Western Manuscripts and Miniatures

Calligraphic charter illustrated with hunting scenes, issued by Frederick the Great, Margrave of Brandenburg-Prussia for Johann Friedrich Sebirmer...

ƟLengthy inventory of a Brabant archive, arranging entries according to alphabetised subjects, in French and occasional Flemish, manuscript on pap...

Record of the sale of properties by Michael Chlainsweindl (doubtless a Jew) to pay the Grand-Jewry tax and other necessities, manuscript document ...

Two leaves from eastern Christian manuals, one on apparent Venetian or Greek paper, in Coptic, Arabic and Syriac, decorated manuscripts on paper [...

Leaf from a large Lectionary, in Coptic with a few Arabic characters, manuscript on paper [Egypt, fifteenth century or c. 1500]single large leaf, ...

ƟMashtots (rituale), in Armenian, decorated manuscript on paper [Ottoman Empire (the Armenian colony of Smyrna/Izmir), dated 1608]196 leaves (incl...

ƟTheotokarion, the readings and chants for the Divine Services dedicated to the Virgin Mary Theotokos, in Greek, decorated manuscript on paper [By...

ƟDecretals of Gregory IX, or ‘Liber Extra’, with commentary of Raymond Peñafort, in the extremely rare Old French translation, decorated manuscrip...

ƟFranciscan Rule, with associated texts, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Germany (probably Bamburg), second half of fifteenth century (af...

ƟPliny the Elder, Historia naturalis, in the epitome of Ludovicus de Guastis, in Latin with occasional words in Greek, manuscript on paper [Italy ...

ƟThe Barbarigo Orosius, containing the Historia Adversus Paganos Libri VII, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Italy (perhaps Venice), dated 8 Nov...

ƟNicolas d'Osimo, Quadriga Spirituale, in Italian, decorated manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Venice or vicinity), dated 13 April 1445]161 lea...

ƟJohannes de Andrea, Lectura super arboris consanguinitatis et affinitatis, on the table of consanguinity, manuscript on parchment and paper [nort...

ƟPetrus de Abanus, Tractato de li Veneni, a medical work on poisons, in Italian, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy, fifteenth century]59 le...

Niccolo Sagundino, Ad serenissimum principem, an eyewitness account of the Fall of Constantinople and its seizure by the Ottoman Empire, in Latin,...

Ornately tooled carrying case, probably for a ledger, made up from manuscript leaves from fourteenth-century paper documents or accounts [Italy (p...

ƟBook of Hours, Use of Paris, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern France (doubtless Paris), c. 1450]204 leaves, collation impr...

ƟGradual, in Latin, manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Pisa), c. 1593]178 leaves, contemporary foliation at outer corner of each recto showing l...

ƟSeries of four Choirbooks, in Latin, manuscripts on paper in fine silver-edged bindings [Italy (Rome), dated 1766]four large thin volumes, with (...

ƟPractical and medical recipes, in Italian, manuscript on paper [Italy (perhaps Vicenza or just perhaps Syracuse), last decades of sixteenth centu...

ƟTreatise on Chiromancy, in Italian, illustrated manuscript on paper [Italy, seventeenth century]54 leaves (including 2 blank endleaves), single c...

Ɵ‘In Universam Naturae Philosphiam’, a student’s textbook, including much Aristotelian material, in Latin, illustrated manuscript on paper [Italy,...

Ɵ‘Physica’, a student’s textbook, including much Aristotelian material, in Latin, illustrated manuscript on paper [Italy, seventeenth or eighteent...

Ɵ‘Physica’, a student’s textbook, including much Aristotelian material, in Latin, illustrated manuscript on paper [France, seventeenth or eighteen...

Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Ynstrucion que el Conde de Gondomar dio al Padre Fray Diego de la Fuente para informar a S.M. en Espa...

Ɵ The Music Book of Wilhelm Honinghaus, in German, manuscript on paper [Germany, seventeenth or eighteenth century, with additions in America in n...

ƟSonnetto, in Italian, illustrated manuscript on paper [Italy, eighteenth century]six leaves (single gathering), each leaf headed with title “Sone...

Broadsheet advertising prices for oysters in Lady Quarter (from the last week of December to Midsummer) in London, in English, manuscript on parch...

ƟThe reference book of Pietro Gai, an Italian ‘vetturino’ or coachman, containing endorsements by Robert Browning and others, in English, Italian,...