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  1. ANTIPHONAL,

    with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...

    Germany, 1st half of 12th century. 

    Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal. 

    £5000

  2. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

    Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

    A very fine large initial painted in...

    £6750

  3. BEDFORDSHIRE – ARLESEY.

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

    Bedfordshire, 1st half of 13th century.

    Witnessed by Roger Burnard, William Rixpaud,...

    £1400

  4. BOOK OF HOURS,

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

    Flanders or northern France, early 14th...

    An exquisite leaf from an exceptionally...

    £1800

  5. [GRADUAL.]

    Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

    Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

    A spectacular initial on the scale of...

    £20000

  6. JOHN OF FREIBURG.

    Summa confessorum [and] Tractatus de instructione...

    France, mid-fourteenth century.

    From a large and well-decorated manuscript...

    £1500

  7. [CHOIRBOOK.]

    Large historiated initial ‘I’.

    Italy (Umbria), c. 1300.

    A very elegant initial in a style characteristic...

    £4500

  8. [BREVIARY.]

    Sarum Breviary, in Latin.

    England, first quarter of fifteenth century.

    A fragment of twenty-one leaves from...

    £4250

  9. [HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR.]

    Royal order in French authorising payment...

    Paris, 30 March 1415.

    A royal order to pay officials involved...

    £1750

  10. [HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

    Deed granting land to the hospice.

    Metz, 5 May 1464.

    A significant document recording the...

    £450

  11. BALBUS, Johannes.

    Catholicon.

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

    Third edition of the earliest printed...

    £65000

  12. LACTANTIUS.

    Opera.

    [Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

    Magnificent incunable edition of the...

    £25000

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

    Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

    Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

    First edition of this highly important...

    £22500

  14. HENRICUS DE HERP.

    Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

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

    First edition of this collection of...

    £24000

  15. AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius.

    De civitate Dei.

    Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 2 October 1475.

    A tall copy with some deckle edges of...

    £24000

  16. EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS, translator.

    Historia ecclesiastica.

    Rome, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine,...

    The Syston Park copy of the earliest...

    £4500

  17. MERULA, Giorgio.

    Enarrationes Satyrarum Juvenalis.

    Treviso, Bartholomaeus Confalonerius,...

    The first book printed by Bartolomeo...

    £6500

  18. THOMAS CANTIPRATENSIS.

    Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

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

    Second edition of this manual of moral...

    £6000

  19. EYB, Albertus de.

    Margarita poetica.

    Paris, Ulrich Gering, 29 November 1478.

    Very rare edition of a Renaissance manual...

    £15000

  20. [PUBLICIUS, Jacobus.]

    Ars memorativa.

    [Cologne, Johann Guldenschaff, c. 1481.]

    First illustrated edition of this treatise...

    £18000