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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground, one 2-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: One 2-line in...
Place & Date: France, 1420-1480
Selling price: $260
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Leaf on vellum, from a manuscript book of hours.
RECTO: Nineteen 1-line capitals in burnished gold on blue or red colored grounds, and fourteen line fillers in same. On the right a panel-border of colored flowers and ac...
Place & Date: Paris, 1450-1480
Selling price: $185
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Leaf on vellum from an Italian manuscript Book of Hours.
A leaf from an Italian Book of Hours, written on vellum in the neighbourhood of Ferrara, around 1480.The decorations of this leaf are extraordinary : the bouquet of flowe...
Place & Date: Ferrara ca.1480
Selling price: $450
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours, written in France around 1480, with a beautiful border of flowers and acanthus leaves on the recto and an elaborate border on the v...
Place & Date: France ca.1480
Selling price: $750
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Leaf on vellum from an Italian manuscript Book of Hours.
A calendar leaf from an Italian Book of Hours, written on vellum in the neighborhood of Ferrara, around 1480.The decorations of this leaf are extraordinary : the bouquet ...
Place & Date: Ferrara ca.1480
Selling price: $575
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Leaf on vellum, from a manuscript book of hours.
Scatter border of flowers, insects, and birds. Borders of very high quality, executed by an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school, probably the Master of the David Scenes in ...
Place & Date: Flanders, ca. 1480
Selling price: $1950
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, written at the end of the Middle Ages, around 1480, in Angers on the river Loire.This region was well known for the m...
Place & Date: France ca.1480
Selling price: $205
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Leaf on vellum from an Italian manuscript Book of Hours.
A calendar leaf from an Italian Book of Hours, written on vellum in the neighbourhood of Ferrara, around 1480.The decorations of this leaf are extraordinary : the bouquet...
Place & Date: Ferrara ca.1480
Selling price: $480
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, written at the end of the Middle Ages, around 1480, in Angers on the river Loire.This region was well known for the m...
Place & Date: France ca.1480
Selling price: $100
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book of hours
RECTO: 16 lines of tecxt, seven 1-line initials in burnished gold and colors and 2 linefillers in same. 3-sided borders, filled with multiple gold vineleaves and flowers ...
Place & Date: Flanders/ Northern France c.1480
Selling price: $375
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Breviary, manuscript leaf on vellum.
RECTO: Two large 2-line capitals in blue or blue, with contrasting penwork. 18 one-line capitals in same.VERSO: One 2-line capital in red with extensive contrasting penwo...
Place & Date: France 1440-1480
Selling price: $80
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground, one 2-line initial, six 1-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds a...
Place & Date: France 1440-1480
Selling price: $275
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Leaf of vellum, with miniature of St.Christophe.
RECTO: A very rare Breviary leaf due to the elaborate and unusual border decorations on the recto. The Gothic text is written in two columns and the decoration encloses t...
Place & Date: France, 1480
Selling price: $900
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
The Holy Trinity and Saint Michael.Vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, late 15th century, probably Paris.This leaf has two miniatures: one of 43 x 45 mm and the othe...
Place & Date: Paris, 1480
Selling price: $1750
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
De sancta anna matre beate marie. Antiphona.Vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, late 15th century, probably Paris.This leaf has a miniature of 45 x 45 mm with Saint ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1480
Selling price: $1650
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Manuscript leaf on fine vellum from a 15th.cent Breviary.
RECTO: Two 2-line capitals in red or blue, with fine penwork, extending into the vertical margins.RECTO: Four 1-line capital in red and blue, with fine penwork, extending...
Place & Date: France 1480
Selling price: $150
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A double leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter. The left leaf describes the birth of St. John the Baptist, who was promised to his old-ag...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008
Miniature of Suffrages to the Saints.
A fantastic miniature (70 x 50 mm.) in an arched compartment showing the Suffrages to the Saints. Depiction of the (50) martyrs being burnt before the King's orders. The ...
Place & Date: France, Bretagne or Normandy, c. 1480
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2024
A double leaf from a breviary.
With two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula and eleven 1-line initials in red or blue. Nice clean leaves, with good margins, from ...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: colorful panel border in the upper, lower and left margins of acanthus leaves and flowers, with black pen work and gold.VERSO: Same.
