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TOUCHET] RABELAIS-
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| GARGANTUA, PANTAGRUEL. ILLUSTRE PAR JACQUES TOUCHET EN COULEURS ET EN NOIR ET BLANC.PARIS, EDITIONS DU RAMEAU D'OR, SANS DATE (1950).
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- 5 VOLUMES IN 4 BROCHES SUR VELIN NAVARRE TIRAGE NUMEROTE 1163/1460. MANQUE DE 1 CM EN BAS DU COIN INFERIEUR DU DOS DU PREMIER VOLUME. COINS DES VOLUMES LEGEREMENT FROTTES. INTERIEUR FRAIS.complet en 5 volumes in-4 (26,6 x 21 cm) de V (1) 206 (10) pp. - 171 (5) pp. - 232 (8) pp. - 257 (7) pp. et 190 (10) pp. L"illustration est composee d"un grand nombre de lettrines et dessins dans le texte et 10 H.T. a pleine page par volume, mis en couleurs au pochoir, et protege par une serpente imprimee + une vignette de titre, en couleurs, repetee dans chaque. Soit 50 hors-texte en couleurs, a pleine page, gaiement illsutres. Tirage a 1500 exemplaires, un des 1460 sur beau papier velin Navarre. Relies demi-maroquin rouge brun a cinq nerfs; tete doree; couverture entierement conservee. Les aquarelles a pleine page de Touchet ont ete reproduites par le procede Duval-Beaufume (ctd reproduites au pochoir). La librairie LIVRESK vous offre 30% de réduction sur l'ensemble de son catalogue et les frais de port gratuits vers toutes les destinations. Prix d'origine : 305 EUR.
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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| TEXT FROM THE OPENING OF THE OFFICE OF THE DEAD.
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Paris, ca. 1460 120 x 85 mm. (4 3/4 x 3 1/2""). Single column four lines of text on recto 15 on verso in a fine regular gothic book hand. Attractively matted. Rubrics in red verso with five one-line initials as well as three line fillers all in colors and burnished gold the same side with a swirling quarter panel border featuring flowers leaves strawberries and many burnished gold ivy leaves on hairline stems the recto with a large three-line D in blue and white with enclosed scrolling flowered stems the whole on a burnished gold ground; the recto WITH A FULL INHABITED BORDER featuring much acanthus other vegetation and fruit as well as two birds with raised wings the border FRAMING A RICHLY DETAILED ARCH-TOPPED ILLUMINATED MINIATURE OF A BURIAL (measuring approximately 65 x 42 mm.) the scene showing a thin shrouded corpse being lowered into a grave by two sturdy gravediggers a priest in a blue cloak ornamented with a gold fleur-de-lys sprinkling holy water with a golden aspergillum on the left a white-gowned monk with a sorrowful face in attendance behind these figures (on the right) a large crowd of mourners the two foremost draped and hooded in velvety black and (on the left) a pretty white gothic church replete with architectural detail including a sparkling gold roof the tree behind it and the bright blue sky above dotted with gold. Minor losses of paint from the white portions of the garments of the priest and monk otherwise very fine with good margins bright paint and gold and smooth fresh vellum. Apart from those relatively few copies with illustrated calendars the miniatures found in Books of Hours are almost entirely devoted to retrospective Bible scenes that are obviously outside the experience of the illuminator; it is only in the present kind of funeral scene at the beginning of the Office of the Dead that we can see a contemporaneous rendering of a scene from the daily life of the Middle Ages. More often than not this scene is set indoors and the constraints placed on the artist as a result are significant often making for a depiction that contains little more than a draped coffin and perfunctory mourners (who were as a matter of historical fact frequently professionals with no connection to the deceased). Here we see a much more dynamic scene where the artist has an opportunity to present a more imaginative narrative. The result--with considerable detail and movement as well as an expansive feeling of space--is very satisfying. $6800
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AN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF WITH A
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| TEXT FROM THE SUFFRAGES.
