C12th - C13th manuscripts

One of the earliest Latin manuscripts of Hippocrates c.1175, France – the Prognostics 2 leaves.

C12th - C13th manuscripts

Single leaf with lively birds and grotesques from a sumptuously illuminated Cistercian Breviary, likely produced in Amiens at the end of the 13th century.

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Sumptuous Renaissance manuscript in Spanish with fine portrait of King Philip II of Spain [1562]

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Unknown codex by humanist Bernardius Florentius, 1476, Florence, Italy

C14th -C16th manuscripts

7 leaves of John’s gospel from a Book of Hours c.1480

Bindings

Voragine’s Legenda aurea, Zell 1482 in original tooled binding

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Sermon preached before King James 1st by John Buckeridge, 1606

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Historiated initial OT prophet, Italy c.1320 (Emilia-Romagna)

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1583 Foxe’s ‘Actes & Monuments’ in 2 volumes with plates

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Bastwick’s ‘Utter Routing of the whole army’ 1646 in contemporary binding

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Missal: opening of the Canon of the Mass, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum; Germany C15th bifolium

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Two illuminated historiated initials on a C15th leaf – Prologue to Job [Bible]

Codices

Complete gathering of Augustine’s Letters, France, early C11th

C12th - C13th manuscripts

Miniature Breviary leaf with unusual and handsome script, c.1280

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Bifolium from a miniature Breviary or Psalter, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on vellum c.1425

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Single leaf from the so-called ‘Carondelet Breviary’ 1458 from the scribe Jean d’Aussert

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Single leaf from the so-called ‘Carondelet Breviary’ 1458 from the scribe Jean d’Aussert

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Complete Calendar from a Breviary, Burgundy c.1475 illuminated manuscript in Latin, on vellum

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Leaf from a Breviary, with a large and finely illuminated initial, manuscript in Latin on vellum c.1450

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Two square cuttings from a choirbook of late C16th

Codices

An unusual German Prayerbook produced in an ink coloured hand, 1794

Early English

3 volumes of C18th manuscript Sermons in minuscule script on paper

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Four works by C17th English Puritans bound together in one volume.

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An early English book of Sermons by a translator of the King James Bible, pubd. 1604

Codices

A prayer against the plague and other offices for Female Franciscan Use, Bruges, c.1550 decorated manuscript

Bindings

A huge, monumental Koberger with a flawless medieval binding and 2 illuminated initials Vita Christi 1478

Codices

A gorgeous French devotional with charming illuminated painting of ‘Maria Lactans’. C17th

C14th -C16th manuscripts

A sparkling example of the work of the Master(s) of Giustino di Gherardino da Forlì, one of the two illuminators responsible for the Antiphonaries of Pavia cathedral.

Bindings

Koberger Bible in Latin with nearly 150 contemporary coloured woodcuts 1515

Illuminations

Huge ‘Atlantic’ Bible leaf with an impressive initial opening the Book of Judges, Italy, c.1100

Books

7 vols of Dod & Cleaver’s ‘Expositions on Proverbs’ from 1611

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An Invitation from a Calvary officer, C2nd – C3rd AD P. Oxy. IV 747

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An Oxyrhynchus fragment with excellent Provenance P. Oxy. X 1265 ‘Affidavit of Priestly Rank’ c.250 AD

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A fragment from Oxyrhynchus with excellent provenance ‘List of Priests underage’ c.250 AD

Illuminations

A title page from a monumental Gradual with an exquisite portrait

Bindings

An extremely rare and complete copy of the source for Robert Greene’s play; ‘Fryer Bacon’ 1666

Books

The Speght edition of Chaucer’s ‘Workes’ 1598

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One of the great woodcut books of the C15th; ‘Die Cronica’ of Cologne, 1499

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Two fragments of an unidentified Commentary on the New Testament, in Latin, manuscript France, C14th

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Medical treatise, Italy C14th

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A leaf from a Sacramentary in Latin, in an exceptionally fine hand likely from Lambach late C11th or early C12th

C12th - C13th manuscripts

Leviticus Ch.15-17 from a German Bible mid-C12th

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Leaf from a Bible, II Kings 17, C15th manuscript in Latin on parchment

C14th -C16th manuscripts

A large Antiphonal palimpsest leaf possibly Eastern Europe C15th and C18th on parchment

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Leaf from Baldo degli Ubaldi (1327–1400), Sextum codicis librum commentaria [Italy, late 15th century]

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Two fragments from Raymond of Penyafort (d. 1275), Summa de casibus penitentialis and Summa de matrimonio [Italy (or southern France?), 14th century]

C14th -C16th manuscripts

Medieval medicinal laxatives from Mondino dei Luzzi (d. 1326)’s commentary on Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (alias Mesue), De simplicibus, [Italy, early 14th century]

C14th -C16th manuscripts

On the Beatitudes Leaf from William Perault (d.1271), Summa de virtutibus, C14th Germany

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Haymo of Halberstadt, Homily LXXI for Easter Monday, C11th, manuscript on parchment, France

Bindings

A lovely and original English Restoration binding in red goatskin.

Books

Cleaver and Dod; A briefe explanation of the whole booke of the Prouerbs of Salomon. 1615

Bindings

The Wentworth-Spranger copy in gorgeous crushed red c.18th Morocco binding.

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Wide-margined copy of Bonaventure’s 1477 commentary on Peter Lombard

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A fine copy of the first illustrated Boccaccio’s ‘Genealogiae’ edition of 1494

C12th - C13th manuscripts

Cuttings from a Romanesque copy of Priscian Institutiones Grammaticae, in Latin with a single word in Greek, manuscript on parchment. [Germany, 12th century].