Place & Date: Western France, ca. 1480
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2008
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: Four 1-line initials in blue or in liquid gold with blue or red contrasting penwork.VERSO: One 2-line initial "D" in blue with penwork sprouting from D e...
Place & Date: Naples, ca. 1480
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2008
A double leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.More abou...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2010
A double leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.More abou...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2009
A double leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.More abo...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2009
A double leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.More abo...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
A double leaf from a breviary.
Decorative leave with large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. ...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2009
A double leaf from a breviary.
Decorative leave with large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. ...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Justification: 102x70mm. RECTO: Seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and two line filler in same. VERSO: Seven 1-line initials and two line-fillers in ...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1480
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2010
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-line and eight 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers. colorful panel border in he right margin of acanthus leaves and flowe...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1480
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2009
A double leaf from a breviary.
Large 4-line initial and several 2-line initials in red or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th....
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
A double leaf from a breviary.
Large 3-line initial and several 2-line initials in red or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th....
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
A double leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Leaf from a breviary.
Large 2-line and 3-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2010
Bifolio leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Double Leaf on vellum from a French Book of Hours, written around 1480. The decoration on the recto and the verso of one of the leaves has flowers and leaves in bright co...
Place & Date: France, ca.1480
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2011
A double leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2014
A leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2014
A leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2014
A leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2014
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: 20 lines of text with one 5-lines initial in liquid gold on colored grounds. VERSO: 20 lines of text in brown ink.Parts of the text are crossed out.
Place & Date: France, ca. 1480
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
A leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2016
A leaf from a breviary.
One large 3-lines and one 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. cen...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2016
A leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
A leaf from a breviary.
Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2017
A leaf from a breviary.
Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
A leaf from a breviary.
Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2020
A leaf from a breviary.
Large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter and several 1-line initials.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 1...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
A leaf from a breviary.
Large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter and several 1-line initials.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 1...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
A leaf from a breviary.
Large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter and several 1-line initials.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 1...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2019
Leaf from a French, probably Breton, Book of Hours, written on vellum, with arch topped miniature showing the Flight of the Holy family into Egypt.
Leaf from a French, probably Breton, book of hours, written on vellum in an accomplished book hand.RECTO: 3 lines of text , one 3-line capital, three 1-line capital and 4...
Place & Date: France (propably Brittany) ca 1480
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Leaf from a French, probably Breton, Book of Hours, written on vellum.
Leaf from a French, probably Breton, book of hours, written on vellum in an accomplished book hand.RECTO:15 lines of text, one 2-line and three 1-line initials in burnish...
Place & Date: France (propably Brittany) ca 1480
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2020
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[A leaf from a book of hours, with a miniature of Pentecost ].
A leaf from a book of hours, on vellum, written in a well-finished Gothic book hand. A twofold large miniature of Pentecost. Mary kneeling amidst the apostles, the holy s...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1480
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2020
Use of Liége.
Contents of the Book of Hours : 1. ff. 2-7 : Calendar. In red and brown ink. Justification 115 x 75 mm. 2. ff. 8-11 : 4 passages des Evangiles : - Saint Jean 1, 1-...
Place & Date: c.1480
Selling price: $45000
Sold in 2023
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: A very rare Breviary leaf due to the elaborate and unusual border decorations on the recto. The Gothic text is written in two columns and the decoration encloses t...
Place & Date: Tours, c.1485
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: A very rare Breviary leaf due to the elaborate and unusual border decorations on the recto. The Gothic text is written in two columns and the decoration encloses t...
Place & Date: Tours c.1485
Selling price: $1050
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A beautiful leaf from a French Book of Hours, written about 1485. Part of the Book was in The Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library, St. John?s Seminary, Camarillo, Cal...
Place & Date: France ca.1485
Selling price: $220
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: One 3-line illuminated initial in burnished gold on colored grounds. Panel border of acanthus leaves, flowers and birds on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground...
Place & Date: Tours c.1485
Selling price: $600
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Very nice vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, written in a regular Gothic book hand in Paris, around 1485. The leaf has a panel border on both sides with acanthus le...
