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Lot 209
Mixed group of items, sapphire and diamond cluster ring, size O, white paste cluster ring, size N, both mounted in 9 ct yellow gold, two silver rings, bead earrings, with Raymond Weil Geneve gold plated watch with material strap, Ladies Pierre Durand watch and Beverly hills watch and Accurist watch, boxed
Lot 513
Mulberries & Silkworms.- Alberti (Jacopo) Dell'Epidemica Mortalita de'Gelsi e della Cura, e Coltivatione Loro, title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved head-piece to dedication and initials, errata leaf at end, worming to upper and lower margins of first couple of leaves, Salo, B. Righetti, 1773 bound with Griselini (Francesco) Istruzione...per la Coltura de' Mori Bianchi..., initial blank, engraved title-vignette and 27 illustrations on 14 folding plates, some foxing to text, Venice, Benedetto Milocco, 1768 and Bettoni (Carlo) Progetto per Preservare i Gelsi dalla corrente Epidemica Mortalita, with initial blank but lacking ?half-title, partly unopened, Venice, B.Milocco, 1778, together 3 works in 1 vol., contemporary blind-stamped calf, spine ends slightly worn § L'Arte di Moltiplicare la Seta, o sia Trattato sopra i Gelsi, l'Educazione de' Bachi, e la Filatura delle Sete, errata leaf at end, staining to inner margins, browned, contemporary vellum, morocco label, Milan, Federico Agnelli, 1766, rubbed, 4to & 8vo (2)
![Cereals.- [Tozzetti (Giovanni Targioni) & others.] Sitologia ovvero Raccolta di Osservazioni, di Esperienze e Ragionamenti...](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/95c463bf-8582-41f1-88eb-a8f900fdee7b/080c374d-3cba-43d9-b776-f25b14485e3e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 555
Cereals.- [Tozzetti (Giovanni Targioni) & others.] Sitologia ovvero Raccolta di Osservazioni, di Esperienze e Ragionamenti...des Grani e delle Farine per il Panificio..., 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved title-vignettes, original limp boards, uncut, a little soiled, Livorno, Marco Coltellini, 1765 § [Ronconi (Ignazio)] Il Piantatore o sia uovo Metodo di Piantare il Formento, folding engraved plate, with final blank, library cloth, Venice, Giovanni Lironcurti, 1770 § [Fontana (Felice)] Osservazioni sopra la Ruggine del Grano, folding engraved plate printed in sepia and with grey watercolour wash, some browning to text, contemporary half vellum, spine torn at head, Lucca, Jacopo Giusti, 1767 § Harasti (Gaetano) Della Coltivazione del Maiz..., engraved device on title, folding engraved plate, ?name erased from title, library cloth, Vicenza, 1788, 4to & 8vo (5)⁂ The third concerns wheat rust.
Lot 638
Torri (Luigi) Osservazioni...sopra l'Acqua Bozzola o sia Frusa, 24pp., woodcut device on title, head-piece and initial, a little soiled and stained, title and one or two other leaves repaired at lower outer corner, library cloth, uncut, Verona, Carattoni, 1782 § Nuovo Ritrovato d'Ingrassare il Terreno, 16pp., library cloth, uncut, Turin, A.A. Mairesse, 1781 § San Martino (G. de) Memoria...sopra la Nebbia dei Vegetabili Coronata..., engraved device on title, modern boards, Vicenza, Turra, 1785 Stancovich (P.) L'Aratro-Seminatore ossia Metodo di Piantare il Grano Arando Memoria, 28pp., folding engraved plate (stained), library cloth, uncut, Venice, 1820 § Calvel (E.) Trattato Completo delle Piantonaje..., 3 vol. in 1, folding engraved plates, folding table, browned, contemporary roan-backed boards, spine gilt, Florence, 1813; and 2 other pamphlets, 8vo (7)
Lot 639
Battarra (Giovanni Antonio) Pratica Agraria Distribuita in Varj Dialoghi, 2 vol. in 1, second edition, 5 engraved plates on 4 folding sheets (one with a few small stains), errata leaf at end of vol.1, library cloth, Cesena, Gregorio Biasini, 1782 § Ronconi (Ignazio) Dizionario d'Agricoltura o sia la Coltivazione Italiana, 4 vol. in 2, foxing, contemporary half calf, Venice, F.Sansoni, 1783 § Bibliotheca di Campagna..., 7 vol., contemporary half vellum, Milan, 1804-06 § Tozzetti (O.T.) Lezioni di Agricoltura Specialmente Toscana, 6 vol. in 3, contemporary roan-backed boards, Florence, 1802-04, rubbed; and 9 others, 8vo et infra (22)
Lot 804
Moretti (Giuseppe, editor) Biblioteca agraria o sia raccolta di scelte istruzioni economico-rurali, 24 vol., 48 engraved plates (3 hand-coloured, most folding), engraved plate from another work loosely inserted, slightly foxed and browned, handsomely bound in contemporary full green morocco (not uniform), g.e., 8vo, Milan, [1826-39].
