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

Auction Details

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
51

Cutting from an early English witness to Raymond of Penafort, Decretals or the Liber Extra, in

England middle third of thirteenth century (after c. 1230) GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
52

Leaf from an English manuscript of Raymond of Penafort, Decretals, or the Liber Extra, and a leaf

England thirteenth and fourteenth century GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
53

A bifolium and a leaf from Italian copies of the Decretals, all in Latin, manuscripts on vellum,

Italy fourteenth century GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
54

Twenty-one leaves from Books of Hours or prayerbooks, in Latin, French or Dutch, manuscripts on

fifteenth century and c. 1500 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
55

Thirty-six leaves or cuttings from devotional or liturgical books, in Latin, manuscripts on vellum,

thirteenth to sixteenth century GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
56

Breviary, of Franciscan Use, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [northern Italy, second

northern Italy second half of the fifteenth century GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,810.00
57

Monastic prayerbook, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [Italy (perhaps Brescia), fifteenth

Italy (perhaps Brescia) fifteenth century GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 3,048.00
58

Prayerbook and Missal, in Italian, modern illuminated manuscript on vellum, [probably Italy,

probably Italy nineteenth or twentieth century GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
59

Two modern studies of medieval Insular or English illumination, in Latin and West Saxon (Old

probably United Kingdom nineteenth or twentieth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 825.50
60

Three modern facsimiles of initials, miniatures and corresponding sections of text by William Thomas

United Kingdom (Cambridge) nineteenth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 762.00
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