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Paris, ca. 1460 - Single column 15 lines of text on either side in a fine regular gothic book hand. Attractively matted. Rubrics in red verso with one one-line initial in colors and burnished gold as well as with a swirling quarter panel border featuring flowers leaves strawberries and many burnished gold ivy leaves on hairline stems; the recto with a three-quarter panel border of similar design though more lavish (and with a vertical bar border of red blue and burnished gold between the text and the border in the fore margin as well as two handsome two-line initials in colors and gold one of them sprouting ivy leaves in the margin); recto also WITH A SMALL AND EXTREMELY CHARMING MINIATURE OF MARY MAGDALENE (measuring approximately 24 x 29 mm.) the scene showing the Magdalene dressed in pink and blue holding the unguent jar which is her symbol standing among bright green hills dotted with spade-shaped trees a thin white meandering path helping to create a sense of recession in space and on the horizon a golden gateway flanked by towers and a pair of gray monolithic rocky outcroppings shaped roughly like pyramids. One miniscule wormhole affecting part of a single letter on either side a hint of soiling to verso otherwise very fine with gold and paint entirely intact and with excellent margins. Mary Magdalene the sinner saved by Christ is popularly identified with the woman who in the Gospels anoints Christ's feet with expensive unguents to the dismay of the thrifty Apostles (Jesus accepts her gift as fitting knowing that he is about to die.) In this way the unguent jar became the symbol for Mary Magdalene who is here depicted in her worldly finery her long blonde locks streaming down her back--rather than as the ascetic which legend claimed she became.
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Saint Germain [German],
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| Doctor and Student. 1988 reprint of 1787, 17th ed. Leatherbound
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Saint Germain, Christopher [1460? - -1540]. Doctor and Student; or, Dialogues Between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Laws of England: Containing the Grounds of Those Laws; Together with Questions and Cases Concerning the Equity Thereof. Corrected and Improved by William Muchall. London: Printed by A. Strahan, 1787. Reprint. Birmingham: Legal Classics Library, 1988. [xvi], 345, [36] pp. Calf, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon marker. Bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise fine. * Reprint of the seventeenth edition. That Doctor and Student "was a very important book can be seen from the fact that it was cited by every writer on equity down to Blackstone's day.": Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 38. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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| TEXT FROM THE OPENING OF THE PENITENTIAL PSALMS.
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Paris, ca. 1460 120 x 85 mm. (4 3/4 x 3 1/2""). Single column three lines of text on recto 15 on verso in a fine regular gothic book hand. Attractively matted. Verso with four one-line initials as well as three line fillers all in colors and burnished gold the same side with a swirling quarter panel border featuring flowers leaves strawberries and many burnished gold ivy leaves on hairline stems the recto with a large three-line D in blue and white with enclosed scrolling flowered stems the whole on a burnished gold ground; the recto WITH A FULL INHABITED BORDER featuring much acanthus other vegetation and fruit as well as two sprightly birds with flapping wings the border FRAMING AN ARTFUL ARCH-TOPPED ILLUMINATED MINIATURE OF DAVID IN PRAYER (measuring approximately 65 x 42 mm.) the psalmist presented as a king crowned and wearing a wide ermine collar over his pink and blue robes but also as a penitent his harp on the ground before him his hands joined in prayer his face upturned in contemplation of a threatening angel painted in fiery orange and brandishing a sword above a rock formation the foreground filled with bright green grass and shrubs the background well designed to give the illusion of recession in space with the twin-towered gate of a castle and in the further distance a high blue mountain dotted with spires. Slight paint flaking on and near the rock formation (trivial losses elsewhere if one looks very closely) but none of this really noticeable and otherwise in very fine condition--clean bright smooth and with good margins. Despite the rocky outcropping (a concession to the Judaean setting) this miniature suggests the smiling French countryside with which our painter was probably familiar. Many aspects of this excellent miniature are typical and conventional but it is especially successful here in communicating a sense of depth something that is achieved in large part by the artist's use of green chartreuse and blue in the various zones of the receding background. As a result of this sense of perspective the large lone figure of David placed on a path that winds backward toward a vanishing point seems profoundly solitary in a vast landscape. The high level of artistic execution is notable here; especially impressive are the the painter's minute and careful brush strokes in for example the multitude of trees and the architectural detail of the turreted city at the back right. $6250
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Rainer Kahsnitz
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| Carved Splendor: Late Gothic Altarpieces in Southern Germany, Austria, and South Tirol
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J. Paul Getty Trust Publications. New Monumental carved, winged altarpieces are the most ambitious artworks from the Middle Ages, incorporating the skills of painters, sculptors, and cabinetmakers. Those that are most notable for their artistic originality and masterly execution were produced in the southern German-speakingregions, including Austria and South Tirol, in the last decades of the Late Gothic period (roughly 1460 to 1525). By that time altarpieces had evolved from low, fixed panels to large wooden structures with rich architectural ornamentation. Paintings of the saints often adorned the movable wings, while carved reliefs or freestanding sculptures of scenes from the Gospels occupied the gilded, center shrine. Rainer Kahsnitz offers a close examination of twenty-two of the most important surviving altarpieces, discussing the historical context in which they were made and analyzing how their pictorial programs reflect changing notions of piety. The sumptuous color illustrations capture the altarpiecesin all their possible arrangements. The stunning details of these pieces— riotous locks of hair, swirling fabric, and thickets of twisted vines— vividly demonstrate the consummate skill of the master artisans who created them. ISBN10: 0892368535.
