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13th Century Medieval Psalter leaf.
A scarce original leaf from a medieval manuscript Psalter executed in France. Written in Latin on animal parchment. 19 lines executed in small Gothic book-hand with illum...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1200
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2010
Exceptional nice leaf from an early thirteenth, maybe Italian, bible. on vellum.
RECTO: 35 lines of text, double columns in a very refined early gothic hand, red parts of text and red lombards, written in lightbrown ink. Beautiful illuminated initial ...
Place & Date: Italy ca. 1200
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2011
Manuscript leaf from a bible.
Written on vellum in a minute and extremely fine Gothic hand. 46 lines of text in two columns. Text size 110 x 80 mm. From the book of "Kings". At the left han...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1225
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2010
A large leaf of a 13th. century French bible.
A large leaf of a 13th. century French bible, on vellum, written in a neat gothic hand in black ink. RECTO: 52 lines of text, a sermon of St.Paul to the Corinthians.A lar...
Place & Date: France or Paris, ca. 1225
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2015
Leaf from a 13th. century pocketbible, on vellum.
Leaf from a 13th. century pocket bible, on vellum, in two cloumns, 50 lines of text from the book "LE"viticus. Written in dark brown ink in a minute early goth...
Place & Date: France/Paris, ca. 1225
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2013
A large leaf of a 13th. century French bible.
A large 7-line illuminated initial "P", in blue and red and a 3-line initial in red and blue with pen work extensions into the margins in the contrasting color....
Place & Date: France or Paris, ca. 1225
Selling price: $775
Sold in 2016
PSALTER / BREVIARY
Manuscript leaf on vellum from an early 13th century psalter/breviary, written in black ink.RECTO: A large illuminated capital (2 x 2 cm) in blue and red, heightened with...
Place & Date: Northern France/Paris ca. 1225
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2017
13th. century Bible leave.
Large leaf from a 13th.century French bible, written on vellum in black ink, two columns, 53 lines of text. RECTO: On top is written "GU(M)" IIII, second half ...
Place & Date: France / Paris ca. 1225
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019
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. 1230
Selling price: $150
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A vellum leaf of over 750 years old! 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...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1230
Selling price: $310
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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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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Bible.
A wonderful bible leaf, written on vellum around 1250 in Paris!!There are 42 lines in a very regular gothic book hand. One initial is beautifully decorated in gold, red a...
Place & Date: France ca.1250
Selling price: $420
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Bible
Vellum leaf, from an early parisian bible. RECTO: 53 lines of text in a double column, from the biblebook "leviticus".Two 6-line initials with penwork extending...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1250
Selling price: $275
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A vellum leaf of over 750 years old! 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...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1250
Selling price: $180
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A vellum leaf of over 750 years old! 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...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1250
Selling price: $195
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A vellum leaf of over 750 years old! 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...
Place & Date: France, 1220-1250
Selling price: $225
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A vellum leaf of over 750 years old! 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...
Place & Date: France, 1220-1250
Selling price: $205
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Psalter.
A large 5-line , and one 2-line illuminated initials on highly burnished gold on pink grounds with decorative penwork tracery in white, showing Prophets. Elaborate line-f...
Place & Date: Northern France / Paris, 1240-1250
Selling price: $1800
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A vellum leaf of over 750 years old! 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...
Place & Date: France early 1220-1250
Selling price: $180
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13 century French Bible page
13th Century vellum leaf from a French Bible page written in Paris mid 13th century. There are 46 lines of text written in a fine Gothic Script. It is on very fine vellum...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1250
Selling price: $210
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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. 1250
Selling price: $200
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Sententiarum Libri Quator
13th Century handwritten vellum leaf from Peter Lombardís Sententiarum Libri Quator produced in Italy. Lombardís work was initially branded as heresy and only later acc...
Place & Date: Italy, c.1250
Selling price: $125
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Bible.
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from France.The Bible has, of course, always been the center of Christianity from the beginning, but a...
Place & Date: France ca.1250
Selling price: $250
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Manuscript leaf, written on vellum, from a flamish psalter.
RECTO: 1 three-line initial in burnished gold on red and blue ground, 9 one-line initials in fine red and blue penwork. VERSO: Five-line initial P in burnished gold on re...
Place & Date: Flanders, c.1250
Selling price: $300
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Bible.
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from France.The Bible has, of course, always been the center of Christianity from the beginning, but a...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $275
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Large leaf from a Parisian Bible, on vellum.
Large leaf from a Parisian Bible, on vellum, in two columns, 41 lines to the page. Written in black ink, in a well-finished gothic handwriting. From the book of Hebrews. ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1250
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Bible.
A large vellum leaf from a Bible, written in Paris, around 1250! The leaf is from the book of Job, on the verso we see the capital L [for Liber] on the recto Iob. The wri...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1250
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2008
A leaf from 13th century psalter.
A Psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms and which often contains other devotional material. Various schemes for the arrangement of the Psalms are described in...
Place & Date: Flanders, ca. 1250
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2008
French Bible Page
13th Century French Bible page circa 1250. Handwritten from Paris in Gothic Minuscule script. Inks in red and blue the 5 line capitol F has extenders both above and below...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1250
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2008
Manuscript leaf, written on vellum, from a Flemish Psalter.
RECTO: 1 three-line initial N in burnished gold on red and blue ground, 7 one-line initials in fine red and blue pinwork. VERSO: 8 one-line initials with pinwork in red a...
Place & Date: Flanders, c.1250
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2009
Manuscript leaf, written on vellum, from a Flemish Psalter.
RECTO: one 3-line initial A in burnished gold on red and blue ground, eight 1-line initials in fine red and blue penwork.VERSO: eight 1-line initials with penwork in red ...
Place & Date: Flanders, c.1250
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2009
Manuscript leaf from a mid-thirteenth century Parisian Bible, on vellum.
51 lines of text in two columns, finely written in a minute gothic bookhand.VERSO: two 3-line capitals "R" and "N", in burnished gold on red and blue ...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1250
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2011
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