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Click here to subscribeLewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland fully Illustrated in line and colour by Harry Rountree, published Collins original blind stamped cloth with gilt spine with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated with colour plates by Bessie Pease published J. Cocker (1930s) cloth backed boards with colour onlay (2)
The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls by Florence K. Upton, published Longmans Green in cloth backed illustrated boards, Three "Josephine" titles by Mrs. Craddock pictured by Honor C. Appleton by Blackie in colour boards (c1920s) with Peggy & Joan in same format, Three Blind Mice and Humpty Dumpty, Fireside Stories Ernest Nister (c1893) with chromos, Margaret Tarrant a copy of Aesops Fables pictured by Henry Ford (c1893) illustrated cloth (11)
Edgar Allan Poe The Poetical Works illustrated, published W. Kent 1859 gilt cloth, At The Back of The North Wind by George MacDonald with 76 illustrations by Arthur Hughes, published Routledge in a gilt and black decorated binding, The Book of English Songs (c1850s) with wood engravings in blind embossed cloth with gilt decorated spine (3)
WW2 Royal Air Force Service Dress Uniform Attributed to Pathfinder Squadron Leader The Hon Brian Grimston DFC, Killed in Action 4th April 1943 Serving with 156 Squadron, four pocket officers service dress tunic with padded embroidered kings crown RAF pilots wing above Distinguished Flying Cross medal ribbon and gilt metal pathfinders badge. To the cuffs is rank insignia for Squadron Leader. Brass kings crown RAF buttons to the front and pockets. Interior pocket of the tunic has original tailors label with inked name, “Hon B Grimston” and dated 1940. Accompanied by matching service dress trousers. The set shows service wear and has some damage to the interior lining by the armpit. Son of James Walter Grimston fourth Earl of Verulam. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 5th January 1943, the citation was as follows, “Squadron Leader the Honourable Brian Grimston (84667) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, No 156 Squadron. Squadron Leader Grimston captain of an aircraft engaged in operations against Turin on the night of 11th December 1942. Throughout the greater part of the outward flight, he was forced to fly blind, owing to extremely adverse weather. Only by exercise of the greatest coolness and tenacity was this officer able to surmount the difficulties of the Alpine crossing, reach the target and complete his mission. On the return flight, the state of the weather exacted the most superlative airmanship and navigational skill. Squadron Leader Grimston finally made a successful landing in this country. In the course of numerous operational sorties, this officer has evinced superb skill and exceptional courage.” On the 4th April 1943 he was sent on a mission to Kiel, as part of a force of 10 pathfinder aircraft from 156 squadron, his and another aircraft failed to return. He was lost with all of his crew. His brother was also killed in WW2 serving with the RAF.
A 1930's walnut grandmother clock: the eight-day duration spring driven movement striking the hours on a gong and the quarters on a further four gongs, the seven-inch break-arch brass dial having a raised silvered chapter ring with black Roman numerals and blued steel hands with the matted centre having an applied silvered plaque engraved with the name Boodle & Dunthorne, Liverpool, with cast-brass spandrels to the four corners, the arch having a silvered centre boss engraved Tempus Fugit, the walnut grandmother case having a swan-neck pediment to the hood with a wooden centre finial and fluted pillars, the trunk with a shaped door and fluted quarter columns and blind fretwork mouldings, the base with canted corners and all standing on bracket feet, height 149cms.
