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Lot 185
A silver open face key-wound presentation pocket watch, the inner cover inscribed 'Presented to R. Bell Kennedy, As a Public Recognition of his Bravery in Attempting to Rescue his Comrade from Drowning, March 24 1906'. Together with an American Elgin Watch Co. silver open face pocket watch. (2)
Lot 14
Leaf from a Glossed Bible from the medieval library of Cambron Abbey, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [northern France (doubtless Paris), mid-thirteenth century] Single large leaf, with main column of 23 lines in angular early gothic bookhand (with Iob 31:7-23, written space including integral gloss: 195 by 140mm.), integral glosses set in smaller script in columns on either side, other glosses added by the main glossing hand interlineally, then near-contemporary additions of further such material in outer margins of page, paragraph marks in red or blue, initials in same with contrasting penwork, running titles (here “L / IOB” in alternate red and blue capitals at head of each page), some stains and darkening in places, splits and torn edges (but prick marks still visible at outer edge) from reuse as a later book binding, but overall fair and presentable, 350 by 233mm. This leaf may be all that remains of a large and proud Glossed Bible codex, produced in Paris in the mid-thirteenth century, but then in the library of the great Belgian Cistercian monastery of Cambron in Hainault (founded from Clairvaux in 1148, suppressed in the late eighteenth century). Their distinctive late medieval ownership inscription “De camberone” at foot of verso. The practice of inscribing a monastery’s name on a number of randomly selected internal pages began at Cîteaux itself and became characteristically Cistercian, but no other house practised it as compulsively as Cambron (cf. British Library, Egerton MSS. 628, 630 and 647, and the Bible in Sotheby’s, 8 December 2009, lot 49, among others). The parent volume is almost certainly the “Iob glossatus, bis” listed in their late medieval library catalogue as part of a large gift by Magister Godfredus (A. Sanderus, Bibliotheca Belgica Manuscripta, 1641, I, p. 355). It appears to have still been on the shelf there in 1792, and appears in an inventory of that date as “Liber iob actus apostolorum / Canonicae apocalysipsis glossati” (R. Plancke, Les catalogues de manuscrits de l'ancienne abbaye de Cambron, 1938, p. 59, no. 192). The abbey may have started to take leaves from their own manuscripts in the sixteenth century and beyond, leaving the bulk of the codex on the shelf. The library there was dispersed in the early nineteenth century, with 34 of its manuscripts passing to Sir Thomas Phillipps (Munby, Phillipps Studies, III, 1954, pp. 22-3; and including the next volume on the shelf in the 1792 inventory, a Glossed Epistles of St. Paul, now Brussels, Bibl. Royale II 2537). The present leaf, in situ on the binding of a later book, must have passed out of the monastery then to J. de Billemont of Brussels: his calligraphic ex libris at foot of recto (and thus once on outside of later book).
Lot 47
Emperor Justinianus as an enthroned king handing his lawcodes (here as a single-sheet document) to two young men, on a large initial on a leaf from the Corpus Juris Civilis, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [France (probably Paris), thirteenth century] Single large leaf, with an initial ‘U’ (opening “Ulpianus libro …” the opening of the second book), in pale brown wash heightened with white hairline penwork, enclosing a seated monarch with a golden crown, as he receives a single-sheet document from 2 young men, all on blue grounds within thin gold frame, the remaining parts of this and the next word in elongated red and blue capitals, 4 other small initials in pink or blue on coloured grounds with gold bezants, 2 enclosing foliage, the others with a crowned king’s face and a cat-like animal who bites at a bezant, another long eared drollery creature curled around the lower inner corner of the text on verso, simple red and blue elongated initials, red rubrics, elaborate red or blue paragraph marks, double column of 52 lines in a good early gothic bookhand, the margins filled with gloss, and in fact this leaf skilfully remarginated very soon after being produced with its original margins (perhaps with outdated gloss) stripped away and replaced by new, other glosses set interlineally as well as a series of references symbols added by a medieval hand in black ink over some words, split to upper margin, thinness of parchment causing some splits along ruled lines of text (but not affecting initial and visible easily only when leaf is held up to light), rubbed in places with slight losses to gloss in margin, overall good condition, 433 by 250mm. The initial here opens the text on the jurisdiction over the Jews. The artist of this charming and well accomplished example of French thirteenth-century painting may well have been familiar with the workshops of Paris more regularly involved in the production of illuminated Bibles. The models for the seated king here and the two men standing before him are most probably those found elsewhere in the productions of the Johannes Grusch and ‘Vie de Saint Denis’ ateliers (cf. R. Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis: A Study of Styles, 1977, figs. 228 & 250, where interestingly the latter illustrates two Jewish men in tall pointed hats).
