Forum Auctions: Online: Western Medieval Manuscripts: the Property of a Gentleman, 1087, London

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 03, 2025 - December 03, 2025
Page Size: 60 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Leaf from a Romanesque German Psalter, in Latin, decorated manuscript on Latin, Germany, twelfth

Germany twelfth century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
2

Leaf from a gargantuan Lectionary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [Italy, first half of

Italy first half of the twelfth century GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
3

Leaf from a Romanesque Lectionary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [Italy, mid-twelfth

Italy mid-twelfth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
4

Two near-complete leaves from a compilation of texts on the Sacrament, including Ivo of Chartres,

probably England third quarter of the twelfth century GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,079.50
5

Leaf from an illuminated English Psalter, in Latin, manuscript on vellum, [England (perhaps York),

England (perhaps York) c. 1200 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
6

Leaf from Otto Ege's 'Cambridge Bible', in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [England

England (perhaps Cambridge) first half of the thirteenth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
7

Leaf from a Lectionary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [probably England, first half of

probably England first half of the fourteenth century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 355.60
8

Leaf from an English illuminated Psalter, in Latin, manuscript on vellum, [England (probably East

England (probably East Anglia) mid-fourteenth century GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,206.50
9

Bifolium from a tiny English portable Breviary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [England,

England late fourteenth century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 635.00
10

Leaf from the so-called 'Norwich Breviary', Use of Sarum, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on

England (probably Gloucestershire) c. 1400 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 825.50
11

Leaf from a large English Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [England, fifteenth

England fifteenth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 698.50
12

Cutting from a pocket-sized English liturgical manual, probably a Missal, in Latin, decorated

England first half of the fifteenth century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
13

Large cutting from a leaf from an English Breviary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum,

England early years of the fifteenth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 698.50
14

Leaf from a finely illuminated Book of Hours, with border decoration ascribed to an associate of the

Low Countries (probably Bruges,) for the English market, or Low Countries and England c. 1450 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,270.00
15

Large leaf from the 'Hofer Bible' (end of the book of Ruth), in Latin, decorated manuscript on

north-eastern France or adjacent Flanders (probably Tournai, Arras or Lille) c. 1260-1270 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
16

Two leaves from Peter Lombard, Magna Glossatura in Epistolas Pauli (the letters of St. Paul,

northern France (probably Paris) c. 1210-20 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 825.50
17

Leaf from a Psalter, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France, first half of the

France first half of the thirteenth century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
18

Leaf from the 'Rheims Psalter', in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, [northern France

northern France (Paris or Rheims) mid-thirteenth century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
19

Leaf from a Psalter, with a white dove inside an initial, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on

France mid-thirteenth century (probably after c. 1230) GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
20

Leaf from an early Choirbook, in Latin, manuscript on vellum

France thirteenth century GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
21

Leaf from a Missal, with an initial with tiny animal masks, in Latin, manuscript on vellum, [France,

France second half of thirteenth century GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 241.30
22

Leaf from Rufinus of Aquilea's continuation of his Latin translation of Eusebius of Caesarea,

France or adjacent Low Countries c. 1300 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 825.50
23

The last leaf of the Psalms, from the so-called 'Bible of Mirmelus Arnandi', in Latin,

France (Paris) c. 1300 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,794.00
24

Text leaf from the 'Chester Beatty Bible', his manuscript MS.W.173, in Latin, manuscript on

France (probably south west) c. 1300 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 762.00
25

Leaf from a manuscript of the 'Saint-Jacques Bible Concordance', in Latin, on vellum, [France,

France early fourteenth century GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,206.50
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