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Lot 282
An 18th century Dutch burr walnut armoire, with elm banding, the twin arched cornice with three leaf and scroll carved vase holders, above a pair of doors with scroll, leaf and shell outline mouldings enclosing a shelf and three drawers, above two short and two long ripple moulded drawers, with scroll angles and bun front feet, 228.5cm high, 190cm wide, 65.2cm deep.
Lot 693
A red japanned and giltwood cabinet on stand in early 18th century style attributed to Tibbenham of Ipswich, decorated with chinoiserie scenes, with a pair of doors enclosing a shelf, the stand carved with scrolls, leaves and with shell pendants, early 20th century, 144cm high, 90cm wide, 48.2cm deep.
Lot 134
A late 17th century Flemish oak cupboard, the moulded cornice above a frieze carved with scrolling leaves, above a pair of doors decorated with strapwork panels enclosing a shelf, the base with a pair of conforming doors above a drawer and with carved corbels, on bun feet, 182.7cm high, 145cm wide, 64cm deep.
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 79
ƟGuido da Pisa, La Fiorita d’Italia, with frequent citations of the works of Dante Alighieri, in medieval Italian, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy (probably Tuscany), mid-fifteenth century] 83 leaves, wanting a few single leaves throughout and 3 leaves from end, collation: i10, ii9 (wants iv), iii10, iv8 (wants iv and vii), v4 (wants innermost and outermost bifolia), vi10, vii9 (wants viii), viii-ix8, x7 (wanting last 3), catchwords and early modern foliation (slightly faulty from loss of single leaves, but followed here for convenience), single column of 37 lines of 2 Italian bookhands (the first accomplished and appealing semi-humanist hand; the second more influenced by secretarial script), pale red rubrics, initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork in and around the initial extending into long whip-like extensions in margin, one large initial in split blue bands with same penwork on frontispiece, the penwork extensions there extending entire height of margin, some small spots and areas of discolouration, slight cockling to leaves throughout, else in good condition, 260 by 190mm.; contemporary binding of blind-tooled dark brown leather over wooden boards, tooling of fillet, ropework designs and panels of small flowerheads all arranged as frames around a circular central boss enclosing crosses on each board, marks on lower board from ‘feet’ once attached there to hold book above potentially damp medieval shelf, boards much affected by worm at edges, with losses there and wood broken near clasp supports (one of these slightly loose, another repaired, losses to leather at foot of boards and spine, modern conservation to stabilise, and so in fair condition, fitted purple buckram case of c. 1900 An important early Italian vernacular text, in a remarkably fine copy still in its contemporary binding; and evidently the first copy to emerge on the open market in over 140 years Provenance:1. Written in the mid-fifteenth century, most probably in Tuscany, for a patron of some wealth and influence.2. Thereafter in an ecclesiastical library, most probably in same region: “Questo libero di santo Cosimo” in eighteenth-century scrawl in margin of fol. 78v. Other heavily erased inscriptions on front pastedown and at head of frontispiece.3. “Gerali di Pontunoli”, inscription on front pastedown recording its acquisition from his family on 20 November 1889, and apparently unrecorded since. Text: Little is known about the author of this important early Italian work. He was a native of Pisa and reveals in his work that he was a Carmelite Friar. He composed it sometime between 1321 and 1337, and despite a modest description of it by the author as ‘some memorable facts and sayings of the ancients’, it is in fact a chronicle of the Biblical and Ancient World, designed to show how that developed into civilised Christian society. To do this he draws on a large number of Classical authorities, including Livy, Ovid, Isidore and Jerome, as well as medieval writers such as Jacobus de Voragine and Nicholas Trevet, but none are given the same prominence here as Dante Alighieri, whose verse he cites frequently and at length. His devotion to Dante was doubtless driven by his composition of a lengthy gloss on the Comedia, as well as his shared belief with that author in the use of Tuscan Italian as a literary and educational language. As Guido himself insists: “sono molti, i quali vorrebbono sapere … ed abbiano avuto impedimento dal non studiare” (there are many, who would like to know ... and have had impediment from not studying), and it is for them that, “intendo di traslare di latino in volgare alquanti memorabili fatti e detti degli antichi” (I intend to translate from Latin into the vernacular some memorable facts and sayings of the ancients). It is clearly unfinished, as it sets out in its prologue the scope of a work to enumerate all the Roman Emperors in seven books, but ends in the existing version after two of these. Despite this it was greatly popular in the late Middle Ages, and some 60 codices have been traced (S. Bellomo, Censimento dei manoscritti della Fiorita di G. da P., Trento 1990; and P. Rinoldi, ‘Per la tradizione indiretta della “Fiorita” di G. da P.: due manoscritti dell’“Aquila”’, in LaParoladeltesto, 3, 1999, pp. 113-131; without knowledge of the present codex). In the main these were produced for use by students, and so are almost universally on paper and more rough and ready than the present copy. This is one of only four to survive on parchment. Few copies exist outside of Italy, and the Schoenberg database records only one as appearing on the market, a copy dated 1411 once in the collection of the Florentine nobleman, Baron Seymour Kirkup, and offered in Sotheby’s, 6 December 1871, lot 2035. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
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