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Lot 275
A good collection of 7" 45rpm singles to include: The Show Stoppers "Ain't nothing but a house party" No.3-100; Manfred Mann "Semi-detached, suburban Mr James"; Peter Tosh "Maga Dog"; The Gaylads "Can't hide the feeling"; The Who "I can't explain"; The Box Tops "The Letter"; The Young Rascals "Too many fish in the sea"; The Jimi Hendrix Experience " The Wind Cries Mary" and "Hey Joe"; Jimmy Ruffin "What becomes of the broken hearted"; The Zombies "Is this the dream"; Cream "Strange Brew"; Bob and Earl "Harlem Shuffle"; The Beatles "She Loves You"; "Can't Buy Me Love", "Paperback Writer", "A Hard Day's Night" (2 - 1 x EP), "All my loving" (EP); "The Beatles Hits" (EP), "Don't Let Me Down", (Mispress Mary Hopkin) and "Yellow Submarine"; The Move "Fire Brigade"; Tommy McCook "Ska-Ba"/Shenley Duffus "I know the Lord"; Tommy McCook "Marbrouk"/Hopeton Lewis & Hugh Roy "Tom Drunk"; Creedance Clearwater Revival "Proud Mary"; Fleetwood Mac "Black Magic Woman"; Savoy Brown "Train to Nowhere"; The Who "I'm a Boy" and "I can't explain"; The Rolling Stones "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Honky Tonk Women", and "The Last Time"; Otis Redding "Sittin' on the dock of the bay"; Don Drummond "Snowboy"/Senor Senorita "Stranger & Patsy"; The Temptations "I know I'm losing you"; Bob Dylan "Like A Rolling Stone"; Sam and Dave "Soul Man"; Norma Tanega "A stret that rhymes at 6am"; Ringo Starr "It don't come easy"; Music Doctors "Bush Doctor/Lick Your Stick"; The Isley Brothres "This Old Heart of Mine"; Alton Ellis "Sunday Coming"/The Burning Spears "Free Again"; Procol Harum "Whiter Shade of Pale"; Stranger Cole "Hush/Lost Love"; Georgie Dann, Totlyn Jackson plus many other both rare and popular artists from the 1960s and 1970s (approx 120 singles)
Lot 86
J W Benson - a rare commemorative silver fob watch, the white enamel dial inscribed J W Benson, London, subsidiary seconds dial, Swiss movement inscribed J W Benson in Denison silver case, numbered 632496 together with a 25th Anniversary Coronation George V and Mary coin, cased, Birmingham 1935
Lot 899
A pair of rare Minton William Wise blue and white dairy 12ins tiles, one shows a milkmaid milking, the other a cow in a field, each signed W. Wise and each marked with the date code for 1896, other impressed marks, blue printed "No. 2019 - No. 6 SUB.", the other "No. 2019 - No. 8 SUB.". (See illustration) Condition Report: Tile edge chips.
Lot 1464
WARRES OTIMA 10 YEAR OLD TAWNY PORT Oporto, Portugal. 50cl, 20% volume. L.B.V. PORT 1992 Oporto, Portugal. 37.5cl, 20% volume. PEMARTIN SOLERA RARE OLD FINO SHERRY Jerez, Spain. 70cl, 18% volume. Drawn from a solera established 1914. FINO SHERRY JOSE ESTEVEZ Jerez, Spain. 1 litre, 15% volume. ANDALUCIA CREAM SHERRY OLOROSO Jerez, Spain. (Half bottle size.) 5 bottles
Lot 1243
THE DIRECTORS' BLEND An exclusive blend of specially selected Old & Rare whiskies from Diageo's 27 Malt & 2 Grain Distilleries. Bottled December 2005. 70cl, 45% volume. TRIUMPH 27 MALT WHISKIES Blended malt Scotch whisky. The blend of Scotch whiskies has been created from the spirit produced at Diageo's 27 malt distilleries to celebrate the opening of Roseisle Distillery, it's 28th. Bottle no. 0896. 70cl, 43% volume. 2 bottles CONDITION REPORT: Directors' Blend- Some foxing to labels
Lot 340
Rare Bing Clockwork Tinplate Naval Gunboat Germany, Circa 1902-07, grey hull over dark grey keel, with brown deck, two funnels, two masts, four lifeboats, four small guns (two missing from bow) and five revolving gun turrets, fitted with working clockwork mechanism concealed in hull ‘Diamond logo with the letters "GBN" in good original condition, missing flags, approx 41cm (16 inch) long.
