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An extensive collection of photographs, postcards and promotional items relating to vintage lorries, buses, fire engines, transport etc, many advertising related, most circa 1930s-1960s, some large format. Subjects include, Ever Ready (multiples), DBC Bacon, Camden Rations, Farleys Rusks, Silver Shred, Spurling Motors, Fortts of Bath, House and Cunningham Bristol, H. H. Braine, Bristol, John Lewis Trewin Brothers Watford, Bainbridge of Newcastle, Quantock Jams, T. Lucas and Co Bristol, Vitality Bread, Welsh Boxes Ltd, George Webb Footwear, McDougalls Flour, Blue Peter Retreads of Basingstoke, Express and Star newspaper, Midlands, very large format Princess Mary Deluxe touring couches, L. Staffieri ice biscuits of Bristol, many more of Bristol and surrounding area insterest. The vendor accumulated the collection whilst working at Longwell Green coachbuilders of Bristol
King David, demi-grisaille miniature from an illuminated Book of Hours King David, demi-grisaille miniature from an illuminated Book of Hours, on parchment [Low Countries (probably Bruges), c .1460] Single leaf, with a full-page arch-topped miniature, enclosing David kneeling in ermine edged robes in a rocky landscape with his blue crown with gold fleur-de-lys and harp before him, all before a wide river with tiny boats and a mountainous background with a medieval town, as God appears to him in the upper right corner, all in demi-grisaille, with full border of acanthus leaves, other foliage, thistles and a bird (all in grey tones heightened with gold), inner edge with small tri-lobed blue flowers, modern pencil fol. no. 36 on reverse, gold frame of miniature with few small flakes, else excellent condition, 90mm. by 70mm., framed This is a charming example of grisaille illumination on a tiny scale. Silver was notoriously difficult to master in the book-arts, and the single great period of flourishing of books in this and associated grey-tones was under the wealthy patronage of artistic communities in the Low Countries (most notably Bruges) by the Burgundian dukes. See Sotheby s, 10 July 2012, lot 14, for a similar miniature, from a contemporary Book of Hours, there ascribed to the Mildmay Master.
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.
Francesco Solimena (1657-1747) - Study for Fall of the Rebel Angels Black chalk, on thick laid paper Bears old pen and brown ink attribution verso : Franc. Solimena, d.1747. A 90. 25.5 x 19 cm. (10 x 7 1/2 in) Provenance: Private collection, UK Literature: cf. Bologna, Ferdinando, Francesco Solimena, 1957 cf. Bologna, Ferdinando, Solimena nel Palazzo Reale di Napoli per le nozze di Carlo di Borbone, in "Prospettiva", 1979, 16, pp. 53-67 . The composition of the present drawing relates to several known paintings by Francesco Solimena, including an oil sketch that was sold in Sotheby's Milan in 2011 (Dipinti Antichi, 14th June 2011, lot 51). The recumbent figure also appears as a type that Solimena employed in a number of commissions, including his Caduta di Simon Mago , S. Paolo Maggiore, Naples, and S. Michele Arcangelo , Salerno, Church of St. George. While the drawing has is closely related to these works, it does have several differences in its composition, specifically the inclusion of Saint Michael's helmet and armour. While this inclusion is not apparent in the Sotheby's painting, it was not unusual for Solimena when representing this subject, as his S. Michele Arcangelo , Rome (private collection) illustrates. The execution of the drawing, and the distinctive cross-hatching employed, would appear to be very close to several known drawings by Solimena, including his The Death of St Joseph , held in the British Museum, London (no. 1946,0713.909), and the Design for a silver bust of S. Francesco di Paola , previously part of The Ralph Holland Collection (sold at Sotheby's, London, Galleria Portatile' - The Ralph Holland Collection, 5th July 2013, lot 315). We are grateful to Ferdinando Bologna for confirming the attribution to Francesco Solimena on the basis of a photograph (private correspondence, June 2015).
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