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Decorated initial at the First Book of Kings, from a manuscript Bible.
The page is illustrated with a seven lines historiated miniature, showing Judith killing Holofernes, extending into margin with Illuminated lapis lazuli, vermilion and go...
Place & Date: Paris, France ca.1235
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2012
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades!! The vellum is quite firm : the boo...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1240
Selling price: $200
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T'ien wên t'u [A Map of the Stars]
The chart was engraved on stone in 1247 by Wang Zhiyuan, but it is based upon an earlier drawing by Huang Shang, made c. 1190-1193 at the beginning of Shaoxi in the South...
Place & Date: China, c.1890-1910, but engraved in 1247
Selling price: $30000
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Large leaf from a Parisian bible on vellum, in two columns.
53 lines to the page, in a very minute well-finished gothic hand. RECTO: Text from the book "Exodus". A large capital "S" in blue with red penwork ext...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1250
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2012
Leaf from a 13th. century Parisian pocket-bible.
Bible-leaf from a 13th. century Parisian pocket-bible, on vellum, 50 lines of text in a minute and refined Gothic bookhand. The original ruling before writing the text st...
Place & Date: Paris, 1225-1250
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2014
Manuscript leaf from a mid-thirteenth century Parisian Bible, on vellum.
51 lines of text in two columns, finely written in a minute gothic book hand.VERSO: two 3-line capitals "R" and "N", in burnished gold on red and blue...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1250
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2021
Leaf from a 13th. century Parisian pocket-bible.
Bible-leaf from a 13th. century Parisian pocket-bible, on vellum, 50 lines of text in a minute and refined Gothic book hand. The original ruling before writing the text s...
Place & Date: Paris, 1225-1250
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
Manuscript leaf, written on vellum, from a Flemish Psalter.
RECTO: one 2-line initial E in burnished gold on red and blue ground, one 1-line initials in fine red and blue penwork.VERSO: one 2-line initial and one 1-line initials w...
Place & Date: Flanders, c.1250
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2016
Manuscript leaf, written on vellum, from a Flemish Psalter.
RECTO: one 2-line initial A in burnished gold on red and blue ground.VERSO: one 2-line initial with penwork in red and blue.Very fine early Flemish manuscript leaf.
Place & Date: Flanders, c.1250
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Bible.
Vellum leaf from an early French Bible with decoration typical of the scriptoria of northern France in the second half of the 13th century. There are large initials in re...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1250
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2018