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St. Germain, Christopher; Saint
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| The Dialogue in Betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, and a Student of
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Germain [German], Christopher [?1460- - St. 1540]. The Dialogue in English, Betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, And a Student of the Lawes of England. Newly Corrected and Imprinted, With New Additions. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1613. [i], 176, [8] pp. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). Contemporary limp vellum with lapped edges, early hand-lettered title to spine, remnants of ties to boards. Some rubbing to extremities, hinges cracked, text block loose and cracked in a few places. Later bookplate (of John Camp Williams) to front pastedown. Two tiny later stamps to title page, early annotations to margins throughout, interior otherwise clean. * Originally written in Latin in 1523, this work contains two dialogues between a doctor of divinity and a student of English law. It popularized canonist learning on the nature and object of law, the religious and moral standards of law, the foundations of the common law and other issues regarding the jurisdiction of Parliament. A very important work in the development of equity, Doctor and Student appeared in numerous editions. An authority well into the eighteenth century, it influenced several writers, including Blackstone. The ESTC locates 6 copies in North America, 2 in law libraries (Harvard and Library of Congress). Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:25 (34). [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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| TEXT FROM THE OPENING OF NONE.
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Paris, ca. 1460 - The Virgin in Need of Purification MeetsDoubting Simeon in the Temple Courtyard Single column three lines of text on verso nine lines on recto in a fine regular gothic book hand. Attractively matted. Rubrics in red recto with two one-line initials as well as three line fillers all in colors and burnished gold the same side with a swirling quarter panel border featuring flowers acanthus leaves and many burnished gold ivy leaves on hairline stems the verso with a large three-line initial in blue and white with enclosed scrolling flowered stems the whole on a burnished gold ground; the verso WITH A FULL INHABITED BORDER featuring much acanthus and other vegetation and fruit as well as two lively doves the border FRAMING A RICHLY DETAILED ARCH-TOPPED ILLUMINATED MINIATURE OF THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE (measuring approximately 65 x 44 mm.) the scene showing the Virgin in pink and blue accompanied by a pink-gowned attendant a doll-sized Christ seated in the palm of the hand of St. Simeon the Righteous. Top margin very narrow (but nothing cut into) the faces and robes of the two women with a bit of paint erosion (very minor loss also in the two men's necks) otherwise very fine with the vellum fresh bright and clean. Although this miniature begins a text that is usually accompanied by a painting of the Presentation in the Temple our particularly iconographic rendering of this scene shifts its emphasis toward the mother rather than the son. The painting actually recounts a moment in the celebration of the Purification of the Virgin since Mary has come to the temple to be purified in accordance with the Jewish law that prescribes a ceremony to be submitted to by all mothers 40 days after giving birth. Unlike many depictions of the Presentation in the Temple then our miniature does not show a priest receiving the infant Jesus at an altar indoors but rather shows St. Simeon intercepting the Virgin in the courtyard outside. According to tradition Simeon one of the 72 translators of the Septuagint had puzzled over Isaiah 7:14 (Behold a virgin shall conceive) wondering how this could happen and even considering that his text could have been copied wrong. As he pondered an angel appeared to tell him that the prophecy was correct and that he would not die until he himself had seen its fulfillment in the form of the Virgin Mary and her child Jesus. And so it came to pass that he was at the Temple when the Blessed Mother brought her son 40 days after his birth. (Simeon is depicted in our scene as elderly but he is nevertheless very well preserved for a person who historically would have had to be well over 200 years of age at the time of this meeting.) The woman behind the Virgin carries a basket of turtle doves a frequent feature of the Presentation scene but this female is not normally seen as here with a nimbus. It is possible that she could be St. Anna the prophetess whom Luke describes as (also) coming in that instant to the temple. (However Anna was of a great age while our figure seems still rather young.) The scene is well designed with Simeon and an attendant acolyte on the left nicely balancing the pair of women on the right the Christ Child being in the middle. The elaborateness of the architectural backdrop here attests to the skill and patience of the artist and the bright green lawn colored roofs and abundant use of gold lend a pleasing context to the scene. The rich background detail includes a slender fountain (symbolizing the waters of life) in the center a massive gateway with mosaic roof behind our principals and a cloister wall above which rise the peaks of two houses roofed in red and blue as well as two large tufted trees. A poignant note is introduced by the mournful expression on the face of the Virgin something that can easily be interpreted as reflecting her contemplation of the painful future prophesied for her son.
