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Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
A printed leaf from a Book of Hours : when printing became the normal way of producing books, Books of Hours were also printed, but in the beginning still on vellum, just...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1510
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2009
Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum. This leaf is from the beginning of the book, it is a calendarleaf of the month March, April, May and June. Create...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1510
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2009
Legal Writing by an English Scribe.
A single leaf from a Renaissance Treatise on Canon Law, in Latin on paper. The manuscript's predominately legal content and lack of illumination indicate it was likely wr...
Place & Date: London, 1510
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a printed book of hours.
RECTO: Twenty 1-line capitals in colors and gold. On the right and bottom border there are small biblical scenes in black and white (metal cut). VERSO: One 2-line and eig...
Place & Date: Paris, 1510
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
Leaf on vellum from a printed book of hours.
RECTO: Seventeen 1-line capitals in colors and gold. On the right and bottom border there are small death of dance scenes in black and white (metal cut). VERSO: Two 2-lin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1510
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023
BOOK OF HOURS
A large leaf from a French book of hours, on vellum, with printed text. RECTO: A large hand painted miniature, showing the announcement of the angel to the virgin Maria. ...
Place & Date: Paris, pre 1510
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2013
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
Vellum leaf from a printed Book of Hours. The miniature in the text depicts God the Father, on the right side of the recto are noble men in wonderful clothes. On the vers...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1510
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
BOOK OF HOURS.
A large leaf from a French book of hours, on vellum, with printed text underneath.ON RECTO: A large hand painted miniature, showing the visitation of Mary to her cousin E...
Place & Date: Paris, pre 1510
Selling price: $1025
Sold in 2019
Undecima Asiae Tabula.
A rare, 500 year old woodblock map of SE Asia and China. Sylvanus' map of Southeast Asia, China, India, and adjoining regions, from Sylvanus' Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandri...
Place & Date: Venice, 1511
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2017
A printed leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: Four 2-line and twenty-three 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers. Decorative panel border in he right and lower margins.VERSO: ...
Place & Date: Paris, G. Hardouin, 1512
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2016
A printed leaf from Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-line and fifteen 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers. Decorative panel border in he right and bottom margin.VERSO: One 2-...
Place & Date: Paris, G. Hardouin, 1512
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
A large vellum leaf from a Book of Hours. Printed in Paris , around 1512, by Hardouin who had his workshop near the Notre Dame in Paris and printed Books of Hours: he tri...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1512
Selling price: $140
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Wood block print showing Ptolemy and Astonomia.
A very nice woodcut print of Ptolemy looking at the stars with a quadrant in the company of Astronomia. Included in Gregor Reisch, compiler of the Margarita Philosophica,...
Place & Date: Strasbourg 1512
Selling price: $350
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Octava Asie Tabvla.
Wood block map of Central Asia and China from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, who was a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Renaissa...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2018
Decima Asie Tabvla.
Wood block map of India and part of Sri Lanka from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, who was a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Ren...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
Selling price: $9100
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Tabula Moderna Prime partis aphricae.
From Martin Waldseemüller's edition of Ptolemy's Geography , often considered to be the first modern atlas. This is the first printed modern map of North and West Africa...
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1513
Selling price: $5100
Sold in 2011
Tabula Prima Asie.
Published by Waldseemüller. Woodblock map of Ptolemaic version of Turkey, reflecting place names used in 130 A.D.
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2011
Tertia Africae Tabula.
Early woodcut map of North Africa from M. Waldseemuller of 1513 (1520). Showing the region from Bengazi in Libya up to Egypt with the Red Sea.This ptolemaic map comes fro...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1513
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2011
Tabula Europ. Sexta Italiae (Italy)
Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing Italy with Corsica, Sardinia and part of Sicily, from the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.One of the ear...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2013
Undecima Asiae Tabula (Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand)
Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand, from the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.Showing region east of the ...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2013
Decima et Ultima Tabula Europae. (Greece)
Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing Greece from the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.One of the earliest obtainable maps of the region.This P...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2013
Tertia Africae Tabula (North Africa)
Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing Northeastern Africa, extending from Egypt and the Red Sea (Sinus Arabicus) to Libya. Showing an interesting Nile sys...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $2400
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Quinta Asie Tabula (Persia.)
Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing the region of Achaemenid Empire, Assyria, Carmania, Hyrcania, Iran, Iraq, Media, Middle East, Parthia, Persia, Turkm...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $1900
Sold in 2018
Tabula Moderna Prime partis aphricae.
This maps belongs to the famous 1513, Martin Waldseemüller's, edition of Ptolemy's Geography, which is often considered to be the first modern printed atlas. It is very ...
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1513
Selling price: $2350
Sold in 2017
Title page.
Title page to: "Chrysopassus predestinationis....." Edited by J. Eckius and printed in Augsburg, officina Willania 1512/1514. Fullpage woodcut Jacob, crowned by...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1512/1514
Selling price: $95
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Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated birds and flowers. Interesting are the 2 panels with skeletons, showing the famous cycle of the &quo...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1515
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and a figure playing a sort of Medieval fiddle.In the long series of Pigouchet-V...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1515
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
Title page from:
Manuscript annotations underneath the woodcut in a contemporary hand. Beautiful renaissance border by Daniel Hopfer (ca,1480-1536)
Place & Date: Augsburg 1517
Selling price: $95
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Opera (Joannis de Basso).
Titlepage to Joannes Bassoli's "OPERA". Printed in Paris with printersmark of Jehan Frellon. To be bought at Francisco Regnault in Paris.Four woodcut borders re...
