Browse Listings in Medieval & Oriental Manuscripts
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf with Gregorian music, text written in Latin, starting with "In Nativitate Domini ad secundam missam int." (In the Nativity of the L...
Place & Date: France ?, about or shortly after 1690
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2015
Leaf from a very large antiphoner, written in Latin on heavy vellum.
RECTO: The leaf is numbered 33. and is the hair side of the vellum.Large miniature, 140 x 140mm of St. Luce in white and red robes, on a yellow background and a large cap...
Place & Date: Spain c.1700
Selling price: $250
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A gigantic Antiphoner in massive contemporaru binding.
A gigantic Antiphoner, about 2,5 feet high. It is certainly the biggest of these vast choir books we have handled for many years. MASSIVE CONTEMPORARY BINDING of wooden b...
Place & Date: Spain, 1704
Selling price: $9790
Sold in 2010
Russian Apocalypse
Judgment leaf from a Russian illustrated Apocalypse on paper. It illustrates part of Revelation 9:13-19. "and the sixth angel sounded the trumpet" ... and heard...
Place & Date: Russia, ca. 1750
Selling price: $500
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Swiss Gradual Leaf.
A small but attractive music page handwritten in Switzerland in the 1700?s with a large opening initial.
Place & Date: Switzerland, ca. 1750
Selling price: $110
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Swiss Gradual Leaf
A small but attractive music page hand written in Switzerland in the 1700?s with a large opening colored initial.
Place & Date: Switzerland, ca. 1750
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2008
Swiss Gradual Leaf.
A small but attractive music page hand written in Switzerland in the 1700?s with a large opening colored initial.
Place & Date: Switzerland, ca. 1750
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Large paper leaf from an Armenian prayer(?)-book in manuscript.
Large paper leaf from an Armenian prayer(?)-book in manuscript on heavy shiny paper.32 lines of text in black ink, partly in red ink, in a Bolorgir hand. RECTO: Large hea...
Place & Date: Armenia, c.1750 - 1780
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2012
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2016
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $77
Sold in 2022
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2020
Koran Page
Single leaf from a Koran manuscript on paper in gold leaf, tempera and ink. Black text in Arabic with interlinear red text in Persian. The script is Nasta?liq. Beautiful ...
Place & Date: India, circa 1790
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2008
Koran Page
A page from a hand written Koran circa 1800's text surrounded by gold leaf box and marginal decorative drawing in upper corner.
Place & Date: Unknown, circa 1850
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
Koran Page
A page from a hand written Koran circa 1800's text surrounded by gold leaf box and marginal decorative drawing in upper corner.
Place & Date: Unknown circa 1850
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
Five Indo / Persian miniature paintings, Mogul Dynasty.
Five Indo/Persian miniature paintings, Mogul Dynasty miniature painting in delicate Opaque watercolors on paper, with Islamic scripts on recto and verso. Each miniature a...
Place & Date: Northern Indian Mogul dynasty, ca 1850
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2016
Persian miniature paintings, Mogul Dynasty.
Indo/Persian, Mogul Dynasty miniature painting in delicate Opaque watercolors on paper, with Islamic scripts on recto and verso. Miniature about 70 x 150mm. Painted in gi...
Place & Date: Northern Indian Mogul dynasty, ca 1800-1850
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2024
Miniature of St Barbara, on vellum from a neo-Gothic Book of Hours.
RECTO : Large miniature of St Barbara, a roman martyr, with her emblem, on the verso of a 15th century leaf from a Book of Hours, Northern Netherlands, 19th cent. Close f...
Place & Date: Flanders ca.1860
Selling price: $1800
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Miniature showing St. Catherine of Alexandria. Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Neo-Gothic Book of Hours.
RECTO : Miniature showing St. Catherine of Alexandria, who defied the emperor and his wisemen in philosophy, he sentenced her to death through breaking her bones with a h...
Place & Date: Flanders ca.1860
Selling price: $1950
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Miniature of St. John, the Baptist. Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Neo-Gothic Book of Hours.
RECTO : Miniature of St. John, the Baptist, with a lamb on a book, wearing a cloth of camelhair of the heremite in the desert, not so here though with a luscious backgrou...
Place & Date: Flanders ca.1860
Selling price: $1800
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Large miniature of Mother Maria and Christ from a Dutch Book of Hours.
RECTO : Large miniature of Mother Maria and Christ, with a book on the bench, Mary is sitting on, teaching her child to read, most certainly a holy book.(90x63mm.) in an ...
Place & Date: Flanders ca.1860
Selling price: $1950
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Miniature of Crusifiction.