Place & Date: France, ca.1485
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A wonderful leaf from a medieval breviary : ivory-white vellum, wide margins, clearly visible ruling* and the ?prickings*?. A very regular book hand in brown/black ink th...
Place & Date: France, ca.1485
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: A very rare Breviary leaf due to the elaborate and unusual border decorations on the recto. The Gothic text is written in two columns and the decoration encloses t...
Place & Date: Tours, c.1485
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2008
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: Three 2-line and three 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: Five 2-line initials and tone 1-line initial in liquid gold on a red ground
Place & Date: Tours, ca. 1485
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf on vellum from a French Book of Hours, written around 1490. A beautiful vellum leaf from the calendar in a Book of Hours. This leaf details the month of August begin...
Place & Date: France ca.1490
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2008
Miniature of Job on the dung-hill.
>Archtopped 3/4 page miniature on vellum of Job in the dungheap. Job, naked, but seemingly in good health in a heap of straw. Before him one of his richly dressed frie...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1490
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2009
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
VERSO: One 4-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-line initial in red and blue. RECTO: Nine 1-line initials in red or blue.
Place & Date: ca. 1490
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Miniature of Job on the dung-hill.
Arch topped 3/4 page miniature on vellum of Job in the dung-heap. Job, naked, but seemingly in good health in a heap of straw. Before him one of his richly dressed friend...
Place & Date: Northern France, ca. 1490
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2011
Leaf on paper from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a Book of Hours, written on paper, around 1500. The text points in the direction of Holland or the western part of Germany. The writing is not very regular and ...
Place & Date: Germany ca.1500
Selling price: $100
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Leaf on paper from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a Book of Hours, written on paper, around 1500. The text points in the direction of Holland or the western part of Germany. The writing is not very regular and ...
Place & Date: Germany ca.1500
Selling price: $100
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Leaf on paper from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a Book of Hours, written on paper, around 1500. The text points in the direction of Holland or the western part of Germany. The writing is not very regular and ...
Place & Date: Germany ca.1500
Selling price: $100
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Leaf on paper from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a Book of Hours, written on paper, around 1500. The text points in the direction of Holland or the western part of Germany. The writing is not very regular and ...
Place & Date: Germany ca.1500
Selling price: $50
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Manuscript leaf on vellum written in a late gothic hand.
VERSO: One 2-line initial D in burnished gold on a red and blue ground and two 1-line initials in burnished gold on a red and blue ground.RECTO: One 2-line initial in bur...
Place & Date: France/Flanders c.1500
Selling price: $320
Sold in 2010
Manuscript leaf on vellum written in a late gothic hand.
VERSO: One 2-line initial I in burnished gold on a red and blue ground In illo tempore.. the start of one of the gospel-readings according Marc in those days. and 2 line-...
Place & Date: France or Flanders, c.1500
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Manuscript leaf on vellum written in a late gothic hand.
VERSO: One 2-line initial P in burnished gold on a red and blue ground and 2 line-fillers on a red and blue ground.RECTO: 17 Lines of text, intils filled in with yellow.
Place & Date: France or Flanders, c.1500
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2014
Miniature from a book of hours.
Painted on vellum in gold and colors. From a printed book of hours. The painting shows the visitation of Mary to her cousin Elisabeth, set in a simple landscape.The minia...
Place & Date: Paris early 1500
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2010
Manuscript leaf on vellum written in a late Gothic hand.
RECTO: One 2-line initial D in burnished gold on a red and blue ground and 2 line-fillers on a red and blue ground.VERSO: 17 Lines of text, initials filled in with yellow...
Place & Date: France / Flanders c.1500
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Manuscript leaf on vellum written in a late Gothic hand.
RECTO: One 2-line initial D in burnished gold on a red and blue ground.VERSO: 17 Lines of text, initials filled in with yellow. One 2-line initial "D" in burnis...
Place & Date: France / Flanders c.1500
Selling price: $230
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Miniature of St Michaels Victory over the Devil, cut from a larger sheet.
Fine painting on vellum, being a cutted initial D, with inside a depiction "St Michaels Victory over the Devil". A cut from a larger Antiphonal sheet. On verso ...
Place & Date: ca. 1500
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2018
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 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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