Literature, Manuscripts, Travel and Natural History Books
by Bloomsbury Auctions
624 lots | 367 with images
October 18, 2012
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View all lots in this auctionLot 1: Dorset.- Grant by John Jouster of Yatemynstre
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Description: Dorset.- Grant by John Jouster of Yatemynstre [Yetminster] to John of Whiteleye, leasehold of a piece of land called Stakeford [Stake Ford Cross, near Leigh], manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 8 lines, folds, some soiling and browning, tipped-in on sheet, 70 x 245mm., 16th June 1348. Written at the onset of the Black Death, traditionally coming to England in a ship from Genoa, and landing at Melcombe Regis in Dorset in the summer of 1348. ***Stake Ford Cross, near Leigh..
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Lot 2: Missal, bifolium, decorated manuscript in Latin,
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Description: Missal, bifolium, decorated manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 14 lines, written in black ink in a gothic liturgical hand, two 2-line initials in red, with pen-and-ink decoration, small initials in red or blue, small holes, tear at foot of centre, edges creased, stained and rubbed, note at foot of outer pp., c. 185 x 145 mm., [France, fourteenth-century].
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Lot 3: Huntingdonshire.- A View of Frankpledge for
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Description: Huntingdonshire.- A View of Frankpledge for ?Warboys, near Huntingdon, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 2 sheets stitched together, officials names on dorse, edge torn at head (effacing the name of the manor), some creasing and staining, a little yellowed, 990 x 246mm., taken on the Thursday before the feast of St. Michael the Archangel in the 22nd year of the reign of Richard II, [26th September 1398]. A View of Frankpledge was generally held at a manor court. A group of neighbours, known as a tithing, was held responsible for producing one of their number who had committed an offence. The offenders would usually be given fines. For example, John Manyharth was fined a penny for blocking a waterway next to plots of land, and Thomas, son of John Lawman was fined twopence for fishing with a 'showenet' in the ditch next to the Holwye. The jury also made certain orders concerning the management of the land, such as ordering that all the trees growing around Madecroft, in Warboys should be cut down before the Feast of St. Martin. Several villagers are named as being of Offord, from either Offord Cluny or Offord D'arcy and Hemingford, all in Huntingdonshire. Various officials are named on the dorse of the roll; namely the bailiffs, the constables, the keepers of the mill etc. ***A particularly detailed record of the payments the tenants had to make, in the vicinity of Huntingdonshire or perhaps Northamptonshire, close to the Fens. There are mentions of Huntingdon, Offord and Rothewell (Northants). The place itself is on a river or Fen, as there is mention of ditching by the Newkeye and of obstruction of water at the bridge, as well as of the Flodegat..
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Lot 4: Book of Hours, single leaf, illuminated manuscript
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Description: Book of Hours, single leaf, illuminated manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 11 lines, written in black ink in a gothic liturgical hand, one 2-line initial in burnished gold, decorated in red and blue, with three-quarter bar-border in gold, red and blue, ending with two grotesque heads, in the fore-edge margin, a cat with a grey body and orange head, 2 line-fillers, corners little clipped, marked, 110 x 75 mm., [France], late fourteenth-century.
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Lot 5: Ripelin of Strassburg (Hugo) Compendium
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Description: Ripelin of Strassburg (Hugo) Compendium Theologicae Veritatis, and other texts, decorated manuscript on vellum, in Latin, c. 280ff., a collection of texts in several very small gothic cursive bookhands, c. 29 lines, comprising (1) Compendium Theologicae Veritatis, 176ff., initials and headings in red; (2) blank f. , Nicolaus de Lyra. Quaestiones disputate contra Judeos, with additions, 35ff.; (3) Commentary on the Lord's Prayer, 12ff., initials decorated in red, headings in red; (4) Commentary on the Creed, followed by the hymn Ave Virgo Virginum, Ave Lumen Luminum, 25ff., one p. ruled but otherwise blank, more formal gothic bookhand, 3-line initial with marginal decoration in red and blue, initials decorated in red, 3pp. with music on a 4-line stave; (5) St Thomas Aquinas. Tractatus de Articulis Fidei, Tractatus de Aeternitate Mundi, Tractatus de Praeceptis,, 23ff. including 2 blank pp., initials in red or blue with marginal pen-and-ink decoration in the contrasting colour, initials decorated in red, headings in red; (6) several short texts, 3ff, incomplete at end, bound in one vol., early, slightly incorrect, foliation, list of contents inside back cover, some notes, ownership entry on front fly-leaf, part of typed description tipped-in inside front cover, few vellum flaws or small holes, little marked, ?fifteenth-century calf over wooden boards, ruled in blind, with a double border, the central panel filled with a lozenge pattern, limp calf backstrip covered with paper lettered in ink, worn, backstrip defective, covers largely loose, calf on front cover partly missing, clasps removed, holes at foot of front cover, perhaps indicating the binding had been chained, remains of paper strips on inner edges of covers, 135 x 95 mm., [France, fourteenth century]. Provenance: '[Per]tinet ad Conventus Scti Francisci Capeserani ?', note on flyleaf.. ***An interesting collectiion of thirteenth and fourteenth century texts, copied in the fourteenth century, and bound together at an early date. The bulk of the manuscript is taken up by Compendium Theologicae Veritatis, one of the most popular theological text books of the later Middle Ages in Western Europe. No author is given in this manuscript, but it is generally now ascribed to Hugo Ripelin (c 1205-c.1270), a Dominican theologian from Strassburg. It is followed by treatises by, among others, Nicolaus de Lyra and Thomas Aquinas, and a number of short texts..
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