PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS FROM LONGLEAT
Catalog Information: 216 lots | 180 with images
Lot 1: JEAN WAUQUELIN (fl.1428-1452). Chroniques de Hainaut, as abbreviated by JEAN MANSEL (1400/1-1473/4) for his Fleur des Histoires, in French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Flanders, probably Bruges, c.1475] 372 x 275mm. 144 leaves: apparently originally 1-13 8, 14 9(?ix a singleton), 15-17 8, 18 7(of 8, lacking viii) and lacking two further gatherings at end, original foliation in red, two columns of 31 lines written [...more]
Lot 2: JAN DU QUESNE (fl.1466-79). Commentaires de Cesar and Cronique habregie, in French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Lille and Bruges, c.1480] 435 x 320mm. 326 leaves: 1-2 6, 3-15 8, 16 6, 17 5(of 6, vi cancelled blank), 18 8, 19-20 6, 21-33 8, 34 6(of 8, vii & viii cancelled blanks), 35 4, 36-42 8, 43 9(ix a singleton), COMPLETE apart from the textually blank fol [...more]
Lot 3: MISSAL, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[eastern Flanders or Hainault, c.1520] 337 x 230mm. 189 leaves: 1-4 8, 5 7(of 8, lacking viii), 6 8, 7 7(of 8, lacking vii), 8-11 8, 12 7(of 8, lacking viii), 13-17 8, 18 7(of 8, lacking i), 19-23 8, 24 8 + 1, lacking a further leaf at end, likely fo [...more]
Lot 4: VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 BCE). Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[?Rome and Florence, 1460s] 285 x 192mm. 218 leaves: 1-2 1 0, 8 8, 4-22 1 0, COMPLETE, remains of signature marks, letter followed by arabic numeral, in outer lower corners of some folios, later quire letters A-X on final versos, 31 lines written in [...more]
Lot 5: BIBLE with Masorah, in Hebrew, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
Oca¤a, Spain, 1491 and Evora, Portugal, 1494 328 x 270mm. Two volumes bound in four: I, 270 leaves, 1 4, 2-34 8, 35 2(of 8, iii-viii opening vol.II); II, 182 leaves, 1 6(of 8, i and ii ending vol.I), 2-16 8, 17 6, 18-22 8, 23 6, 24 4; III, 184 leaves [...more]
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