Important Books and Manuscripts
Catalog Information: 259 lots | 249 with images
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Lot 1: [ Books ]
BABYLON, CUNEIFORM. Clay Tablet with Cuneiform Script. [Babylon, c.2250 BC]. A baked clay tablet (83 x 50 x 16mm), with 14 partial and complete lines of Old Babylonian cuneiform script on the obverse, concerning the offering of animals. Provenance: F [...more]
Lot 2: [ Books ]
PSALTER, in Latin. [Northern France, likely Rouen, early 13th Century]. illuminated manuscript on vellum. (140 x 95mm). 199 leaves only. Collation: 1 (in 6s); 2 (in 4s); 3 (in 14s); 4-5 (in 16s); 6 (in 17s); 7 (in 14s); 8 (in 16s); 9 (in 5s, possibly [...more]
Lot 3: [ Books ]
BIBLE, in Latin, with prologues attributed to St. Jerome and the interpretation of Hebrew names. [likely Northern France, c.1250]. illuminated manuscript on vellum. (174 x 124mm). 355 leaves. complete, mostly in gatherings of 10 or 12; (+ ii vellum f [...more]
Lot 4: [ Books ]
BIBLIA LATINA. [likely Northern France, c.1300]. illuminated manuscript on vellum. Folio (285 x 215 mm). 280 leaves only, mostly in gatherings of 6 Last 21 leaves are an earlier index of Hebrew names, bound in. Double columns of 57 lines writte [...more]
Lot 5: [ Books ]
BOOK OF HOURS, [use of Amiens], in Latin. [France, early 15th Century]. illuminated manuscript on vellum. (159 x 107 mm). 69 leaves only. Collation: 1-4 (in 8s); 5 (in 2s); 6-7 (in 8s); 8-9 (in 9s, possibly lacking i); (+ iv paper flyleaves). 19 line [...more]
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