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Auction Name Online: Western Medieval Manuscripts: the Property of a Gentleman Total Sales (GBP) 30,911.80
Auction Date December 03, 2025 - December 03, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 22,900.00
Sale Number #1087 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 33,600.00
Total Lots 60
Sold Lots 30.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 55,000.00
% of Lots Sold 50.00% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 80,100.00
Unsold Lots 30 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 38.59%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
56

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

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

fifteenth century GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 3,048.00
23

The last leaf of the Psalms, from the so-called 'Bible of Mirmelus Arnandi', in Latin,

c. 1300 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,794.00
28

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

c. 1370-1400 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,905.00
14

Leaf from a finely illuminated Book of Hours, with border decoration ascribed to an associate of the

c. 1450 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,270.00
8

Leaf from an English illuminated Psalter, in Latin, manuscript on vellum, [England (probably East

mid-fourteenth century GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,206.50
25

Leaf from a manuscript of the 'Saint-Jacques Bible Concordance', in Latin, on vellum, [France,

early fourteenth century GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,206.50
4

Two near-complete leaves from a compilation of texts on the Sacrament, including Ivo of Chartres,

third quarter of the twelfth century GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,079.50
29

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

dated 1408 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,079.50
40

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

c. 1460 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 952.50
10

Leaf from the so-called 'Norwich Breviary', Use of Sarum, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on

c. 1400 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 825.50
16

Two leaves from Peter Lombard, Magna Glossatura in Epistolas Pauli (the letters of St. Paul,

c. 1210-20 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 825.50
22

Leaf from Rufinus of Aquilea's continuation of his Latin translation of Eusebius of Caesarea,

c. 1300 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 825.50
30

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

first half of the fifteenth century GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 825.50
50

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

second half of the twelfth century (before c. 1180) GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 825.50
59

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

nineteenth or twentieth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 825.50
24

Text leaf from the 'Chester Beatty Bible', his manuscript MS.W.173, in Latin, manuscript on

c. 1300 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 762.00
60

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

nineteenth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 762.00
11

Leaf from a large English Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [England, fifteenth

fifteenth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 698.50
13

Large cutting from a leaf from an English Breviary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum,

early years of the fifteenth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 698.50
32

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

c. 1500 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 698.50
9

Bifolium from a tiny English portable Breviary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [England,

late fourteenth century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 635.00
39

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

early fifteenth century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 609.60
44

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

c. 1440 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 533.40
38

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

fourteenth century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 482.60
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