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Paris: Imprimerie Clousier [vol. I] et Lamy [vol. II-V], 1780-86. FIRST EDITION. 540 x 360 mm. (21 1/4 x 14 3/16"). Five volumes.. Contemporary blue marbled paper boards. Allegorical frontispiece engraved by Née after Moreau the Younger in the first volume of plates, half titles and titles engraved, a large folding map of Switzerland, and 277 (of 278) PLATES CONTAINING 428 IMAGES (of 430) engraved by Née and Masquelier after designs by Perignon, Le Barbier, and others (missing plate no. 278, with two vignette portraits of the authors, intended to be the frontispiece to volume I). Brunet V, 1546; Cohen-de Ricci 1075-6. ◆Paper boards chipped at the edges and quite chafed, two spines with noticeable tears (though all paper still present), corners bumped, but the apparently original bindings remarkably solid and otherwise very well preserved, especially given their insubstantial materials. Occasional minor foxing or marginal smudges, isolated mild toning (a couple of plates a bit browned), otherwise…
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TABLEAUX TOPOGRAPHIQUES, PITTORESQUES, PHYSIQUES, HISTORIQUES, MORAUX, POLITIQUES, LITTERAIRES, DE LA SUISSE
by ZURLAUBEN, BÉAT FIDEL ANTOINE DOMINIQUE, and JEAN BENJAMIN DE LABORDE
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TABLEAUX DU CABINET DU ROY. PREMIERE PARTIE. [and] DESCRIPTION DE LA GROTTE DE VERSAILLES
by (COLOR PLATES - ROYAL OPULENCE). FÉLIBIEN, ANDRÉ
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Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royal, 1679, 1676. Second Edition of the first work (but the first for sale to the public); FIRST EDITION of the second work. 482 x 340 mm. (19 x 13 1/2"). 1 p.l., 14 pp; 1 p.l., 11, [1] pp. Two works in one volume. . 19th century half calf over marbled boards, raised bands, red morocco label (older repairs to joints, hinges reinforced with linen). Title page with royal arms, elaborate headpieces and initials, and 44 VERY LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE ENGRAVED PLATES WITH BEAUTIFUL (modern) HAND COLORING, six of these double-page or folding, captioned in French and Latin. Front pastedown with 19th century engraved armorial bookplate of Rycroft and a rather feminine cipher ex-libris incorporating the letter R; front free endpaper inscribed "Lady Rycroft" in pencil; title page of Part II with tipped-on handwritten note in English about the Grotto. For the second work: Millard I, 69. ◆Paper boards somewhat chafed, joints and extremities a bit rubbed, but the binding solid. A touch of…
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TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE
by POE, EDGAR ALLAN
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Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. FIRST EDITION, from a printing of perhaps only 750 copies. With page 213 in the second volume numbered correctly, and page 219 with the "i" in "-ing" and the hyphen in "attributes" both misaligned. 200 x 117 mm. (8 x 4 1/2"). Two volumes.. Publisher's brown muslin, very expertly re-cased, preserving most of original backstrip and cloth covering, replica printed paper labels, new (well-chosen) endpapers. BAL 16133; Heartman & Canny, pp. 49-54; Day, "History of American Literature" I, p. 148. ◆Spines and heads of boards faintly sunned, extremities a little rubbed, with minor fraying in spots, but the expertly restored bindings very tight and generally pleasing. First volume with lower third of each leaf lightly dampstained (a bit darker at very front and back, otherwise faint), intermittent foxing and occasional minor stains elsewhere in both volumes. Not without significant internal condition issues, but still appealing when judged against competing copies of…
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TAM O'SHANTER AND OTHER POEMS
by (MODERN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM). (BINDINGS - JEWELLED). SANGORSKI, ALBERTO, Designer, Calligrapher, and Illuminator. BURNS, ROBERT
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[London, 1931]. 307 x 215 mm. (12 x 8 1/2"). 40 pp., [1] leaf (colophon). DAZZLING CRIMSON CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, INLAID, AND BEJEWELLED, BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), covers with inlaid light blue morocco border, blue Celtic knot strapwork at middle of each side and at corners, those on upper cover with a ruby or sapphire at center, those on lower cover with a circle of red or blue morocco at center, cornerpieces connected by a graceful loop to the blue morocco strip framing the central oval panel, the spaces between the strapwork ornaments and the inner and outer frames filled with pointillé gilt compartments tooled with gilt vines bearing inlaid white morocco flowers (upper cover) or purple morocco thistles (lower cover), a recessed medallion of green morocco at center of upper cover set WITH BURNS' INITIALS IN METAL ENCRUSTED WITH 80 JEWELS (40 CABOCHON RUBIES AND 40 CABOCHON SAPPHIRES) of varying sizes, central oval panel on lower cover with gilt lyre at center…