![Walter of Henley. [Hosbondrye], decorated manuscript on parchment, in French (Anglo-Norman), i + 7 + i leaves, one 8-leaf qui](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/95c463bf-8582-41f1-88eb-a8f900fdee7b/520f5abc-f80e-417a-8482-88d7abe2f8da/468x382.jpg)
Lot 1
Walter of Henley. [Hosbondrye], decorated manuscript on parchment, in French (Anglo-Norman), i + 7 + i leaves, one 8-leaf quire but last leaf now lacking, modern pencilled foliation in upper outer corner, text block: 128 x 90 mm, single column, 29 lines, ruled with lead point, without catchwords, text written in cursiva Anglicanan in the same hand throughout, 24 initials in blue, with pen-flourishing in red, often with extension along the margin, other chapter divisions in red and blue, modern brown morocco, with 'Walter of Henley Husbandry 14th Cent' lettered in gilt on front cover, a few leaves slightly browned, some tiny holes, occasionally and partly affecting a few letters, especially to last leaf, upper margin possibly trimmed at time of rebinding, small 4to (199 x 139/140mm.), England, [early 14th century].⁂ A precious and highly important early 14th century manuscript containing almost the complete text of Henley's Hosbondrye, one of the most significant agricultural works produced in England in the second half of the 13th century, and one of the most famous examples of Anglo-Norman literature. inc. Le pere sist en sa veillesce e dit a sun fiz (Oschinsky, p. 308, ch. 1)expl. ou plus ou meyns solum ceo qe le tenys est. (Oschinsky, p. 338, ch. 101)The text lacks only the final 59 lines (Oschinsky, ch. 102-113). Considering the unknown scribe copied the text with regularity, filling each page with 29 lines, it seems logical to suppose that only the final leaf of the manuscript is now missing. The Hosbondrye is a didactic treatise on estate management written in the form of a sermon from father to son and giving advice on husbandry, corn farming (ploughing, sowing, harvesting, costs of cultivation, etc.), and livestock farming (cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry). Its exact date of compilation is unknown: it could possibly have been written between c.1276, when the English Parliament debated the Extenta Manerii, concerning estate management, and 1286, i.e. a year after the issue of the Statute of Westminster. In 1971 Dorothea Oschinsky listed 32 manuscripts of the Hosbondrye, to which a further 3 should now be added. A dozen manuscripts contain the author's name in the title, while only two give biographical information about Henley, describing him as a knight, and later a Dominican friar. The work is generally inserted in manuscript compilations, including statutes, rules, charters, and other texts dealing with estate management and accounting, such as the Seneschaucy and the Rules by Robert Grosseteste. The text is known in two traditions, called α and β. The manuscripts derived are classed in group A (from α) and groups B-F (from β, and its derived branches γ and δ). The different groups often share variants, or show individualistic omissions or insertions. In this manuscript - in all likelihood originally bound up in a composite codex - the text of the Hosbondrye is copied with accuracy, possibly in a professional milieu. Corrections are lacking and only a few words are wrongly repeated. The text copied belongs to tradition β, but shares some variants with the derived branch γ, establishing a new group from β. Furthermore, this text is introduced by a four-line passage in which the compiler mentions the name of the author, giving some biographical details about Henley: he is described as a knight who later entered the Dominican order ('Ceo ditte de husebonderie fist un Chivalier Sir Waltier de Henleye qi puis se rendit en le ordre de frere precheurs), information which is given, with a few changes in word sequence, only in two manuscripts: the early 14th-century compilation made by or for the Northampton lawyer John de Longueville (Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.VII.