Lot 41
  • 41

BINDING FRAGMENTS, IN LATIN, ITALIAN, AND GERMAN [ITALY AND GERMANY, 14TH AND 15TH CENTURIES]

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400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • ink and bodycolour on vellum
15 fragments, all on paper except the document, all in cursive hands and all apparently recovered from use in book bindings, with consequent wear and damage: (a-e) 5 substantially complete leaves of accounts in mercantesca script, IN ITALIAN, each c.335x235mm; (f–l) 5 incomplete bifolia of a Breviary, c.210x320mm, and two smaller pieces, rubrics in textura (e.g. ‘Dominica quarta in adventu domini’), with decorated initials; (m, n) 2 incomplete bifolia from a grammatical treatise, each originally c.205x300mm, including ‘De relativo et suo precedente. Regula …’; (o) a slightly cropped document, IN GERMAN, 31 lines, c.305x510mm, with a calligraphic initial: ‘In hansz füngerlin vogt zum Weutclicken(?) Richier anstatt und in namen der fr. Marggravischen Badischen Vormundt …’