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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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