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Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated religious and profane scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illuminator Germai...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2021
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with religious and profane scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illuminator G...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2021
Woodcut of King Charles le Grant etc.
A 1543 woodcut print from “THE SEA OF HISTORY” that is called “The one of the most beautiful of the history of French printing”. La Mer des Hystoires contains Ae...
Place & Date: Paris, 1543
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2018
Woodcut of Aesop's Fables etc.
A 1543 woodcut print from “THE SEA OF HISTORY” that is called “The one of the most beautiful of the history of French printing”. La Mer des Hystoires contains Ae...
Place & Date: Paris, 1543
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
Woodcut of Abraham & Isaac etc.
A 1543 woodcut print from “THE SEA OF HISTORY” that is called “The one of the most beautiful of the history of French printing”. La Mer des Hystoires contains Ae...
Place & Date: Paris, 1543
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal.
Missel fragment with wonderful decorated initials.
Place & Date: France, ca. 1550
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
Large leaf from an early 16-th century antiphoner.
RECTO: 6 lines of of 5-stave music. Two large initials. "A"lleluya... in yellow and green, the initial endingin a dragon?s head. "M"agnus... in yellow...
Place & Date: Northern France, 1520-1550
Selling price: $225
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line fillers in same.VERSO: Five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-lines...
Place & Date: France, 1520-1550
Selling price: $120
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Justification: 102x70mm. RECTO: One 2-line initial and 1-line initial, both in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: Five lines of text and two line-fillers in liquid gol...
Place & Date: France, c.1550
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2008
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 in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: Same panel bor...
Place & Date: France, 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
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 and five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grou...
Place & Date: France, 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal.
Missal fragment with two wonderful decorated initials "P" and "D".
Place & Date: France, ca. 1550
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2014
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours with miniatures of the saints Apollonia and Barbara.
30 lines of printed text on both sides, with miniatures of the saints Apollonia and Barbara. Learn more about illuminated manuscripts [+]
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1550
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2023
Missal.
After the invention of bookprinting, the art of illuminating books with painted miniatures, as was done in luxurious manuscripts in the middle ages, was continued for a l...
Place & Date: Germany 1555
Selling price: $125
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Missal.
After the invention of bookprinting, the art of illuminating books with painted miniatures, as was done in luxurious manuscripts in the middle ages, was continued for a l...
Place & Date: Germany, 1555
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2011
MISSAL
Large leaf from a German missal. Printed on vellum. After the invention of bookprinting, the art of illuminating books with painted miniatures, as was done in luxurious ...
Place & Date: Germany, 1555
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2012
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in sam...
Place & Date: France, 1540-1560
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $200
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $150
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $165
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $170
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $150
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23 Leaves on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
Very Rare Manuscript: 23 vellum leaves, the beginning of a Book of Hours!The leaves 1, 2 and 3 are blank, but for a liquid gold panel around each page. Leaf 4 has the tex...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $1300
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $190
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2012
Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scriber used dark Guido ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in b...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2013
Two large format very rare psalter or graduale leaves on heavy vellum (15/16th century).
Both have colored margin decorations in the form of gesticulating or singing monks/saints, both with texts, one from Lucas 22/15, and one with musical notation of a psalm...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1500/1580
Selling price: $925
Sold in 2020
Leaf from a manuscript antiphonal on vellum.
A fine sheet of thin vellum written in black and red ink with several large initials in delicate red and blue penwork.
Place & Date: ca. 1600
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2009
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphonary.
This leaf is from an Antiphonary of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black in...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2020
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.RECTO: Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in bl...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2011
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.RECTO: Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in bl...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2011
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.RECTO: Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in bl...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $80
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Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $150
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Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $150
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Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $150
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Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $150
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Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $250
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Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $190
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Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.RECTO: Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in bl...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $90
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Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2009
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $240
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Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.RECTO: Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in bl...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.RECTO: Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in bl...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $70
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Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $150
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Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.RECTO: Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in bl...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $70
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Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.RECTO: Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in bl...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $60
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Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2022
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2010
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2011
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave , inked in red, formed of five lines in black in...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2011
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2012
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2012
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin. Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black in...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2009
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2009
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphonary of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black in...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2010
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.RECTO: Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in bl...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2011
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphonary.
This leaf is from an Antiphonary of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black in...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black ink...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2015
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphonary of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.RECTO: Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in b...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
Leaf from a Spanish manuscript.
Spanish manuscript on vellum, Granada, 1628.The red capital D on a gold background is very nice: it has a face on the right side!
Place & Date: Granada 1628
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2010
Spanish inquisition document, manuscript on vellum.
A large Spanish inquisition document on proceedings against heresy, by the Holy Office. Written on vellum in dark brown ink. Signed by many important persons.VERSO: Dated...
Place & Date: Spain, 15th July 1637
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2012
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin, probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial L, decorated with penwork in red and black.VERSO: The staves are in red and the ...
Place & Date: Italy c. 1650
Selling price: $90
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Two Consecutive Vellum Music Leaves with Gold Initials
Two large consecutive pages of an antiphoner, on vellum, with the initials filled in with gold leaf. Width and height is per lea
Place & Date: Spain or Italy, ca. 1650
Selling price: $300
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Manuscript Gradual Leaf
Single leaf from a Gradual Manuscript on vellum Spain, 17th C. The gradual is a liturgical book of texts and chants sung by the choir in response to the celebration of th...
Place & Date: Spain, ca. 1650
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2008
Italian Leaf.
This is a handwritten page from the 1300 done in Italy. The marginal drawing of fish (dolphins?) done in the 1600's. It is written in a Gothic hand on fine Italian vellum...
Place & Date: Italy 1200s with the drawing c.1650
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a Book of Hours.
Leaf from a Book of Hours manuscript on vellum Italy, 14th Century.Italy 1200s with the drawing c.1650.Written in Latin with marginal decoration and a letter combination ...
Place & Date: Italy 1200s with the drawing c.1650
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2009
Poems of Hafiz.
Very scarce original manuscript leaf from a CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT OF THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ - the collected poems of Muhammed Shamsuddin Hafiz (died ca. 1388 A.D.) - one of...
Place & Date: Persia, ca. 1650
Selling price: $455
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal or Antiphonary.
Very large hand vellum leaf with handwritten text. Several initials hand-painted in red and blue. With 15 lines of text on both sides. Probably from a Missal or Antiphona...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1650
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal or Antiphonary.
Very large hand vellum leaf with hand written text. Several initials hand painted in red and blue. With 15 lines of Latin text on both sides. Probably from a book written...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1650
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2016
Italian manuscript leaf on vellum.
This is an handwritten page from the 1300 done in Italy. The marginal drawing of grapes done in the 1600's. It is written in a Gothic hand on fine Italian vellum.
Place & Date: Italy 1300s with the drawing c.1650
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2017
Manuscript Antiphonal on Vellum in Latin.
Manuscript Antiphonal on Vellum in Latin. Folio. Brown suede binding on wooden boards, covers decorated with a double frame of thin gilt dentelles and gilt fleurons, cent...
Place & Date: Toledo, 1652
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2022