Lot 12
Single leaf and a bifolium - from early musical manuscripts, in Latin, on parchment [eleventh... from early musical manuscripts, in Latin, on parchment [eleventh to twelfth century] Fragment from a single leaf from a neumed missal, 18 lines on each side, those at top of reverse with adiastematic neumes (in brown and red), text from sanctorale with texts for SS. Bartholomew (24 August) and Sabina (August 29), capitals touched in red, rubrics and simple initials in pale terracotta red (oxidised in places), scuffed on obverse else good condition, 161mm. by 107mm., Germany, first half of eleventh century ; bifolium from a noted Missal with Beneventan neumes, 12 lines in early Gothic bookhand with music in neumes arranged around a red C-clef line, text from sanctorale with texts for SS. Sabina (29 August) and St. Peter ad Vincula (1 August), rubrics in fine ornamental capitals, simple red initials (one edged with black pen, perhaps done later), tears to edges, stains, overall fair, 200mm. by 165mm., Central Italy (Rome), first half of twelfth century; both recovered from bindings These are notably rare examples of early music.
Lot 26
Polyphonic music on a cutting - from a leaf from a decorated musical manuscript on parchment... from a leaf from a decorated musical manuscript on parchment [probably Low Countries, first half of sixteenth century] Top quarter of a leaf, with 8 lines of text in a fine late Gothic bookhand much influenced by lettre bâtarde, with diamond-headed music notes on a 5-line brown stave, reverse with two initials in blue and pale pink with white scrolling brushwork, enclosing sprays of foliage and flowerbuds, recovered from a binding and hence with small holes, stains to edges, and rubbing to face with initials with losses to them, overall fair and legible condition, 305mm. by 195mm. This is probably the only surviving piece from a large polyphonic music manuscript, equal in size or larger than the Old Hall manuscript (British Library, Additional MS. 57950, c .1410-20, and perhaps used in the Chapel Royal) and Royal MS. 8G VII ( c .1513-44, made in the southern Netherlands probably for Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragorn). The text here is from the end of the Office of the Dead and the opening of the Credo . Manuscripts with polyphonic notation are exceedingly rare. Only two more-or-less complete manuscripts including substantial medieval polyphony have been offered at auction in the last century, and both passed to the British Library (Sotheby's, 21 October 1920, lot 124; and 9 July 1973, lot 41). To these should be added an Antiphoner with two leaves of polyphony which was sold in Sotheby's, 29 June 2007, lot 29. Fragments occasionally emerge, including a wrapper around a Dominican Book of Hours (last sold in Sotheby's, 7 December 1992, lot 57); a fifteenth-century paper fragment, sold Sotheby's, 12 December 1967, lot 58 (now also British Library); and two half-leaves in Sotheby's, 22 June 1982, lot 5 (now Bodleian), as well as 25 April 1983, lot 117 (now British Library).