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TAMBOURS ET TROMPETTES
by (POCHOIR). ARNOUX, GUY
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Paris: Devambez, 1918. No. 287 OF 475 COPIES, from a total issue of 500. 470 x 375 mm. (18 1/2 x 14 3/4"). 1 p.l. followed by plates. Loose as issued within original wrappers and housed in publisher's paper board folio (spine repaired with shipping tape), upper cover with hand-colored lithograph vignette, original (somewhat worn but intact) tri-color silk ribbon ties. With illustrated title page and 10 HAND-COLORED PLATES IN POCHOIR. Rear board with "can't dupl." in black marking pen. ◆Corners and edges somewhat worn, just a hint of soiling to boards, but a very desirable copy, the inelegantly repaired portfolio with obvious condition issues, but the richly colored plates--the important part of this item--especially clean, fresh, and well preserved in general. This is a copy of French caricaturist and illustrator Guy Arnoux's vivid homage to those musical instruments and musicians leading the French into battle from the Revolution through World War I. Arnoux (1886-1951) illustrated almost 80…
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TANNHÄUSER
by POGÁNY, WILLY, Illustrator and Designer. WAGNER, RICHARD
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London: G. G. Harrap & Co, 1911. No. 187 OF 525 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. 287 x 193 mm. (11 1/4 x 7 1/2"). [204] pp.Translated in Poetic Narrative Form by T. W. Rolleston. Publisher's full gray leather, upper cover with blind-stamped lyre/staff/rose ornament and title, smooth spine with title in blind, background leather stippled, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. IN THE ORIGINAL (slightly soiled) PICTORIAL BOX. LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED BY WILLY POGÁNY, with illustrated title and half title printed in colors, frames and decorations on every page of text, numerous vignettes in the text, 44 full-page illustrations( these predominantly printed in black and orange, but some also with gray-green and blue ink, all on toned paper), small mounted color insert to frontispiece, and 16 MOUNTED COLOR PLATES. Inside cover of box with bookplate of "P. W." ◆A hint of rubbing to extremities and head and tail of spine, free endpapers with minor offsetting from turn-ins, but AN ESPECIALLY…
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TAYLOR AND SKINNER'S MAPS OF THE ROADS OF IRELAND: SURVEYED IN 1777 AND CORRECTED DOWN TO 1783
by (IRELAND - MAPS). TAYLOR, GEORGE and ANDREW SKINNER
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London: Engraved by G. Terry and Sold by T. Longman, London and W. Wilson, Dublin, 1783. Second, Corrected Edition. 260 x 155 mm. (10 1/4 x 6"). XXVII, 289 pp., [4] leaves (index). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, flat spine divided into panels by gilt rules, red morocco label (very neat repair to head of front joint and top of spine). Engraved title page (with vignette) and dedication leaf, large folding map of Ireland, and 289 engraved maps. Title page with early ink signature of Jos. Sabine[?]. Moreland & Bannister, p. 190; Tooley, "Maps and Mapmakers," p. 94. ◆Small signs of age and wear to the binding (including slight crackling and nicks to the spine), folding map with faint dampstain to tail margin, two negligible ink spots to blank area on the map of the Irish Sea, but A VERY APPEALING COPY, quite clean and remarkably fresh internally, and in an entirely solid period binding. This is the second, corrected edition of the first comprehensive road atlas of Ireland, offered here in…
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TELEMACHUS ULYSSIS FILIUS
by (BINDINGS - ETRUSCAN CALF). [FÉNELON, FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE]
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Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg]: Conradum Henricum Stage, 1764. Second Edition in Latin. 208 x 160 mm. (8 1/8 x 6 1/4"). 9 p.l., 262 pp.Translated from French into Latin by Joseph Claude Destouches. VERY ATTRACTIVE LATE 18TH CENTURY ETRUSCAN CALF IN THE STYLE OF EDWARDS OF HALIFAX, covers with gilt border, central panel framed by stencilled palmettes within double gilt rules, an Etruscan-style vase at center within a stencilled sunburst, raised bands, spine panels with blind-stamped Etruscan vase, black morocco label, gilt-rolled turn-ins, all edges gilt. With printer's elaborate engraved device on title page, engraved portrait of Elector Maximilian-Joseph of Bavaria at the head of the dedication to him, engraved allegorical headpiece at the opening of Book I, wood-engraved tailpieces at end of each section. ◆Small wormhole near head of front joint, two corners a bit bumped, minor foxing to title and final page, other trivial imperfections, but QUITE A FINE, WIDE-MARGINED COPY, clean, fresh, and…
