Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
July 1874
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/19
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VETOES LAVAL fot Horners J voll 1874, A ROUGH LIST he RARE, FINE AND “VALUABLE BOOKS — OF ALL CLASSES OF LITERATURE, just obtained from various Private Inbraries in England and abroad, and offered for Cash at the affixed nett Prices, by BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY, W. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS. 1 Spanish Missal: Inctrprr Liprr Missaris, secunpuMm CoNnsuETU- DINEM SepIs VALENTIM, CUM CALENDARIO, large folio, SPLENDID MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, finely illuminated in gold and colours, the first page of text ornamented with an EX- QUISITH ARABESQUE BORDER, displaying the arms of the owner supported by flying cupids,and a BEAUTIFUL MINIA- TURE of the Annunciation richly painted in colours and height- ened with gold. Before the Canon of the Mass are TWO ~ LARGE PAINTINGS (12 by 8 inches) of the Eccn Homo. and the CRUCIFIXION, by an EARLY SPANISH ARTIST, admi- rably executed in vivid colours heightened with gold ; the whole volume in astonishingly perfect preservation, and bound in the original oak boards, covered with stamped morocco | Smc. XV (1477) £148. This splendid manuscript was written in the year 1477, as appears from the first leaf of calendar which commences “In hoc Anno Domini m.cecc.lxxvii est littera dominicalis e ut in eruce.’’ Specimens of early Spanish art are excessively rare, and the present MS. is one so remarkably fine and so brilliantly decorated, in the Italian style which then came into use amongst the Spaniards, that it would form a specially valuable feature in any palwographical collection. There is, as compared with the Italian- esque ornamentation, a more destinctive character in the two lar ge paint- ings, which are truly imposing works of Art. The face of the mother in the picture of Crucifixion is an extremely beautiful specimen of art. 2 ARISTOTLE. Liber Moralium. de Regimine Dominorum qui dicitur SECRETUM SECRETORUM, editus ab Aristotile . phylosopho phylosophorum, small 8vo. neat Ltalian Manuscript on vellum, the first page and the initials ornamented with gold, bound in vellum Hunce librum scribi fecit S. Dns. Rodulphus de Feusigniaco—Hoc opus fuit rescriptum prout in exemplari fuit repertum. (About a.p. 1460.) A curious little book on the duties of government by princes, dedi- cated to “‘ Guido de Valentia Trippolis pontifex” (Gui de Valence, Bishop of Tripolis in Syria) by “ Philippus suorum minimus clericorum,’’—who professes to have translated it from the Arabic original, found by him 5 when with the Crusaders in the Holy Land. i) bo © A