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Lot 730
dating: 1875-1890 provenance: Belgium, Rifled, octagonal, 450 cal. barrel, with foresight, remains of a stamp at the base; fluted, six-shot cylinder; frame with caliber caption, serial number '1628', loading gate; grip with checkered, wooden grip scales (weak) and ring for a strap. Marked 'G. MERCENIER' under the grip scales, remains of numbering at the bottom. The revolver has been created to be assembled and disassembled without any tool. length 22.5 cm.
Lot 234
dating: 1595 provenance: Naples, 'PROTEO MILITARE'. In Napoli, at Gio. Iacomo Carlino & Antonio Pace. MDXCV. 192 numbered pages. Numerous engravings with schemes, tables and drawings on the use of artillery tool. Pages in good conditions with slight yellowing, some stain, mostly on the initial pages, woodworm hole on the last ten pages. Perfectly readable text. Good binding. Parchment cover with small damages on the angles and signs of use and time. height 20,3 cm.
Lot 733
dating: 1874 provenance: Russia, Rifled, round, cal. 44 barrel, rib with inscription in Cyrillic and imperial eagle, big fore-sight; fluted, six-shot cylinder. Smooth frame, frame marked '000' and '1874'; black grip scales. Very worn and weak. In a wooden case, lined with green velvet inside, oval plate on the cover, with monogram 'E.R' with some tool (artisan work). length 34 cm.
Lot 726
Aprilia SR 50 Alitalia Replica Colours Scooter 2011 , 49CC, Odometer reading: O miles. Currently registered SORN. With two keys, three piece tool set, instruction book and blue canvas cover. The tri-color livery on this scooter is derived from the Alitalia RSV4 World Superbike race team that scored a championship with Max Biaggi. Condition reports are not available for our Interiors Sales.
Lot 230
A COMBINATION TOOL, TWO-WAY FLASK AND THREE BULLET MOULDS, 19TH CENTURY, AND FURTHER TOOLS the first including nipple-wrench and pricker, the second of brass, fitted with adjustable nozzle and base compartment for caps; a 20 bore bullet mould and two further moulds; two turnscrews, two nipple wrenches and three tins for percussion caps
Lot 231
A POWDER MEASURE, A SHOT MEASURE AND A RELOADING TOOL, LATE 19TH CENTURY the first and second by G. & J. W. Hawksley for large calibre sporting guns, with brass spoons and turned hardwood grips and the third by the same, with brass body stamped '577' and '500' the first: 13.2 cm; 5 1/4 in overall (3)
Lot 30
Substantial fragment of a codex of Ugolinus Pisanus, Philogenia, in Latin, manuscript on paper with an apparently unrecorded example of a domestic cat among its watermarks [Italy, second quarter of fifteenth century] 25 leaves, formed from two complete quires of 8 leaves each, plus four further bifolia and a singleton, all with single column of 14 lines in a rounded Italian gothic bookhand showing influence of early humanist hands, many interlinear near-contemporary and later additions supplying alternative readings, capitals touched in red, rubrics and simple initials in red (two with red penwork), other marginalia by main hand in blocks in tiny script, some nota bene marks including pointing hands, numerous other scribbles and later marginal drawings of a long bearded man in olive-brown ink and three dice in black ink, some borders cut away, stains, spots and damage to edges of leaves, overall fair and legible condition, 210 by 145mm.; kept loose in later boards These leaves are most probably all that remain of a codex of this notably rare work, the first humanist comedy. It was written in the early 1430s by Ugolinus Pisanus (d. 1445/50), the jurist and humanist scholar of Parma. The author travelled widely as a teacher in Eastern Europe, Croatia, Hungary and Russia, and was crowned an imperial poet by Sigismund of Luxemburg. He was close to several leading humanists, including such grand names as Pier Candido Decembrio, Antonio Panormita and Francesco Filelfo. The text tells the story of a love affair in which a young wife, Filogenia, contrives to meet her young lover, Epifebo, without arousing the suspicions of her husband, the farmer Gobio, drawing in a raft of supporting characters such as the girl’s parents, the young lover’s friends, the farmer’s brother, as well as prostitutes, peasants, servants and foremost the Friar Prodigio, whose role is to scandalously give the girl absolution from her sins. It is recorded in only thirty-six manuscripts (see entry for author in Dizionario BWhat is most fascinating here is that a few of the last leaves have a motif in their watermark which is apparently unrecorded anywhere else: a domestic cat. Briquet lists possible cats under the group title “Chat, léopard, lion, tigre”, but they are all great growling things with muscular upper bodies which indicate that members of the great cat family are intended. The Zonghi survey includes no felines beyond seven seated spotty leopards (A.F. Gasparinetti, Zonghi’s Watermarks, 1953, nos. 1250-56). Here the feline is evidently small and soft in its proportions, and nonchalantly strolls across the page in the fashion of a domestic cat. Its model was perhaps an actual pet that lived in the buildings used by the paper manufacturers some five hundred years ago, and through some friendship struck up with the artisan who prepared the wire tool for the paper press, ended up being immortalised in the paperstock.
Lot 4
Fragment of two leaves from the Liber Glossarum, an early Carolingian Latin encyclopedia, with remarkably early vernacular glosses in Old High German, manuscript on parchment [Germany (probably south), first half of the twelfth century] Cutting with the top half of a leaf and part of the adjacent sister leaf from the bifolium, with remains of double column of 41 lines in an elegant and readable early gothic bookhand (entries for B and C), with strong st-ligature and majuscule ‘R’ used to form abbreviation for “-orum”, five main words glossed in contemporary hand in Old High German (see below), larger initials in same penwork, some small natural flaws in parchment repaired with small cuttings from other leaves in the same parent volume, later ‘C’ at head of main leaf (perhaps thirteenth-century hand), and partially trimmed away inscription of fourteenth century: “iste liber est sanctorum …” at foot of leaf cut down to a stub, folds, spots, else good and solid condition, 304 by 411mm. The Liber Glossarum is an enormous and sprawling encyclopedic work, arranged alphabetically so that a reader could look up the meaning of an individual Latin word, find its numerous synonyms, and read a brief collection of information on the specific topic. As the earliest copies were written in the local pre-Carolingian script of Corbie AB minuscule, it is thought to have been initially compiled in that imperial abbey, most probably during the abbacy of Adalhard (780-814 and 821-826). Adalhard was a cousin of Charlemagne, and thus perhaps the work was produced under direct imperial patronage; certainly it provided a powerful reference tool for the Carolingian Renaissance blossoming in the imperial court. Many manuscripts of the text survive, but what sets this one apart is that on five occasions the scribe, or a near-contemporary, has glossed the meanings of certain words in Old High German in the interlinear space above the Latin word in question, with: (i) Castri margia glossed with what is perhaps “gragi”, (ii) Catax with “hufhalz”, (iii) Cartilago with “prustlesel”, (iv) Cassia with “wichpom” and (v) Cassis with “helm”. As a language, German is blessed with having a number of manuscript witnesses to its early forms, including the late eighth-century Abrogans codex, which contains a glossary with 3670 words (now St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 911) among other word lists and collections of glosses. However, such items are unobtainable for the private collector, and these words here are among the very earliest witnesses to that language to come to the open market.
Lot 3633
Vintage Germanow-Simon Machine Co. watchmaker's tool for inserting glasses and crystals, on a wooden stand with foot pedal to operate, together with a quantity of various sizes of inserts and pocket watch glasses, a large quantity of mainsprings and a two-drawer Flexo Crystals wooden cabinet
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