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Lot 339
Coins - 2001 UK Silver proof two pounds, Wireless Bridges the Atlantic, Marconi 1901, cased; others, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Double Helix Discovery; Rugby World Cup 1999; £2 Britannia; 1999 UK Proof coin collection; 2002 Jubilee crown; commemorative crownssilver three pence 3d; shillings; etc
Lot 5
Two boxes of catalogues relating to Fine Antique Furniture, Clocks, Decorative Objects, Carpets and Rugs; Interior Design including: Box 1: Sotheby's Princess Lillianm of Belgium, September 2003; Olympia London June 2004 (2); Christie's Interiors, 2011 (1) Antiquities, New York June 2015 (1); Bonhams Los Angeles June 2015; (1) London 2008 and April 2011 (2) Netherhampton Carpets October 2012-September 2015 (9) Hampel, Bruun Rasmussen & other European catalogues 2015 (9) vartious provincial including Tennants, Lyon & Turnbull & Holloway's, 2012-2015; k various design catalogues; St. James's Coin Auctions May 2011 & ACR , Antiquities June 2015. Box 2 including: Sotheby's The Keil Sale 2002; Amsterdam 2002; Charterhouse 2002 & London Olympia 2005 (3); Phillips, London 1997-1998 (8) and Phillips Edinburgh September 1997; Christie's, South Kensington February 1998; Christie's Amesterdam, April & May 2003 (2) Bonhams October 1995 & April 1997;Bonhams Interiors & others 2004, 2005, 2006, 2012 & 2013; various provincial catalogues and magazines. (2 boxes)
Lot 86
ƟTibullus, Elegae ad Messalam Corvinum, in Latin verse, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Italy (probably Italy), late fifteenth century] 42 leaves, (plus an original endleaf at front and back, and including last 5 leaves blank), complete, collation: i-iv8, v10, some catchwords and original quire-signatures, single column of 38 lines of a fine humanist italic hand, rubrics in purple-red, simple green, blue and gold initials, major breaks opening with gold initials on brightly coloured square grounds, many pointing finger marks in coloured inks (some elaborate, and two holding banderoles with “Nota”), one large initial ‘D’ on frontispiece, in blue edged with white, enclosing in green curling foliage, all on burnished gold grounds, enclosed within bezants and ornate penwork, coat-of-arms in bas-de-page of same, corner of second leaf torn away (without affect to text), one initial smudged, a few leaves with folds and faint traces of earlier letters suggesting that some of parchment was recovered from other documents or books, overall in clean and fresh condition on fine parchment, 172 by 105mm.; in a contemporary binding tooled with ropework designs, chevrons filled with dots and lines of crown-like stamps over pasteboards, spine skilfully rebacked leaving volume a little tight, in fitted card slipcase Provenance:1. Written and illuminated for the noble patron whose arms appear in the bas-de-page of the frontispiece. The arms are not easily identifiable, but the later history of the book suggests that they were those of a southern Italy noble patron, perhaps from the Neapolitan court (which are comparatively poorly recorded).2. Girolamo Angeriano (c. 1480-1535), the Apulian Italian humanist, poet and member of the Pontanian Academy, who retired at an early age from the Neapolitan court to family estates in Ariano di Puglia: his partly-erased inscription “Hieronymi Anghierie et amicorum” at head of recto of first leaf. Perhaps his series of letters arranged in a diamond above the Catalan motto “Por no dexar” on first endleaf.3. Carlo Morbio (1811-1881), Milanese collector and historian, author of Storie dei municipi italiani; his sale in Leipzig, 15-16 July 1889, no. 599, acquired there by von Wilmersdörffer for 16 marks.4. Max von Wilmersdörffer (1824-1903), banker and coin collector; his large armorial coloured bookplate dated 1897 pasted to first endleaf.5. Lambert Schneider (1900-1970) of Berlin, prominent publisher: his small printed bookplate inside front board. His catalogue card in German loosely enclosed, noting this as his no. ‘11091.2’.Text:Tibullus (or Albius Tibullus, c. 55-19 BC) was a Roman nobleman and composer of elegies, who lived in the turbulent period following the abolishment of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Principate of Augustus in 27 BC. He rose to prominence in the Roman literary circle of his patron, the general Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, and may have accompanied the latter on military excursions in Gaul. He seems to have lost most of his estates during the confiscations of Mark Anthony and Octavian, and died early, but nonetheless was widely celebrated in Rome with Ovid composing an elegy for him (this among the last items in the present volume). This volume open with a short biographical introduction (fol. 1v), followed by the four books of his works as the Middle Ages understood them to be: book I (fol. 2r, opening “Divitias alius fulvo …”), book II (fol. 15v, opening “Quisquis adest faveat …”), book III (fol. 23r, opening “Martis romani festae …”) and book IV (fol. 28r, opening “Te messala canam …”). The first two are certainly his work, but the latter two are in fact more likely that of poets in his immediate circle. Among these early accretions are verses named as the work of Sulpicia - the only extant poems by a female author from ancient Rome. The volume ends with Ovid’s elegy, De morte Tibullus (fol.35v) and other shorter elegies for him in purple-red ink. While no extant copy predates the late fourteenth century, one certainly did exist in Carolingian aristocratic circles, and is named in the famous and much discussed eighth-century list of Classical authors in Berlin, MS. Diez B.66. That manuscript, or a copy of it, passed to Fleury where it was used by Theodulf (d. 821) and then Orleans where echoes of it appear in the twelfth-century Florilegium gallicum. Richard de Fournival, chancellor of the Cathedral of Amiens (1240-1260) bequeathed one to the Sorbonne, and another was at Monte Cassino. The earliest surviving manuscript is that produced for the great Florentine humanist, Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406; Milan, Ambrosiana R. 26 sup.), and from this copy an explosion in popularity ensued, so that well over a hundred manuscripts are known from the fifteenth century (see G. Luck, Albii Tibulli aliorumque carmina, Teubner, 1988). That said, they rarely appear on the open market, and the last appearance at auction was in 1979 (Sotheby’s, 19 June, lot 44). To that should be added a copy sold privately in 2011 by Les Enluminures. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 24% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
Lot 469
A pair of Canton famille rose porcelain barrel-shaped garden seats: each with reticulated coin motifs and two rows of raised bosses, painted with court scenes with figures in gardens and on terraces between borders of exotic birds, butterflies, flowers and foliage, 19th century, 47 cm high [one with riveted repair].
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