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Lot withdrawnThe text on these two small fragments was identified by us as most probably that of Paterius’ commentary on Luke, based on the precis...

Leaf from a Sacramentary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy (probably west-central region), eleventh century (perhaps early or ev...

Leaf from a Romanesque Lectionary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy (probably Montecassino or Naples), eleventh or twelfth centu...

Palladius of Cappadocia, Historia Lausiaca, in Latin translation, cutting from a large leaf, decorated manuscript on parchment [France, mid- to la...

Leaf from a Glossed Gospel of Luke, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [probably Italy, second half of twelfth century (probably after c. 1180)]Sin...

Ɵ Single leaf from a monumental Biblical codex, with Revelation 18-19, in Latin, manuscript on parchment, in situ on the binding of a printed copy...

Cutting from a monumental Missal with large painted initial, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy (probably Tuscany), twelfth centur...

Bifolium from an early choirbook, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Eastern France (most probably Poligny or vicinity), thirteenth cent...

Fragment of a manuscript of the works of John Damascene, De fide orthodoxa, in Latin translation of Burgundio of Pisa, manuscript on parchment [pr...

Bifolium from a medieval Latin schoolbook with the Distichs of Cato, and the Eclogues of Theodulus, with extensive commentary, in Latin, manuscrip...

Peter Lombard, Libri quatour sententiarum, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [northern France (Paris), thirteenth century]Single leaf, w...

Leaf from the 'Interpretations of Hebrew Names' from the St Albans Abbey Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern France (Pa...

Leaf from the Psalms from a finely decorated Bible, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Italy (probably Bologna), late thirteenth or early fourteen...

Ɵ Cutting from a monumental Old Testament codex, in Latin, manuscript on parchment, in situ on the binding of a copy of Von der Fürsichtigkeit Got...

Cutting from a copy of the Corpus Juris Civilis, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [France (probably Paris), thirteenth century]Top ha...

Johannes de Freiburg, leaves from an extremely large codex of Summa confessorum, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[France, early fourtee...

Leaf from a finely illuminated Book of Hours, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [England (perhaps London or Oxford), fifteenth century (probably 1...

Leaf from a Processional, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France or Low Countries, c. 1400] Single leaf, with single column of 7 lines of text ...

Ɵ Bifolium from a large and handsome Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, in situ on the binding of a manuscript record of a legal...

Leaf from a large illuminated Missal, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Italy, fifteenth century]Single leaf, with single column of 29 lines of a...

Three leaves from a large Choir Psalter, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Germany (Würzberg), end of fifteenth century (probably dated 1499)]Thr...

Leaf from the Psalter with Passion Sequences copied by Pietro Ursuleo of Capuo, in Latin, opulently illuminated manuscript on parchment [southern ...

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, in Latin, a leaf and a book-board with fragments and offset from a lost leaf, both from a fine humanist manuscri...

Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum, sermons using the game of chess as their basis, in Latin...

Marsilius of Inghen, Quaestiones on Aristotle, De generatione et corruptione, in Latin, manuscript leaves on paper, later reused to support a fabr...

Two leaves from Guarino Veronese, Regule grammaticales and Carmina differentialia, in Latin prose and verse, decorated manuscript on parchment [It...

Thomas de Cantimpré, Bonum universale de apibus, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [northern France or adjacent Low Countries, fifteenth...

A small teaching collection of fragments of medieval manuscripts, in Latin, French, German and Spanish, on parchment [tenth or eleventh to sixteen...

Collection of leaves or cuttings from liturgical manuscripts, in Latin, on parchment [Italy and Germany, thirteenth to sixteenth century]To view a...

Collection of leaves from medieval manuscripts, in Latin, on parchment [Germany, c. 1200 to fourteenth century]To view a video of this lot, click ...

Collection of leaves or cuttings from medieval musical manuscripts, in Latin, on parchment [Germany, thirteenth to fifteenth century]To view a vid...

Bifolium with four historiated initials from a lavishly illuminated Bible, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [northern France (Paris), c. 1210-20]...