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TERTIUS LIBER ROSARII THEOLOGIE AUREI
by (POST-INCUNABLE). PELBARTUS DE TEMESWAR
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Hagenau: Heinrich Gran for Johann Rynmann of Augsburg, 1507. FIRST EDITION. 300 x 205 mm. (11 3/4 x 8 1/8"). [165] leaves (lacking final blank). Double column, 57 lines, gothic type. Contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, front cover with frame and central diapered area with round floral and banner stamps, rear boards diapered with stag and acorn stamps, evidence of corner and central bosses, since removed, raised bands, ink titling on spine. Capitals struck with red, paragraph marks and three- to seven-line initials hand painted in red. Front pastedown with bookplate of the Abbey of Andechs; early ink ownership inscription of the Abbey on title page. VD16 P1160; USTC 696152. ◆Pigskin on front cover a uniform milky brown (corners and center of boards much lighter due to removed bosses), first and last leaves with minor marginal soiling, final quire with a couple of short cuts to head margin of leaves (well away from text), otherwise quite a fine copy--clean, fresh,…
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TEXT BEGINNING WITH 2 CHRONICLES 36:14
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Abbey of St. Oyan at St.-Claude du Jura, France, ca. 1175. 245 x 158 mm. (9 3/4 x 6 1/4"). Single column of text with two columns of gloss, text column with 26 lines in a fine proto-gothic book hand. Verso with scant remnants of mounting tape in a couple of places along one edge. See Gwara, Handlist no. 77. ◆Upper margin of fore edge unevenly trimmed away (but no text lost), a dozen-and-a-half small, round wormholes (touching just a couple letters), light soiling to edges and other minor imperfections, but still IN FINE CONDITION, the vellum very clean, and the ink dark and legible. The most important innovation in biblical scholarship during the 12th century was the development of the "Glossa Ordinaria" to the Bible. Drawing on the whole earlier tradition of biblical exegesis, but especially that of Latin patristic writers like Augustine and Jerome, scholars working in the French cathedral schools of Laon and Paris systematized this material in an apparatus of marginal and interlinear glosses…
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TEXT CONCERNING PAYMENTS BETWEEN A CHAPEL AND CONVENT
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Italy, 1429. 323 x 173 mm. (12 3/4 x 6 3/4"). Single column, 60 lines in a neat cursive script. Notarial signature at lower left; verso with a date and notations in contemporary hands. ◆Vellum trimmed a little close, four horizontal and three vertical fold creases, slight darkening to verso, five very small holes (no text obscured) and one larger (naturally-occurring) hole in the text, otherwise in excellent condition with a very clear hand. This is a notarized document recording an agreement made between the chapel and convent (i.e. the whole community) of the house of St. John, a group of female religious located in the parish of St. Peter, and the brothers of Bonsignioribus, another religious house in the parish of St. Laurence Major. The women of St. John agree to pay to the brothers of Bonsignioribus a sum of 11 libras, 8 soldas, and 9 denarios. The reason for this payment is unclear, pending further investigation into some of the more abbreviated portions of the text. The document is of…
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TEXT FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER
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Paris, ca. 1460. 195 x 143 mm. (7 3/4 x 5 1/2"). Single column, 16 lines in a gothic book hand. Minor feast days in red and blue, major feasts in gold, numerous gold and painted line fillers, the five "A" initials and the "KL" highly decorative and painted pink and blue against a gold background, gold and pink bar surrounding the text on three sides, BOTH SIDES OF THE LEAF WITH EXTRAVAGANTLY DECORATIVE BOTANICAL FULL BORDERS with two small birds hidden within, and INCORPORATING TWO MEDALLION MINIATURES DEPICTING THE LABOR OF THE MONTH (SOWING) AND THE SIGN OF THE ZODIAC (SCORPIO) FOR OCTOBER. ◆IN VERY FINE, FRESH CONDITION, with gold and paint extraordinarily bright. The extraordinarily lavish and animated full borders, coupled here with extensive use of brushed and burnished gold--for major feast days, for decorative border elements, and even for the hundreds of seeds being sown(!)--suggests that this calendar folio comes from a Book of Hours that was commissioned for a person or persons of high…
