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BOOK DESCRIPTION: A true medieval bestseller AND the most widely copied work of secular literature of the Middle Ages. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, Northern France (Anchin Abbey?), dated 1422. Dimensions: 218 x 150 mm., 145 folios on paper, three watermarks, complete, written in brown ink in gothic cursive script, four large initials in red and brown inks and blue paint decorated with dragons, soldiers and flowers. BINDING: contemporary binding of limp vellum reusing an act of the Antipope John XXIII dated 1415 in Constance, overall in good condition. TEXT: copied and almost certainly decorated (in an exuberant fashion) by a young scribe who inserted his name in multiple colophons, Pierre Toullet. The text was an essential schoolbook throughout the Middle Ages and this copy was certainly used for study. It includes an anonymous commentary and interlinear glosses, making its monastic provenance particularly interesting. PROVENANCE: The entire manuscript was copied by Pierre Toullet in…
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BOETHIUS, De consolatione philosophiae; [Anonymous], Expositio quinque librorum de consolatione philosophiae (Commentary on the five books of the Consolation of Philosophy)
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BOOK OF HOURS (USE OF ROME); illuminated manuscript on parchment in Latin
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SUBSTANTIAL BOOK OF HOURS IN GOOD CONDITION WITH MANY LARGE AND SMALL MINIATURES. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in Latin, Southern Netherlands, Ghent or Bruges, c. 1460-1470. Dimensions 179 x 124 mm., 118 folios, complete, written in brown ink in a textualis formata bookhand on 19 lines, one-line initials, 2- to 3- line champ initials, fourteen 6-line initials, one HISTORIATED INITIAL (5-lines), ELEVEN SMALL MINIATURES (6-lines), FOURTEEN FULL-PAGE MINIATURES, 28 FULL BORDERS. BINDING: nineteenth-century dark brown calf, gold-tooled, contains words in gilt (mostly rubbed out) MARIE (front board) and ROSARIE (back board), gauffered edges. ILLUSTRATION: Painted in the style of the Masters of the Beady Eyes, this Book of Hours is distinguished by its unusual and enigmatic details. The artist is eager to represent architectural and structural details, which sometimes lead to curious spatial arrangements and juxtapositions. PROVENANCE: The painting style situates the production of this book in Ghent…
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Blasón General y Nobleza del Universo (General Blazon and Nobility of the Universe) in Spanish, illuminated manuscript on paper
by Pedro de Gracia Dei
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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…
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Book of Hours (use of Mons); in Latin and some French, illuminated manuscript on parchment
by illuminated by the Mildmay Master, the Master of Philippe de Croÿ, and a third Mons illuminator, follower of Simon Marmion
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FASCINATING MEDIEVAL BOOK OF HOURS WITH EXTENSIVE ILLUMINATIONS BY THREE DIFFERENT ARTISTS. In Latin and some French, illuminated manuscript on parchment, Southern Netherlands, Mons, c. 1460 (original portion), c. 1480-1490 (updated). Dimensions 167 x 116 mm., 199 folios, lacking one text leaf, written by two different scribes in gothic textualis bookhand in single column on 17 lines; BINDING: seventeenth century brown calf over wooden boards, spine with four raised bands, gold-tooled, gilt title ("OFFICIU / BEATEM / VIRGIN", partly worn out), gilt edges. ILLUSTRATION: 22 full-page miniatures within full rinceaux borders by the Mildmay Master (13), the Master of Philippe de Croÿ (7), and a third Mons illuminator, follower of Simon Marmion (2), and 4 small miniatures by the Mildmay Master, additional sixteen full rinceaux borders, and 5-line initials in pink or blue on burnished gold grounds. The Mildmay Master was responsible for the core of the original manuscript; the artist paints elongated…
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