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Lot 73
Playbill for anti-Semitic theatrical performance, in Italian, manuscript on paper [Italy, seventeenth century] Single loose sheet, with 8 lines of large script, one interlinear correction of an additional ‘r’, the name “Martino” added in smaller script by same hand before “Cornaro” in last line, more modern “2” in upper lefthand corner, no watermark, red marks from old mount on reverse, small spots and stains, tear to one side, but overall in good condition, 190 by 250mm. This playbill was produced by hand to advertise a “opera ridicula” about the impure relations between a girl named Brodeghina and a jew named Guardamano, and the resulting jealousy of Moses Lante[r]naro. The play was to be performed in the public theatre of Cornelio Tacito in the “corrada de 100 Ussi a un Ora di notte”. The work is ascribed to Martino Cornaro, who must be the Venetian playwright of the same name. Such written ephemera were meant to serve a single purpose, and then to be discarded, and thus the survival of this one is remarkable. What is perhaps even more startling is that a defective playbill, evidently for the same performance, is recorded in Il Ponte Casa d’Aste auction, 26-8 May 2017, lot 2359 (catalogued very briefly there, but compare partial reproduction in accompanying photograph).
Lot 91
Ɵ The Prayerbook of Jørgen Quitzow, in Renaissance Danish and German, illuminated manuscript on parchment, with near-contemporary additions on paper [Denmark (perhaps the Lutheran Chapter for Noble Ladies at Maribo, Lolland, or just perhaps central Fyn), dated 1570] 80 leaves, the main section (48 leaves) on vellum, complete, collation: i-xi4, approximately 16 lines of an angular calligraphic hand with numerous pen cadels and flourishes set in a near-square single column framed at edges by double orange-red and pale green lines, rubrics in red, sections opening with larger ornate letters and ending with calligraphic interlace ‘penwork knots’, double-page opening at front with coloured and illuminated coats-of-arms (see below), 17 hand-coloured woodcuts taken from a contemporary printed text on paper (from a copy of the Danish version of Luther, Husspostille published in 1564; 2 with substantial damage, and a further 8 spaces indicating that woodcuts were once there but have been removed or fallen away), this followed by some 32 paper leaves with near-contemporary additions of devotional material probably added for (or even by) Quitzow, mostly in quires of 8 and wanting a single leaf from this section, else complete, the first 6 leaves also approximately 16 lines in near-square single column, set within single red lines, thereafter 13 leaves with further devotional additions, the last leaves blank, some small natural flaws in parchment, small spots and scuffs, but overall in good and solid condition, 100 by 95mm.; Danish binding of c. 1800, marbled paper-covered pasteboards, spine backed with light tan leather, corners quartered with same, title “Bonn/bog” in ink on spine, with Thore Virgin’s “1570” added below Provenance:1. Written and illuminated for Jørgen Quitzow (d. 1599: see E. Ladewig Pederson in Adel forpligter - studier over den danske adels gældsstiftelse, 1983, p. 190, for brief comment) of Lykkesholm, Fyn: with the arms of his father’s family (Quitzow, beneath a silver helm and within metallic foliage) facing those of his mother’s family (Rønnow of Magelund, within golden foliage and gilt and red helm) as an illuminated opening on the inside facing pages of the first two leaves, and with a scrawled contemporary signature at the foot of those leaves that is certainly his own (“Jürgenn Qvitzow / med egen hand”). He was an important Danish magnate of the last decades of the sixteenth century, presumably named after his grandfather Jørgen Henningsen Quitzow (d. 1544), who served King Christian III as royal courtier and chancellor from 1537 until his death. His grandmother was Ellen Andersdatter (d. after 1558), a member of the influential Gøye family, who in later life became the first and founding abbess of the Lutheran Chapter for Noble Ladies at Maribo, Lolland, a house which took over the buildings of the first Bridgettine abbey in Denmark (that founded directly from Vadstena in 1418, and