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Candidus, Petrus:
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| Das Tierbuch Des Petrus Candidus Codex Urbinus Latinus 276.
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- Geschrieben 1460, Illuminiert im 16. Jahrhundert. Faksimilie der Handschrift v. 1460, 2 Bände (Vollfaksimile u. Kommentar- bzw. Einführungsband) in Kassette. Zürich, Belser Verlag, 1984. III Bll., 232 Bll., 2 nn. Bll. mit 469 kolorierten Tierdarstellungen (Faksimile) ; 213 Seiten mit 31 teils ganzseitigen Abbildungen (Einführungsband). 4° (27,5x29cm) Faksimile & Einführungsbd. und Folio (37x26cm) die Kassette. Rotbrauner Orig.-Ganzlederbd. auf Holzdeckeln über 4 Bünden, mit reicher Rückenvergoldung, Deckel mit Goldfilete gerahmt, sowie mit reicher floraler u. ornamentaler Vergoldung, dreiseitiger Goldschnitt (Faksimile). Grüner Orig.-Ganzleinenbd. mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel (Einführungsband). Grünes Orig.-Ganzleinen mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, montiertem Titelschild auf dem Vorderdeckel und Schließband (Kassette). Handnummeriertes Exemplar, hier die Nr.47 von 600 nummerierten Exemplaren für den deutschsprachigen Raum (Gesamt 2460). Der Text des Einführungsbandes ist von Cynthia M. Pyle. Wundervolles und prächtig ausgestattetes Faksimile eines der wertvollsten zoologischen Manuskripte aus der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Sehr gutes, verlagsfrisches Exemplar.
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Saint Germain, Christopher; Muchall,
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| Doctor and Student: or, Dialogues Between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Laws of England: Containing the Grounds of Those Laws; Together with Questions and Cases Concerning the Equity Thereof.
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Saint Germain, Christopher [1460- - 1540]. Muchall, William, Editor. [With] Additions to the Second Dialogue of the Doctor and Student: Containing Thirteen Chapters on the Power and Jurisdiction of the Parliament, &c. Dublin: Printed by J. Moore, 1792. vi, [9], 344, [32] pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Contemporary sheep, blind fillets to boards, lettering piece and blind fillets to spine. Light rubbing to extremities, boards slightly bowed. Later bookseller ticket and owner annotation (of Jonathan Holden, 1935) to front free endpaper, early owner annotation to following leaf "Stephen Eno's book/ March 1816/ price 2 dollars." Toning, light foxing to a few leaves. Annotations in Eno's hand to margins of some leaves, interior otherwise clean. * Only Dublin edition, "Corrected and Improved." Written originally in Latin in 1523, this work contains two dialogues between a doctor of divinity and a student of English law. It popularized canonist learning on the nature and object of law, the religious and moral standards of law, the foundations of the common law and other issues regarding the jurisdiction of Parliament. A very important work in the development of equity, Doctor and Student appeared in numerous editions and it remained an authority well into the eighteenth century. The probable owner of this book was Stephen Eno [1762-1852], a prominent lawyer and civic leader in Dutchess County, New York who practiced in Pine Plains, Amenia, and Poughkeepsie. Legal Bibliography (1847) 471. Warren, Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:25 (34). [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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CRETIN (DUBOIS) Guillaume G.
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| Les poesies.