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TEXT FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY
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Northern France [probably Paris], ca. 1460s. 130 x 98 mm. (5 1/8 x 3 7/8"). Single column, recto with 18 lines of text in a very fine gothic book hand. Text in red, blue, and gold, "KL" in blue with white tracery and on a burnished gold ground and infilled with ivy leaves in blue, orange, and white, BOTH SIDES WITH A PANEL BORDER, EACH WITH A ROUNDEL DEPICTING THE ZODIAC SIGN AND LABOR OF THE MONTH, placed amidst a tangle of acanthus leaves in blue, red, and brushed gold. ◆Recto with a little general soiling, the roundel lightly abraided, and a noticeable smudge to the top of the panel border, but the verso quite clean with just a little discoloration to margins and the "KL" offset from facing page, the roundel on this side in excellent condition with just one or two very small scratches. This leaf comes from a large fragment of a beautifully executed little Book of Hours done by very sophisticated artists whose illumination in general--and zoomorphic inhabitation in particular--is extremely…
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TEXT FROM THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (MATTHEW 5-7)
by (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM - MODERN). WILSON, VIOLET, Scribe and Illuminator
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Wimbledon, Surrey, September 1939. 373 x 255 mm. (14 3/4 x 10"). [12] vellum leaves (seven with text and illuminations). Single column, approximately 30 lines in a fine calligraphic hand. Attractive contemporary dark blue crushed morocco, covers with gilt and blind rules, raised bands with gilt rules, gilt-ruled turn-ins, vellum pastedowns. Text in blue, black, green, and red, a few lines with larger lettering in gilt, several two-line initials in colored ink, five two-line initials in red or blue with floral decorations, opening pages with eight two-line initials in gold (the lines here of a larger size than rest of text), six three-line initials in gold filled and surrounded by floral decoration, three four- to six-line gilt initials with more intricate floral decorations, one of these with gilt stippling and two surrounded by a gilt frame, and ONE VERY LARGE (80 x 45 mm) GILT "B" decorated with stippling, filled with two-tone green leaves, pink flowers, and large gold bezants. First leaf with ink…
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TEXT FROM THE MONTH OF OCTOBER
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France (probably Paris), ca. 1480. 182 x 127 mm. (7 1/4 x 5"). Single column, 18 lines, text in a gothic book hand. Text in blue, pink, and gold, five one-line initials in gold on pink and blue ground, two-line "KL in blue with white tracery on a gold ground and decorated with pink and blue ivy, recto with A PANEL BORDER COMPOSED OF TWO MINIATURES depicting the Labor of the Month (Sowing) and the Zodiac sign (a scorpion for Scorpio), verso with a panel border decorated with acanthus and flowers on alternating patches of bare vellum and shell gold ground. ◆Vellum lightly soiled in places, a handful of small marginal spots, but IN FINE CONDITION, the miniatures especially well preserved and the gold sparkling. This is a lovely example of an illustrated calendar leaf from a high-quality manuscript, with good-sized and appealing miniatures showing the labor of the month and the zodiac sign for October in the outer margin. According to Roger Wieck, far fewer than half the Books of Hours of the period…
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TEXT FROM THE MONTH OF AUGUST
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Northern France (probably Rouen), ca. 1470. 180 x 117 mm. (7 x 4 5/8"). Single column, 18 lines, text in a bâtarde hand. Text in red, blue, and gold, two-line "KL" in shell gold on blue and red ground, both sides with panel border composed of flowers and ink dots, WITH TWO SMALL MINIATURES, each centered in the middle of the panel borders, featuring the labor of the month (Threshing) and the zodiac sign (a young woman for Virgo). ◆Vellum a bit soiled and slight wrinkling in margins, small area of rubbing at bottom of the Virgo miniature, but in excellent condition overall, the fine details in the miniatures well preserved. Situated among the flowers of the panel borders here are two small but charming miniatures depicting the labor of the month, "Threshing," and the zodiac sign for August. According to Roger Wieck, far fewer than half the Books of Hours of the period contain illustrated calendars, "even in manuscripts with otherwise lavish cycles of miniatures"; when they do appear, they are…
