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36Sefer Torah (Pentateuch), in Hebrew, manuscript scroll on vellum [Ashkenazi scribe in Italy, fourteenth century]Los Verkauft182.500GBP -
48Rental of the lands of Worcester Priory, in Latin and Anglo-Saxon, decorated manuscript on vellum [England (Worcester), dated 1240, with a few additions to 1285 and 1365]Los Verkauft110.500GBP -
46Guillaume Crétin, Cronique Françoyse, in French verse, illuminated manuscript on vellum, in five monumental volumes [northern France (Paris), c.1530]Los Verkauft74.500GBP -
5The Fackelmann diplomatic papyrus collection, manuscripts in Greek, Demotic and Coptic, on papyrus [Egypt, third century BC. to first century BC., plus two documents of fifth century AD.]Los Verkauft50.000GBP -
49Book of Hours, in German, illuminated manuscript on vellum [south-eastern France (Lyon), c.1482]Los Verkauft37.500GBP
Übersicht
RESULTS
The sale of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts offered remarkable examples, ranging geographically across Europe, Egypt, Armenia and the Near-East, written in eight languages and spanning nearly three millennia. It included a Rental from Worcester Priory with a hitherto unrecorded copy of a charter of King Edgar with words and phrases in Anglo-Saxon which sold for three times the low estimate at £90,000. Other highlights were a sixteenth-century French Chronicle in five volumes with a remarkable provenance which realized £60,000 and a rare Torah scroll from circa 1400 – one of the earliest to survive – which sold for £150,000.
AUCTION DETAILS
The sale of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts on 2 December 2014 offers a number of important manuscripts, including a 16th-century French Chronicle in five volumes with a remarkable provenance and a Rental from Worcester Priory which includes a hitherto unrecorded copy of a charter of King Edgar with words and phrases in Anglo-Saxon. There are a number of cuttings from lavishly illuminated manuscripts, of which perhaps the most opulent is a 15th-century historiated initial with a rare scene from the collection of Lord Clark.
