Western Manuscripts and Miniatures

Ɵ Single leaf from a monumental Biblical codex, with Revelation 18-19, in Latin, manuscript on parchment, in situ on the binding of a printed copy...

Ɵ Cutting from a monumental Old Testament codex, in Latin, manuscript on parchment, in situ on the binding of a copy of Von der Fürsichtigkeit Got...

Ɵ Bifolium from a large and handsome Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, in situ on the binding of a manuscript record of a legal...

A small teaching collection of fragments of medieval manuscripts, in Latin, French, German and Spanish, on parchment [tenth or eleventh to sixteen...

Collection of leaves or cuttings from liturgical manuscripts, in Latin, on parchment [Italy and Germany, thirteenth to sixteenth century]To view a...

Collection of leaves from medieval manuscripts, in Latin, on parchment [Germany, c. 1200 to fourteenth century]To view a video of this lot, click ...

Collection of leaves or cuttings from medieval musical manuscripts, in Latin, on parchment [Germany, thirteenth to fifteenth century]To view a vid...

Leaves from a medical text with entries on lung diseases including pneumonia (here "peripneumonia"), in Latin, from a parchment manuscript still i...

Ɵ The medical compilation of Siguna Stübichin, a noble female medical practitioner from Renaissance Germany, in German, manuscript on paper [Austr...

The Galletti Alchemical Compendium, including the celebrated Summa perfectionis magisterii attributed to Geber (Jabir ibn Hayyan), and other texts...

Large collection of charters, predominantly English, in Latin, French and English, manuscript documents mostly on parchment [England, fourteenth t...

Ɵ Emperor Charles V, document legitimising bastard sons of the Corner (Cornelia) family of Venice and the Malaspina of Castle Aquila in Sarzana, a...

Ɵ Venetian ducal document, issued by Doge Silvestro Valier in favour of Giovanni Tomaso di Colloredo and endorsing his inheritance of the family e...

Ɵ Boniface VIII,Liber sextus decretalium, the Constitutiones clementinae and other collections of Papal judgements on aspects of Canon Law, in Lat...

Ɵ Antonius Azaro de Parma, Homilies, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Germany (Ulm), dated 1393]To view a video of this lot, click here. 2...

Ɵ Bartholomeus de Sancto Concordio, Summa de casibus conscientiae, in Latin, stout pocket-sized illuminated manuscript on parchment [Italy (Milan)...

Ɵ Legal compendium, drawing on Justinian, Institutiones, and Bartolo da Sassoferrato, Quaestio et Repetitio, in Latin, manuscript on paper [Italy,...

Ɵ Werner Rolevinck, De fraterna correctione and Tractatulus de forma visitationum, in Latin, large manuscript on paper [Germany (most probably Col...

Ɵ Soliloquia animae ad deum, attributed to Augustine, prayers attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux and Anselm of Canterbury, and other works includi...

Ɵ Lactantius, Divinarum Institutionum Libri VII, in Latin, large and handsome Renaissance manuscript on paper [Italy (central or north), c. 1450]T...

Ɵ Humanist compendium, including letters by Donato Acciaioli, and other similar works, with notes from Classical texts and Canon Law, in Latin wit...

Ɵ Battistino de Tonsis, Historia della presa di Tripoli, in Italian, with Latin and Italian verses addressed to the author and the dedicatee Gerol...

Ɵ Vocabulario militaris, extracted from Roberto Valturio, De re militari, book VIII with illustrations from book X of the same, illustrated manusc...

Ɵ Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin with Middle English inscription, illuminated manuscript on parchment [southern Netherlands (presumably Bru...

Ɵ Giovanni Scala, Deffinitioni bellisime di geometrica, in Italian, manuscript with illustrations and a volvelle, on paper [Italy (probably Lucca ...

Ɵ A Sienese chronicle from 1238 to 1466, in Italian, illustrated manuscript on paper [Italy (Siena), c. 1600]To view a video of this lot, click he...

Ɵ Two volumes containing collections of mottos and notes on ethics, in Italian, manuscripts on paper with a noble Italian provenance [Italy, late ...

Ɵ Li avvenimenti delli straccioni occorso nella città di Lucca l'anno 1531, in Italian, manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Lucca), c. 1640]To vi...

Ɵ History and Statutes of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, in Italian, manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Rome), mid-sev...

Ɵ In universam Aristotelis Physicam commentarii et disputationes", "Quaestiones quae supersunt In Metaphysicam Aristotelis" and "Disputationes ad ...

Ɵ Giusto de 'Conti, La Bella Mano, following the edition of Jacopo Corbinelli, in Italian verse, manuscript on paper [Italy, seventeenth century]T...

Ɵ Leandro Fernández de Moratín, La Mojigata, Comedia en tres actos, a play in Spanish, presentation copy from the author to Baroness Holland, manu...