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Browsing auction #136. Region: Manuscripts, Early Printing.  
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Lot#       Title   Subject/Creator   Date/Cond   Sold for:    
781 [Iluminated Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts
Anonymous 		1360
B 		  $60.00
Closed 		   

Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 3.5 x 5 inches)

This tiny vellum leaf is from a French Book of Hours. There are three decorative initials and line fillers in red, blue and gold. The text on verso includes the prayer: We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You, because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world.
782 [Illuminated Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts
Anonymous 		1430
A 		  $130.00
Closed 		   

Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.3 x 6 inches)

A nice vellum manuscript from a French Book of Hours, in the style of a Rouen scriptorium. Written in brown and red ink, the leaf has three large initials and decorative panels in the margins with ivy and flowers in red and blue and burnished gold leaf. The text is from the Hours of the Virgin.
783 [Illuminated Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts
Anonymous 		1475
A+ 		  $275.00
Closed 		   

Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.8 x 6.5 inches)

A very pretty leaf from a Parisian Book of Hours. Written on a fine sheet of buttery, white vellum in black ink. Both sides are embellished with decorative initials illuminated in red, blue, white and burnished gold leaf. Decorative panels on both sides are painted with gold ivy leaves and colorful flowers and fruits. The text is from the Hours of the Holy Spirit.
784 Blat XXII [Abraham and Memphis] Incunabula
Schedel 		1493
A 		  $150.00
Closed 		   

Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.5 x 14.5 inches)

This great sheet includes a full length portrait of Abraham and an imaginary view of Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt. On a full sheet of German text with blank verso.
785 Folio IX Incunabula
Schedel 		1493
A 		  $250.00
Closed 		   

Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.8 x 10.2 inches)

Adam and Eve are depicted after the expulsion from the garden with infants Cain and Abel. On verso is the beginning of the Tree of Adam which shows Cain slaying Abel.
786 Folio XC Incunabula
Schedel 		1493
A 		  $150.00
Closed 		   

Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20 x 14.3 inches)

This double-page sheet shows the lineage of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty including Cleopatra. The other side includes a variety of portraits.
787 Folio CCLV Incunabula
Schedel 		1493
A+ 		  $120.00
Closed 		   

Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9 x 14.8 inches)

This interesting leaf contains a portrait of the important 15th century astronomer Johannes Mueller (Latin pseudonym Regiomontanus) with a village scene below. On verso are portraits of two knights and a swarm of locusts.
788 [Book of Hours Leaf] Early Printing
Thielman Kerver 		1507
A+ 		  $120.00
Closed 		   

Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.3 x 7 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 scenes from the Apocalyps. The text is the Benedicite...



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