Recent Arrivals from Les Enluminures
Recent Arrivals from Les Enluminures
Livre de Prières Tissé d’après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle (Book of Prayers woven after illuminations in manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth century); In Latin and French, illustrated book woven in silk.
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$55,000.00
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BOOK OF PRAYERS WOVEN IN SILK ON A JACQUARD LOOM. In Latin and French, woven prayer book on silk, R. P. J. Hervier, designer; J. A. Henry, fabricator, for A. Roux, France, Lyon, c. 1886-1887. Dimensions 178 x 145 mm., 50 silk pages, complete, text in one or two columns, one half-page and three full-page illustrations and various styles of… Read more about this item Item Price
$55,000.00
Printed Book of Hours (use of Rome); In Latin and French, printed and illuminated on parchment
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$35,000.00
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CHARMING TINY PRINTED BOOK OF HOURS WITH EXPERTLY ILLUMINATED METALCUTS IN AN UNUSUAL OBLONG FORMAT, In Latin and French, printed and illuminated on parchment in Paris, c. 1536. Dimensions 143 x 76 mm., 90 folios, complete, 32 lines printed in Roman font in black ink (justification 118 x 47 mm), single-, double-, and triple-line initials in gold paint on alternating… Read more about this item Item Price
$35,000.00
Obituary of the Cluniac Priory of Mouthier-Haute-Pierre; in French and Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
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Chicago , Illinois, USA
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$38,000.00
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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 Item Price
$38,000.00
Carta Executoria de Hidalguía (Patent of Nobility) of Juan de Nurueña y Alava; in Spanish, illuminated manuscript on parchment
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Chicago , Illinois, USA
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$8,500.00
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SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ILLUMINATED DOCUMENT FOR A SPANISH NOBLE FAMILY. In Spanish, illuminated manuscript on parchment, Spain (Valladolid), May 8, 1622. Dimensions 310 x 220 mm., 87 folios complete, some leaf and quire signatures, prickings visible, written in a humanist bookhand in 28 long lines, headings in gold capitals on grounds of blue and dark red, TWO FULL-PAGE MINIATURES. BINDING: Modern (19-20th… Read more about this item Item Price
$8,500.00
The Mirror of the Rebuke of the Soul to the Body; Sermons for Lent; On the Sibyls; The twelve prophetesses for the Lord; and other texts; in Latin, manuscript on paper
by MATTHEUS RIPANENSEM; ST. JAMES OF THE MARCHES
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Chicago , Illinois, USA
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$35,000.00
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: RARE SIGNED AND DATED MANUSCRIPT WITH TEXTS FOR PREACHING OFFERING A WINDOW INTO EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES. In Latin, manuscript on paper, Italy (Naples), c. 1497-1469. Dimensions 215 x 144 mm., 96 folios, missing 24 leaves at the beginning, horizontal catchwords present, written by several scribes in 39-43 long lines: small noting script influenced by humanistic… Read more about this item Item Price
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Book of Hours (use of Mons); in Latin and some French, illuminated manuscript on parchment
by illuminated by the Mildmay Master, the Master of Philippe de Croÿ, and a third Mons illuminator, follower of Simon Marmion
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Chicago , Illinois, USA
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$140,000.00
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FASCINATING MEDIEVAL BOOK OF HOURS WITH EXTENSIVE ILLUMINATIONS BY THREE DIFFERENT ARTISTS. In Latin and some French, illuminated manuscript on parchment, Southern Netherlands, Mons, c. 1460 (original portion), c. 1480-1490 (updated). Dimensions 167 x 116 mm., 199 folios, lacking one text leaf, written by two different scribes in gothic textualis bookhand in single column on 17 lines; BINDING: seventeenth century… Read more about this item Item Price
$140,000.00
Privilegieboek van den Jongen Handboge (Privilege-book of the Young Handbow) of Antwerp (Guild of St. Sebastian); in Dutch, illustrated manuscript on parchment
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$45,000.00