Place & Date: Paris, before 1517
Selling price: $35
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Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
"A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn ?librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l?enseigne sa...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1518
Selling price: $850
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Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
"A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn ?librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l?enseigne sa...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1518
Selling price: $50
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Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn ?librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l?enseigne saincte ...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1518
Selling price: $350
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Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn ?librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l?enseigne saincte ...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1518
Selling price: $50
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Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn ?librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l?enseigne saincte ...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1518
Selling price: $50
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Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn ?librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l?enseigne saincte ...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1518
Selling price: $150
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Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn ?librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l?enseigne saincte ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1518
Selling price: $50
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Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn "librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l'enseigne sai...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1518
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn ?librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l?enseigne saincte ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1518
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2008
Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn ?librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l?enseigne saincte ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1518
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
Chroniques de France.
Leaf from a book describing the history of France, England, Scotland. Here a part of the history of Philppe "Le Bel". Large woodcut showing king Philippe "...
Place & Date: Paris 1518
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2010
Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouyn for Germain Hardouyn ‘librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l’enseigne sain...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1518
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2013
Liber quartus sentetniarum...
Titlepage for P. Lombardus: "Liber quartus sententiarum textus...Simple 4-sided borders, consisting of four woodblocks, Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Cracov 1519
Selling price: $18
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Bible leaf
1519 Bible leaf from the Biblica Latina printed in Venice in 1519 by Lucantonio Giunta. The page is from the Book of Isaiah.
Place & Date: Venice, 1519
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2013
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $200
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Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $130
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Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $130
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A manuscript leaf in a very good condition from a Book of Hours, written in Paris around 1520. The text is in a very regular hand in classic script in brown/black with th...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1520
Selling price: $180
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and three linefillers in sa...
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
Selling price: $150
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Two 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and three linefillers in same.VE...
Place & Date: France 1500-1520
Selling price: $230
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Tabula prima Africae.
One of the earliest maps of Morocco and the northern coast of Africa, including the Balearic islands.From the 1513 Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's Geographia , generally c...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1513-1520
Selling price: $1600
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Manuscript leaf on vellum from a book of hours.
VERSO: Three 2-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.RECTO: One 2-lines capital and seven 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.Initials...
Place & Date: Flanders c. 1520
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $130
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Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $70
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Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
A beautiful leaf from a Paris Book of Hours, printed on vellum by Hardouin, who had his workshop near Notre Dame. The many initials are done by hand in bright colors : re...
Place & Date: Paris 1520
Selling price: $70
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Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on paper.
A very fine incunabula leaf, printed on paper in Hardouyn's unique style. The verso contains a full-page printed illustration of the Presentation in the Temple. Before th...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1520
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Bartolus super prime parte...
Woodcut borders, composed of 6 blocks,with scenes of medieval life. Cetral allegorical figure with 2 shields.
Place & Date: Venice/Italy ca. 1520
Selling price: $50
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Fragmenta passionis dni nostri Jesu Christi.....
Title Page. 5 figures in a medieval gothic interior
Place & Date: Starssburg 1520
Selling price: $10
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Tertia Africae Tabula.
Early woodcut map of North Africa from M. Waldseemüller of 1513 (1520). Showing the region from Bengazi in Libya up to Egypt with the Red Sea.From Waldseemüller's Ptole...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, Johannes Schott, 1513-1520
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2016
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a book of hours.
VERSO: Nine 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.RECTO: Eight 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.Initials very finely executed. Th...
Place & Date: Flanders c. 1520
Selling price: $80
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Manuscript leaf on vellum from a book of hours.
VERSO: One 2-line capital and eight 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.RECTO: Nine 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.Initials v...
Place & Date: Flanders c. 1520
Selling price: $80
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five linefillers in same.VERSO: Seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one linefill...
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
Selling price: $165
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and two linefillers in same.VERSO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and two linefillers ...
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
Selling price: $165
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Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Wonderful intial with in top a dragon.Tex...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $1500
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six line-fillers in sam...
Place & Date: France c. 1520
Selling price: $210
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and three line-fillers in same.VERSO: Four 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one line-fil...
Place & Date: France 1500-1520
Selling price: $190
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Hand-painted miniature of Christ on printed leaf.
On recto a fine miniature (30x15mm) of crucifixion of Christ. Three 2-line initials painted in red and blue, heightened with liquid gold. Two 1-line initials in same. Wit...
Place & Date: France/ Paris ca.1520
Selling price: $275
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Calendar Leaf for Jan. Feb. March, April 1520
Germain Hardouyn, with his brother Gilles, published editions of the Book of Hours during the Renaissance in France. They published only about 1,000 copies for each editi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1520
Selling price: $75
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Manuscript leaf on vellum from a book of hours.
Manuscript leaf, in a Bâtarde bookhand from a book of hours. One line filler in blue and white on liquid gold. The vellum is of an excellent type.VERSO : Blank.
Place & Date: Flanders c. 1520
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a book of hours.
VERSO: Eight 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.RECTO: Eight 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.Initials very finely executed. T...
Place & Date: Flanders, c. 1520
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and four line-fillers in same.VERSO: One 2-line initials and two 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored g...
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Nine 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: One 2-line initials and five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and two line-fillers i...
Place & Date: France 1500-1520
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Leaf from a printed Book of Hours on vellum.
An early printed leaf on vellum from a Book of Hours.This leaf was printed by Simon Vostre in Paris, around 1520. The demand for Books of Hours increased after the invent...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1520
Selling price: $310
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Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $160
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The Golden Legend (in English)
The Golden Legend - the Lives of the Saints, was originally written about 1260 in Latin. This page is in English and is an early English language printing.
Place & Date: England, 1480 - 1520
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
VERSO and RECTO:: On each side one 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds, very good condition.
Place & Date: France, c.1520
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: One line-fillers in same.
Place & Date: France, 1500 - 1520
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 410x270mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2011