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Tang Dynasty Changsha Bowl from the Belitung Wreck.
A beautiful Tang dynasty sancai glazed bowl made in Tongguan county, Changsha city, Hunan province of China mainly for export. Recovered from the Belitung shipwreck. This...
Place & Date: China, Hunan province, 826
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter with King David.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruli...
Place & Date: Flanders, Rhineland, or possibly England, c. 1280
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible, Deuteronomy 32:16 - 32:27. Lines in a slightly irregular Gothic han...
Place & Date: Flanders, Rhineland, or possibly England, c. 1280
Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular Gothic hand, black ink, plummet rulin...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Illuminated leaf from a Psalter.
Very fine 20 lines illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plum...
Place & Date: Flanders, Rhineland, or possibly England, c. 1280
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal.
Written in the North or Eastern part of France in the late thirteenth century. Each decorated initial with long extensions . Capitals touched in red. One large historiate...
Place & Date: France, 1260-1280
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: France, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besancon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourishe...
Place & Date: France, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: France, Besançon, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black, numerous pen-flourish...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besancon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourishe...
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: France, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: Besaçon, 1370
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
VERSO: Two 2-line capitals in burnished gold with extensive penwork in blue and red. Two 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.RECTP: One ...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Utrecht, c.1400-1410
Leaf on vellum from a Missal.
A very fine Missal leaf, written in Latin. RECTO: A wonderful initial O decorated with pen work in red, purple and blue. The initial is 6x6cm. VERSO: one initial "I&...
Place & Date: France, c. 1410
Leaf on vellum from a Missal.
A very fine Missal leaf, written in Latin. RECTO: A wonderful initial P decorated with pen work in red, purple and blue. The initial is 6x6cm. VERSO: 18 lines written in ...
Place & Date: France, c. 1410
Leaf on vellum from a Missal.
A very fine large size Missal leaf, written in Latin. VERSO: Two wonderful 2-lines initials and in liquid gold decorated with pen work in purple and blue. One 1-line init...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: France, c. 1410
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: Four 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds. colorful panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers, with black penwork.VERSO: One 2-line initial and seve...
Place & Date: Western France, ca. 1445
Leaf from a manuscript Psalter, written on vellum.
RECTO: 14 lines of text. One 2-line in burnished gold and colors and six 1-line initials in gold and colors, two line-fillers.VERSO: As recto but three 1-line initials an...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, c.1450
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 one 1-line initial in liquid gold on colored ground...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: France, c.1450
Calendar leaf for April from manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
Calendar leaf for April. RECTO: One 2-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds. colorful panel border in he left margin of acanthus leaves and flowers, with black p...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Manuscript leaf, on vellum from a book of hours.
The flesh side of the vellum has 4 large 1-line initial illuminated initials in blue and red with white heightening, on a very heavily burnished gold ground. 1 side illum...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Paris, 1450
Manuscript leaf, on vellum from a book of hours.
This vellum leaf has on each side a large 2-line initial illuminated in blue and red with white heightening, on a very heavily burnished gold ground. Illuminated borders...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1450
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
RECTO: Two 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penworkVERSO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.
Place & Date: Flanders ca.1450
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
VERSO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.
Place & Date: Flanders ca.1450
Leaf on vellum, from a manuscript book of hours.
Scatter border of flowers. Borders of very high quality, executed by an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school.VERSO: 19 lines of Dutch text in brown ink. A 6-lines capital &q...
Place & Date: Flanders, 1450
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours. (Calendar month of August)
RECTO : Calendar month of August with a 2-line initial in liquid gold on colored ground. colorful panel border in the left margin of acanthus leaves and flowers, with bla...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Page from a 15th. century Book of Hours.
13 lines of text, written dark-brown ink, in a clear gothic book hand with several 1-line initials in blue with red pen work into the margins some initials in burnished g...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1450
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours. (Calendar month of March)
RECTO : Calendar month of March with a 2-line initial in liquid gold on colored ground. colorful panel border in the left margin of acanthus leaves and flowers, with blac...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penworkVERSO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Flanders ca.1450
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with 4 one-line initials in liquid gold or blue ink with ext...
- $380 / ≈ €356
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Manuscript leaf with 2-line illuminated capital L.
Fine leaf from a Book of Hours, Psalm 148 Veni Creator Spiritus, mentes tuorum visita imple superna gratia quae tu creasti pectora .. RECTO: One 3-line illuminated capita...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Brugge, ca 1460
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with fourteen 1-line initials in blue or gold with extensive...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with 4 two-line initial "I" in liquid gold on a bl...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds.RECTO: 14 Lines of text in Latin and four 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds with l...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds.RECTO: 14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds with ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a mid 15 th. century manuscript Book of Hours. Written on vellum in neat Gothic book hand.VERSO: 17 lines of text, with 2-line capital in red and blue, heighten...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: France ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a mid 15 th. century manuscript Book of Hours. Written on vellum in neat Gothic book hand.RECTO: 17 lines of text, with 2-line capital in red and blue, heighten...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: France ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
14 Lines of text in Latin and thirteen 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds with line filler. VERSO : 14 Lines of text in Latin and thirteen 1-line initials in blue...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a mid 15 th. century manuscript Book of Hours. Written on vellum in neat Gothic book hand.VERSO: 17 lines of text, with 2-line capital in red and blue, heighten...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: France ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Charming small manuscript leaf from an French Book of Hours written around 1470 in or near Rouen.VERSO: 14 Lines of text in Latin one 2-lines initial in liquid gold and ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Charming small manuscript leaf from an French Book of Hours written around 1470 in or near Rouen.VERSO: 14 Lines of text in Latin five 1-lines initial in liquid gold on b...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours on vellum.
