Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1907
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/226
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lot 383—continued. and in perfect preservation. On the first leaf of Calendar are the Autograph Signatures of PHILIPPE DESPORTES, the celebrated French Poet of the 16th Century, “ DEsporTEs” and “ Ex Lreris Puitrer! PortTAgk,” and an inscription: “ Colleg. Paris. Societ. Jesu.” The Property of IR. Spence, Esq. OCTAVO ET INFRA. 384 Bipiia Sacra LATINA, EDITIO VULGATA CUM PROLOGIS 8S. HIERONYMI ET INTERPRETATIONIBUS HEBRAICORUM NOMINUM, MANUSCRIPT ON UTERINE VELLUM (395 Ul. 73 by 54 in.) written in very neat €. ' gothic letter, with red rubrics, double columns, 53 lines, with wide blank ruled margins for notes, by an Anglo-Norman or Norman- French scribe, with numerous very interesting painted strap and other initials, some with elongations in the margins, the lateral margins throughout decorated with pen ornaments in blue and red, modern boarded velvet binding early SAC. XIV *,* A PERFECT WELL-PRESERVED AND WELL-WRITTEN MANUSCRIPT, with headline titles written in red and blue, and the text divided into chapters, notes, etc. in the margins. Some of the ink is browned either by age or the weakening of the original fluid. The strap initial before Genesis, containing small miniatures of the Days of Creation, with nude human grotesques riding a dragon, in the margin, is remarkable. The initials are mostly floriated, and many are connected with marginal elongations. 385 Bible (Holy) [one of the Incorrect Cromwellian Editions], some margins cut into, old morocco, with clasps, John Field, 1653— Lyford (Edw.) The True Interpretation and Etymologie of Chris- tian Names, ete. calf, T. W. for Geo. Sawbridge, 1655—Banister (R.) A Treatise of One Hundred and Thirteene Diseases of the Eyes and Eye-Liddes, signature of Nicholas Donne on title, old calf, F. Kyngston for Thos. Man, 1622 (3) 386 German Theological Manuscript (Old), with some lines of rimed Verse at end, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER (200 J. 54 by 34 in.) [consisting of Prayers, Religious Exercises, Poems, etc.| written in cursive gothic characters, long lines, 19 to a full page, original binding of oak boards, leather (upper cover broken) SAC. XV 387 Gerson (Jo.) Orationes dicende ante et post Missam, vel post per- ceptionem Venerabilis Sacramente juxta numerum dierum (39 J.) —Tractatus B. Thomez de Aquino de Divinis Moribus (20 7.) — S. Bonaventure de Quatuor Exerciis (80 //.), MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM (44 by 3 in.), the three treatises in the same hand through- out, in small gothic \etter, long lines, 21 to a full-page, by a French scribe, red rubrics, decorative pen-letters and painted initials, original French binding, oak boards, with small stamps of moons and stars (cover broken) early SAC. XV