&), and the late Hosbondrye written c.1450, and kept in the Hampton L. Carson Collection of The Free Library of Philadelphia (MS LC 14.3). The scribe also adds a note on the moral content of Henley's advice, a guide for "viuer sagement et honestement de luy biens", a feature that is to be found in a number of manuscripts belonging to group D, transcribed in the early 14th century for monastic houses in southern England, such as the Benedictine Abbey of Abbotsbury, Dorset (Cambridge University Library, MS Hh.II.11), or the Canterbury Cathedral Priory (BL, Add.MS 6159; Cambridge Trinity College, MS O.9.26; Canterbury D.&C. Muniments, Register B, and Register P).In the 'Preface' to her critical edition, Oschinsky states that 3 further Henley manuscripts have been discovered, "but too late to be included in this book". Among them she mentions the Rothamsted manuscript, whose importance she highlights for a future and more precise reconstruction of Henley's manuscript tradition: "One early-fourteenth-century copy has come to light which is of great interest [...] It enables us, moreover, to assess the printed translation of Walter included in The Booke of Thrift by James Bellot, printed in 1589 [...] We now find that it was translated from a copy which followed the version of the newly-found Rothamsted copy and it can be assumed that the two texts are survivors of a group, widely spaced in time, which ultimately derived from a copy of β older than our γ" (pp. vii-viii). This is the only manuscript of Henley's Hosbondrye to come to auction since 1978.Provenance: Rothamsted acquisition date 1939.Literature: N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries. V. Indexes and Addenda, edited by I. C. Cunningham and A. G. Watson, Oxford, 2002, p. 13; Walter of Henley's Husbandry, together with an anonymous Husbandry, Seneschaucie, and Robert Grosseteste's Rules, edited by W. Cunningham, London 1890; D. Oschinsky, Walter of Henley and Other Treatises on Estate Management and Accounting, Oxford 1971; R. Dean - M. Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, London 1999, nos. 392-93; W. Rothwell, "Husbonderie and Manaungerie in Late Medieval England: A Tale of Two Walters", The Anglo-Norman Language and Its Contexts, edited by R. Ingham, York 2010, pp. 42-51.
Lot 149
Livestock.- Mascall (Leonard) The first booke of Cattell, 3 parts in 1, first edition, collation: A2 B-N4; O-T8 U4; Aa-Cc8 Dd10 Ee-Ff8 Gg4 (lacking first leaf, blank except for signature), largely printed in black letter, woodcut title border to second and third parts, numerous early ink annotations, small burn-hole to margin of last few leaves, not affecting text, some marginal worming, modern limp vellum with ties, [STC 17580; Fussell I, p.9 for 1596 ed.], small 4to, Printed by John Wolfe, 1587.⁂ Very rare. Of the three copies we have been able to trace at auction, none has been complete; this is the nearest to it with only the initial leaf missing. ESTC cites only the BL copy in UK (curiously, not this copy) and 3 in America (Folger, Huntington and Michigan State). Fussell calls the work "important, but, in common with most of the writers of his and the succeeding century, Mascall had no hesitation in borrowing from earlier writers, and I doubt if he ever challenged their authority."Provenance: Henry Yates Thompson (bookplate).Rothamsted acquisition date 1941.
