Browse Listings in Medieval & Oriental Manuscripts
Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible.
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including John 12:19 to John 14:1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center of Chri...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2018
Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including Kings 8 : 66 to Kings 11:1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center of C...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $350
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Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including Samuel 17 : 23 to Samuel 19 :1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $435
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including Samuel 17 : 23 to Samuel 19 :1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including Samuel 14 : 10 to Samuel 15 :1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $500
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, c. 1220 - 1260
Selling price: $375
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The Homilies 13th Century
13th Century vellum leaf by Pope Gregory (Gregory the Great, Pope 590 ? 604) the Homilies (Biblical commentaries) produced in Italy. Gothic script, capitals touched in re...
Place & Date: Italy 1250-1260
Selling price: $105
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Peter Lombard?s Sententiarum ca. 1260
13th Century vellum leaf from Peter Lombard?s Sententiarum Libri Quator, produced in Italy. Lombard?s work was initially branded as heresy and only later accepted by the ...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1260
Selling price: $198
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Bible Page 13th Century
This is a medieval manuscript page on vellum handwritten in Paris, France in the mid-thirteenth Century. 49 lines of text ruled in plummet. Here is an example of an elega...
Place & Date: Paris, 1260
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Peter Lombard's Sententiarum
This is a 13 Century work by Peter Lombard. The Church originally deemed this work by Lombard as heretical but later relented. This sheet was hand written in Italy in the...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1260
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2008
Leaf in manuscript on vellum, in Latin.
RECTO: 7 initials in burnished gold for the beginning of the different verses, other initials in blue with contrasting red penwork, fancy linefillers in gold and colors. ...
Place & Date: France 1250-1280
Selling price: $650
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal.
Written in North or Eastern part of France in the late thirteenth century. Capitals touched in red. One large historiated initial on blue ground with miniature painted in...
Place & Date: France, 1260-1280
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2015
French Bible Page ca 1280
This is a 13th century bible page done in Paris, France. There is a four line initial I in red with extenders on one side and a four line initial F with extenders on the ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1280
Selling price: $220
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English Bible page ca. 1280
This is a 13th century bible page done in England. There is a 15 line initial J in red with blue extenders and a 2 line initial A in red with blue extenders on one side. ...
Place & Date: England, ca. 1280
Selling price: $275
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The Homilies
13th Century vellum leaf by Pope Gregory (Gregory the Great, Pope 590 ñ 604) the Homilies (Biblical commentaries) produced in Italy. Gothic Script, capitals touched in r...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1280
Selling price: $100
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Bible Leaf
13th Century vellum leaf from a French Bible. L on left in red.
Place & Date: France, c. 1280
Selling price: $125
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Bible Leaf
13th Century vellum leaf from a French Bible.
Place & Date: France, c. 1280
Selling price: $125
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Bible Page 13 Century
This is a Saints Page from a small 13th Century miniature or portable Bible. The script is called miniscule.
Place & Date: ca. 1280
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2008
Bible Page 13th Century
One four-line initial in blue, two two-line initials in red and one two-line initial in blue. Verso has alternating one-line red/blue initial h's.
Place & Date: ca. 1280
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2008
Leaf from a manuscript Bible.
Typical leaf from a 13th.century French bible. Headings in red, capitals touched in red, running-titles and chapter numbers in alternately red and blue letters. There are...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1280
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2010
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Very rare leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling. Pencil fo...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
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
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2023
Illuminated leaf from a Liturgical 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: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $261
Sold in 2014
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: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2016
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Very rare leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling. Pencil fo...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2016
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Very rare leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling.With a rem...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $345
Sold in 2017
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling. Pencil foliation in the upper right corner indi...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $231
Sold in 2019
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling. Pencil foliation in the upper right corner indi...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling. Very fine initial extended in the mar...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2022
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
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2021
The Golden Legend 1300's
Leaf on vellum from "The Legenda Aurea" of Jacobus de Voragine. From the Golden Legend concerning the lives of the Saints. Originally written about 1260. Only a...
Place & Date: circa 1300
Selling price: $375
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![Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.](/uploads/cache/35742-250x250.jpg)
Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.
Both sides are illuminated with striking initials extending with elaborate pen work into the margin.RECTO: One 2 two-line initial in blue and red with contrasting penwork...
Place & Date: Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1300
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2015
Double page from an early Psalter.
Rare double-leaf from a 13th,century psalter, written on vellum,in black ink. These two leaves are leaf 3(numbered 216) and leaf 6(numbered 219) from a gathering of 8 lea...
Place & Date: Flanders, ca. 1300
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2018
BREVIARY
Leaf from a breviary, on vellum, with 15 lines of text in an early gothic bookhand, in very dark brown ink. RECTO: A large historiated "C"onverte nos deus salut...
Place & Date: Northern France / Flanders, ca. 1300
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2013
![Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.](/uploads/cache/33594-250x250.jpg)
Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.
Both sides are illuminated with striking initials extending with elaborate pen work into the margin.RECTO: Two 2 two-line initial in blue and red with contrasting penwork...
Place & Date: Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1300
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
![Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.](/uploads/cache/33595-250x250.jpg)
Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.
Both sides are illuminated with striking initials extending with elaborate pen work into the margin.RECTO: One 2 two-line initial in blue and red with contrasting penwork...
Place & Date: Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1300
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2013
![Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.](/uploads/cache/33596-250x250.jpg)
Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.
Both sides are illuminated with striking initials extending with elaborate pen work into the margin.RECTO: One two-line initial in blue and red with contrasting penwork, ...
Place & Date: Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1300
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2013
![Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.](/uploads/cache/33597-250x250.jpg)
Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.
Both sides are illuminated with striking initials extending with elaborate pen work into the margin.RECTO: 5 two-line initials in blue and red with contrasting penwork, s...
Place & Date: Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1300
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2013
![Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.](/uploads/cache/33598-250x250.jpg)
Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.
Both sides are illuminated with striking initials extending with elaborate pen work into the margin.VERSO: 2 two-line initials and many one-line initials in red or blue.
Place & Date: Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1300
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
![Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.](/uploads/cache/33599-250x250.jpg)
Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.
Both sides are illuminated with striking initials extending with elaborate pen work into the margin.RECTO: One two-line initial in blue and red with contrasting penwork, ...
Place & Date: Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1300
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2013