Search Results: Authors starting with D from Les Enluminures

BOOK DESCRIPTION: FIFTEENTH-CENTURY COPY OF GUIDO DA PISA'S HISTORY OF ROME, IN ITALIAN. In Italian, decorated manuscript on parchment, Italy, Tuscany, Florence(?), c. 1440-1460. Dimensions 260 x 182 mm., 83 folios, lacking nine leaves, horizontal catchwords, written in brown ink by two different scribes in Italian cursive mercantesca script in single column on 38 lines, penwork initials. BINDING: ORIGINAL dark brown calf over wooden boards blind-tooled with fillets, twisted rope and x-form motifs, fitted purple buckram case c. 1900. TEXT: Guido da Pisa is best-known for his commentary on Dante, and Dante is cited often in this work, a history of Rome composed within the format of a universal chronicle. This text is now remarkably rare; in fact this is the first copy to appear on the open market in over 140 years, and one of only a few copies on parchment. PROVENANCE: script and decoration suggest that the manuscript was written in Tuscany in the middle of the fifteenth century. The binding,… Read More

RARE ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT ON SPANISH HERALDRY. In Spanish, illuminated manuscript on paper, Spain, between 1489 and 1500. Dimensions c.180-185 x 135-140 mm., 33 folios, missing one leaf (f. 9), written in a Gothic semi-textualis close to hybrida in 31-36 long lines, SIX FULL-PAGE MINIATURES, SEVEN THREE-QUARTER PAGE MINIATURES, SIXTEEN HALF PAGE MINIATURES, and TWELVE SMALLER ILLUSTRATIONS in red, blue, green, black, brown, and yellow inks. BINDING: bound in early vellum over thin boards, missing hardware, text-block partially detached from spine, a few modern repairs, overall good condition. TEXT: a meticulously transcribed manuscript copy of the 1489 Coria imprint of Pedro de Gracia Dei's Blasón General y Nobleza del Universo, Spain's first printed heraldic text, and one of Spain's earliest illustrated books. No other manuscript copies listed for sale in the Schoenberg Database. ILLUSTRATION: nearly every double-page opening boasts a large miniature or smaller illustration, all copied by hand… Read More