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Western & Oriental Manuscripts

Sotheby's, London

Date of the auction: 03.12.2008

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Lot number 1
Fragments from a Sacramentary in Beneventan Minuscule, in Latin, on vellum
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£3,500
ca. US$5,204
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Lot number 2
Collection of leaves from decorated manuscripts, in Latin, on vellum
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£3,250
ca. US$4,833
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Lot number 3
Collection of leaves from decorated manuscripts, in Italian and Latin, on...
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£5,000
ca. US$7,435
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Lot number 4
Fragment of the Gospels of Luke and John, glossed, in Latin, twenty-five...
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£4,375
ca. US$6,506
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Lot number 5
Two binding fragments from decorated manuscripts, in Latin, on vellum
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
n. a.
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Lot number 6
Collection of binding fragments from decorated and illuminated manuscripts...
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
n. a.
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Lot number 7
Petrarch, Trionfi d'Amore and Trionfi della Castità ('Triumph of Love' and...
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
n. a.
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Lot number 8
St. James the Apostle, large historiated initial on a cutting from a...
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£6,250
ca. US$9,294
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Lot number 9
Two miniatures on cuttings from illuminated manuscripts on vellum
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£3,250
ca. US$4,833
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Lot number 10
St. Ursula, large historiated initial on a single leaf from an illuminated...
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
n. a.
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Lot number 11
Three miniatures on cuttings from illuminated choirbook manuscripts on vellum
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,948 - US$8,922
Price realised:
£49,250
ca. US$73,241
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Lot number 12
Two miniatures on leaves from illuminated Books of Hours, manuscripts on vellum
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£3,250
ca. US$4,833
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Lot number 13
Four miniatures on cuttings from two illuminated choirbook manuscripts on...
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£4,750
ca. US$7,063
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Lot number 14
Four miniatures on cuttings from illuminated manuscripts on vellum
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£10,000
ca. US$14,871
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Lot number 15
The Circumcision of Abraham and Isaac, and the Battle of the Four Kings and...
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£12,500
ca. US$18,589
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Lot number 16
St. John seated on Patmos writing his Gospel, on a leaf from a Book of...
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£3,750
ca. US$5,576
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Lot number 17
The New Year's Tournament, very large miniature cut from an illuminated...
Estimate
£8,000 - £10,000
ca. US$11,897 - US$14,871
Price realised:
£7,500
ca. US$11,153
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Lot number 18
Two gigantic leaves, one with an extremely large initial containing the...
Estimate
£6,000 - £8,000
ca. US$8,922 - US$11,897
Price realised:
n. a.
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Lot number 19
Collection of miniatures from illuminated manuscripts, on vellum
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
n. a.
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Lot number 20
Four miniatures, illuminated manuscripts on vellum
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£12,500
ca. US$18,589
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Lot number 21
Collection of charters and illuminated manuscript leaves and fragments, in...
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£4,000
ca. US$5,948
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Lot number 22
Sefer Torah (Pentateuch), in Hebrew, attributed to the celebrated biblical...
Estimate
£150,000 - £170,000
ca. US$223,069 - US$252,812
Price realised:
£265,250
ca. US$394,462
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Lot number 23
Gospel of John, in Greek, large fragment from a manuscript codex on papyrus
Estimate
£200,000 - £300,000
ca. US$297,426 - US$446,139
Price realised:
n. a.
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Lot number 24
Gospel of Mark, in Greek, fragment of a manuscript on vellum
Estimate
£8,000 - £12,000
ca. US$11,897 - US$17,845
Price realised:
n. a.
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Lot number 26
The Entry into Jerusalem, the Last Supper, and two decorated Eusebian Canon...
Estimate
£8,000 - £12,000
ca. US$11,897 - US$17,845
Price realised:
£37,250
ca. US$55,395
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Lot number 27
Hieremias de Montagnone, Compendium moralium notabilium and other works, in...
Estimate
£12,000 - £18,000
ca. US$17,845 - US$26,768
Price realised:
£15,000
ca. US$22,307
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Lot number 28
St. Ambrose, Hexameron (an encyclopaedic treatise on the history of the...
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,948 - US$8,922
Price realised:
£20,000
ca. US$29,742
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Lot number 29
The Hausbuch of Abbess Elizabeth de Bierbais of Nivelles Abbey, in Latin...
Estimate
£20,000 - £30,000
ca. US$29,742 - US$44,613
Price realised:
£39,650
ca. US$58,964
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Lot number 30
Macer Floridus, De Viribus Herbarum and a Leechbook containing 162 medical...
Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$59,485 - US$89,227
Price realised:
£104,450
ca. US$155,331
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Lot number 31
The Courtenay Compendium, a collection of English and Near- and Far-Eastern...
Estimate
£200,000 - £300,000
ca. US$297,426 - US$446,139
Price realised:
£937,250
ca. US$1,393,815
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