Freeman's | Hindman: Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, 6388, Chicago

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Auction Report
Auction Date
July 08, 2025 - July 08, 2025
Page Size: 86 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 BRUGES WORKSHOP

Three leaves from a Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

Southern Netherlands, Bruges c.1460 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 832.00
52 BRUGES WORKSHOP

Three leaves from a Book of Hours, Use of Rome, ca. 1460, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

Southern Netherlands, Bruges c.1460 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 960.00
53 GIORGIO D'ALEMAGNA (documented Ferrara, 1441-1462)

A leaf from the Breviary of Lionello d'Este, also known as the Llangattock Breviary, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

Italy, Ferrara c.1441-1448 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,536.00
54 FOLLOWER OF JEAN PICHORE (active Paris, c. 1490-1521)

Calendar leaf for February from a Book of Hours, Use of Chartres, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

France, Paris c.1520 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 256.00
55 GERMAN PAINTER (SCHOPPS VON ULM?)

A leaf from the Stammbuch (Album amicorum) of Jochim Schelles of Ulm, with two full-page miniatures, in German, illuminated manuscript on paper

Southern Germany, Ulm 1587 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 704.00
56 GERMAN ARTIST (Kleinmeister School?)

Sixteenth-century woodcut on paper, with borders of grotesques, later heightened with nineteenth-century hand illumination depicting Saint Margaret

Germany? 16th and 19th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 512.00
57 GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1343--1400)

The Prioress's Tale, in Middle English, modern illuminated manuscript on seven leaves of thin board, unbound

England c.1900. USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,280.00
58 CHANCELLERY OF THE DUKE OF URBINO

A single cutting from a cartulary or financial instrument, with a historiated initial 'I' decorated with oak swags and the sigil of the della Rovere Dukes of Urbino, illuminated manuscript on parchment

Italy, Urbino 1511 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
59 ANONYMOUS SPANISH ILLUMINATOR

Cutting from a Gradual or Antiphonal with illuminated initial 'P' with putto holding Keys of Saint Peter, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

Spain, Seville? c. 1600 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
60 FOLLOWER OF JEAN PICHORE (fl. Paris, c. 1490-1521)

Single cutting from a Gradual, with historiated initial 'G' of Saints Peter, Paul, and others, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

France, Paris c.1500--1520 USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,920.00
61 WORKSHOP OF THE MASTER OF PHILIPPA OF GUELDERS (active Paris c. 1500--1530)

Saint Maurice in a historiated initial 'V', cutting from a large Choir Book, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

Lorraine or northern France (Paris) c.1500. USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,088.00
62 CIRCLE OF SIMON BENING (Bruges, c. 1483-1561) AND CALEB WILLIAM WING (1801-1875)

Single leaf, Christ before Caiaphas, tempera on vellum (c. 117 x 90 mm, sheet; c. 65 x 60 mm, outer edge of Gothic frame),

Bruges, and London c. 1525, and c. 1850. USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,432.00
63

Two leaves from a Breviary, with a modern miniature of the Nativity, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

France, Loire Valley c.1450--1460 (text); modern (illumination) USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 704.00
64 ITALIAN WORKSHOP AND LATER HAND

Two Leaves from a Franciscan Antiphonary, with historiated initial and border (later additions), in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

Italy, Florence? ca. 1500 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 512.00
65 CHANCERY OF ELIZABETH I (r. 17 November 1558--24 March 1603)

Single parchment sheet with Common Recovery under the Great Seal of Elizabeth I, involving lands in Suffolk, in Latin, manuscript on parchment

London, Court of King's Bench, Trinity Term, 21 Elizabeth 1579 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 512.00
66 MICHAEL WOLGEMUT (1434--1519) AND WILHELM PLEYDENWURFF (c. 1450--1494)

Two folios (CCIIII and CCVII) from the Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum), in Latin, printed on laid paper

Germany, Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Hartmann Schedel 12 July 1493 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 256.00
67

Four cut-out initials, 'A', 'T', 'O', and 'Q', mostly from assorted Choir Books, illustrated music manuscripts on parchment, in Latin

likely Italy 15th/ 16th centuries USD 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
68 ANONYMOUS ARTIST

Single leaf, Le Saint Pere [Pope Clement VI (leaf 247 x 190 mm.; drawing 150 x 135 mm.) ]

Germany or France c.1500-1550 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
69 AFTER JORG BREU THE ELDER (Augsburg, c. 1475-1537)

Christ on the Cross between the Virgin and St. John, woodcut with hand coloring, printed on parchment (sheet 308 x 182 mm.; image 222 x 139),

Germany, Augsburg 1504 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
70 GERMANO PROSDOCIMI, attr. (Italy, b. 1819; d. 1886-1906)

Single leaf, Saint Michael the Archangel, tempera on vellum (223 x 164 mm.)

Italy, Venice 1860s? USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
71

Leaf, from an illustrated Persian manuscript, on paper, with a scene of courtly leisure

Qajar, Iran, 20th century USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
72

Single leaf, from the Qur'an, calligraphic manuscript, in Arabic, on paper

India or Turkestan 14th century USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
73

Leaf from a manuscript of Persian poetry, illuminated manuscript on paper, in Persian

India, possibly Kashmir 18th-19th century USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
74

Three reproductions from two distinct Books of Hours, depicting the Creation, Saint George, and the Fall of Man with the Annunciation, printed on photographic paper

20th century. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 192.00
75 MASTERS OF THE GOLD SCROLLS (active Bruges, c. 1415-1450)

Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment

Southern Netherlands, probably Bruges c.1420--1430 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,960.00
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