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Auction Name
Online: Western Medieval Manuscripts: the Property of a Gentleman
Auction Date
12/03/2025 - 12/03/2025
Sale Number
#1087
Total Lots
60
Sold Lots
30.0
Lots Sold
50.00%
Unsold Lots
30
Total Sales (GBP)
30,911.80
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
22,900.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
33,600.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
55,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
80,100.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
38.59%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
56

Breviary, of Franciscan Use, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [northern Italy, second

second half of the fifteenth century GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,810.00
57

Monastic prayerbook, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [Italy (perhaps Brescia), fifteenth

fifteenth century GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 3,048.00
23

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

c. 1300 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,794.00
28

Single leaf from the glittering Bute-Soissons Hours, in Latin, opulently illuminated manuscript on

c. 1370-1400 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,905.00
14

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

c. 1450 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,270.00
25

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

early fourteenth century GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,206.50
8

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

mid-fourteenth century GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,206.50
4

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

third quarter of the twelfth century GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,079.50
29

Text leaf from the 'Chester Beatty Book of Hours', in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum,

dated 1408 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,079.50
40

Leaf from the Psalter with Passion Sequences copied by Pietro Ursuleo of Capuo, in Latin, opulently

c. 1460 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 952.50
10

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

c. 1400 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 825.50
30

Leaf from a Book of Hours, decorated with medieval dragons, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on

first half of the fifteenth century GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 825.50
50

Leaf from an early manuscript of Gratian's Decretum, C.xxxviii-xliv, on heresy, and the Church's

second half of the twelfth century (before c. 1180) GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 825.50
59

Two modern studies of medieval Insular or English illumination, in Latin and West Saxon (Old

nineteenth or twentieth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 825.50
16

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

c. 1210-20 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 825.50
22

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

c. 1300 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 825.50
24

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

c. 1300 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 762.00
60

Three modern facsimiles of initials, miniatures and corresponding sections of text by William Thomas

nineteenth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 762.00
11

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

fifteenth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 698.50
13

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

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

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