Western Manuscripts and Miniatures

Ɵ Soliloquia animae ad deum, attributed to Augustine, prayers attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux and Anselm of Canterbury, and other works includi...

Ɵ Lactantius, Divinarum Institutionum Libri VII, in Latin, large and handsome Renaissance manuscript on paper [Italy (central or north), c. 1450]T...

Ɵ Humanist compendium, including letters by Donato Acciaioli, and other similar works, with notes from Classical texts and Canon Law, in Latin wit...

Ɵ Battistino de Tonsis, Historia della presa di Tripoli, in Italian, with Latin and Italian verses addressed to the author and the dedicatee Gerol...

Ɵ Vocabulario militaris, extracted from Roberto Valturio, De re militari, book VIII with illustrations from book X of the same, illustrated manusc...

Ɵ Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin with Middle English inscription, illuminated manuscript on parchment [southern Netherlands (presumably Bru...

Ɵ Giovanni Scala, Deffinitioni bellisime di geometrica, in Italian, manuscript with illustrations and a volvelle, on paper [Italy (probably Lucca ...

Ɵ A Sienese chronicle from 1238 to 1466, in Italian, illustrated manuscript on paper [Italy (Siena), c. 1600]To view a video of this lot, click he...

Ɵ Two volumes containing collections of mottos and notes on ethics, in Italian, manuscripts on paper with a noble Italian provenance [Italy, late ...

Ɵ Li avvenimenti delli straccioni occorso nella città di Lucca l'anno 1531, in Italian, manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Lucca), c. 1640]To vi...

Ɵ History and Statutes of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, in Italian, manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Rome), mid-sev...

Ɵ Pierre Albert de Launay, Remarques sommaires faites sur la maison d'Aerssen, in French, Latin and Dutch, a de luxe manuscript produced for Corne...

Reading aid for use with Greek manuscripts, in Greek and Latin, manuscript on paper [probably Germany, late seventeenth century]Six leaves (single...

Ɵ In universam Aristotelis Physicam commentarii et disputationes", "Quaestiones quae supersunt In Metaphysicam Aristotelis" and "Disputationes ad ...

Ɵ Giusto de 'Conti, La Bella Mano, following the edition of Jacopo Corbinelli, in Italian verse, manuscript on paper [Italy, seventeenth century]T...

Ɵ Leandro Fernández de Moratín, La Mojigata, Comedia en tres actos, a play in Spanish, presentation copy from the author to Baroness Holland, manu...