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: EXQUISITELY WRITTEN AND DECORATED MANUSCRIPT FOR AN EARLY ARCHERY GUILD. In Dutch, illustrated manuscript on parchment, Belgium, Antwerp, c. 1575 with 17th-century additions. Dimensions 273-275 x 187 mm., complete, frame-ruled in faint rust-brown ink (justification 215-218×135-137 mm.), written below top line by three scribes, the main scribe writing an elegant gothic script with some cursive elements (semi-hybrida) in… Read more about this item Item Price
$45,000.00
Hours of Guillaume II Molé (Use of Troyes); in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment
by illuminated by the Rosenberg Master (active Lyons, c. 1470-1500)
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Chicago , Illinois, USA
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$250,000.00
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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 Item Price
$250,000.00
Carthusian Ordinarium for the Mass and Office, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper
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Chicago , Illinois, USA
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$11,000.00
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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 Item Price
$11,000.00
Lo Statuto della Compagnia del Santissimo Sagramento in S. Nicolò dei Perfetti (Statutes of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Sacrament), in Italian and Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
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Chicago , Illinois, USA
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$6,500.00
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CAREFULLY WRITTEN AND DECORATED UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT FROM AN ITALIAN CONFRATERNITY. In Italian and Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, Italy (Rome), c. 1736-1745. Dimensions 231 x 167 mm., 27 folios, complete, written in black ink in italic and in an upright script modelled on Roman font in 25 long lines, red rubrics, full decorative borders in black ink throughout, five 3-line… Read more about this item Item Price
$6,500.00
Vaderboec (second Dutch translation of the Vitae patrum); in Middle Dutch, manuscript on paper
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Chicago , Illinois, USA
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$75,000.00
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RARE DUTCH TRANSLATION OF A TEXT IMPORTANT TO THE RELIGIOUS REFORMERS KNOWN AS THE DEVOTIO MODERNA. In Middle Dutch, manuscript on paper, Southern part of the Northern Netherlands, probably Limbourg, c. 1475-1500. Dimensions 207 x 140 mm., 188 folios, written in a littera hybrida by one hand, skillful and vary attractive penwork initials. BINDING: CONTEMPORARY, wooden boards covered… Read more about this item Item Price
$75,000.00
Scriptum super libros sententiarum Petri Lombardi, Liber I (Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Book one); in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper
by ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
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$32,000.00
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MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT OF A THEOLOGICAL COMMENTARY BY THOMAS AQUINAS. In Latin, decorated manuscript on paper, Central Italy, c. 1450-1500. Dimensions 225 x 237 mm., 134 folios, copied by two scribes in small gothic book hands, red and blue initials throughout. BINDING: reversed calf over pasteboards (eighteenth-century?). TEXT: St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), a Dominican friar and Doctor of the Church,… Read more about this item Item Price
$32,000.00
Book of Hours (use of Rome); in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment
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$60,000.00
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ILLUMINATED PRAYER BOOK MADE FOR A WOMAN AND DECORATED BY AN IMPORTANT FOLLOWER OF JEAN COLOMBE. In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment, France, Bourges, c. 1490-1500. Dimensions 135 x 90 mm., 166 folios, lacking 2 leaves, written in dark brown ink in a cursive gothic bookhand on 15 lines, 1- and 2- line initials, in-filled with gold… Read more about this item Item Price
$60,000.00
Latin Bible, part (Pauline and Catholic Epistles, Acts, Apocalypse); NICHOLAS OF LYRA, Postillae (Commentaries on the Pauline and Catholic Epistles, Acts, Apocalypse); in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper
by Nicholas of Lyra
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$70,000.00
