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Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, &c, tiree de diverses Relations des Francois, Anglois, Hollandois, &c. . .
A fine smaller map of the north eastern US seaboard, extending to the Great Lakes (shown as open-ended) and beyond into 'Upper Canada' by Nicolas Sanson, and originally f...
Place & Date: Utrecht, 162
Selling price: $420
Sold in 2021
![Die ander Tafel des Rheinstromes, begreiffendt die Pfaltz, Westereich, Eyfel,sc. [Course of the Rhine from approx. Strassbourg to Andernach]](/uploads/cache/84787-250x250.jpg)
Die ander Tafel des Rheinstromes, begreiffendt die Pfaltz, Westereich, Eyfel,sc. [Course of the Rhine from approx. Strassbourg to Andernach]
Wood block map of a part of the course of the Rhine and surrounding lands, by Sebastian Munster.One of the Earliest Modern Maps of the Rhine river. This map is the second...
Place & Date: Basel 1550 ca.
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
![[Holy Land, Cyprus]](/uploads/cache/84451-250x250.jpg)
[Holy Land, Cyprus]
Attractive colored woodcut map showing the Holy Land with Cyprus. With a ship and a sea monster. From a Latin edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster.
Place & Date: Petri, Basle, 1550 ca.
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2020
![Marocco [Morocco]](/uploads/cache/1152967-250x250.jpg)
Marocco [Morocco]
Original hand-colored double page map (39 x 53 cm, overall dimensions 50 x 64 cm.).
Place & Date: London: James Wyld. Geographer to the Queen, 457 West Strand, 11 & 12
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2020
Nova Europae Descriptio.
A fine uncolored version of Hondius' second map of Europe, first issued in 1606. From: Jodocus Hondius, 'Atlas sive cosmographicæ meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabric...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1621-/23
Selling price: $615
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Vue et description de quelques-uns des principaux forts des Hollandois dans les Indes.
Henri Abraham Chatelain was a Amsterdam-based geographer and publisher. His main product is the Atlas Historique et Méthodique, in seven volumes, published between 1710 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1710-20.
Selling price: $150
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Scotia Regnum.
A attractive example of this fine map of Scotland.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.165
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2013
Description Generale de L'Asie.
A basic map of Asia published in the 'Atlas Methodique et Elementaire de Geographie et d'Histoire'. Textural information in French flanking the map. De Mornas was Geograp...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1761-62
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2017
![Partie septentrionale du cercle de Haute Saxe [...] Brandebourg.](/uploads/cache/36760-250x250.jpg)
Partie septentrionale du cercle de Haute Saxe [...] Brandebourg.
Finely and crisply engraved map of north eastern part of Germany, including part of Poland. With inset map of Brandenburg. Prepared by Giles Didier Robert De Vaugondy wit...
Place & Date: Venice, 1178
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
13th Century Medieval Psalter leaf.
A scarce original leaf from a medieval manuscript Psalter executed in France. Written in Latin on animal parchment. 19 lines executed in small Gothic book-hand with illum...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1200
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2010
Exceptional nice leaf from an early thirteenth, maybe Italian, bible. on vellum.
RECTO: 35 lines of text, double columns in a very refined early gothic hand, red parts of text and red lombards, written in lightbrown ink. Beautiful illuminated initial ...
Place & Date: Italy ca. 1200
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2011
Manuscript leaf from a bible.
Written on vellum in a minute and extremely fine Gothic hand. 46 lines of text in two columns. Text size 110 x 80 mm. From the book of "Kings". At the left han...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1225
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2010
A large leaf of a 13th. century French bible.
A large leaf of a 13th. century French bible, on vellum, written in a neat gothic hand in black ink. RECTO: 52 lines of text, a sermon of St.Paul to the Corinthians.A lar...
Place & Date: France or Paris, ca. 1225
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2015
Leaf from a 13th. century pocketbible, on vellum.
