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Highlights from the Mendham Collection: The Property of the Law Society of England and Wales

05 June 2013 | 10:00 AM BST | London

SALE TOTAL

1,180,875GBP
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  • 64
    Gardiner, Stephen, and John Ponet
    A traictise declaryng and plainly prouyng, that the pretensed marriage of priestes, and professed persones, is no mariage, but altogether vnlawful... by Thomas Martin. London: Robert Caly, 1554
    LOT SOLD.116,500GBP
  • 104
    Missal. Use of Sarum
    Missale secundu[m] usum insignis ecclesie Sar[um]. (Rouen: Martin Morin for Jean Richard, 26 November 1510)
    LOT SOLD.86,500GBP
  • 36
    Book of Hours. Use of Sarum
    with additions including Middle English verse by Lydgate, illuminated manuscript in Latin and Middle English, on vellum. [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges) for English use, and England, mid-fifteenth century]
    LOT SOLD.68,500GBP
  • 25
    Bible. Old Testament. Greek
    Η παλαια διαθηκη κατα τους εβδομηκοντα δι αυθεντιας. Vetus testamenta iuxta septuaginta. Rome: Francesco Zannetti, 1586 (altered in manuscript to 1587)
    LOT SOLD.50,000GBP
  • 77
    Roman Catholic Church
    Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Louvain, Antwerp, Paris, Strasbourg, Venice, Bologna, Rome, Cologne, Vienna, Lisbon, Madrid and elsewhere: 1546-1844
    LOT SOLD.50,000GBP
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Sale Number: L13409 Lots : 142

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The Mendham Collection was assembled by the Anglican clergyman Joseph Mendham (1769-1856) and contains mostly fifteenth and sixteenth century books relating to the dawn of the Reformation, particularly relating to England.

There are early Bible printings (including Greek and polyglot versions), rare liturgical texts, the first publications of the Church of England, and a substantial collection of the Catholic Church’s notorious Index of Prohibited Books. Also included are some early pilgrim’s guides to Rome, the Mirabilia Romaeand a group of early sixteenth-century English bindings, one of which (Duranti’s Rationale) was originally in the library of St Cuthbert’s Cathedral Priory, Durham.

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