C12th - C13th manuscripts

A possibly unpublished work on the medicinal nature of plants from C13th, France

Illuminations

Illuminated antiphonal leaf c.1285 Queen Esther kneeling before King Ahasuerus

Illuminations

Exquisite C15th Italian cutting with impeccable Provenance

C12th - C13th manuscripts

St Augustine on John 17, the High Priestly Prayer on a huge bifolium C12th, Italy

C12th - C13th manuscripts

Fragment from a HUGE Bible or Gospel Book in Latin, C12th

C12th - C13th manuscripts

Beautiful painted white vine initial, Augustine’s Commentary on John’s Gospel, Italy C12th

C12th - C13th manuscripts

C12th cutting with remains of a coloured initial, Carolingian Lectionary

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Codices

A Psalter in Old French translation, with Latin rubrics, illuminated manuscript on parchment.

Bindings

The Spectator 8 volumes in lovely contemporary morocco binding

C14th -C16th manuscripts

‘Exquisite Roman hand’; a humanist Psalter c.1460 by Pietro Ursuleo of Capuo in Latin.

Codices

Book of Hours (substantial fragment) Franciscan Use c.1460, France

C12th - C13th manuscripts

Huge C12th bifolium of St Augustine’s Tractate 94 on St. John’s gospel.

Books

Renouard’s ‘Annals’ of the House of Aldus in 2 vols.

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Elizabethan edition of Eusebius’ Six Hundred Years History, 1585

Bindings

Hudibras in original English red late Restoration binding 1710 in 2 vols

Books

History of the Puritans by Daniel Neal, 1732 in 4 volumes

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Sarah and Hagar: or, Genesis the sixteenth chapter opened, in XIX sermons. 1649 Josiah Shute

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Plaine and familiar exposition of the Proverbs 1608 by Dod & Cleaver

Illuminations

A lovely C14th Italian miniature in C13th style.

C12th - C13th manuscripts

A Romanesque white-vine initial with a zoomorphic design and gorgeous script, C12th.

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Two very large fragments from leaves of a monumental Gelasian Sacramentary late C10th. / early C11th Italy (?)

C12th - C13th manuscripts

Elegant English Early Gothic Script from late C12th Passionale – Paulinus of Milan

Illuminations

St Paul, in an initial on a leaf from a vast Gradual, in Latin [Northern Italy (Lombardy, perhaps Milan), late 15th century (c.1480–90)]

Codices

Book of Hours, Use of Thérouanne, in Latin and French Illuminated manuscript on parchment France, Hainault c.1470s

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‘Give me to drink’ C17th Oak panel of Rebecca and Eliezer at the well

Books

Superb illuminated copy of Koberger’s ‘Jerome’ 1478 in contemporary binding

Illuminations

A large, Spanish dated illumination of James and Peter which is dated within the painting to ‘1505’

Illuminations

Saints Peter and Paul, in an illuminated historiated initial ‘N’, cut from a Gradual in Latin on parchment [Italy (Florence); 15th century (c.1470s)]

Books

Incunable in Handsome Contemporary Binding, 1488, Spiera’s ‘Quadragesimale’

Illuminations

An Angel Hybrid in a historiated initial on a cutting from a Choirbook in Latin [France (Paris), early 14th century]

C12th - C13th manuscripts

St James Preaching in an historiated initial on a leaf from a Bible in Latin [Paris, late 13th or early 14th century]

Illuminations

The Trinity, by Nikolaus Bertschi the Elder or his workshop, on a leaf from a large Antiphonary in Latin [Germany (Augsburg), 16th century (c.1520–30)]

Illuminations

Jonah Kneeling in Prayer Before God on a bifolium from a Bible in Latin [Northern Spain (diocese of Álava?), late 13th or early 14th century]

Bindings

A superb example of early English embroidery on a 1628 Bible with two figures ‘Faith’ and ‘Hope’.

Books

QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius, 1481 ‘Editio princeps’ in fine Brugalla binding

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The Famous Tryal…Neal vs. Lady Ivy…For part of Shadwell in Mddx 1696 with 2 Maps [Wapping]

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Bifolium of Bede’s Homily ‘Ask and it shall be given…’ c.1020-1040 manuscript; Germany.

C12th - C13th manuscripts

Leaf from a commentary on Matthew 2:11-18, England c.1200

C12th - C13th manuscripts

Bifolium from a Vita Sancti Stephani c.1100 from Schøyen Collection

C14th -C16th manuscripts

The Annunciation to Zechariah, on a bifolium from an Antiphonary, in Latin [Germany or Austria, (mid-?)15th century]

C12th - C13th manuscripts

The Model for 15th-Century Humanistic Script and Decoration – A large bifolium from a decorated Lectionary, in Latin [Italy, 12th century, first half]

C12th - C13th manuscripts

Leaf of Passionale in Latin [Italy, 12th century, first half] Lives of St Felicity and St Clement

Illuminations

The Death of Ptolemy, a miniature on a cutting from Laurent de Premierfait, [France, probably Troyes, c.1470]

Books

A learned, pious, and practical commentary, upon the Gospel according to St. Mark: by George Petter 1661

Books

Poetae Graeci Principes; Homer & Hesiod, Estienne 1566

C12th - C13th manuscripts

Commentary on Aristotle, Categoriae, and the same authors translation of Perihermenias BOETHIUS [MS] C.13th