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Edition collective la plus complète, augmentée de deux pièces inédites, à savoir deux lettres en vers de Cretin à Molinet, avec une réponse de ce dernier. Préface de l'éditeur, qui s'était fait une spécialité dans la réédition de poètes du moyen-âge et de la Renaissance. §Plein Veau d'époque. Dos à nerfs orné de 5 petits fleurons dans des caissons de 3 filets. Pièce de titre en maroquin rouge. Coiffe de tête élimée. Page de titre jaunie. §Guillaume Dubois, dit Crétin, (1460?-1525) fut trésorier de la Sainte-Chapelle à Vincennes, puis chantre de la Sainte-Chapelle de Paris et aumônier ordinaire du roi François Ier. Il fut Reconnu comme un maître, notamment par Jean Lemaire de Belges et Clément Marot. On le range parmi les Grands Rhétoriqueurs. Ses poésies se divisent en deux grandes parties que sont les chants royaux et les épîtres (lettres en vers adressés à différents personnages). Chez Antoine Urbain Coustelier A Paris _1723 Pet. in 8 (10x16cm) relié
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ESPECIALLY PRETTY ILLUMINATED VELLUM
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| CALENDAR LEAVES.
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Paris, ca. 1460 120 x 85 mm. (4 3/4 x 3 1/2""). Single column 17 lines of text in a fine regular gothic book hand. Calendar entries in blue red and thick burnished gold line fillers of the same design recto with a two-line KL (Kalends) in colors and burnished gold and with marginal extension in the form of gilt ivy leaves and EACH LEAF WITH A FINE SWIRLING QUARTER PANEL BORDER ON BOTH SIDES featuring flowers leaves strawberries and many burnished gold ivy leaves on hairline stems. The panel borders at the fore edge of half the leaves just slightly trimmed otherwise in EXCEPTIONALLY FINE CONDITION with the paint and gold bright fresh and entirely intact. These calendar leaves come from the same manuscript as the group of leaves described in the previous entry. $400 - $425 (depending on condition)
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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| TEXT FROM THE OPENING OF COMPLINE.
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Paris, ca. 1460 - Single column three lines of text on verso 13 lines on recto in a fine regular gothic book hand. Attractively matted. Rubrics in red recto with one two-line and two one-line initials as well as four line fillers all in colors and burnished gold the same side with a swirling quarter panel border featuring flowers leaves strawberries and many burnished gold ivy leaves on hairline stems the verso with a large three-line C in blue and white with enclosed scrolling flowered stems the whole on a burnished gold ground; the verso WITH A FULL INHABITED BORDER featuring much acanthus and other vegetation and fruit as well as a green bird fluttering its wings and a charming pink snail the border FRAMING A RICHLY DETAILED AND VERY IMPRESSIVE ARCH-TOPPED ILLUMINATED MINIATURE OF THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN (measuring approximately 65 x 42 mm.) the scene showing the Virgin in blue kneeling before an elaborate gold throne on which sits God the Father clad in pink majestically bearded and crowned holding an orb and blessing the Virgin over whose head a yellow-winged angel suspends a golden crown while in the background a cluster of fiery seraphim peek over the throne. Trivial losses of white paint in the angel's clothing and God's crown otherwise in remarkably fine condition both the miniature and border clean fresh and bright. As is typical of the 15th century the Virgin is no longer shown as the proud queen of heaven but on her knees head bowed and eyes modestly cast down as she receives the crown from above. The artist has deftly managed to portray the beauty and mildness of her face while depicting God with sunken cheeks and a solemn expression. Blue clouds support the Virgin as she kneels and the celestial setting of the scene is reinforced by the seraphim glowing like hot coals behind the throne. In an inventive departure here God the Father sits far to one side of his throne leaving a large empty space for Mary to occupy once she has risen to join him.
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EYCK, Barthélemy D'
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| EL LIBRO DEL CORAZON PRENDIDO. Facsímil
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Ediciones Reales Sitios - 290 x 200 rom. 18 folios (36 páginas). Encuadernado en terciopelo sobre tabla. Herrajes y molduras de fundición. En esta ocasión estará a cargo de S. Martín Esteban, galardonado en dos ocasiones con el premio nacional de Encuadernación. Estuche de Metacrilato. Papel pergaminata 190gr. Volumen complementario de estudios sobre las Miniaturas. Tirada única de 500 ejemplares, numerados y certificados notarialmente.El libro del corrazón prendido realizado por René de Anjou y miniado por Barthélemy d'Eyck, convierten al códice en una de las Joyas más importantes del Arte Borgoñón del Siglo XV.Su belleza es asombrosa, las 16 Miniaturas que un artista excepcional realizó en 1460, y que nos invita a viajar, y volver al tiempo de los Caballeros Medievales.El Manuscrito que se conserva en la Biblioteca Nacional de Viena, lo han situado como uno de los libros más bellos de amor que jamás se han realizado y que constituye el más claro ejemplo de la espiritualidad del renacimiento.La luz, el Amanecer, el Mediodía, el sol que nace, la noche solo plasmadas por auténticos genios del Arte Flamenco.La belleza de las miniaturas es desbordante. Mediante los pensamientos amorosos que el autor nos narra en forma de sueño. El caballero Corrazón quien acompañado de su fiel escudero Deseo, va en busca de su Dama, encontrarán en su camino a las personificaciones de Deseo, Orgullo, Amistad, Generosidad, Cólera, Tristeza, Celos.