RECTO: with two 2-line capitals on red ground in blue, white and liquid gold. Beautifully illuminated with border panels cover three sides with floral designs of acanthus...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: France, c. 1475
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: The staves are in red and the notes in black.VERSO: Tw wonderful initial ,A and O, decorated with p...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Leaf of vellum, with large miniature of Marry and Christ.
RECTO: Large miniature of Marry and Christ and one 1-line initials in burnished gold, on red ground and line-filler on blue ground. Three-sided illuminated borders of pen...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: France, c.1480
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.
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
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.
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
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
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
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
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin, probably Rome. RECTO: The staves are in red and the notes are in black.VERSO: The staves are in red and the notes are in b...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial ,O, decorated with pen work in red, white and blue, in rich burnished gold.VERS...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin, probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "I" decorated with penwork in red, white and blue, in rich burnished g...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Leaf on vellum from an Italian manuscript Book of Hours.
A 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 of flower...
Place & Date: Italy, Ferrara, ca.1480
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A large vellum antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "Q",, decorated with penwork in red, white and blue, in rich burni...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
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, height 1-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds and three line fil...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: France, ca. 1420-1480
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: The staves are in red and the notes in black. VERSO: The staves are in red and the notes in black. ...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
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
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: One 4-line illuminated initial depicting Maria and child and two 1-line initials in burnished gold on colored grounds. Panel border of acanthus leaves, flowers and...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Tours, c.1485
La tierce aage. Feuillet ix rr.
Incunable text pages from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Claudii Ptolemaei Geographiae...
Claudii Ptolemaei Geographiae... Translated from the Greek into Latin by Jacobus Angelus.Collation: A-C8 D-E6 (A1 blank missing, A2r Registrum alphabeticum, E6 blank miss...
Place & Date: Rome, Petrus de Turre, 4 November, 1490
Quinta Etas Mudi. Folium. LXV (With view of Babylon)
The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of the Ancient City of Babylon (Dim. H : 138 mm W : 223 mm).Babylon was the capital of Babylonia, the alluvial plain...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Terta Etas Mundi. Foliu CXXXV
The Latin text page is illustrated with depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists. RECTO : Including a portrait of Jerome. Represented by a large woodcut, i...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXXXV
Latin text page with woodcuts on recto a large woodcut of Jerome (Hieronymus), a very pious and celebrated teacher, cardinal of the Roman church, and a priest, whose fath...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium.XCIII.
The Latin text page is illustrated with depictions of Caius Julius Caesar, Octavian (Octavianus) Augustus and Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius). VERSO : A wonderful woodcut (...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium. LXVI. (Visionary Temple of Ezekiel.)
The Latin text page is illustrated with recto and verso depictions of the visionary Temple of Ezekiel. Kings.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Chro...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium. LXXXII
Latin text page with woodcuts on recto and verso of Saints, Kings, and Queens. On verso a large wood cut of A giant colossus, executed by Chares of Lindus (Clare Lydo), t...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Quarta etas mudi Folio LVIII [Rome]](/uploads/cache/48488-250x250.jpg)
Quarta etas mudi Folio LVIII [Rome]
Double text page in German with a woodblock Rome (23x53cm.)On verso a view of Genua (193x222mm). Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chro...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta etas Mundi. Folium. CCXLV
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depiction of two lovers happened to have lived in Italy: a knight named Eurialus, who was the personal attendant of Emperor Sigi...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Quarta Etas Mndi. Carvilium / Aquileya. [Carovilli and Aquileia]](/uploads/cache/13525-250x250.jpg)
Quarta Etas Mndi. Carvilium / Aquileya. [Carovilli and Aquileia]
A lovely presentation of Carovilli, in the province of Cremona. Recto, a view of the town of Aquileya in Italy, centered on the castle and the high walls. Aquileia is an ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Tertia Etas Mundi. Folium. CI [Woodcut of Jesus and his apostles]](/uploads/cache/48519-250x250.jpg)
Tertia Etas Mundi. Folium. CI [Woodcut of Jesus and his apostles]
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists. VERSO : A full page woodcut showing Jesus and his apostles.(360x221mm.)...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Terta Etas Mundi. Folio CCXVI
Two pages from the richest illustrated Incurable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle , published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America.The wood...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Madeburga [ Maagdenburg Folio CLXXX ]](/uploads/cache/47601-250x250.jpg)
Madeburga [ Maagdenburg Folio CLXXX ]
Double page panoramic view of Magdeburg. A imaginary view, however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta etas muidi Fo CCV.
The Latin text page is illustrating Baldwin (Baldvinus), the fourth of this name, seventh king of Jerusalem, and son of the aforesaid Amalric, reigned six years after his...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Sexta Etas Mundi. Constancia. [Constance CCXLI ]](/uploads/cache/33141-250x250.jpg)
Sexta Etas Mundi. Constancia. [Constance CCXLI ]
A very fine town view of Constance, in Germany, centered on the cathedral (198 x 520 mm).VERSO, seven insets of scientists, noblemen and Popes.Page from the richest illus...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[The creation of the world - First day]](/uploads/cache/24509-250x250.jpg)
[The creation of the world - First day]
Attractive page from the Nuremberg Chronicle, showing the creation of the world: the First Day, showing the celestial choir (God\'s creation of the angels) surrounding th...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[Text page with Kings and Popes, folio CXLVIII ].](/uploads/cache/47603-250x250.jpg)
[Text page with Kings and Popes, folio CXLVIII ].
Text page with woodcuts of Kings and on verso woodcuts of Popes including Pope Gregorius. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, p...
- $70 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493