Lot 156
Alamanni (Luigi) La coltivazione... e le Api del S. Giovanni Rucellai... Con aggiunta delli Epigrammi del Medesimo Alamanni Et di alcune brevi Annotazioni sopra le Api..., 2 parts in 1 vol., collation: *4, A-N8; O-T8, V4, woodcut printer's device to title and at end, woodcut initials, occasional foxing or browning, final f. chipped at foot, 18th century floral patterned boards, spine sunned, Florence, Filippo Giunta, 1590 § Gallo (Agostino) Le vinti Giornate dell'Agricoltura, et de' piaceri della villa, collation: *8, **4, A-Z8, Aa-Cc8, Dd6, Ee-Ff4, lacking final blank, woodcut coat of arms to title, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, 12 full-page woodcut illustrations, occasional light foxing, minor damp-staining, 18th century boards, minor wear to extremities, a little rubbed, Turin, Heirs of Niccolò Bevilacqua, 1579-1580; and 2 others, Crescentiis and Herrera in Italian, 8vo & 4to (4)⁂ A good group of four 'bestsellers' in Italian. Provenance: first mentioned Rothamsted acquisition date 1930.
Lot 252
Tusser (Thomas) Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, mostly black letter, title within woodcut typographic border, margins trimmed, affecting some printed marginal notes, ink marginal notes in an early hand, ink ownership inscription to head of title, occasional damp-staining, [Fussell pp.8&9; STC 24392], Printed by I[ohn] O[kes] for the Company of Stationers, 1638 bound after Blith (Walter) The English Improver Improved or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed, Discovering the Improveableness of all Lands, title over 2 ff., the first engraved pictorial, 1 engraved plate only (of 2) and 2 full-page wood-engraved illustrations, 4ff. Appendix and index bound after first mentioned work, title laid down, engrave title repaired at margins and closely shaved with loss to lettering at head, ink note in an early hand to final f. "The author of this treatise was an... rogue", [Fussell p.52-53; Wing B3195], small 4to, Printed for John Wright at the Kings-Head in the Old-Bayley, 1652, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, small 4to.⁂ Provenance: Sir Robert Maude (ink ownership inscription). Rothamsted acquisition date 1915.
Lot 3
Palladius (Rutilius Taurus) De re rustica (Italian), manuscript on paper, complete with 46 leaves, four quires, collation: 1/16, 2/16, 3/12, 4/4, blanks: 1/1v, 4/2v, 4/3, 4/4, inked foliation and modern pencilled foliation at outer upper margin of leaves 1-14, text block: two columns (each 214 x 72 mm.), c. 44-45 lines, catchwords written in the middle of verso of last leaf of each quire, text written in brown ink, by a single Italian cursive hand, headings in reddish brown ink, blank spaces for capitals at beginning of each chapter, with guide letters written in blank space between columns, paper watermarked with tulip and scissors (these frequently found in paper from various cities of Central Italy), bound with a leaf from a vellum manuscript, generally in good condition, upper corners of first 20 leaves restored with loss of some words, blank lower corners of first 6 and last 4 leaves restored without any loss, some spots and water-stains, more prominent in some leaves but not affecting legibility of text, disbound but 3 leather thongs preserved, 4to (292 x 216mm.), Central Italy, possibly Tuscany, [early 15th century].