OAK AND INLAID STANDING DESK, probably late 17th century, the lifting top enclosing a vacant interior above a pair of inlaid panels, the rail inscribed Happys That Man that Feares God, a pair of drawers with blind fretwork and a pair of cupboard doors inlaid with figures, height 137cm, width 122cm depth 48cm
[VOLTAIRE.] Siecle de Louis XIV, 2 vol., 2nd edition, Leipzig 1752, 12mo, text toned; rebacked calf; SCUDERY (Madame De) Almahide, ou L'Esclave Reyne. Paris 1673, third and last vol. only, 8vo, frontispiece, repaired binding; De MOLIERE (Henriette S.) Les Avantures ou Memoires, Paris 1707, 16mo, 6 parts in one, library blind-stamp to first title and overleaf, repaired binding; (4)
Bernal (Ralph) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Works of Art, from the Byzantine Period to that of Louis Seize, plates, one leaf loose and slightly frayed at edges, original cloth, small ink stain to upper cover, spine worn and faded, 1855 § Bohn (Henry C.) A Guide to the Knowledge of Pottery, Porcelain, and other Objects of Vertu, comprising an Illustrated Catalogue of the Bernal Collection, second edition, plates, one plate & leaf loose, original blind-stamped cloth, spine faded, 1862 § Goode (W.J.) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of...Old Sèvres Porcelain, prices and buyer's names in manuscript, 1895 § King (H.J.) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of...Dresden Porcelain, 1914, the last two with photographic plates, original boards, rubbed and soiled, all but the second Christie & Manson; and 6 old Sotheby catalogues of European ceramics, 8vo & 4to (10)⁂ "To Ralph Bernal, a highly intelligent man trained as a barrister and a Member of Parliament for thirty years, more than to any other single individual in the history of English collecting, we owe the shift of interest among collectors from the work of the artist to the product of the craftsman. Bernal's collection, almost in its entirety, was the stuff museums are made of." It was "probably the greatest collection of ceramics and objets d'art of its time". The English as Collectors pp. 293 & 433. The sale consisted of 4294 lots over 32 days and realised £62,690 18s.
Bryling.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Oratoriarum institutionum libri XII., title with woodcut printer's device (partially hand-coloured), woodcut decorative initials, title with ink inscriptions (one scored through) and with small narrow part of lower corner cut away, woodcut decorative initials, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped panelled pigskin over wooden boards, with figures of Faith, Hope, Charity and Justice to covers, lacking 1 of metal clasps, some staining, [not in Adams], Basel, Nicolaus Bryling, 1555; and another, printed by the heirs of Bryling, 8vo (2)
Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Declamationes, quæ ex CCCLXXXVIII. supersunt, CXLV, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, occasional spotting, 17th century ink inscription of George Risley to head of title, invoice from Charles Traylen, 1951, loosely inserted, contemporary blind-stamped reversed calf, rather worn, but holding firm, [Adams Q50], Heidelberg, Hieronymus Commelinus, 1594 § Giunta.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) [Institutiones oratoriae], edited by Niccolò Angeli, initial spaces with guide-letters, final leaf with woodcut printer's device verso, otherwise blank, ink inscriptions to title, some early ink marginalia, occasional worming (including title), some staining and spotting, 20th century vellum-backed marbled boards, [Adams Q53; EDIT 16 CNCE 28736], [Florence], [Filippo Giunta], 1515; and 3 other 16th century editions, of which 2 defective (one with title and preliminaries from another copy), v.s. (5)Heidelberg, Hieronymus Commelinus, 1594.
Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institutionum oratoriarum libri duodecim, 2 parts in 1, first title in ornate woodcut architectural border, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, upper with gilt stamp of the school of Altenberg, stained, [Geneva], Jacques Stoer, 1604; Declamationes in numeris locis emendatae ex recensione U.Obrechti [and Institutione Oratoria], 2 vol., titles with engraved vignettes, some foxing and staining, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, Strasbourg, Johannes Reinhold, 1698; and 15 others, Continental editions of Quintilian, v.s. (18)
Bindings.- Antoine d'Orleans Duc de Montpensier.- Sussy (Honoré de) Miscellanées: essais dramatiques et poésies diverses, occasional spotting, silk endpapers, near contemporary decorative red morocco by Girard, gilt monogram 'A.O' to upper cover, g.e., Paris, Henri et Charles Noblet, 1850 § Baron (Denne) Héro et Léandre, engraved frontispiece, bookplate of Sir David Lionel Salomons, later decorative straight-grain red morocco, gilt, light rubbing to extremities, Paris, 1806 § Meidinger (J.-V.) Grammaire Allemande-Pratique, title loosely inserted, previous owner's ink signature, silk endpapers, near contemporary blind-stamped decorative morocco, a little rubbed, Paris, 1828; 8vo (3)
Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, one of 300 facsimile copies, with bibliographical introduction by Thomas J. Wise, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, later full crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, ruled in gilt and blind, spine in compartments with raised bands, original blue wrappers bound-in, 4to, for the Shelley Society, 1886.