Large miniature of crusification, with in top title Deus in adiutorium meum in tente. Most likely made by the English miniaturist C.W.Wing, who also created around 1850 c...
Place & Date: England c.1860
Selling price: $1000
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Manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Page with large miniature 195 x 165mm. from the Shahnameh, or ("The Book of Kings"), which is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 9...
Place & Date: Kashmir, ca. 1830-1860
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2016
Manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Page with large miniature 160 x 160mm. from the Shahnameh, or ("The Book of Kings"), which is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 9...
Place & Date: Kashmir, ca. 1830-1860
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2016
Manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Page with large miniature 250 x 160mm. from the Shahnameh, or ("The Book of Kings"), which is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 9...
Place & Date: Kashmir, ca. 1830-1860
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2016
Manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Page with large miniature 185 x 160mm. from the Shahnameh, or ("The Book of Kings"), which is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 9...
Place & Date: Kashmir, ca. 1830-1860
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2016
Neo-Gothic illuminated manuscript on vellum.
Wide panel border with designs of colored acanthusleaves on aburnished gold back ground. With a 8 lines verse in Latin.Blank verso.
Place & Date: Belgium, c. 1890
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Retour de la chasse au cerf.
A nobly dressed couple stand on a path outside their castle, welcoming their males returning from the hunt; landscape background with trees, a river and a distant castle,...
Place & Date: Paris (?), c.1900
Selling price: $5700
Sold in 2009
Neo-Gothic illuminated manuscript on vellum.
Wide panel border with designs of colored acanthus leaves and fine penwork in black. Including a fine miniature of Mother Maria and Jesus. With a 18 lines verse in Latin....
Place & Date: Belgium, c. 1900
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
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[Mughal miniature painting of a hunting scene]
On the recto a miniature of a hunting scene (122 x 70mm.). Verso text in black and red ink. Rajasthan is a renowned state for Indian Rajasthani miniature painting art. Ev...
Place & Date: India, ca. 1900
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2024
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[Mughal miniature painting of a hunting scene]
On verso miniature of a hunting scene (122 x 7cm.). Recto text in black and red ink. Rajasthan is renowned state for Indian Rajasthani miniature painting art. Even though...
Place & Date: India, ca. 1900
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2024
![[Mughal miniature painting of a hunting scene]](/uploads/cache/44889-250x250.jpg)
[Mughal miniature painting of a hunting scene]
On verso miniature of a hunting scene (122 x 7cm.). Recto text in black and red ink. Rajasthan is renowned state for Indian Rajasthani miniature painting art. Even though...
Place & Date: India, ca. 1900
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2024
Four illuminated neo-gothic cards on vellum paper for a Book of Hours, in French.
Four very finely executed drawings of border designs on vellum paper, being a model for a neo gothic religious book. Made in the atelier of the Parisian publisher of reli...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023
Livre d'heures offert par les augustines de Vitré France.
Book of hours made in the monastery of Vitré in France (Bretagne), which monastery closed in 1975. Each of the 102 pages is decorated with a different border. Each page ...
Place & Date: Vitré, 1901
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2021
Joan of Arc.
Showing a scene where Joan of Arc, holding her sword and in her typical haircut. She is being dressed up by two men, to her left several knights, one knight is holding th...
Place & Date: Paris (?), c.1890-1920
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2019
Vellum leaf with a large miniature showing saint surrounded by noble women in typical medieval dresses.
A large miniature (225x215mm) showing a scene with in the center a saint surrounded by medieval figures (Isabella of France and her son the future Edward III ?) descendin...
Place & Date: Paris (?), c.1890-1920
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2022
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial T and G decorated with penwork in red, green, white and blue, in rich burnished...
Place & Date: Italy 1480.
Selling price: $950
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Manuscript leaf on vellum from a book of hours.
Manuscript leaf, in a Bâtarde bookhand from a book of hours. RECTO: One 2-line initial in blue, red, white and liquid gold. VERSO: Two 2-line initials in blue, red, whit...
Place & Date: Flanders c. 1520.
Selling price: $100
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Saints page from Book of Hours
Saints page from a Book of Hours Latin text in Black and red ink
Place & Date: Unknown
Selling price: $50
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Calendar page September/ October
Calendar leaf from a Book of Hours for the month of September and October Latin text in Black and red ink
Place & Date: France, unknown
Selling price: $45
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Book of Hours leaf
18 lines of text in Latin, with 4 one line initials and 1 two line initial, then 5 one line initials with line fillers.
Place & Date: France, late fifteenth century
Selling price: $85
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