suppressed as a Catholic house during the Reformation, but with some nuns remaining in situ throughout the refoundation). This was a community of protestant ‘nuns’ in all ways bar their titles, made up from woman dedicated to prayer and Bible study in Danish and German. Such Lutheran chapters were a common phenomenon in early Reformation Denmark, often founded to ensure the suppression of earlier powerful Catholic religious centres (in this case the founding Bridgettine house of Denmark). However, old habits seem to have died hard, and in 1563 complaints were made to the bishop of Fyn that the inmates were harbouring Catholics, had resumed prayers for the dead of their Bridgettine predecessors and had returned to wearing the Bridgettine habit in private. Accusations of drunkenness and disorder followed and the house was suppressed in 1621.Two of the around twenty surviving medieval and Renaissance prayer books made for Danish private owners are securely connected to Maribo (K.M. Nielsen, A. Otto and J. Lyster, Middelalderens danke Bønnebøger, 1945-1982; cataloguing Copenhagen, GKS 1614, 4to and Thott. Samling 553, 4to), and it is possible that the scriptorium there produced also this codex, also produced this codex, perhaps as a gift to Qvitzow from his grandmother or maternal aunt (both reportedly abbesses of the house).2. Lt. Captain Thore Virgin (1886-1957) of Qvarnfors, Skåne, Sweden: his ex libris and small printed bookplate on front pastedown, noting the acquisition of the book in Copenhagen on 28 March 1927. The remnant of the Thore Virgin library was widely dispersed in recent years, but this volume has until now not appeared on the open market, and is completely unknown and unrecorded. Text and illustrations:The text opens with the calligraphic title, “En liden trøstelig Bønebog/ aff atskillige slaugs Tydske oc danske bønebøger de trøsteligste tilsamme[n] schreffuen/ nu udi denne siste Verdens tid gantske nødsommelig at bede. 15*70”, and includes a lengthy series of prayers interspersed with readings from SS. Augustine, Basil, John Chrysostom, Hilarion, Origen and others, and quotations from the works of Luther (including prayers), Ludwig Rabus (whose prayerbook was published in 1567), and Andreas Musculus (who published a devotional work in 1559). The last six leaves of the parchment section contain devotional Biblical readings.Books of Hours and prayer books translated into vernacular languages are of exceptional rarity, outside of the Dutch tradition (which had a strong vernacular tradition following the devotio moderna movement and the translation of Gerhard Groote). While a few hundred thousand such manuscripts exist in Latin, only a handful survive in a small number of other vernacular languages. Only about twenty-five such manuscripts substantially in German are currently known to exist (R. Cermann, ‘Über den Export deutschsprachiger Stundenbücher von Paris nach Nürnberg’, Codices Manuscripti, 75, 2010, pp. 9-24, and Sotheby’s, 2 December 2014, lot 49). Seventeen survive in Middle English, none earlier than the end of the fourteenth century (A. Sutherland, English Psalms in the Middle Ages. 1300-1450, Oxford, 2015, p. 27). The total number of Old French vernacular prayer books is unknown but probably no more than fifteen, with many examples of the sixteenth century (see V. Reinburg, French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600, Cambridge, 2014, p. 96 for isolated examples). Of the roughly twenty prayerbooks and associated texts in Danish listed in Middelalderens danke Bønnebøger only three are outside of Denmark itself, and those all in Swedish institutional ownership (Kalmar, Läroverks Bibliotek; Stockholm, KB. A40; and Linköping, Theol. 217). Thus, this manuscript is almost certainly the only such work in any form of Danish which might appear on the market again, and most probably one of the very few early manuscripts in Danish still in private ownership. Additional Note: The presence of a previously overlooked catchword “Det” on the last leaf of the original parchment section of this codex indicates that a leaf or so is missing from the end of this section. Please note: that the original parchment section of this codex is missing a leaf or so from its end Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
