Browse Listings in Medieval & Oriental Manuscripts > Medieval manuscripts
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 135 x 150mm. Painted in g...
- $225 / ≈ €211
Place & Date: Northern Indian Mogul dynasty, ca 1800-1850
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
Six illuminated neo-gothic cards on vellum paper for a Book of Hours, in French.
Six very finely executed drawings on vellum paper, being a model for a neo gothic religious book. Text in French, with border illustrations with knight scenes, one relati...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
Illuminated neo-gothic card on vellum paper for a Book of Hours.
A very finely executed drawing on vellum paper, being a model for a neo gothic religieus book.Made in the atelier of the Parisian publisher of religious works L. Desgode...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
Ten Illuminated neo-gothic cards on vellum paper for a Book of Hours.
Ten very finely executed drawings on vellum paper, being models for neo gothic religious books. Text in Latin, with a decorated 2-line initial A.Made in the atelier of th...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
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
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
Illuminated neo-gothic card on vellum paper for a Book of Hours.
A very finely executed drawing on vellum paper, being a model for a neo gothic religious book. Text in Latin, with a decorated 2-line initial A.Made in the atelier of the...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
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
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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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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