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12The Breviary of Marie (1344-1404), Duchess of Bar, Daughter of Bonne of Luxembourg and King John II (the Good) of France, Franciscan Use, in Latin with a few rubrics in French [France (Paris), c.1360]LOT SOLD.610,000GBP -
8John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew’s Gospel, in Greek [Byzantine Empire (Constantinople), late 9th century]LOT SOLD.250,000GBP -
11Bible, with prologues and interpretations of Hebrew Names, in Latin [France (Paris), c.1250]LOT SOLD.81,250GBP -
159Schedel, HartmannLiber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493LOT SOLD.65,000GBP -
18Prayerbook with Sequences and Hymns, in Dutch with some Latin rubrics [northern Netherlands (Delft), c.1460-80]LOT SOLD.60,000GBP -
10Bible, with prologues and Interpretations of Hebrew Names, in Latin [France (Paris), c.1250-75]LOT SOLD.56,250GBP -
19Compilation of pastoral works by Guido de Monte Roquiero, Jean Gerson, and others, in Latin and French [France (Paris), c.1430, perhaps shortly before the death of Jean Gerson in 1429]LOT SOLD.50,000GBP -
13Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin [northern France or southern Netherlands (Cambrai?), c.1460]LOT SOLD.37,500GBP -
16Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, in Latin and French [France (Rouen), c.1500-10]LOT SOLD.37,500GBP -
168Vitruvius, Cleonides, Frontinus, PolizianoCleonides, Harmonicum introductorium [translated by Georgius Valla]; Vitruvius, De architectura; Angelus Politianus, Panepistemon; Lamia (Praelectio in Priora Aristotelis Analytica); Frontinus, De aquaeductibus. Venice: Simon Bevilacqua, 3 August 1497LOT SOLD.32,500GBP
Overview
The sale of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Continental and Russian Books features the Breviary of Marie (1344-1404), Duchess of Bar, daughter of Bonne of Luxembourg and King John II (the Good) of France, personalised for her with several full-page portraits and her coat of arms. John Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew, written in Greek in Constantinople in the late 9th century, presents another highlight. The Continental books section includes numerous incunabula and some fine Italian bindings, together with a leaf from a blockbook Apocalypse. There is a complete set of the monumental Russian heraldic work produced in the early nineteenth century, Obshchii gerbovnik dvoryanskikh rodov Vserossiiskiya Imperii, as well as an illuminated manuscript produced in the 1930s by Granduchess Victoria Federovna.
