ANTIPHONAL,

with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...

Germany, 1st half of 12th century. 

Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal. 

£5000

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

A very fine large initial painted in a...

£6750

QUR’AN.

Maghribi Qur’an leaf with illumination...

?Andalusia, c. 1250–1350 AD.

A fine example of a maghribi frontispiece...

£15000

BEDFORDSHIRE – ARLESEY.

Charter of William Hoye of Arlesey (‘Auricheseya’)...

Bedfordshire, 1st half of 13th century.

Witnessed by Roger Burnard, William Rixpaud,...

£1400

[GRADUAL.]

Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

£20000

[CHOIRBOOK.]

Large historiated initial ‘I’.

Italy (Umbria), c. 1300.

A very elegant initial in a style characteristic...

£4500

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...

Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...

An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...

£3500

[HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

Deed granting land to the hospice.

Metz, 5 May 1464.

A significant document recording the grant...

£450

BALBUS, Johannes.

Catholicon.

[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch),...

Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon,...

£65000

LACTANTIUS.

Opera.

[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

£25000

AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  

Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

First edition of this highly important...

£22500

HERP, Hendrik.

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...

First edition of this collection of sermons...

£24000

PAULUS DE SANCTA MARIA.

Scrutinium scripturarum.

[Strasbourg, Johann Mentelin, c. 1474.]

Third edition of this treatise of Christian...

£10000

[BONIOHANNES de Messana, attributed.]

Speculum sapiencie beati Cirilli episcopi...

[Basel, Michael Wenssler, c. 1475.]

An attractive early incunable edition of...

£7250

EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.

Historia ecclesiastica.

Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine,...

The Syston Park copy of the earliest history...

£4500

GERSON, Johannes [Pseudo-].

Donatus [moralisatus].

[Nuremberg, Friedrich Creussner, c. 1475.]

Early editions of two rare devotional tracts...

£8500

THOMAS of Cantimpré.

Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

[Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder,...

Second edition of this manual of moral...

£6000

PIUS II, Pope (Enea Silvio PICCOLOMINI); Nicolaus DE WYLE, editor.

[Epistolae familiares; De duobus amantibus...

[Reutlingen, Michael Greyff, not after 1478.]

First combined edition of Pius II’s...

£12500

LUDOLPH of Saxony.

Vita Christi.

Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 20 December 1478.

Early incunable edition of Ludolph of Saxony’s...

£45000

URSINIS, Bartholomaeus de.

[Quadragesimale quod dicitur Gratia Dei.]

[Naples, Francesco del Tuppo for Bernardinus...

First and only edition, a handsome, wide-margined...

£27500