches) A fine and extremely early bird's-eye panorama of Alexandria on a full sheet of Latin text. Verso with two panels of portraits. From a Latin edition.

734 Folio CCLXXXI [Baronia Magna Germanie Provincia] Incunabula Schedel 1493 A   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.9 x 9.6 inches) This is an imaginary view of the German countryside with several medieval villages and hilltop castles. On a full sheet of Latin text.

735 Folio XXXVI [Troy] Incunabula Hartmann Schedel 1493 B   $140.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11 x 15.5 inches) The illustration on the recto of the city of Troy does not show an authentic city view, but is in fact the same woodcut also used to portray Pisa, Toulouse, Tivoli, Tiburtina and Ravenna. The Latin text describes the Trojan War.

736 Folio IIII [Creation day 4 & 5] Incunabula Hartmann Schedel 1493 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.5 x 16.5 inches) This wonderful plate presents two of the days in the story of the Creation of the World with an imaginative sense of design and symbolism. Each day is presented in a series of circular diagrams with the hand of God in the upper left corner. On the recto is a plate showing the thirteen symbolic rings of space containing the sun, moon and stars surrounding the earth. On the verso is the next day ...

737 Blat XXVII Incunabula Schedel 1493 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12 x 17.7 inches) This interesting leaf illustrates Judas and his lineage on the recto with portraits and an imaginary illustration of Athens on verso. From a German text edition.

738 Blat XXXXVI [Anglie Provincia] Incunabula Hartmann Schedel 1493 B   $120.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.7 x 16.2 inches) On recto is a large illustration of the English countryside and on verso are several portraits including David and Salomon. From a German text edition.

739 Folio CXXII [Geneva] Incunabula Hartmann Schedel 1493 A   $110.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.7 x 15.7 inches) Portraits of the Roman martyrs, St. Quirinus of Neuss and St. Valentine, appear at the top of the recto above an imaginary view representing Geneva. On verso are several portraits. From a Latin text edition.

740 Folio L [Jericho] Incunabula Hartmann Schedel 1493 B   $110.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.7 x 15.5 inches) This leaf includes an illustration of Jericho and an illustration from the history of the third age of the world. The verso is filled with portraits. From a Latin text edition.

741 Illuminated Leaf Early Printing Gilles Hardouin 1518 A   $60.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.5 x 7.2 inches) Attractive vellum leaf from the transitional period. The text is from the Hours of the Virgin, psalms 8, 18, and 23. Both sides include numerous initials highlighted by hand in red, blue and liquid gold.

742 Illuminated Leaf Early Printing Gilles Hardouin 1518 A   $1,200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.5 x 7.1 inches) A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouin for Germain Hardouin librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l’enseigne saincte marguerite (bookseller living between the two gates of the Palace at the sign of Saint Marguerite) of Paris. The recto is beautifully decorated with the printer's mark emblazoned onto a tree with three angels. The text on ...

743 Illuminated Leaf Early Printing Gilles Hardouin 1518 +A   $900.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.3 x 7.2 inches) Splendid leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouin for Germain Hardouin librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l’enseigne saincte marguerite (bookseller living between the two gates of the Palace at the sign of Saint Marguerite) of Paris. This leaf is a fabulous example of the combination of printing and hand painted illumination. On the recto is the pr...

744 Illuminated Leaf Early Printing Gilles Hardouin 1518 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.5 x 7.2 inches) Fine leaf from a transitional Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouin for Germain Hardouin librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l’enseigne saincte marguerite (bookseller living between the two gates of the Palace at the sign of Saint Marguerite) of Paris. The verso is richly embellished with a moving painting of Mary kneeling at the foot of the Jesus' cross. T...

745 Antiphonal Leaf Music Anonymous 1480 A   $190.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.7 x 16 inches) Very lovely leaf of fine vellum containing four-line music. Each side is decorated with large initials executed in a very unusual red and blue pen work.

746 Antiphonal Leaf Music Anonymous 1490 B   $80.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13 x 17 inches) A nice vellum leaf containing eight staves of five-line music. Written in a fine hand with black, red, blue and gold ink. Recto is decorated with 4 initials in black and gold, and verso is adorned with 2 initials in red and blue.

747 Antiphonal Leaf Music Anonymous 1600 B   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15 x 20.3 inches) A large, sturdy vellum leaf containing five-line music written in a fine hand with black and red ink in the Spanish style. Verso includes an elaborate initial "A" decorated in red and blue with flourishes in the margins

748 Antiphonal Leaf Music Anonymous 1600 B   $220.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15 x 20.3 inches) A large, sturdy vellum leaf containing five-line music written in a fine hand with black and red ink in the Spanish style. Recto is beautifully decorated with an elaborate initial "A" decorated in red and blue with flourishes in the margins. Verso is embellished with two small decorative initials.

749 Antiphonal Leaves Music Anonymous 1700 B   $190.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.2 x 17.2 inches) Very nice double-leaf with an very interesting script on one recto and five-line music.

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