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MANUSCRIPT COMBINING A LATIN NEW TESTAMENT AND COMMENTARIES BY NICHOLAS OF LYRA. In Latin, decorated manuscript on paper, Northeastern Netherlands or Northwestern Germany, c. 1450-1475. Dimensions 275 x 198 mm., 383 folios, apparently complete, written in a formal cursive gothic bookhand without loops in two columns of 38 lines, red initials, nine- to fifteen-line blue or parted red and blue… Read more about this item Item Price
$70,000.00
Viridarium Gregorianum sive Biblia Gregoriana, New Testament (A Garden or Bible of Gregory); in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
by JACOBUS FOLQUERIUS (JACQUES FOUQUIER)
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$85,000.00
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FOURTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF A RARE NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY COPIED BY A NAMED SCRIBE. In Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, Southwest Flanders or Hainaut (Tournai?), c. 1350. Dimensions 240 x 170 mm., 120 folios, complete, catchwords in red and brown ink, quire signatures, written by a single scribe in a university bookhand, scrolling cadels at top lines sometimes in human and… Read more about this item Item Price
$85,000.00
La Fiorita d’Italia; in Italian, decorated manuscript on parchment
by Guido da Pisa
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$52,000.00
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: FIFTEENTH-CENTURY COPY OF GUIDO DA PISA'S HISTORY OF ROME, IN ITALIAN. In Italian, decorated manuscript on parchment, Italy, Tuscany, Florence(?), c. 1440-1460. Dimensions 260 x 182 mm., 83 folios, lacking nine leaves, horizontal catchwords, written in brown ink by two different scribes in Italian cursive mercantesca script in single column on 38 lines, penwork initials. BINDING: ORIGINAL dark… Read more about this item Item Price
$52,000.00
Liber meneschalcie, Italian translation of Laurentius Rusius, Hippiatria sive Marescalia (Book on the Health of Horses)
by ANTONIO DAPERA and LAURENTIUS RUSIUS
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$125,000.00
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RARE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT ON THE HEALTH OF HORSES. In Italian and Latin, illustrated manuscript on paper, Northern Italy (perhaps Ferrara), dated 1434. Dimensions 283 x 217 mm, 82 folios, complete, watermark of three mountains, phrases in decorative cartouches, written in in a gothic bookhand influenced by humanistic script in two columns of 29-35 lines, large painted initials in red throughout,… Read more about this item Item Price
$125,000.00
Chronique amplifiée des rois de France (Amplified Chronicle of the Kings of France); medieval manuscript on paper in French
by GUILLAUME DE NANGIS
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$110,000.00
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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 Item Price
$110,000.00
Choir Book with Selected Texts for the Mass and Office; in Latin with some Italian, illuminated stenciled book on paper with musical notation, in original binding
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$15,000.00
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ILLUMINATED CHOIR BOOK MADE BY STENCILS. In Latin with some Italian, illuminated stenciled book on paper with musical notation, Italy, late 18th-19th century. Dimensions 460 x 320 mm, 23 folios, complete, on very thick paper, prickings remain, seven lines of text and seven red four-line staves on each page, FIVE LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIALS, equivalent to one line of text and… Read more about this item Item Price
$15,000.00
Miscellany including Imitatio Christi, book one; Visio Tnugdali; Tractatus de Purgatorio de Sancti Patricii; Historia de spiritu Guidonis; Historia Udonis Magdeburgensis episcopi; De meditatione passionis Christi; Lignum vitae; Reise ins heilige Land; Visio Philiberti; Dialogus beatae Mariae et Anselmi de passione domini (Latin and Dutch versions); and other texts; In Latin, Low German, and Dutch, decorated manuscript on paper
by THOMAS A KEMPIS; MARCUS OF REGENSBURG; HENRICUS SALTERIENSIS; IOHANNES GOBI; PS-BEDE; BONAVENTURE; LUDOLF VON SUDHEIM; PS-ANSELM
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$120,000.00
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MISCELLANY WITH ELEVEN IMPORTANT TEXTS REFLECTING THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE MODERN DEVOTION. In Latin, Low German, and Dutch, decorated manuscript on paper, Netherlands (Southeastern?) or West Germany, c. 1460-1480. Dimensions 244 x 143, 222 folios on paper, apparently complete, written by at least four scribes in expert cursive gothic bookhands in 28-30 long lines, seven ORIGINAL TABS or place-markers… Read more about this item Item Price
$120,000.00