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Bloomsbury Auctions: Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures

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Auction Name Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures Total Sales (GBP) 480,652.00
Auction Date July 06, 2017 - July 06, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 239,050.00
Sale Number #36263 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 356,550.00
Total Lots 175
Sold Lots 106 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 432,250.00
% of Lots Sold 60.57% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 648,900.00
Unsold Lots 69 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 74.07%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
97

Compendium of Canon Law, Homilies and religious treatises, partly copied by the scribe Nicolaos, manuscript in Greek, on paper, in a Greek-style binding perhaps made in Western Europe

c. 1430-1440 and c. 1470-1500 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 68,200.00
98

The Antonine Itinerary, with its additions for maritime travel and ports, decorated humanist manuscript, in Latin on paper

c. 1500 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 52,080.00
1

Charlemagne's Admonitio Generalis, the Aachen capitulary of 789, single leaf from a decorated manuscript in Latin on parchment

last decades of eighth century or early decades of ninth century GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 44,640.00
99

Juvenal, Satires I-XVI, in dactylic hexameter verse, with introductory hexameter to satires II, IV-VIII by Guarino da Verona, fine humanist manuscript in Latin on parchment

second half of the fifteenth century GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 37,200.00
62

The Master of the Montepulciano Gradual (formerly identified as the work of the Master of San Giovanni Fuorcivitas), a virgin saint being crowned at moment of execution, in a large historiated initial, on a leaf from the Sanctorale volume of a set of il

second quarter of the fourteenth century (probably c. 1325-1335) GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 32,240.00
115

The Hardouin Hours, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on parchment

end of fourteenth century or opening decades of fifteenth century GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 28,520.00
69

R ental Roll for the Christchurch ecclesiastical estate, Ipswich, large scroll in Latin with Middle English inscription on outside and occasional Middle English bynames, manuscript on parchment

last decades of thirteenth century (probably immediately before 1291) GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 22,320.00
91

Single large leaf from a monumental Glagolitic Breviary, with part of the reading for the Feast of St. Apollonia, from a decorated manuscript on parchment

fifteenth century GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 17,360.00
113

Psalter, of Dominican Use, illuminated manuscript in Latin on parchment

fifteenth century GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 11,160.00
131

A Moroccan Dala'il al-Khayrat , in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on paper

dated 1216 AH. (1801/2 AD.) GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 9,300.00
90

Leaf from a notably large and early copy of the Gospel of Matthew, in Armenian, on parchment

tenth or perhaps eleventh century GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 6,200.00
165

Krishna and Balarama Fight the Evil King Kamsa's Wrestlers, scene from the Bhagavata Purana , Indian miniature on card, probably Kangra school

early nineteenth century GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,704.00
112

Monastic Rule of the Third Order of Franciscans, and various practical Offices, a Litany and an Office for Dead, decorated manuscript in Italian and Latin, on parchment

fourteenth century GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 5,456.00
5

Augustine, Sermons , complete leaf and stub of its conjoint leaf within the bifolium, from a manuscript in Latin on parchment

tenth century GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 4,960.00
66

Two Franciscans reading and bearing witness as God appears to them, in a large historiated initial on a leaf from an illuminated manuscript choir psalter on parchment

c. 1430-40 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,960.00
125

The Prayerbook of Anna Catharina Karbanin of Wolschan, eastern border of Czech Republic, illuminated manuscript in German on paper and parchment

dated 1655 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 4,960.00
119

Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

c. 1450-60 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,340.00
163

A Prince and Princess seated in a chamber with a hugga , illuminated Indian miniature on card, Kangra school

c. 1810 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 4,340.00
164

Lord Krishna and the bathing Gopis, scene from the Bhagavata Purana, Indian miniature on paper, Kangra school

early nineteenth century GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 3,968.00
84

The Rental book of Diethers von Ernberg , in German, manuscript on paper

dated 1555 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,720.00
8

Two bifolia from an early Gradual, in Latin on parchment

second half of the twelfth century GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,596.00
11

Aristotle, De Physica, in Latin translation, leaf from a decorated manuscript on parchment

thirteenth century GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,472.00
37

Leaf from a copy of Tacuinum Sanitatis, a fundamentally important medical text, manuscript in Latin on parchment

late thirteenth century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,472.00
75

Grant of Lord ‘Harsquy' of Cleseby of rights over woodland named “Scroges” near Ellerton, North Yorkshire, to Mahen of Wassingburn, with the right to ‘cut and carry at will' reserving only the common of pasture for Lord Harsculph, manuscript document in

dated 10 July 1305 (‘the Saturday after the feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr') GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,472.00
138

A Quranic fragment from the Ilkhanid period , from the Al-Ahzab (33:37) to Saba (34:22), forming a near-complete Qur'anic Hizb, in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on paper

c.1300 AD. GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 3,100.00
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    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
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