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| Illuminated manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours: Full-page miniature depicting the Nativity recto, with the opening of the hour of Prime verso
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Rouen, ca. -70 1460 - Miniature depicts Mary, Joseph, three angels, and the shepherds surrounding the infant Christ in the stable, within an architectural frame. Below the Holy Family is an Old Testament prophet, possibly Moses, with horns sprouting from his head, kneeling and clutching his foot, as God speaks from a bush. Verso is a floral, berry, and acanthus-leaf border to the left of the text, which has one large and several smaller illuminated capitals ÒDeus in adiutorium meum intende. Domine ad adiuvandum me festina. Gloria Patri. Alleluia.Ó Followed by the hymn: ÒVeni creator spiritus mentes tuorum visita imple superna gratia que tu creasti pectoraÓ Hymn: ÒMemento, salutis Auctor, quod nostri quondam corporis, ex illibata Virgine nascendo, formam sumpseris Maria, mater gratiae Gloria tibiÓ Antiphon ÒMaria virgo,Ó followed by Psalm 1:1-3: ÒBeatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum, et in via peccatorum non stetit, et in cathedra pestilentie non sedit Sed in lege Domini fuit voluntas eius, et in lege eius meditabitur die ac nocte. Et erit tamquam lignum quodÉÓ (NATIVITY) 8vo (6-7/8 x 4-7/8 inches). .
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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| TEXT FROM THE OPENING OF COMPLINE.
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Paris, ca. 1460 - Single column 13 lines of text in a regular gothic book hand. Attractively matted. Rubrics in red recto featuring two very pretty three-line initials in blue or pink with white tracery on a burnished gold ground and containing scrolling ivy leaves and with the text flanked by rinceaux panel borders the verso WITH A STRIKING MINIATURE PAINTING OF THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN within an arched compartment and above three lines of text and a very prominent three-line initial (in the style of those on the recto) the whole surrounded by a very wide full border of swirling ivy leaves on hairline stems acanthus leaves strawberries and other vegetation. Mounting traces on the side without the miniature otherwise IN ESPECIALLY FINE CONDITION THE GOLD SPARKLING and the vellum and paint very clean fresh and bright. Our miniature focuses as it should on the Virgin who kneels full of humility at center left as an angel in white reaches over from behind to settle a crown on her head. God the Father sits on a canopied throne to the right his right arm upraised in blessing his left on the orb in his lap. In the background to the left two delightful young angels hold a very large book and behind them bright orange seraphim watch from a gallery. Everything about this miniature indicates that it comes from a lavish manuscript made for a person of considerable means. It is large for a Book of Hours leaf (especially in terms of its width) and the level of artistry is impressive as we can see for example in the amazing delicacy of the architectural filigree at the top left in the very convincing folds of the garments and in the faces which are subtle and realistic in their detail even under magnification. In terms of style our leaf is reminiscent of both the mainstream Parisian illuminator Maître François whose scenes were frequently dramatic and generally painted in bright colors as well as the Coëtivy Master (about whom see item #42 below).
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BENOIT, Pierre Jacques.
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| Voyage a Surinam. Description des possessions néerlandaises dans la Guyane. Bruxelles, Société des beaux-arts, De Wasme et Laurent, 1839. Large folio. With wood-engraved vignette on title. Lithographed additional title and 99 lithographed illustrations on 49 plates, all mounted on China paper. Original half black morocco, spine gilt.
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- (4), 1-69, (3), 75-76, (2) pp. Muller, America 1460; Sabin 4737; Suriname-cat. UBA 0508a. First edition, with illustrations on Surinam. The lively plates include topograpic views, botanical, ethnographical and zoological subjects, and scenes from the life of the native Indians, the African-Americans and the white colonists. The plates are preceded by a historical survey of Surinam. According to the text on the title-page, there are one hundred plates (cent dessins ), but the list with illustrations in the book mentions only 99 illustrations, mainly half-page, on 49 plates. It is probable that the full-page lithographed title is included in the cent dessins. The Table des figures and the Table des matières have been bound in, in that order, after the plates. Binding rubbed, some browning or foxing. Good copy of this important work on Surinam.
