Seventeenth Report: 2 lots, 2 items

 

Monday 7 September 2020.

Report 17

2 lots, 2 items.

(Note: the dates of these auctions, held on-line because of the COVID-19 pandemic, are inclusive of the period that bidding on-line was open; the closing date only is given in the MIMSS catalogue number.)

 

1. London: Sotheby’s, sale of “Music, Continental Books, and Medieval Manuscripts”, 7-14 July 2020.

(a) Lot 49. Document signed by Fernando el Católico, as regent for Queen Juana, granting farmland carrying 30 fanegas at Guadix to Comendador Francisco Pérez de Barradas. Single paper sheet. Valladolid, 28 January 1511. Illustration in on-line catalogue.

Estimate: £1500-2000; price realised, £1500.

MIMSS Catalogue Number: LS2020071400490064.

 

2. London: Sotheby’s, sale of “The Collection of a Connoisseur: History in Manuscript”, 8-15 July 2020.

(a) Lot 45. Decree signed by Fernando and Isabel, the Reyes Católicos, prohibiting movement from elsewhere in Castile into the Kingdom of Granada and intermingling with the population there.  20 July 1501. Illustration in on-line catalogue.

Estimate: £40,000-60,000; price realised, £52,500.

MIMSS Catalogue Number: LS2020071500450065.

Sixteenth Report: 5 lots, 5 items

Thursday 18 June 2020

Report 16

5 lots, 5 items

1.  London: Bloomsbury Auctions, sale no. 14328, Wednesday 8 July 2020, a.m..

(a) Lot 59: Statutes of the Confraternity of the Archangel Michael, Valencia, c. 1400.

Single leaf from a vellum MS in a rounded Gothic bookhand with decorated initials. Leaf size 243x185mm. Ex-Schøyen Collection, MS 1283. Plate in catalogue.

Estimate: £600-800.

MIMSS Catalogue Number: LB2020070800590060.

2.  London: Bloomsbury Auctions, sale no. 14280, Wednesday 8 July 2020, p.m..

(a) Lot 122: Cuttings from the choirbook of King Manoel I of Portugal, c. 1520.

Group of four cuttings of decorative borders from the choirbook, one containing the royal arms, all on vellum. Plate in catalogue. Previously offered twice in London salerooms; see 9^th Report, 7(c), Lot 9 (LS, 5 July 2016) and earlier MIMSS entry LS2015120800200026.

Estimate: £3000-5000.

MIMSS Catalogue Number: LB2020070801220061.

(b) London: Bloomsbury Auctions, sale no. 14280, Wednesday 8 July 2020, p.m..

Lot 126: Deed conferring rights in vineyards, October 1312.

Vellum document, text in Spanish, with signatures of Muslim witnesses in Arabic script. Central Spain, possibly Segovia or Toledo. Plate in catalogue.

Estimate: £700-900.

MIMSS Catalogue Number: LB2020070801260062.

(c) London: Bloomsbury Auctions, sale no. 14280, Wednesday 8 July 2020, p.m..

Lot 129: Statutes of the Confraternity of St Nicholas of Tolentino, s. XVI.

Parchment MS, 13 leaves, complete, possibly from Zaragoza. Leaf size 245x180mm. Contemporary limp parchment binding. Plate in catalogue.

Estimate: £1500-2000.

MIMSS Catalogue Number: LB2020070801290063.

3. London: Bloomsbury Auctions, 12 June 2020.

(a) Lot 34: Bifolium from a Qur’an, Andalusia, s.XII.

Parchment bifolium in Maghribi script, from an elegant Qur’an; leaf size 260x205mm. Plate in catalogue.

Estimate: £1000-1500.

MIMSS Catalogue Number: LB2020061200340059.

Fifteenth Report: 1 item, 1 lot

Thursday 7 November 2019

Report 15

1 lot, 1 item

London: Bloomsbury Auctions, sale no. 14223, Tuesday 3 December 2019.

[1] Lot 41

Trimmed miniature cut from the Gradual of Fernando and Isabel, depicting Gideon and the Fleece; Castile, prob. c.1482-1492.

The MS from which this was cut is well known, and was attributed by J. Domínguez Bordona to the illuminator Juan de Carrión; from the monastery of St Thomas Aquinas in Avila to which it was presented by the Catholic Monarchs, during the s.XIX it passed into the possession of Manuel Rico y Sinobas who dismembered it. The catalogue illustrates the miniature and usefully lists other fragments known in collections and at auctions.

Estimate: £800-1200.

MIMSS Catalogue Number: LB2019120300410058.

Fourteenth Report: 23 items, 4 lots

Tuesday 18 June 2019

Report 14

4 lots, 23 items

London: Bloomsbury Auctions, sale no. 14207, Tuesday 2 July 2019

 [1] Lot 11

Vellum leaf from a Romanesque bible, ‘southern France or northern Spain’, 2^nd half of s.XII. Text from the opening of I Chronicles. Ex-Otto Ege collection, no. 59. Illustration in catalogue. Some marginalia.

Estimate: £500-700.

MIMSS Catalogue Number:  LB2019070200110054

[2] Lot 39

Enrique II of Castile, Privilegio rodado on vellum, conferring rights in Aranda de Duero on ‘Don Sancho’. Lead seal. Date partially obscured by damage (‘some rubbed areas of text and cockled areas of parchment’), but overall condition ‘good’. 60 lines of main vernacular text; witness lists; royal armorial rueda. Illustrated in catalogue.

Estimate: £5000-7000.

MIMSS Catalogue Number:  LB2019070200390055

[3] Lot 43 (=20 cuttings from one MS)

Twenty cuttings, with penwork-decorated initials, from a Latin choirbook on vellum, Spain, s.XV, all with remnants of text with music on a 5-line stave.

Estimate: £600-800.

MIMSS Catalogue Number:  LB2019070200430056

[4] Lot 92

Large antiphoner, decorated vellum Latin MS in contemporary binding, Spain, c. 1500. 44 leaves extant, many of them cut and loose, with music on a 5-line stave; overall 790 x 560 mm; binding of leather (damaged in places) over wooden boards, with metal cornerpieces and central mounts (some lacking). Overall condition fair.  Numerous initials including one large one illustrated in catalogue.

Estimate: £2000-3000.

MIMSS Catalogue Number:  LB2019070200920057.

Thirteenth Report: 1 item, 1 lot

11 June 2019

Report 13.

1 lot, 1 item.

[1] London: Sotheby, sale no. L19403, 11 June 2019.

Lot 4.

Carta executoria de hidalguía for Alfonso Sánchez de Sepúlveda, at Valladolid, 25 May 1405.

In the name of Enrique III. Vellum, 22 leaves. Illustration in catalogue. (Note that lots 5, 6 and 7 are other similar but post-medieval documents from 1528, 1534, and 1558.)

Estimate:  £1500-2000.

MIMSS Catalogue Number:  LS2019061100040053.