Lot 35
Leaves from a liturgical volume, probably a Missal - Missal or Lectionary, in Glagolitic, from a decorated manuscript... Missal or Lectionary, in Glagolitic, from a decorated manuscript on parchment [Croatia, fifteenth century] A bifolium, each leaf with double column, 30/31 lines in a tall and angular glagolitic bookhand, elaborate paragraph marks and rubrics in bright red, remains of 8 large initials in line-drawn ropework and acanthus leaf designs on iridescent red grounds, reused on a binding of a printed copy of Perfectissimus Calepinus Paruus, Venice, 1684, as a bifolium with its inner gutter running up the spine of the printed book and the boards preserving the whole of the text block of the manuscript page and some of lower margin, hence scuffed and with stains and small holes and splits, however the turned over edges on inside of boards indicate clean condition of leaf when used on binding, and presumably the innerside of these leaves if lifted from binding are in fine and presentable condition, board size: 245mm. by 165mm. Provenance: The parent codex was presumably carried in the fifteenth or sixteenth century from Croatia to Venice by traders or immigrants. Once there and out of the hands of readers who were familiar with its script, it appears to have been set aside, and by 1688 it was being reused as binding material: with ownership inscriptions dated 1688 and 1691 on title pages, the later naming a Professor Petrus Baculisti as its owner then; another undated but contemporary inscription of Andreas Batistinus upside-down in same place. Recently discovered by the present owner in the German trade. Text: This strange script is entirely a medieval creation. It was invented by SS. Cyril and Methodius, brothers from Thessaloniki, when they were sent to Great Moravia (modern Czech Republic and Slovakia) in 862 by the Byzantine Emperor who wanted to weaken the dependence of Moravia on East Frankish missionaries and priests. In 886, the East Frankish bishop of Nitra banned the script and jailed 200 of Methodius' followers (who later were sold into slavery). Refugees reached Bulgaria and were commissioned by Boris I to instruct his clergy there in Slavic language worship. From there these refugees spread to Croatia and established it as the heartland of the script. In 1248, Pope Innocent IV granted the Croats of southern Dalmatia the unique privilege of using a translation of the Roman Rite in their own script. Glagolitic is as rare a script on the market as Early Uncial (see lot 8 here), Visigothic and Luxeuil minuscule, with examples appearing only once a generation or so. To the best of our knowledge only three codices (all ex collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps) and two sets of fragments have been offered for sale in the last two hundred years (codices: Missal of c .1400-10, bought in the Guildford sale at Evans, 8 December 1830, lot 460, for the vast price of £168, and among his proudest possessions, exhibited at dinner parties among his Þsserts of manuscripts', sold Sotheby s 29 November 1966, lot 162, and now Pierpont Morgan Library; a fifteenth-century priests manual, sold Sotheby s, 28-29 June 1976, lot 4040; and a copy of patristic texts dated 1602, lot 1240 in same sale; fragments: two leaves from a fifteenth-century illuminated Missal, sold Sotheby s, 16 December 1970, lot 5; two further leaves from a contemporary copy of the same text, sold in Hartung in 2012, and now in two private UK collections); and to these should be added the small fragments in the binding of a Glagolitic printed book offered by Christies later this month with the estimate £40,000-60,000. However, this has not dampened academic and collecting interest in the script, and in 2001 Trinity College Dublin held an exhibition dedicated to it.
Lot 4
Plea to an Oracle from an immigrant to Egypt, - in Greek, manuscript on papyrus [Egypt, first century BC in Greek, manuscript on papyrus [Egypt, first century BC.] Papyrus fragment (with small losses at upper right and lowermost edges), remains of 13 lines in Ptolemaic diplomatic cursive, reverse blank, small cracks and rubbed areas with losses but quite legible and in fair and presentable condition, 103mm. by 67mm., framed in Perspex From the collection of Anton Fackelmann (1916-86), conservator of the Vienna Papyrus Sammlung, and recovered by him from mummy cartonnage. This is one of the two earliest extant examples of a breathtakingly rare text from antiquity - an address to an Oracle by a supplicant seeking their aid or advice. Other examples show that when seeking an Oracle s advice in the Ancient World, you often gave your questions to the priests in a written form, receiving a document in reply. Almost all include just brief questions, such as should I go? , giving us little information about the lives of those who asked the questions, but here there is much information and a heart-wrenching question which still touches its reader emotionally some two millennia after it was written. The writer calls himself Ptolemaios and states that due to a lack of the bare necessities of life, I have left my homeland, taking my children with me, and I now ask you to show yourselves to be merciful towards me and my children, and to return to me this sheet [with a reply] if it is useful to me to continue to live with them . Publications: H. Bannert and H. Harrauer in Wiener Studien, N.F. 14, 1980, pp. 37-9 (wrongly identified there as a court speech); M. Gronewald and D. Hagedorn, Eine Orakelbitte aus Ptolemäischer Zeit , Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 41, 1989, pp. 289-93