Stowe.- Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (Richard, 2nd Duke of Buckingham) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Contents of Stowe House, near Buckingham, lithographed frontispiece and 2 plates, some prices and buyers' names supplied in manuscript, original printed blue wrappers, rubbed, frayed at edges, modern marbled slip-case, [Lugt 19122], Christie & Manson, 1848; [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Library removed from Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, 1849 bound with The Stowe Granger. Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits, [Lugt 19255], 1849 and Catalogue of the remaining portion of Engraved British Portraits, [Lugt 19283], 1849, together 3 works in 1 vol. (the second bound last), a few prices and buyers' names in manuscript, modern half morocco, calf label, S.Leigh Sotheby & Co. § Forster (Henry Rumsey) The Stowe Catalogue Priced and Annotated, mezzotint frontispiece of Rembrandt's Unmerciful Servant' (foxed), title in red & black, lists of both subscribers & purchasers, plates, advertisements at end, contemporary blind-stamped cloth, rebacked in calf, 1848 § Thompson (E.Maunde) Catalogue of a selection from the Stowe Manuscripts...in the British Museum, plates, bookplate of Rev. C.H.Middelton Wake with A.L.s. from the author to him tipped in, original cloth-backed boards, 1883 § [Sale Catalogue] The Ducal Estate of Stowe, catalogue no.300, plates, folding colour plans, joints split, original cloth-backed boards, rubbed, spine torn, Jackson Stops, 1921; and another on Stowe, v.s. (6)⁂ Group of sale catalogues of various portions of the great art collection and library at Stowe, following the bankruptcy in 1847 of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, who was rumoured to have left for the Continent with debts exceeding £1,000,000. The first sale of the contents totalled £75,562 4s 6d. It included the famous "Chandos Portrait" of Shakespeare which sold to the Earl of Ellesmere for £372 15s. and in 1856 became the first donation to the newly-created National Portrait Gallery. "A tragic sale this...It lasted thirty-five days and the prices were incredibly low. This was probably because such a vast accumulation of treasure by many generations of a single family was just more than the trade, collectors and local gentry between them could absorb at one go." The English as Collectors, p.435
SALTMARSHE (John) 4 Works bound together in One Volume, viz. Holy Discoveries and Flames. (sole edition?) printed for R.Y. for P. Neville, 1640; Dawnings of Light . . . with some Maximes of Reformation . . . (2nd edition) printed for R.W. and R to be sold by G. Calvert, 1946; Free-Grace; or, the Flowings of Christs Blood Freely to Sinners . . . the Fourth edition corrected. Printed for Giles Calvert, 1647; Sparkles of Glory, or Some Beams of the Morning-Star . . . (First edition?) Printed for Giles Calvert, 1647. Old blind-decorated calf, with 19th cent spine (defective), 12mo. Illustrated
An early George III mahogany silver chest on stand, the rectangular top with a moulded edge, above two drawers with blind fret decoration, the top deep drawer lined with baize and originally with a tray, the lower drawer flanked by lopers, with brass side carrying handles, the stand carved with leaves on a diaper ground, on leaf and cartouche carved cabriole legs and rocaille scroll feet, originally on castors, 71.7cm high, 80.5cm wide, 58cm deep. Provenance: The Hippisley family collection, Ston Easton Park, Somerset.
William Butler of London. A late 18thC mahogany longcase clock, the arched hood with a blind fret held by two classical columns above a full length arched door and a moulded flame mahogany block base, the 31cm W arched brass dial with raised spandrels set with a Roman numeric and Arabic chapter ring and subsidiary Arabic secondhand, the centre field with a date aperture, with script signature William Butler, London, 8-day movement striking on a bell, 220cm H.