Leaf from a 13th. century pocket bible, on vellum, in two cloumns, 50 lines of text from the book "LE"viticus. Written in dark brown ink in a minute early goth...
Place & Date: France/Paris, ca. 1225
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2013
A large leaf of a 13th. century French bible.
A large 7-line illuminated initial "P", in blue and red and a 3-line initial in red and blue with pen work extensions into the margins in the contrasting color....
Place & Date: France or Paris, ca. 1225
Selling price: $775
Sold in 2016
PSALTER / BREVIARY
Manuscript leaf on vellum from an early 13th century psalter/breviary, written in black ink.RECTO: A large illuminated capital (2 x 2 cm) in blue and red, heightened with...
Place & Date: Northern France/Paris ca. 1225
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2017
13th. century Bible leave.
Large leaf from a 13th.century French bible, written on vellum in black ink, two columns, 53 lines of text. RECTO: On top is written "GU(M)" IIII, second half ...
Place & Date: France / Paris ca. 1225
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades!! The vellum is quite firm : the boo...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1230
Selling price: $150
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A vellum leaf of over 750 years old! The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1230
Selling price: $310
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Decorated initial at the First Book of Kings, from a manuscript Bible.
The page is illustrated with a seven lines historiated miniature, showing Judith killing Holofernes, extending into margin with Illuminated lapis lazuli, vermilion and go...
Place & Date: Paris, France ca.1235
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2012
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades!! The vellum is quite firm : the boo...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1240
Selling price: $200
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![T'ien wên t'u [A Map of the Stars]](/uploads/cache/35921-250x250.jpg)
T'ien wên t'u [A Map of the Stars]
The chart was engraved on stone in 1247 by Wang Zhiyuan, but it is based upon an earlier drawing by Huang Shang, made c. 1190-1193 at the beginning of Shaoxi in the South...
Place & Date: China, c.1890-1910, but engraved in 1247
Selling price: $30000
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Large leaf from a Parisian bible on vellum, in two columns.
53 lines to the page, in a very minute well-finished gothic hand. RECTO: Text from the book "Exodus". A large capital "S" in blue with red penwork ext...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1250
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2012
Leaf from a 13th. century Parisian pocket-bible.
Bible-leaf from a 13th. century Parisian pocket-bible, on vellum, 50 lines of text in a minute and refined Gothic bookhand. The original ruling before writing the text st...
Place & Date: Paris, 1225-1250
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2014
Manuscript leaf from a mid-thirteenth century Parisian Bible, on vellum.
51 lines of text in two columns, finely written in a minute gothic book hand.VERSO: two 3-line capitals "R" and "N", in burnished gold on red and blue...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1250
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2021
Leaf from a 13th. century Parisian pocket-bible.
Bible-leaf from a 13th. century Parisian pocket-bible, on vellum, 50 lines of text in a minute and refined Gothic book hand. The original ruling before writing the text s...
Place & Date: Paris, 1225-1250
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
Manuscript leaf, written on vellum, from a Flemish Psalter.
RECTO: one 2-line initial E in burnished gold on red and blue ground, one 1-line initials in fine red and blue penwork.VERSO: one 2-line initial and one 1-line initials w...
Place & Date: Flanders, c.1250
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2016
Manuscript leaf, written on vellum, from a Flemish Psalter.
RECTO: one 2-line initial A in burnished gold on red and blue ground.VERSO: one 2-line initial with penwork in red and blue.Very fine early Flemish manuscript leaf.
Place & Date: Flanders, c.1250
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Bible.
Vellum leaf from an early French Bible with decoration typical of the scriptoria of northern France in the second half of the 13th century. There are large initials in re...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1250
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2018
Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible.
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including John 12:19 to John 14:1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center of Chri...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2018
Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including Kings 8 : 66 to Kings 11:1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center of C...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $350
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Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including Samuel 17 : 23 to Samuel 19 :1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $435
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including Samuel 17 : 23 to Samuel 19 :1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including Samuel 14 : 10 to Samuel 15 :1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Bible.