⁂ inc. Qui chomincia el libro di palladio rutilio tauro Emiliano homo chiarissimo de ogni lauorio di terra (text inc.: [P]arte di prudentia e di sauere estimare chie la persona di co lui tu parli... )expl. Sparte e quel vime[o] ouero erba si fa[n]no le sporte.Highly interesting 15th-century manuscript containing the complete text of the translation into Italian vernacular of Palladius' Opus agriculturae. The popularity of the treatise is demonstrated not only by the wide manuscript circulation of its Latin text, but also by the translations made in Italy and Spain in the 14th century, and in Middle English in the 15th: Palladius was the only one of the four Roman authorities on agriculture - the other three being Cato the Elder, Columella, and Varro - to be rendered into vernacular languages in the late Middle Ages. The 14th century saw three different anonymous translations of the work produced in Italy, and more particularly in Tuscany, the oldest of which is the MS Ricc. 2238 in Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence. This version is attributed by some scholars to the Florentine notary Andrea Lancia (c.1280-1360), the well-known author of the so-called Ottimo Commento to Dante's Comedy. It differs from the version in Italian vernacular which first appeared in print in Siena in 1526 (see lot 30), and was published only in 1810, edited by Paolo Zanotti. The Rothamsted Italian Palladius is one of the eleven other surviving manuscripts which belong to this earliest textual tradition (we do not include the manuscript recorded in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, the MS Ital.XI.100.6966, an 18th-century copy of the Riccardianus). The reading of the manuscript offerred here is in fact very close to the Riccardianus, with only a few orthographic variants, or changes of word order.A further important point lies in the fact that the anonymous scribe has copied a poetic composition, simply entitled Sonetto, in praise of the Roman writer and his treatise, on the recto of the last leaf, after the explicit of Palladius's text. This sonnet begins with the line Io sono Palladio della agricoltura, and circulated throughout the 16th century under the name of the satirical 15th-century Florentine poet Giovanni di Domenico, better known as Burchiello (1404-1449), although in a version in which the last three verses have been modified. The sonnet was also included in the 18th-century edition of Burchiello's poems, an attribution which is however firmly contradicted by chronological evidence, it having been already included in the 14th-century Riccardianus.Until now, the poem Io sono Palladio della agricoltura was included in only three other Palladius manuscripts: as well as the aforementioned Riccardianus 2238, two other manuscripts in the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence (MSS Plut. 43.28 and Segni 12): this feature would strongly suggest that the Rothamsted Italian Palladius manuscript was produced in Tuscany, in or near Florence. Provenance: bought from the booksellers Davis & Orioli, for £20. A page from a sale catalogue loosely inserted, describes the manuscript (lot 33).Rothamsted acquisition date 1937.Literature: N.R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British libraries. V. Indexes and Addenda, edited by I.C. Cunningham and A.G. Watson, Oxford, 2002, p. 13; R.H. Rodgers, "Palladius", in Catalogus Translationum Commentariorum III, pp. 195-199; Volgarizzamento di Palladio. Testo di lingua la prima volta stampato, ed. by P. Zanotti, Verona 1810; M. Barbi, La cultura e l'uso dei fiori in Palladio secondo il volgarizzamento di Andrea Lancia, Firenze 1897; C. Marchesi, "Di alcuni volgarizzamenti toscani in codici fiorentini", Studj Romanzi» 5 (1907), pp. 123-236; M. Morpurgo, Supplemento a Le opere volgari a stampa dei secoli XIII and XIV indicate e descritte da F. Zambrini, Bologna 1929, p. 74; Incipitario unificato della poesia italiana (IUPI), Modena 1988, I, p. 794; G. Frosini, Il cibo e i signori: la mensa dei priori di Firenze nel quinto decennio del sec. XIV, Firenze 1993, pp. 48-49; I sonetti del Burchiello. Edizione critica della vulgata quattrocentesca a cura di M. Zaccarello, Bologna 2000, pp. xxxii-xxxiii, 277; V. Nieri, "Sulla terza versione di Palladio volgare. Il codice Lucca, Biblioteca Statale, 1293", Studi di filologia italiana 71 (2013), pp. 341-346.
