Forum Auctions: Online: Western Medieval Manuscripts: the Property of a Gentleman, 1087, London

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 03, 2025 - December 03, 2025
Page Size: 60 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26

A bifolium from a Breviary-Antiphoner of Dominican Use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum,

south-eastern France (probably Arles) second quarter of the fourteenth century GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 241.30
27

Leaf from an early Book of Hours, of Dominican Use, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum,

Flanders (probably Tournai) second quarter of the fourteenth century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 431.80
28

Single leaf from the glittering Bute-Soissons Hours, in Latin, opulently illuminated manuscript on

France (probably Soissons) c. 1370-1400 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,905.00
29

Text leaf from the 'Chester Beatty Book of Hours', in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum,

France (Paris) dated 1408 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,079.50
30

Leaf from a Book of Hours, decorated with medieval dragons, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on

northern France first half of the fifteenth century GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 825.50
31

Two leaves from Processionals (portable choirbooks), in Latin, manuscripts on vellum, [France,

France fifteenth century and c. 1500 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
32

Large initial 'B' from a Choirbook, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [northern France

northern France (probably Paris) c. 1500 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 698.50
33

Bifolium from a Renaissance Book of Hours, decorated with gold cordelieres, in Latin, illuminated

northern France (Paris or Tours) c. 1530 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
34

Large initial 'M', a hitherto unsuspected survival from a dispersed Choirbook that was perhaps

Italy (Naples) c. 1325 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
35

Leaf from an early Italian Book of Hours, with a large illuminated initial, in Latin, manuscript on

Italy (Naples) last quarter of the fourteenth century GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
36

Two leaves from a Missal, one with a large and handsome decorated initial, in Latin, manuscript on

Italy late fourteenth or early fifteenth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
37

Leaf from a large Missal with a penwork bird holding a fish and a human headed drollery, in Latin,

Italy first half of the fourteenth century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
38

Leaf from a Gradual with a large initial 'S', in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [Italy,

Italy fourteenth century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 482.60
39

Leaf from an Antiphoner with a large initial 'D', in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum,

Italy early fifteenth century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 609.60
40

Leaf from the Psalter with Passion Sequences copied by Pietro Ursuleo of Capuo, in Latin, opulently

southern Italy (Naples) c. 1460 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 952.50
41

Leaf from Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, in Latin, decorated

Italy (most probably Florence) second half of fifteenth century (probably c. 1475) GBP 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
42

Large Calendar leaf (for September and October), perhaps from a Missal, in Latin, decorated

Italy (perhaps Umbria, or Viterbo or Teano) early fifteenth century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
43

Cutting from a Choirbook, with a decorated initial 'A' and a human face picked out in penwork in

Italy fifteenth century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 457.20
44

Large initial 'A' on a cutting from the celebrated Murano Gradual, illuminated manuscript on

north east Italy (Venice) c. 1440 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 533.40
45

Leaf from a Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [probably Low Countries or Rhineland,

probably Low Countries or Rhineland c. 1300 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
46

Leaf from a Psalter, with a large penwork initial, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum,

northern Netherlands c. 1480 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
47

Innocent IV, Apparatus in Quinque Libros Decretalium, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

Italy second half of fourteenth century GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
48

Three leaves from an ornately illuminated Spanish Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on

Spain c. 1500-10 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
49

Leaf from a Breviary, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on paper, [probably Croatia, fifteenth

probably Croatia fifteenth century GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
50

Leaf from an early manuscript of Gratian's Decretum, C.xxxviii-xliv, on heresy, and the Church's

France second half of the twelfth century (before c. 1180) GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 825.50
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