A wonderful bible leaf, written on vellum around 1250 in Paris!!There are 42 lines in a very regular gothic book hand. One initial is beautifully decorated in gold, red a...
Place & Date: France ca.1250
Selling price: $420
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Bible
Vellum leaf, from an early parisian bible. RECTO: 53 lines of text in a double column, from the biblebook "leviticus".Two 6-line initials with penwork extending...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1250
Selling price: $275
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A vellum leaf of over 750 years old! The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1250
Selling price: $180
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A vellum leaf of over 750 years old! The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1250
Selling price: $195
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A vellum leaf of over 750 years old! The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades...
Place & Date: France, 1220-1250
Selling price: $225
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A vellum leaf of over 750 years old! The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades...
Place & Date: France, 1220-1250
Selling price: $205
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Psalter.
A large 5-line , and one 2-line illuminated initials on highly burnished gold on pink grounds with decorative penwork tracery in white, showing Prophets. Elaborate line-f...
Place & Date: Northern France / Paris, 1240-1250
Selling price: $1800
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A vellum leaf of over 750 years old! The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades...
Place & Date: France early 1220-1250
Selling price: $180
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13 century French Bible page
13th Century vellum leaf from a French Bible page written in Paris mid 13th century. There are 46 lines of text written in a fine Gothic Script. It is on very fine vellum...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1250
Selling price: $210
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades!! The vellum is quite firm : the boo...
Place & Date: France ca. 1250
Selling price: $200
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Sententiarum Libri Quator
13th Century handwritten vellum leaf from Peter Lombardís Sententiarum Libri Quator produced in Italy. Lombardís work was initially branded as heresy and only later acc...
Place & Date: Italy, c.1250
Selling price: $125
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Bible.
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from France.The Bible has, of course, always been the center of Christianity from the beginning, but a...
Place & Date: France ca.1250
Selling price: $250
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Manuscript leaf, written on vellum, from a flamish psalter.
RECTO: 1 three-line initial in burnished gold on red and blue ground, 9 one-line initials in fine red and blue penwork. VERSO: Five-line initial P in burnished gold on re...
Place & Date: Flanders, c.1250
Selling price: $300
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Bible.
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from France.The Bible has, of course, always been the center of Christianity from the beginning, but a...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $275
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Large leaf from a Parisian Bible, on vellum.
Large leaf from a Parisian Bible, on vellum, in two columns, 41 lines to the page. Written in black ink, in a well-finished gothic handwriting. From the book of Hebrews. ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1250
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Bible.
A large vellum leaf from a Bible, written in Paris, around 1250! The leaf is from the book of Job, on the verso we see the capital L [for Liber] on the recto Iob. The wri...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1250
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2008
A leaf from 13th century psalter.
A Psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms and which often contains other devotional material. Various schemes for the arrangement of the Psalms are described in...
Place & Date: Flanders, ca. 1250
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2008
French Bible Page
13th Century French Bible page circa 1250. Handwritten from Paris in Gothic Minuscule script. Inks in red and blue the 5 line capitol F has extenders both above and below...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1250
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2008
Manuscript leaf, written on vellum, from a Flemish Psalter.
RECTO: 1 three-line initial N in burnished gold on red and blue ground, 7 one-line initials in fine red and blue pinwork. VERSO: 8 one-line initials with pinwork in red a...
Place & Date: Flanders, c.1250
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2009
Manuscript leaf, written on vellum, from a Flemish Psalter.
RECTO: one 3-line initial A in burnished gold on red and blue ground, eight 1-line initials in fine red and blue penwork.VERSO: eight 1-line initials with penwork in red ...
Place & Date: Flanders, c.1250
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2009
Manuscript leaf from a mid-thirteenth century Parisian Bible, on vellum.
