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

[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

[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

BALBUS, Johannes.

Catholicon.

[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch),...

Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon,...

£65000

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

HERP, Hendrik.

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...

First edition of this collection of sermons...

£24000

EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.

Historia ecclesiastica.

Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine,...

The Syston Park copy of the earliest history...

£4500

THOMAS of Cantimpré.

Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

[Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder,...

Second edition of this manual of moral...

£6000

[INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]

Sammelband of ten works.

Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...

A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...

£25000

PFEFFER DE WYDENBERG, Johannes.

[Directorium sacerdotale.]

[Basel, Johann Besicken, after 20 December...

First and only incunable edition, very...

£6500

[SERMONS.]

[Sermones sensati.]

[(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...

First and only incunable edition of a rare...

£8500

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