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.