51 lines of text in two columns, finely written in a minute gothic bookhand.VERSO: two 3-line capitals "R" and "N", in burnished gold on red and blue ...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1250
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades!! The vellum is quite firm : the boo...
Place & Date: France, c. 1220 - 1260
Selling price: $375
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The Homilies 13th Century
13th Century vellum leaf by Pope Gregory (Gregory the Great, Pope 590 ? 604) the Homilies (Biblical commentaries) produced in Italy. Gothic script, capitals touched in re...
Place & Date: Italy 1250-1260
Selling price: $105
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Peter Lombard?s Sententiarum ca. 1260
13th Century vellum leaf from Peter Lombard?s Sententiarum Libri Quator, produced in Italy. Lombard?s work was initially branded as heresy and only later accepted by the ...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1260
Selling price: $198
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Bible Page 13th Century
This is a medieval manuscript page on vellum handwritten in Paris, France in the mid-thirteenth Century. 49 lines of text ruled in plummet. Here is an example of an elega...
Place & Date: Paris, 1260
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Peter Lombard's Sententiarum
This is a 13 Century work by Peter Lombard. The Church originally deemed this work by Lombard as heretical but later relented. This sheet was hand written in Italy in the...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1260
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2008
Leaf in manuscript on vellum, in Latin.
RECTO: 7 initials in burnished gold for the beginning of the different verses, other initials in blue with contrasting red penwork, fancy linefillers in gold and colors. ...
Place & Date: France 1250-1280
Selling price: $650
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal.
Written in North or Eastern part of France in the late thirteenth century. Capitals touched in red. One large historiated initial on blue ground with miniature painted in...
Place & Date: France, 1260-1280
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2015
French Bible Page ca 1280
This is a 13th century bible page done in Paris, France. There is a four line initial I in red with extenders on one side and a four line initial F with extenders on the ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1280
Selling price: $220
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English Bible page ca. 1280
This is a 13th century bible page done in England. There is a 15 line initial J in red with blue extenders and a 2 line initial A in red with blue extenders on one side. ...
Place & Date: England, ca. 1280
Selling price: $275
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The Homilies
13th Century vellum leaf by Pope Gregory (Gregory the Great, Pope 590 ñ 604) the Homilies (Biblical commentaries) produced in Italy. Gothic Script, capitals touched in r...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1280
Selling price: $100
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Bible Leaf
13th Century vellum leaf from a French Bible. L on left in red.
Place & Date: France, c. 1280
Selling price: $125
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Bible Leaf
13th Century vellum leaf from a French Bible.
Place & Date: France, c. 1280
Selling price: $125
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Bible Page 13 Century
This is a Saints Page from a small 13th Century miniature or portable Bible. The script is called miniscule.
Place & Date: ca. 1280
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2008
Bible Page 13th Century
One four-line initial in blue, two two-line initials in red and one two-line initial in blue. Verso has alternating one-line red/blue initial h's.
Place & Date: ca. 1280
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2008
Leaf from a manuscript Bible.
Typical leaf from a 13th.century French bible. Headings in red, capitals touched in red, running-titles and chapter numbers in alternately red and blue letters. There are...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1280
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2010
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Very rare leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling. Pencil fo...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a Liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible, Deuteronomy 32:16 - 32:27. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic han...
Place & Date: Flanders, Rhineland, or possibly England, c. 1280
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2023
Illuminated leaf from a Liturgical Psalter.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a Liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible, Deuteronomy 32:16 - 32:27. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic han...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $261
Sold in 2014
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible, Deuteronomy 32:16 - 32:27. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic han...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2016
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Very rare leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling. Pencil fo...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2016
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Very rare leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling.With a rem...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $345
Sold in 2017
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling. Pencil foliation in the upper right corner indi...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $231
Sold in 2019
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling. Pencil foliation in the upper right corner indi...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling. Very fine initial extended in the mar...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2022
Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet rulin...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2021