Tuesday 5 November 2019

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’, 2nd 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.

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