Cutting from a copy of the works of Augustine, with a miniature showing a peasant working on an initial with an adze, in Latin, manuscript on parc...

The Nativity in a historiated initial, on a leaf from a manuscript Gradual, on parchment [Low Countries (probably Flanders), fifteenth century]Sin...

Habakkuk, historiated initial on a leaf from a large Bible, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [southern Germany, late fifteenth century]Single lea...

Leaf from a Liber Benefactorum, most probably from Sint Janskerk, Mechelen, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Flanders (most probably...

Large initial enclosing foliage and large gold bezants, on a cutting from an illuminated choirbook, on parchment [Italy (perhaps Siena), second ha...

Fourteen initials with interlace or architectural decoration, from an illuminated choirbook, on parchment [Italy (perhaps Rome), late fifteenth ce...

Bifolium from a herbal glossary in the Synonyma tradition, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France, twelfth century]Two conjoined leaves, each w...

John of St-Amand, Concordantiae, a medical compendium of Greek and Arabic authorities arranged by subject, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parch...

Leaves from a medical text with entries on lung diseases including pneumonia (here "peripneumonia"), in Latin, from a parchment manuscript still i...

A Physician with Two Amputees, miniature from an early copy of Bartholomaeus Anglicanus, Le Livre des proprietes des choses, in the French transla...

Ɵ The medical compilation of Siguna Stübichin, a noble female medical practitioner from Renaissance Germany, in German, manuscript on paper [Austr...

The Galletti Alchemical Compendium, including the celebrated Summa perfectionis magisterii attributed to Geber (Jabir ibn Hayyan), and other texts...

Extracts from the Horoscope of the Elector of Saxony with catastrophic and dire events predicted for 1562, in German, manuscript on single sheet o...

Charter issued by Johannes "fitz Ley" of Coventry and Margaret his wife for Radulfus "Le Alley", concerning property within the town of Coventry, ...

Three charters relating to the estates of Thornton and Leckhamstead, Bucks., in Latin, documents on parchment [England (Buckinghamshire), early fo...

Four charters relating to Sandwich and other sites in Kent, in Latin, documents on parchment [England (Kent), fourteenth and fifteenth century]Fou...

Large collection of charters, predominantly English, in Latin, French and English, manuscript documents mostly on parchment [England, fourteenth t...

Cardinal Carlo Carafa, Letters Patent granting the office of count of the Sacred Palace of the Lateran to Giovanni Battista, son of Claudio Agucch...

Ɵ Emperor Charles V, document legitimising bastard sons of the Corner (Cornelia) family of Venice and the Malaspina of Castle Aquila in Sarzana, a...

Ɵ Venetian ducal document, issued by Doge Silvestro Valier in favour of Giovanni Tomaso di Colloredo and endorsing his inheritance of the family e...

Letters Patent granted by Oliver Cromwell as "Lord Protector of the Comonwealth of England, Scotland & Ireland" ratifying the transfer of lands at...

Two prayers ascribed to King Charles I, in Early Modern English, manuscript on paper [England, mid-seventeenth century (either c. 1648 or soon aft...

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

Ɵ Boniface VIII,Liber sextus decretalium, the Constitutiones clementinae and other collections of Papal judgements on aspects of Canon Law, in Lat...

Ɵ Antonius Azaro de Parma, Homilies, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Germany (Ulm), dated 1393]To view a video of this lot, click here. 2...

Ɵ Bartholomeus de Sancto Concordio, Summa de casibus conscientiae, in Latin, stout pocket-sized illuminated manuscript on parchment [Italy (Milan)...

Ɵ Legal compendium, drawing on Justinian, Institutiones, and Bartolo da Sassoferrato, Quaestio et Repetitio, in Latin, manuscript on paper [Italy,...

Ɵ Werner Rolevinck, De fraterna correctione and Tractatulus de forma visitationum, in Latin, large manuscript on paper [Germany (most probably Col...

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