The Roger Martin Collection of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures and other properties

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Collection of leaves from Psalters, in Latin, decorated or illuminated manuscripts on parchment [thirteenth and fourteenth century] Thirteen leave...

Two leaves from an Antiphonal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [eastern France (perhaps Bescançon), fourteenth century] Two separate l...

Two leaves from a large English manuscript of Petrus Riga, Aurora, in the first redaction of Aegidius of Paris, in Latin verse, on parchment [Engl...

Leaf from a Registrum Brevium, a register of writs, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [England (probably London or Westminster), mid-fou...

Leaf from a copy of Innocent IV, Apparatus in Quinque Libros Decretalium, in Latin, manuscript on parchment, with another contemporary English lea...

Leaf from a copy of William Durandus, Rationale divinorum officiorum, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Germany, fourteenth century] Single leaf,...

Leaf from a gargantuan copy of Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Switzerland (perhaps Gams), or ...

Leaf from a copy of Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae, in Latin with occasional word in Greek, manuscript on parchment [Italy, thirteenth centur...

Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy, first half of fourteenth century] Single leaf, with ma...

Leaf from a large Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy (Bologna), second half of thirteenth century] Single leaf, with double...

Three zoomorphic initials with bird and human faces, probably from a Canon Law manuscript on parchment [Italy (perhaps Bologna or Padua), late thi...

Leaf from an early Choirbook, with a large decorated initial incorporating a dragon, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy, thirteent...

Leaf from an Antiphonal, most probably of Franciscan Use, with a large illuminated initial, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Italy (most probabl...

Leaf from a copy of Justinian, Corpus Iuris Civilis, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy (probably Bologna), fourteenth century] Si...

Three leaves from Innocent IV, Apparatus in Quinque Libros Decretalium, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Italy, second half of fourteenth centur...

Leaf from a Promissione Ducale, the oath sworn by the doge of Venice, with two historiated initials, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment...

Christ before Pilate, in a finely executed historiated initial, with a human figure, perhaps a wildman, and two boars in the margins, from a known...

Leaf from an early Book of Hours, Use of Rome, with a miniature of Christ enthroned as the Salvator Mundi, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on par...

Text leaf from the Chester Beatty Hours of 1408, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [France (Paris), parent manuscript dated 1408] Sing...

Collection of leaves from early French Books of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscripts on parchment [first half of fifteenth century] Eleven lea...

Ɵ Book of Hours, Use of Besançon, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript codex on parchment [eastern France (probably Besançon), c. 1420-40]T...

A funeral scene, miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Paris, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [France (probably Paris), c...

Miniature of Pope St. Gregory's vision, on a leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Angers, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France (Angers), late fi...

The Agony in the Garden, a large miniature from a Book of Hours, with a text leaf from the same, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Fr...

Leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Paris, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern France (probably Paris), c. 1500] Single leaf, in...

Leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Rome, with a notably realistic painting of a frog in the margin, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [...

Leaf from a large illuminated Pontifical, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France, fifteenth century] Single large leaf, with single column of 1...

Two leaves from a Calendar, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France (perhaps central), fifteenth century] Two separate leaves (for February and ...

Small fragment of Geremia da Montagnone, Compendium Moralium Notabilium, citing Cicero, Seneca, Horace, Aristotle and Ovid, among others, in Latin...

St. Catherine of Siena, as Christ and a host of saints appears to her, and offers her a bejewelled wedding ring, miniature on a leaf from a copy o...

Two decorated borders, most probably cut from an Epistolary-Evangelary, manuscripts on parchment [southern Netherlands (most probably Bruges), c. ...

Leaf with a miniature from a Book of Hours, with stamp-signature of the Masters of Otto van Moerdrecht, from an illuminated manuscript on parchmen...

Two leaves from an Antiphonal, of Carthusian Use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [southern Netherlands (Ghent or Bruges), c. 1500] Tw...

Two leaves from an opulently illuminated Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c....

Twenty-six leaves from a Book of Hours, each with delicately painted flowers attributable to Cornelia van Wulfschkercke, a Carmelite nun from the ...

Leaf from a Psalter-Hours or Prayerbook of Brigittine Use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Low Countries (most probably Marienwater),...

Leaves from an English Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [England (probably London), c. 1420] Ten leaves,...

Two leaves with the Crown of Thorns and the Wounds of Christ in historiated initials, from a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin, illuminated ma...

Two leaves from a notably large English Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [England, second quarter or mid-fifteenth cen...

Collection of leaves from devotional books, in Latin, illuminated manuscripts on parchment [England, or made for the English market, fourteenth to...

Leaf from a calendar with near-contemporary addition of St. Bridget of Sweden, from a Book of Hours, in Dutch, illuminated manuscript on parchment...

Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook, with rabbits playing music and dancing in the margin, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Germany (...

Large initial enclosing St. Jerome writing, on a cutting from a grand Bible, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Austria (probably Vienna), mid-fif...

Pentecost, in a large historiated initial on a cutting probably from a Gradual, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [probably Austria, c...

Two cuttings with illuminated initials from a copy of Augustine, Tractate on John, in Latin, manuscript on parchment, with single leaves from a Ps...

Leaf with a full-page miniature of St. Lucy of Syracuse, from a prayerbook in German, illustrated manuscript on parchment [Germany (probably south...

The original sin and the expulsion from the garden, miniatures perhaps from a Rosary, in German, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, early...

Leaf from the Llangattock Breviary, with two historiated initials, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Italy (Ferrara), c. 1450] Single...

Bifolium from the Llangattock Breviary, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Italy (Ferrara), c. 1450] Two conjoined leaves, with double...

St. Andrew holding his cross, in a large initial on a cutting from a Gradual, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Italy (Lombardy), mid-fifteenth...

Two leaves from a Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Spain, c. 1500-10] Two separate leaves, each with single column of...

Collection of leaves from Italian illuminated manuscripts, in Latin, on parchment [fourteenth and fifteenth century] Five leaves, comprising: (i) ...

Two leaves of John of Wales, Communiloquium or Summa collationum, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Spain, c. 1400] Two leaves, each ...

Leaf from Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy (most probably Florence...

Terence, Phormio, in the humanist script of Giuliano di Antonio of Prato, in Latin verse, pale red rubrics, manuscript on parchment [Italy (probab...

Leaf from Seneca the younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, in fine humanist script, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Italy (perhap...

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

Adam de Montaldo, Tertia pars passionis, Latin verse on the Passion of Christ, fine humanist manuscript on parchment [Italy, second half of fiftee...

The frontispiece leaf from an extremely early copy of the Apocalypsis Nova, attributed to the mystic Amadeus of Portugal, in Latin, fine Renaissan...

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