Lot 611
EDWARD HUSBANDS: 'An Exact Collection of all Remonstrances, Declarations, Votes, Orders, Ordnances, Proclamations.... between The King's Most Excellent Majesty and His High Court of Parliament....' printed for Edward Husbands, T Warren and R Best London 1643 with engraved frontis piece, leatherbound
Lot 617
SCOTTISH SILVER CHARLES I 12 SHILLING COIN, the obverse with crowned bust facing left, with XII behind, legend CAROLVS DG MAG BRIT FRAN & HIB REX and with thistle, the reverse with crowned shield, with crowned C and R to the sides, legend QVAE DEVS CONIV NXIT NEMO SEPARET, 32mm diameter, 5.9g
Lot 399
Quantity of Waterline Naval Ship Models, including: Taiho Aircraft carrier, Nz 51 Boschfontein troop ship, RHE 90 Gotland, Navis Neptun 45 Leipzig, 50 Nurnberg, 51 Dresden,2 x 460 Arabe, 560 Masa, 753 Ulan,1052B Z 25, 1061 Z 34, 1360 Sumner, 1360a Gearing, Albatros K-Modell 29 R Maro, N 121 HMS Carnarvon Castle,156 Standart, HAI 68, Mohawk & E Class, HAI 72,HAI 88 Chasseur & B Class, HAI 88, laxen,Bouclier and Fourche, all in very good to excellent condition. (26 items)
Lot 137
A SET OF SIX AMERICAN ART NOUVEAU IRIAN PATTERN TABLE SPOONS and eleven tea spoons to match, with the script monogram "EM" on the back of the terminals, by R. Wallace & Sons, Connecticut c.1900, contained in two boxes, one with the label of "Mrs T. Lynch, 1 & 3 Union Square, New York"; 25.6 oz (2)
Lot 258
A GEORGE III SQUAT CIRCULAR TEA POT with a "cape" rim and a ring foot, by W. Burwash & R. Sibley, London 1807 and an early 20th century coffee pot of tapering octagonal form, by Richard Comyns, London 1927; the latter 8" (20.5 cms) high; 36.3 oz (2) *Provenance: Niall Hobhouse, removed from Hadspen House.
Lot 306
A MIXED LOT:- A pair of late Victorian bonbon dishes by R. Martin & E. Hall, London 1895, a pedestal bonbon dish (loaded), a sauce boat, a mustard pot & a salt (blue glass liners), a pair of pepperettes & a mounted glass salt & a plated mustard pot; the bonbon dishes 5.5" (14 cms) diameter; 14.8 oz weighable silver (10)
Lot 324
A CASED PAIR OF EDWARDIAN PEPPERETTES by R. Martin & E. Hall, Sheffield 1901, a cased set of four small Victorian salts & matching spoons by W. Gibson & J. Langman, Birmingham 1890 and a cased six-piece condiment set (blue glass liners), by Mappin & Webb, Birmingham 1928, with four small spoons; the pepperettes 3" (7.4 cms) high; 9 oz weighable silver (3)
Lot 66
A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III HOURGLASS PATTERN TABLE SPOONS crested, by W. Eley & W. Fearn, London 1806, another, crested, by William Chawner, London 1830, a King's pattern table spoon, crested, by R. Peppin, London 1821 and three George III Old English pattern table spoons (two initialled); 24.8 oz (9)
Lot 255
WALPOLE ROBERT: (1676-1745) British Prime Minister 1721-42. Large portion of a D.S., R Walpole, one page, slim oblong 4to, Pay Office, Horse Guards, 30th September 1715. The manuscript text, which appears to the verso of a portion of a printed document dated 20th July 1715 relating to an Act of Parliament 'for Charging and Continuing the Duties on Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry…..and for making forth Duplicates of Exchequer Bills and Lottery Tickets, lost burnt or destroy'd…..', states that Walpole assigns and transfers all of his right, title and interest in the Order unto the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. Very slightly irregularly trimmed and with some light creasing and age wear, only very slightly affecting the text and signature, otherwise about VG
Lot 138
A GROUP OF JEWELLERY, comprising two gold bar brooches within their fitted case, a pair of gold and mother-of-pearl shirt buttons within their fitted case, a gold celtic brooch, a gold flower brooch set with seed pearls, a gold bar brooch set with a central sapphire within a surround of seed pearls, a 9K gold wedding band with engraved decorations throughout ring size Q, a plain 18K gold wedding band ring size R, a gold ring decorated with a central knot decoration ring size N, a signet ring set with a bloodstone plaque at the centre in 18K gold ring size T½, a plain openwork ring, ring size P, 6 loose charms, a 9K gold pendant and a garnet and cultured pearl pendant on chain
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