ƟGoffredus de Trano, Summa super rubricis decretalium and Iohannes de Deo, Liber seu summa dispensationum, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [northern Germany (perhaps Rhineland), fourteenth century (most probably first half of that century), with an additional final quire of c. 1400]241 leaves (plus an endleaf at front), the last leaf pasted to backboard, complete, collation: i-iii8, iv6, v10, vi-xix8, xx6 (once 8, last 2 leaves cancelled blanks removed after Early Modern foliation), xxi-xxix8, xxx11 (first original leaf a blank cancel, removed before Early Modern foliation added), occasional catchwords and original quire signatures, seventeenth- or eighteenth-century foliation in upper right hand corner of rectos (slightly imperfect, but followed here), double column of 38 lines, in a small number of skilled gothic bookhands (see below), capitals touched alternately in red and blue, rubrics in red, running titles in red or blue capitals, initials alternately in red and blue with contrasting penwork, space left blank for Tables of Affinity and Consanguinity on fols. 169r and 171r, prick marks for lines remaining in outer margins, a few leaves with extremities of edges slightly turned over, 2 further leaves with small sections of blank edges torn away, and small cuts to gutters of adjacent leaves from removal of 2 cancelled blanks, some slight areas of discoloration, small spots and scuffs and occasional natural flaw in parchment, a few leaves showing the volume very slightly trimmed (removing mostly edges of lines of marginalia), overwhelmingly in excellent condition on cream-coloured heavy parchment with wide and clean margins, 305 by 220mm.; fifteenth-century German binding of blind-stamped pigskin (tooled with frames formed of simple fillet and geometric panels around a central floral boss within a rhombus) over massive wooden boards, the spine tooled in same and sewn on 5 double thongs, leather added over binding structures in German style with spine covered first and leather panels for boards then laid over (inner vertical edge of board cover now slightly lifted), title in ink on fore-edge, clasps wanting and holes in leather where these clasps once protruded from edges of boards stitched shut, some green stains in same place from missing copper-based clasps, light scuffing and a few scratches, small hole in leather of spine, front board very slightly coming away from some thongs, but solid in bindingAn imposing and elegant German monastic codex, in its late medieval binding, and from the collections of Leander van Ess and Sir Thomas PhillippsProvenance:1. Most probably written and decorated in the first half of the fourteenth century for use in a German monastic community, perhaps in the Rhineland. The subsequent owner (Leander van Ess) obtained many books from monasteries in this region: he had served as a monk at Marienmünster in North-Rhine Westphalia and took books with him when it was dissolved in 1803. Perhaps significantly, a large group of his manuscripts came from the Carthusian monastery of St. Barbara in Cologne, which was founded in 1334. If future research upholds a connection to this last house, then it may have been among the founding books of their medieval library.2. Leander van Ess (in fact Johann Heinrich van Ess, 1772-1847), important early bibliophile and manuscript collector at time of the suppression of the German monasteries and the spilling of their libraries onto the open market, pastor of Swalenberg, theologian at Marburg University, German translator of the New Testament, passionate proponent of lay Bible reading and founder of the Christliche Bruderbund zur Verbreitung der heiligen Schriften), with his printed collection number ‘95’ on spine, this corresponding to the published catalogue of his collection: Sammlung und Verzeichniss Handscriftlicher [sic] Bücher aus dem VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV, etc. Jahrhundert …, Darmstadt, 1823, no. 95. On his library see: M. Mc. Gatch in 'So precious a foundation', the Library of Leander Van Ess at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, 1996, pp. 47-84.3. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), the single greatest manuscript collector to have ever lived who assembled a collection of 60,000 manuscripts. This his MS. 480 and thus among his very first purchases, made in 1824 when he was only 33 years old, and as part of the entire manuscript collection of van Ess (some 372 volumes for £320). This was the famous acquisition for which van Ess naively sent the books to Phillipps before payment had been made, resulting in five years arguments and wrangling over Sir Thomas’ outrageous refusal to pay the entire bill (all described in van Ess’ angry letter of 1826, printed in A.N.L. Munby, The Formation of the Phillipps Library Up to the Year 1840, 1954, pp. 29-32). Phillipps’ paper label pasted to base of spine, and hand written numbers inside frontboard and at foot of fol. 1r. Sold in Phillipps’ sale, Sotheby’s, 24 April 1911, lot 274.4. Walther Dolch (1883-1914) for the Eduard Langer Library. Langer (1852-1914) was an industrialist and politician based in Branau/Broumov (Bohemia/Upper Austria, now Czech Republic), who built the largest library of its kind in Austria-Hungary.5. Fürst Alexander Olivier Anton von Dietrichstein zu Schloss Nikolsburg (1899-1964); his second sale with Gilhofer and Ranschburg, 25 June 1934, lot 286: lot number in pencil and sale catalogue clipping pasted inside front board.6. Christie’s, 21 November 2012, lot 24, to Les Enlumineres, their TM. 676, sold in 2014.Text: This weighty monastic tome contains two important texts that were indispensable legal reference works for any ecclesiastical institution in the Middle Ages. The first is that of the Summa super rubricis decretalium by Goffredus of Trano (1200-1245) an Italian canon lawyer. He studied under the celebrated legal specialist Azo, and subsequently took up a professorship of Roman Law at Naples. In 1244, he was appointed cardinal by Innocent IV, his former fellow-student at Bologna. This text is the product of a comprehensive rewrite and improvement of his glosses on the Decretals, made in the years just before the author’s death. It became the seminal work in its field and survives in 280 medieval codices.To this has been appended the Liber seu summa dispensationum of Johannes de Deo (born 1189-91, d. 1267), a native of the Algarve, who studied canon law and perhaps also civil law at Bologna in the years before 1229. In due course, he taught in the university there for at least two decades, producing a number of summaries and digests of canon law. Around 1260 he took up office as archdeacon in Lisbon, and he died there some seven years later. The present text survives in two recensions composed before and after 1243, and that here is the second, shorter version (see J.P. von Schulte, Geschichte der Quellen und der Literatur des kanonischen Rechts, II, 1877, p. 96, n. 10, and A. de Sousa Costa, Doutrina penitencial do canonista Joâo de Deus, 1956, pp. 103-105, pp. 196-197, for a list of other manuscripts). It addresses the thorny legal issue of ‘dispensation’, the act by which an ecclesiastical superior could grant exemption from a particular law, most famously in the granting of the right to marry when kinship laws forbade this, or the right to dissolve a marriage. In this text Johannes de Deo examines all forms and types of dispensatio, granted by various members within the hierarchy of the Church, but also among the normal social bonds of lay society.For additional cataloguing information, please visit https://www.dreweatts.com/auctions/lot-details/?saleId=14207&lotId=74
ƟThe Myrowr of Recluses, a Middle English translation of the Speculum Inclusorum, a guide to the life of an English anchorite, decorated manuscript on paper [England (probably London region, perhaps Barking Abbey), first half of fifteenth century (probably soon after 1414)] 66 leaves (plus 3 modern paper endleaves at front and back), catchwords and leaf signatures throughout, complete, collation: i-viii8, ix2, single column of 21 lines of a professional English vernacular hand, paragraph marks in alternate red and blue, small initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork, three large variegated initials in red and blue with scrolling penwork extending height of upright margin, some notes for rubricator left in margins, paper heavy and with no apparent watermark, small spots and stains, many leaves with slight discolouration at corners from old water damage (a few leaves with parts of margin notes for rubricator washed out by this), else excellent condition, 200 by 140 mm.; English nineteenth-century blind-tooled brown leather, spine gilt with: “MYSTERYE OF RECLUSES / M.S. / 1414”, leaves with red edges The only complete manuscript of this Middle English text on the life of a religious recluse, perhaps produced in Barking Abbey as part of the female education campaign of Abbess Sybil de Felton Provenance:1. The prologue to the text, unique to only this manuscript, dates the beginning of its composition to the “this Wednysday bi the morrow, the even of the blissed virgyne seynt Alburgh, the secunde yeere of the worthy christen prince oure souerayn liege lord þe kyng Henry the Fiftis”, that is 10 October 1414, with the next day the Feast of St. Ethelberga, sister of St. Erkenwald the patron saint of London. In 1414, 10 October was indeed a Wednesday. This copy is of the first half of the fifteenth century, and most probably was copied soon after the translation of the text into Middle English. The first few leaves here have apparent authorial corrections, but it must be noted that E.A. Jones has suggested instead that these are the work of a contemporary corrector trying to improve on the syntax. More importantly, Jones tentatively locates this translation of the text, and thus perhaps also the site of copying of this witness, on the basis of the dedication to “lady Seynt Marie and of my … lady Seynt Alburgh”, to the abbey of Barking, a Benedictine foundation for women a few miles to the east of London, and the education campaign there of Abbess Sybil de Felton. She