Lot 3
ǂ Account of the flooding of the Nile and the geography of the region around Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript on papyrus [Egypt (perhaps western bank of the Nile Delta, near Alexandria), second century AD.] Two large pieces and two small fragments from a papyrus scroll (overall approximately 250 by 110mm.), with almost all of a single column and the edge of its neighbouring column on the right surviving, remains of 35 lines in a fine Greek uncial (column width: 65 mm.), one annotation of a small cross between columns, reverse blank, small losses to edges and holes, the whole set in heavy mid-twentieth-century glass (lateral crack to glass sheet at back) Provenance:1. Georges Anastase Michaelides (1900-1973), Greek-Egyptian collector, who built up a large collection of papyri and related items in the 1930s and 1940s while in Egypt, then exported these to Europe. That here with his collection label “K3011” on reverse, and published while in his possession by Drescher and then Crawford (see below). His collection was widely dispersed in the last decade of his life and the years immediately after his death, with other papyrus fragments and related artefacts now in the British Library (Pap 3084, 3100-3103, 3105-3115), the Brugsch collection of Berlin, Cambridge University Library (Michaelides 858-859, 1085 and 1263, as well as a vast collection of Arabic papyri, all bought from Michaelides’ heirs in 1977), the Los Angeles County Museum (M. 80.202.185 and 187) and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (item 61.102, acquired in 1961) among many others.2. Bruce Ferrini (1950-2010), obtained from a private collector in Frankfurt.3. The Schøyen Collection, Oslo and London, their MS. 2931.Text: In the seventy years since its discovery (known as P. Michael.4), the unique text of this papyrus has defied simple identification. It opens with a reference to a method of calculation involving “the seventh in the system of Egyptian hieroglyphs, which in the local method of calculation marks fourteen cubits” before going on to describe the promontory on which Canopus lies, between the sea and the Nile, and the life-giving properties of the flood, as this “weaves together [the area between Canopus and Thomis] with a piling up of black mud”, bringing nourishment to the dried out land, which produces tender shoots and a sweet odor, that in turn feeds milking cattle. Merkelbach in 1958 identified it as a previously unrecorded section of the geographies of Hecataeus of Miletus (c. 550-c. 476 BC.), the first recorded Greek geographer, but the style of the language and structural complexity suggested to Murray and West that it may be part of an otherwise unknown literary work. Santoni placed it in the allegorising tradition of Stoic philosophy, and the authorship of Chairemon of Alexandria, the Graeco-Roman tutor to Nero. The most recent publication, that of Stephens and Winkler, focusses on the address in the first person to create a narrator, and concludes it might be part of an Ancient Greek novel. They have assigned it the title ‘Inundation’.Published:J. Drescher, ‘Topographical Notes for Alexandria and District’, Bulletin de la Société Royale d’Archéologie d’ Alexandrie, 38 (1949), pp. 13-20 and illustrated (pls. 16-20).D.S. Crawford, Papyri Michaelidae, being a catalogue of the Greek and Latin papyri, tablets and ostraca in the library of Mr. G.A. Michaïlidis of Cairo, 1955, no 4.R. Merkelbach, ‘Geographisches Fragment’, Arkiv für Papyrusforschung, xvi (1958), pp. 112-114.O. Murray, ‘Hectaeus of Abdera and Pharaonic Kingship’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology lvi (1970), 148, n. 3.A. Bernand, Le Delta Égyptian d’après les textes grecs, 1970, pp. 225-28.S. West, ‘P. Michael.4: Fact of Fiction’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 10 (1973), pp. 75-77.A. Santoni, ‘Una decrizione di Canopoin P.Michael. 4’, Auctori Vari, Varia Papyrologica, 1991, pp. 101-120.A. Stramaglia, ‘Sul Frammento Di Romanzo () PMichael 4’, in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 97 (1993), pp. 7-15S.A. Stephens and J.A. Winkler, Ancient Greek Novels, 1995, pp. 453-460.M.P. Lopez Martinez, Fragmentos papiráceos de novela griega 25, 1998.J.R. Morgan, ‘On the Fringes of the Canon: Work on the Fragments of Ancient Greek Fiction 1936-1994’, Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt, 34.4, 1998, pp. 3378-80.As well as in the online Leuven Database of Ancient Books, as LDAB 4612. ǂ Lots marked with a double dagger (ǂ) (presently a reduced rate of 5%) have been imported from outside the European Union to be sold at auction and therefore the buyer must pay the import VAT at the appropriate rate on the hammer price.
