French Manuscripts from Les Enluminures

VISUALLY STRIKING MANUSCRIPT FROM A MEDIEVAL MONASTERY. In Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, Eastern France, Franche-Comté (Mouthier-Haute-Pierre), c. 1400 (additions until 1688). Dimensions 302 x 214 mm., 63 folios, lacking 9 leaves, otherwise complete, written in brown ink in Gothic bookhand (textualis) in a single column on 25 lines, entries written in several different cursive hands in the 15th-17th centuries,… Read more about this item

BOOK DESCRIPTION: LAVISHLY ILLUMINATED, FIFTEENTH-CENTURY BOOK OF HOURS; THE PERSONAL PRAYER BOOK OF A SUCCESSFUL FRENCH MERCHANT. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, Dimensions 153 x 102 mm., 128 folios, lacking 3 leaves likely with full-page miniature and text, each replaced with a modern parchment folio supplying the missing text, occasional catchwords, written in brown ink in cursive gothic bookhand… Read more about this item

MANUSCRIPT FOR CARTHUSIAN MONKS ON HOW TO OBSERVE THE LITURGY. In Latin, decorated manuscript on paper, Southern France (Méounes-les-Montrieux), November 15, 1544.Dimensions 145 x 90 mm. 96 folios on paper, watermark: a cross on a mount (unidentified), complete, written in a gothic cursive bookhand in a single column on 25 lines, red rubrics and initials. BINDING: modern half binding in… Read more about this item

LARGE FORMAT MEDIEVAL CHRONICLE IN ITS ORIGINAL BINDING. In French, manuscript on paper, France, c. 1450-1500. Dimensions 280 x 205 mm, 403 folios, incomplete at end, vertical catchwords on all quires except xviii and xxv, leaf signatures first half of all quires, written by a single scribe in an expert Bâtarde script, red paraphs and two-line initials. BINDING: ORIGINAL… Read more about this item

ELEGANT MANUSCRIPT CONTAINING TWO WORKS OF SPIRITUAL AND MORAL EDIFICATION IN FRENCH TRANSLATION. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in French, France, after 1482, c. 1490. Dimensions 274 x 175 mm. 70 folios, written in a Gothic bâtarde bookhand, 18 large initials parti-colored in red and/or blue, inserted leaf in first quire with FULL-PAGE HERALDIC COMPOSITION IN GOLD, SILVER, RED, BLUE AND… Read more about this item

A BEAUTIFUL ILLUMINATED COPY OF THE COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL BY HAIMO OF AUXERRE COMMISSIONED BY Jean II Budé. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in Latin, France, Paris, c. 1460-1480 and c. 1500. Dimensions 278 x 105 mm. 193 folios, catchwords, guide words, numerous small initial in red and blue, TEN LARGE DECORATED INITIALSin blue or red and gold… Read more about this item