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Book of Hours. Vrelant-style Hours, ca.
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| Illuminated manuscript Book of Hours on vellum, use of Rome, in Latin.
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- Southern Netherlands (Bruges), ca. 1460. Small 8vo, 112 mm x 75 mm (4 3/8 inches x 2 15/16 inches), 173 leaves + 2 added vellum leaves at end. Complete, with all full-page miniatures on added sheets, 16 lines, ruled in very pale ink, written-space 60 mm x 41 mm, written in dark brown ink in a small rounded gothic liturgical hand, rubrics in purplish red, capitals touched in yellow, versal initials throughout in blue or burnished gold with penwork in red or black, 2-line initials throughout in burnished gold on red and blue grounds with white tracery, FOURTEEN VERY LARGE INITIALS WITH FULL ILLUMINATED BORDERS, the initials 5 lines high in gothic ivy-leaf designs in colors on burnished gold grounds, the borders with blue and liquid gold acanthus leaves and small colored flowers and strawberries infilled with black dots and tiny gold bezants, FOURTEEN FULL-PAGE MINIATURES in gently arched compartments, 65 mm x 42 mm, in colors and liquid gold within narrow burnished gold frames and full borders, early sixteenth-century additions on pages added at end, upper outer extremities of final leaves fractionally nibbled, some thumbing sometimes affecting full borders, border on fol. 34v a little smudged, generally in good state, pale brown velvet over pasteboards, pierced silver clasps and catches, gilt edges, vellum endleaves, in a fitted brown morocco case, title gilt. PROVENANCE (1) Written in Bruges, for male use (fol. 172v), probably for export to Spain or Portugal, not earlier than 1450, since the Calendar includes St. Bernardinus, canonized in that year. There is a sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century signature on fol. 1r, fray hosef acahla. (2) The collection of Joel and Maxine Spitz, Glencoe, Illinois, bought in 1946 from Wallach, New York (C.U. Faye and W.H. Bond, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1962, p. 166, no. 6); and by descent to the present owners. Sotheby's 7/6/2000 to Windle.TEXT A Calendar (fol. 1r), with relatively sparse entries including in black St. Donatian, patron saint of Bruges; the Hours of the Cross (fol. 14r) and of the Holy Ghost (fol. 22r); the Mass of the Virgin (fol. 28r), with the Gospel Sequences (fol. 32r); the Hours of the Virgin secundum consuetudinem romane curie, with matins (fol. 35r), lauds (fol. 53r), prime (fol. 65r), terce (fol. 70r), sext (fol. 75r), none (fol. 80r), vespers (fol. 85r) and compline (fol. 93r), with the Advent office (fol. 99r); the Penitential Psalms (fol. 108r) and Litany; the Office of the Dead (fol. 129r); and Obsecro te (fol. 170r, in male form).ILLUMINATION This is an altogether charming little book in the early style of the Bruges illuminator Willem Vrelant, with the small heads and soft-colored cherubic faces that occur in the Gold Scrolls style of the 1440s. The deep reds and blues and wide palette of greens are all typical of Vrelant, and many of the compositions here echo well-known Vrelant patterns, such as Pentecost, the Nativity, and the Massacre of the Innocents (cf. B. Bousmanne, Item a Guillaume Wyeland aussi enlumineur Willem Vrelant, Un aspect de l'enluminure dans les Pays-bas meridionaux, 1997, p. 181, fig. 163; p. 114, fig. 97; and p. 120, fig. 108, respectively). The minatures here are: 1. Folios 13vÐ14r The Crucifixion, saints on the left, soldiers and Pilate on the right, landscape background including mountains and Jerusalem with pink walls and blue roofs. 2. Folios 21vÐ22r, Pentecost, in a gothic church, tiled floor, lattice windows, with the Holy Dove entering from the left. 3. Folios 27vÐ28r, The Virgin and Child adored by angels, enthroned in a tall chair, angels on either side one with a viol. 4. Folios 34vÐ35r, The Annunciation, the Virgin kneeling at a prie-dieu below a canopy in a gothic house, Gabriel entering through a door with a scroll Ave gracia plena dominus tecum. 5. Folios 52vÐ53r, The Visitation, the cousins greeting each other on a path outside a tall gothic house wi [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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| LIBER HORARUM OF GERARD DAVID (Fine Facsimile Illuminated Edition of the 16th C. )
