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Lot 88
Sermon collection, - in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern France , c in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern France (Paris), c .1400] 220 leaves (plus modern parchment pastedown and endleaf at front), complete, collation: i-xviii12, xix4 (including pastedown), contemporary foliation for first 100 leaves and catchwords throughout (frequently with charming pen-drawn human faces: see in particular the melancholic man on fol. 24v, the staring and perturbed men on fols. 37v and 87v, and the smiling woman in a wimple with a big nose on fol. 121v), some original quire signatures, double column, 45-49 lines in an accomplished hands with influence of secretarial script and cadels in margin, each new section opening with initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork ending in foliage or curlicues, index with similar smaller initials for each item, frontispiece with one large initial in split blue and burnished gold with red and blue penwork forming a mass of scrolling foliate tendrils around central coloured dots, extending into full border and text frame between columns of thin gold bars edged on one side with blue and gold half fleur-de-lys, penwork at corners, slight thumbing at edges and tiny scuffs to large initial, sixth gathering becoming loose, slightly trimmed at base, else fine and presentable condition with wide and clean margins on good parchment, 288mm. by 196mm., contemporary blindstamped calf over bevelled wooden boards (small holes, wormed and cracked at corners, small sections at head and foot of spine missing, partially repaired), later metal clasps and catches, but solid in binding The gold and blue initial and repeated half fleur-de-lys device is near-identical to those in manuscripts made for Charles V, the Duc de Berry and other members of the French royal family (see the contemporary Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Historiale , sold by Sotheby s, 7 December 1982, lot 53, later Schoenberg collection, see Transformation of Knowledge , 2006, IX:11, p.137; the Grandes Chroniques probably made for Jean, Duc de Berry, sold Sotheby s, 8 December 1981, lot 94; and among others, the Histoire Ancienne , now British Library, Egerton MS.912) and suggests a shared provenance. In the royal French inventories the style is listed as enluminé tout au long des colombes de fleur de lis d or et d assur (Delisle, Cabinet des MSS , III, p.139).
Lot 28
A 19th century-style Continental display cabinet with 'C' scroll decoration to the cornice, shell motif to the centre with twin astragal doors, shelved interior over a moulded top with twin cupboards under, carving to the panels, raised on cabriole legs with brass fittings, 195H x 125W x46cmD
Lot 810
A French late 19th Century carved oak buffet cabinet, the carved cornice supported on two reeded pillars surrounding double-glazed doors, supported on heavily carved scrolling brackets, fitted with two gadrooned carved doors above two cupboards profusely carved with trophies, the whole united by carved columns, raised on flattened bun feet, 50 x 97 x 24in.(127 x 247 x 61cms).
Lot 814
An Edwardian inlaid mahogany and satinwood banded three piece bedroom suite, to include: a dressing chest with oval mirror above jewellery drawers, the base fitted two short and one long drawer; a dressing cabinet, fitted two cupboard drawers; and a bedside cabinet with single drawer above cupboard door. (3)
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