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TEXT FROM THE END OF THE COMMENTARY ON NUMBERS AND THE OPENING OF THE PROLOGUE FOR THE COMMENTARY ON DEUTERONOMY
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England, first half of 13th century. 235 x 117 mm. (9 1/4 x 4 1/2"). Single column, 49-50 lines in a gothic hand. Rubrics in dark brown ink, three two-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork, one four-line puzzle initial in red and blue, with red and blue penwork decorations and long marginal extenders. With a few contemporary corrections in a different hand, verso with scant remnants of mounting tape. Gwara Handlist no. 7. ◆Top edge trimmed, cutting into the large initial's ascender, one corner cut away (not affecting text), a couple of wrinkles and a bit of soiling to vellum, but in excellent condition overall, quite clean and entirely legible. Noticeably different in appearance from the Medieval leaves more commonly encountered on the market (such as Books of Hours, Bibles, liturgical books, etc.), this leaf features a tall, thin "ledger" format and offset initials spaced slightly apart from the rest of the line. The text here comes from the "Aurora," a commentary on the Bible in…
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TEXT FROM THE MONTH OF AUGUST
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France (probably Paris), ca. 1480. 182 x 127 mm. (7 1/4 x 5"). Single column, 18 lines, text in a gothic book hand. Text in blue, pink, and gold, four one-line initials in gold on pink and blue ground, two-line "KL in blue with white tracery on a gold ground and decorated with pink and blue ivy, recto with A PANEL BORDER COMPOSED OF TWO MINIATURES depicting the labor of the month (Threshing) and the zodiac sign (a young woman for Virgo), verso with a panel border featuring acanthus and flowers on alternating patches of bare vellum and shell gold ground ◆Vellum a bit soiled and just faintly darkened, two quite small (natural?) holes just touching the frame of bottom miniature and panel border (but of no consequence), otherwise a very pleasing leaf and on the whole quite well preserved with attractive coloring and sparkling gold. This is an attractive illustrated calendar leaf from a high-quality manuscript, with good-sized and appealing miniatures showing the labor of the month and the zodiac sign…
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TEXT FROM HYMNS TO THE PASSION OF CHRIST
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Bruges, ca. 1465. 193 x 145 mm. (7 5/8 x 5 3/4"). Single column, 21 lines in a gothic book hand. Rubrics in red, WITH THREE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS: ONE WITH A PORTRAIT OF CHRIST WEARING THE CROWN OF THORNS, AND TWO WITH DISEMBODIED HANDS SHOWING THE STIGMATA, each initial in pink or blue with white tracery, filled with dark pink or blue with thin gilt lines and dots, hands with wavy blue rays radiating from behind the appendage, all within a thin gilt frame, both sides with a three-quarter border consisting of hairline vines, gold bezants, and a few colorful flowers. ◆Margins with a little light soiling, BUT IN FINE CONDITION, THE PAINT OF THE INITIALS ESPECIALLY RICH AND WELL PRESERVED. From a manuscript probably produced in Bruges for the English market, this leaf contains arresting initials that direct the viewer's attention to the wounds endured by Christ during the Passion. According to Roger Wieck, Passion Cycle images enjoyed a particular vogue in 15th century Dutch, Flemish, and…
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TEXT FROM COMMENTARY ON I KINGS (LINES 185-248)
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England, ca. 1375. 287 x 198 mm. (11 1/4 x 7 3/4). Single column, 32 lines in a small rounded English gothic hand, with rubrics in the margins. Rubrics in red, running title in red, paragraph marks in red or blue, two initials measuring two lines in height and colored blue with red penwork. See: P. E. Beichner, "Aurora, Petri Rigae Biblia Versificata, A Verse Commentary on the Bible." ◆Remnants of mounting tape in top margin of recto, but a really excellent specimen, the hand very clear, the ink especially rich, and the vellum extremely clean and quite bright. Written in a gothic hand heavily influenced by the English secretarial style, this leaf comes from a copy of the "Aurora," a commentary on the Bible in verse form written in the late 12th century by French poet Petrus Riga (1140-1209), a canon of Rheims cathedral. Although little is known about the author's life, Riga's text became immensely popular throughout Europe and was routinely studied in Medieval universities. According to Beichner,…
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