owned or obtained for that house one of the earliest copies of Nicolas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, as well as William Flete’s De Remediis contra Temptationes and the Clensyng of Mannes Soule. Moreover, Barking may have been the site of the composition of, or first audience for, The Chastising of God’s Children, and as a house of educated women it was turned to by Henry V to aid in the royal foundation of the English Benedictines at Syon. Indeed, one of Sybil de Felton followers from Barking, named Matilda Newton, became the initial abbess of Syon although she never professed as a Bridgettine. She returned to Barking in 1417 to live as a recluse (this nun has also been tentatively identified as a translator of texts: see M. Cré in A Companion to Marguerite Porete and the Mirror of Simple Souls, 2017). Barking Abbey was suppressed on 14 November 1539 and its possessions scattered.2. Passing then into apparent lay hands: Roger Saddlar: his sixteenth-century inscription on fol. 10v; and Robert Leche (d. 1587) of Christ Church, Oxford, and then proctor of the university in 1560 and 1566, and chancellor of the diocese of Chester in 1562 (J. Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, 1891, p. 892): his inscription: “In dei nomine, amen. Auditis, visis, et intellectis, et plenarie discussis per nos Robertum Leche artium magistri et in LL baccallarii reverend’ in Christo patris et domini, domini Willelmus permissione dia’ […] episcopi” on fol. 66v.3. John Wylde, his seventeenth- or eighteenth-century ex libris and “no 133” at the head of fol. 1r.4. Most probably William Ford (1771-1832), Manchester bookseller: inscription in hand of Joseph Brooks Yates on first endleaf recording “2.12.6 from Mr Ford’s collection, 26 Sep. 1820”, presumably recording its price in £, shillings and pence. Ford’s initial catalogues were formed from his own vast private library, allowing the identification given here. Ford noted, perhaps prophetically, in a letter to Dibdin that “It was my love of books, not of lucre, which first induced me to become a bookseller.” He went bankrupt in 1810, but continued to operate as a bookseller and issued catalogues as late as 1832.5. Joseph Brooks Yates (1780-1855): his inscriptions on endleaf on purchase from ‘Ford’ and “exhibited at L & P Society April 1844” (ie. Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society, of which he was president).6. Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), his lengthy inscription on front endleaf recording his discussions on the volume with “Mr Skeat of Cambridge” (W.W. Skeat, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, as well as a Middle English and Gothic language scholar), Frederick J. Furnivall (who worked with Skeat on the Early English Text Society publications) and Henry Bradshaw (Librarian Camb. Univ. Library)” (liturgicist and linguist, who famously declared “Books are to me as living organisms, and I can only study them as such; so every particle of light which I can obtain as to their personal history is so much positive gain”), this dated 8 February 1880. Followed by a letter of the previous year from Skeat tipped in, declaring it “an original of the date it professes to be - 2nd year of Henry V” and suggesting the dialect is that of London. Plus a loose note, presumably from Skeat suggesting two related published works.7. Allan Heywood Bright (1862-1941), inherited from H.Y. Thompson: his bookplate, with pencil mark “I/4”. Sold in his descendants’ sale, Christies, 16 July 2014, lot 12, to the present owner. Text:This is the only complete copy of this work, known previously solely from the fragmentary witness in British Library Harley MS. 2372. The Harley manuscript is a less than perfect witness, lacking about a third of the text including the beginning, the end of part II and the end of part III. Additionally, it is clear that it was copied in the mid-fifteenth century at some remove from the original, and by the end of that century it was in Stamford, Lincs. (see A. Rogers in The Library, VII:15, 2014). The differences in the present text and that in the Harley manuscript show that neither is directly related to each other, but both were copied from a lost manuscript in Middle English, perhaps the original of the translation, with the present witness including some devotional verses on the Passion that were perhaps at some stage associated with the text. The present manuscript was not available to be consulted by Marta Powell Harley in 1995 when she edited the fragmentary text in the Harley manuscript, and likewise E.A. Jones in his parallel Latin and Middle English edition of the text published in 2013. Jones has subsequently published some brief observations on the text and the origins of the present copy, but it can scarcely be said to have been edited and much work remains to be done. For additional cataloguing information, please visit https://www.dreweatts.com/auctions/lot-details/?saleId=14207&lotId=75 Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
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