Lot 65
A tonsured Benedictine monk holding a book, - large historiated initial on a single leaf from a Psalter large historiated initial on a single leaf from a Psalter, illuminated manuscript, in Latin, on vellum [probably Rhineland or perhaps England, late thirteenth century] Single leaf, with 20 lines in a good Gothic hand, 1-line initials in blue or liquid gold with blue or red penwork to contrast, numerous highly decorative line-fillers in a wide variety of styles (with flowers, stylised leaves and a repeating series of three-lobed patterns enclosing a small blue geometric shape, perhaps that of a castle), a blue penwork dragon with a red tongue, one 4-line historiated initial 'D' (but apparently not opening anything, perhaps a mistake by the illuminator who was meant to fill the space left with an 'F' to open the next line Fili redemptor mundio ) in orange heightened with circles, enclosing a tonsured monk in dark blue robes standing and holding up a long thin book, all on a brightly burnished gold ground, initial terminating in long thin blue tendril with a gold three-lobed flower, modern pencil notes 3' and d3' on verso, good condition, 178mm. by 135mm. This leaf is from a well-known and richly illustrated liturgical Psalter, which apparently included the Hours of the Virgin and the Office of the Dead. It was broken up, perhaps in France in the 1960s, and leaves first appeared in England in the Folio Fine Art cat.43 (February 1967), Maggs Bulletin 5 (April 1967), and Alan Thomas cats.19, nos.17a-e and 21, nos. 22 and 22a (see The Rendells cat.146, lots 85-6; Sotheby's, 17 December 1991, lot 4, and 7 December 1992, lot 6, and 5 December 2006, as part of lot 52, and 4 December 2007, lot 19, for more recent sales). Three leaves were described in detail in J.M. Plotzek, Andachtsbücher des Mittelalters , 1987, p. 84, no. 8, relating them to Rhenish work of c . 1260. The penwork drollery-creature line-fillers have their closest parallels to the Salvin Hours (British Library, Addit. MS.48,985) and are similar to those in an English Psalter in Krivoklát Castle in the Czech Republic and the Windmill Psalter in the Morgan Library (N. Morgan, Early Gothic MSS, II, 1250-1285 , 1988, p.150). All of the leaves which have come to light have a number of penwork drollery-creatures, but few have any historiated initials (for another see that in Sotheby's, 4 December 2007, lot 19, which made £3750), and to find one with burnished gold is rare.
Lot 66
Adam and his descendants, - large historiated initial on a bifolium from a monumental... large historiated initial on a bifolium from a monumental illuminated bible, in Latin, manuscript on vellum A bifolium (second leaf trimmed vertically to edge of text), with a large initial 'A' (opening "Adam Seth Enos Cainan Malaleel " the beginning of I Chronicles; initial: 95mm by 77mm.), in blue with delicate scalloped shading heightened with white, with two orange dog-heads, enclosing Adam as a standing bearded figure holding a scroll, before his descendants (here as robed men before a burnished gold background), all on tessellated orange ground with burnished gold frame, blue, pink and gold decorative-bar down entire length of page with bird sitting on top of it, two comical drolleries in bas-de-page, perhaps mocking Franciscan friars (both half-human and wearing friars' habits, one with the legs of a blue horse with orange wings and waving a bifolium from a document and a club, chasing the other who has the legs of a deer), double column, 36 lines in black ink in a good Gothic bookhand, initials touched in red, rubrics in red, title and numbers in red and blue, two 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork extensions up and down margin to contrast, recovered from a binding and hence discoloured and somewhat rubbed, with ink eating through small areas of text (now repaired in places), overall in fair condition, framed, 420mm. by 315mm. Once in the collection of T.F. Flannery Jr., and sold in Sotheby's, 6 December 1983, lot 14, to Dr. Jossi of Chur, Switzerland, again his sale in Sotheby's, 4 December 2007, lot 20, for £8125 to the present owner. Illumination from the southern Netherlands from this period is rare. The present leaf compares closely with a copy of Bernard of Clairvaux's sermons, probably made in a convent in Cambrai c .1300 (now ÖNB, s.n.12771: O. Pächt, et al., Die Illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichschen Nationalbibliothek, Flämische Schule I , 1983, i:162-4 & ii, pl. 1), and to another manuscript of the same text (now Brussels, Bibl. Royale, MS.1787: ibid., i, fig. 1) which may be from the same workshop as the ÖNB manuscript. If the drolleries were intended as comic portraits of members of the community, then this may indicate an origin in the Franciscan convent at Cambrai. The fact that one clutches a bifolium from an apparently unfinished manuscript might suggest that these are whimsical caricatures of members of the scriptorium which produced the original volume.