Lot 91
ƟBook of Hours, Use of Utrecht, in the Dutch translation of Geert Grote, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern Netherlands (almost certainly Zwolle), c. 1470-80]153 leaves (plus one modern parchment and 3 modern paper endleaves at each end), binding too tight to collate, but with a single leaf wanting before fol. 105, blank leaves removed before fols. 13 and 122, and fol. 29 misbound (should be before fol. 32), else complete, single column of 19 lines in a fine and tall Dutch bookhand, crucial letters touched in red, red rubrics, small initials in simple red or blue, larger initials in burnished gold on blue and pink grounds heightened with delicate sprays of foliage in white, many of these accompanied by text borders in vertical margin of thin gold and coloured bars, with sprays of hairline foliage edged with pale green leaves, gold leaves and tri-lobed gold flowers, these bars with bi-lobed blue tipped flowers at their midpoints, five large historiated initials in blue with soft fleshy acanthus lobes picked out in white, on angular edged brightly burnished gold grounds, with full borders of gold text frames of coloured and gilt acanthus leaves and other foliage supporting angels and a skull (see below), some small spots, occasional smudges and tiny chips to paint, first and last few leaves with repairs to upright edges of blank margins with more modern parchment, else in outstandingly fresh and bright condition on fine cream-coloured parchment with wide and clean margins, 152 by 110mm.; modern neo-gothic binding of J. Schavys of Brussels (tiny armorial stamp on endleaf at back), tooled brown leather with Dutch devotional inscriptions over wooden boards, with two working metal clasps, fitted green leather suede-lined case Provenance:1. Almost certainly written in Zwolle, probably under the supervision of the Brethren of the Common Life there, and perhaps made for a woman from the region of Utrecht. The garbled saints in the Calendar (with ‘Sarijs’ for ‘Marijs’ on 19 January, and others) identify this volume as a member of the homogenous group of about sixty manuscripts shown by L. Wierda to have been produced by a single workshop in Zwolle (De Sarijs-handschriften, 1995). The manuscript in question here is part of her ‘Germaen-subgroup’ (ibid. p. 58, chart 8C). She argued that these manuscripts, mostly Books of Hours in Dutch, were produced under the direct supervision of the Brethren of the Common Life in the Gregoriushuis in Zwolle, and probably executed by pupils of the nearby Domus Parva (ibid., p. 169).2. Probably in Flemish private ownership in the nineteenth century: notes on contents on first endleaves in that language, and most probably bound then in Brussels.3. Joern Guenther, Faith and Knowledge, Brochure 12 (2011), no. 17 (also included in the same dealer’s twenty-five anniversary publication of 2015, Parchment and Gold, no. 66). Text: This handsome and appealing volume comprises: a Calendar (fol. 1r); the Hours of the Virgin (“Getijde van de Heilige Junkfrouwe”, fol. 13r), with a leaf misbound in Prime (see above); the Long Hours of the Cross (“Lange Cruus Ghetide”, fol. 44r); the Hours of the Holy Spirit (“Heilighe Gheest Tyde”, fol. 64r); the Hours of the Holy Wisdom (“Die ewighe wijsheit ghetide”, fol. 86r), the Seven Penitential Psalms (fol. 105r) wanting first leaf due to misbinding (see above), followed by a Litany; the Office of the Dead (fol. 122r) and prayers. Illumination:The cycle of historiated initials here is shared with eight other manuscripts studied by Wierda. As noted above, these works were collectively produced in workshops of large numbers of constantly changing personnel, but what sets the present codex apart is the hand of an accomplished and experienced artist who can be seen in the skilled and detailed studies of faces and bodies in the Virgin and Child (fol. 13r) and Pentecost (fol. 64r).The initials comprise: (i) fol. 13r, initial ‘H’ enclosing Virgin and Child on a silver crescent moon, with full decorated border enclosing two winged angels; (ii) fol. 44r, initial ‘H’ enclosing Christ as the Man of Sorrows, border with two angels carrying instruments of Passion; (iii) fol. 64r, initial ‘H’ with Pentecost, with the Virgin surrounded by followers as the Holy Spirit descends in the form of a dove; (iv) fol. 86r, initial ‘M’ with Christ wryly smiling as he holds a hand up in blessing and holds an open book; (v) fol. 122r, initial ‘M’ with Adam and Eve naked, standing in each compartment with hands clasped in prayer, border with a skull encircled by a scroll inscribed “O mensche bedenct Aldus moty werden”.Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 24% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
Lot 112
TC JAMES AND THE FIST O' FUNK ORCHESTRA. Terrific bundle of the original UK with the US (promo only) pressing of the extremely funky 1978 LP Get Up On Your Feet (Keep On Dancin'). The US pressing (F-O-F 947) is in great Ex+ condition with just a couple of extremely faint and wispy markings. This release was never issued with a s picture sleeve. The UK record (EMI EMC 3251) is in spotless Ex+ or archive condition with very little sign of ever having been played. The sleeve is in Ex condition with a library sticker on the reverse.
