ANTIPHONAL,

with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...

Germany, 1st half of 12th century. 

Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal. 

£5000

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

A very fine large initial painted in a...

£6750

BEDFORDSHIRE – ARLESEY.

Charter of William Hoye of Arlesey (‘Auricheseya’)...

Bedfordshire, 1st half of 13th century.

Witnessed by Roger Burnard, William Rixpaud,...

£1400

BOOK OF HOURS,

in Latin, from the Hours of the Virgin...

Flanders or northern France, early 14th...

An exquisite leaf from an exceptionally...

£1800

[GRADUAL.]

Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

£20000

JOHN OF FREIBURG.

Summa confessorum [and] Tractatus de instructione...

France, mid-fourteenth century.

From a large and well-decorated manuscript...

£1500

CASSIODORUS.

Expositio Psalmorum, on Psalm LXXIII, verses...

Northern France or Low Countries, c. 1200.

A leaf with part of Cassiodorus’ commentary...

£950

[CHOIRBOOK.]

Large historiated initial ‘I’.

Italy (Umbria), c. 1300.

A very elegant initial in a style characteristic...

£4500

[BREVIARY.]

Sarum Breviary, in Latin.

England, first quarter of fifteenth century.

A fragment of twenty-one leaves from a...

£4250

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...

Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...

An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...

£3500

[HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

Deed granting land to the hospice.

Metz, 5 May 1464.

A significant document recording the grant...

£450

LACTANTIUS.

Opera.

[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

£25000

AUGUSTINUS TRIUMPHUS [i.e. AUGUSTINUS de Ancona].  

Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

First edition of this highly important...

£22500

EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.

Historia ecclesiastica.

Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine,...

The Syston Park copy of the earliest history...

£4500

[BIBLE.] 

Single leaf from Anton Koberger’s German...

[Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 17 February...

A very attractive leaf from a deluxe copy...

£750

MEFFRET, Johann.

Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

[Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

A volume of sermons with early English...

£6500

THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor.

Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].

Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September...

First collected edition of seventy-one...

£3750

ANTONIUS de Vercellis. 

Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus...

Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis,...

A remarkable copy of the first edition...

£8500

VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

Sermones quadragesimales [– de tempore...

[(Colophons:) Venice, Simon de Luere for...

An annotated copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s...

£3250

[INDULGENCE.] 

Letter of Indulgence (in Catalan),...

[Lerida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498.] 

Extremely rare incunable indulgence in...

£34000