Lot 87
Psalter for Dominican Use, - in Latin and German, illuminated manuscript on parchment [south... in Latin and German, illuminated manuscript on parchment [south Germany (probably Nuremberg), dated 1473] 202 leaves (including front endleaf), complete, collation i8, ii-iii10, iv10, v9 (ii a singleton to complete text), vi-xix10, xx9 (vi a singleton to complete text), xxi3 (last a cancelled blank), single column, 18 lines in a square and angular German late Gothic script with some ornamental cadels forming sprays of delicate flowers in lower margin, and others forming geometric border decoration filling the entire bas-de-page and touched in colour wash where the interacting penstrokes form shapes, two cadels on fol. 80r encircled by angular banderoles in yellow green and red (with AE/EO/TIT/SC and 2-letter faux-Hebrew inscriptions), occasional music in square notation on a 4-line red stave, rubrics in red ornamental capitals, opening words of fol. 65r Miserere in pink, red, blue, green and gold capitals, the colophon on fol. 197r in 3 lines of same with each word in a new colour, a PS abbreviation for Psalm on fol.82r in silver and gold on pink grounds (silver now oxidised), one-line initials in alternate blue and red, larger initials in broken penstrokes touched in red and green, often containing foliage or geometric patterns, these initials with a staggering number of penwork and coloured dragons, drollery creatures, birds and human faces, often with open mouths spitting out foliage like long winding tongues, eight large initials in colours enclosing scrolling gold penwork and all set on burnished gold grounds on coloured frames, with near-full borders of bezants, bars and acanthus leaves enclosing flowers and realistic birds with gold infill of some areas (fols.12r, 37r, 53v, 68r, 82r, 99r, 115r, 131r), frontispiece with blue and red initial enclosing a dragon and a drollery in blank parchment, with ornate purple penwork filling three borders, another similar initial on fol.32r with green penwork filling border and enclosing a banderole and a yellow-gold owl, metallic page markers folded over edges of relevant leaves, some original flaws in parchment (with repairs), later floral flourishes in lower borders sketched in red ink, small spots and slight cockling, trimmed by a few mm. at edges with occasional slight losses to border decoration, else good condition, 164mm. by 125mm., sixteenth-century binding of blind-tooled leather over bevelled wooden boards, profusely stamped with Biblical scenes and inscriptions in frames around central floral motifs, cracking at spine and repairs in places, two original metal clasps with leaf and flower engraving (one with modern replacement body, both held in place by modern replacement straps), fitted suede-lined red-cloth slipcase, with gilt-tooled red leather box Provenance: (1) Most probably written for Brigitta Stromerin, a Dominican nun of St. Katharina, Nuremberg (diocese of Bamburg): the book is dated 1473 in a multi-coloured colophon on fol.197r and was certainly written for a Dominican in the diocese of Bamburg (with SS. Thomas Aquinas: 7 March with octave and translation on 28 January, Vincent Ferrer: 5 April, canonised in 1455, benefactors of the Order: 5 September, brothers of the Order: 10 October, and with rare local SS. Cunegund of Bamberg twice: 3 March and 9 September, and Otto of Bamberg: 30 September), she names herself as the owner of the book in a long German inscription on fol.199v dated 1483. She also owned a theological miscellany from c .1441 written by a Johannes Schyller, now in Berlin, Preussische Staatsbibliothek, Germ.8º467 (see also A. Willing, Die Bibliothek des Kloster St. Katharina in Nurnberg , 2012, p.xvii). She may have left it to the library there, and by the sixteenth century it had passed to Maria Rosalia Chweiggartin: her ex libris inside front board, and perhaps in her binding. Evidence of female ownership and use of books in the Middle Ages is far from common. (2) In English-speaking trade in nineteenth century: sale ticket pasted on inside front board. (3) John Whitling and Helen Otillie Friel of Ohio: their twentieth-century printed bookplate in same place. Text: The volume comprises a Calendar (fol.2r) followed by two short prayers in German (fol.8r); the Pater Noster and other prayers (fol.9r); a Ferial Psalter (fol.11r) interspersed with antiphons with music, and followed by canticles, hymns and a litany, ending with near-contemporary prayers in Latin and German (fol.197r), presumably partly in the hand of Brigitta Stromerin.
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