Lot 115
60s/70s CLASSIC SOUL/FUNK LPs. Another finely tuned collection of LPs with 57 included. Artists/titles include TC James And The Fist O' Funk Orchestra - Get Up On Your Feet (Keep On Dancin') (UK EMI EMC 3251 - Ex+/Ex), Elaine Brown - S/T (US BF 458L), Valerie Simpson inc. S/T (UK STML 11219), Azar Lawrence, Ronnie Dyson - When You Get Right Down To It (64779), Doris Troy - The Rainbow Testament (2956 001 UK on Mojo), Maxine Weldon - Right On (MRL 319), Bill Vera & Judy Clay, Various - The Dimension Dolls (ZGU 131), Undisputed Truth, Gene McDaniels - The Wonderful World Of... (LBY 1179), Jimmy McGriff, Don Shirley, Monk Montgomery, Timi Yuro and Jerry Butler. The records are generally in top Ex+ condition with the sleeves generally VG+ to Ex with library stickers on the reverse.
Lot 233
POP/NEW WAVE 45s. Lovely clean collection of around 65 x 7". Artists/titles will include Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia HCNP/300), Blondie - The Hardest Part (p/s), Tubeway Army - Down In The Park, The Jam - Just Who Is The 5 O Clock Hero (2059 504 p/s), Fischer-Z, The Flying Lizards, Maisonettes, Sad Cafe, Elton John, Bow Wow Wow, Bad Manners, Gillan, Serge Gainsbourg/Jane Birkin (nude cover), The Boomtown Rats, Genesis and Pete Townshend. Condition is generally Ex to Ex+.
Lot 90
60s/70s/80s US SINGLES. Fantastic collection of around 230 x 45s from the archive, covering Rock, Beat, Mod, Pop, Garage, R&R and more! Loaded with obscurities and all the 'weird and wonderful' labels you can think of, artists here will include Vikki Carr, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Cinnamon, Herman's Hermits, Lincoln Mayorga, Glenn Yarbrough, Patti Johnson, Hamilton Streetcar, Bobby Lewis, Will-o-Bees, The American Breed, Kai Winding, MGM, Decca, Warner, Bobby Lewis, Epic, Liberty and many more. Most are issued in plain white card/company sleeves and are in mostly Ex+ condition.
Lot 158
A Gents stainless steel Longines Conquest automatic calendar wristwatch, silvered dial with baton numerals and date aperture at 12 o' clock, Longines crown, 25 jewel L633.5 calibre movement, case 35mm. CONDITION REPORT: Winds, runs and adjusts. Date changes correctly. No box or papers. Some small scratches to reverse of case. Movement clean. Dial clean. Later strap. See additional images.
Lot 160
A Gents stainless steel Jaeger LeCoultre automatic centre seconds wristwatch with power reserve complication, circa 1956, silvered dial with Arabic numerals, centre seconds and power reserve dial at 12 o' clock, screw-off case back, movement numbered 975147, case 33mm CONDITION REPORT: Winds, runs and adjusts correctly but the power reserve indicator is stuck at 40 hours.
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