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Madrid: Testimonio. This small Book of Hours is relatively unknown but is nevertheless of some importance since it contains 15 full-page illuminations attributed to the Flemish master Gerard David (1460-1523). The most beautiful is the Virgin with Child at the beginning of the manuscript; this miniature has the same characteristics of altar pieces of the period and is attributed to David himself. Other illuminations also resemble altar pieces but include reproductions of other miniatures, based on designs by other distinguished illuminators of the Bruges school, such as the Master of the Dresden Book of Hours and the Master of Edward IV of England. The rest of the illuminations give a unique glimpse of the working methods of the Flemish illuminators. Conserved in the Escorial Library, this Book of Hours is also of especial importance because it is one of a very small number of dated books of hours from the Ghent-Bruges school. Towards the end of manuscript, a page bearing the date 1486 in the margin surrounding a miniature of St Lazarus, identifies this as one of the earliest productions of David's period in Bruges, which dates from 1484. , New; COLUMBUS COPY BOOKMadrid 1989 This manuscript was discovered only recently and was purchased by the state for the Indies Archive in Seville; its 38 folios measuring 230 x 330 mm. Include 6 narrative and 2 personal letters to the Catholic Monarchs. The firs letter, "written at sea" is dated 1493 and is therefore one of the oldest documents in the history of America. The facsimile measures approxymately 33 x 23 cm. The two accompanying volumes contain a study, transcription and notes by Pofessor Antonio Romeu de Armas, Director of the Royal Spanish Academy of History. Limited international edition of 980 numbered certified copies; edition reserved for Spain out of print.
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AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF
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A Very Fine Crucifixion by theMost Important Parisian Artist of the Period Paris, ca. 1460s 114 x 76 mm. (4 1/2 x 3""). Single column verso with 12 lines written in a pleasing early bâtarde script. Attractively matted. Verso with one-line brushed gold initials on a blue or red ground line fillers in the same colors and gold and a pretty panel border of flowers leaves and gold ivy on swirling wispy stems RECTO WITH A BEAUTIFULLY REALIZED MINIATURE OF THE CRUCIFIXION an emaciated Christ spilling much blood from wounds at his hands feet head and side the bereft Virgin in prayer at the left consoled by a figure in white partly hidden behind her (apparently St. John); at the right Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (looking ever so much like 15th century elderly Parisian burghers) along with a contingent of soldiers behind them represented by helmets and six lances the whole set against a verdant backdrop of hills and trees beneath the miniature three lines of text as well as a charming three-line modelled initial enclosing strawberries on a gold ground the whole surrounded by a full border of acanthus other vegetation fruit flowers and a bird taking flight. Just a hint of fading to some of the paint in the panel borders but IN EXTREMELY FINE CONDITION the especially bright and fresh miniature without any paint erosion. The artist has done beautiful work here. The colors are rich and carefully applied; the composition is remarkably successful given the constraints of the scene's limited space; and there are some lovely touches foremost of which might be the consoling arm supporting the Virgin and the rendering of Christ whose hair on head arms and legs is painted with almost astonishing delicacy and whose torso contours are convincingly depicted with subtle shading. The work is in the style of the celebrated Coëtivy Master. He is understood in Avril & Renaud as being identified with Colin d'Amiens who made a great name for himself in Paris (not as was previously thought with Henri de Vulcop who made a great name for himself in the Loire region). In any case the master takes his name from the Book of Hours (now in the Austrian National Library) that he painted for Olivier de Coëtivy and his wife Marie de Valois one of some 30 works that have been identified as his. Although there is considerable Flemish influence that can be seen in his work (he has links for example with Simon Marmion) Colin d'Amiens was active in Paris during the third quarter of the 15th century and with Barthélmy van Eyck and Jean Fouquet was among the three great artists of this period patronized by the French court (Avril & Renaud says flatly that our master was the most important artist practicing in Paris in the third quarter of the century from about 1450 to 1485). For more on the Coëtivy Master see Avril & Reynaud pp. 58-69. $9500
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| Book of Hours [Horae] Use of Rome --manuscript on vellum.
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Northern Italy: c1460-1480. 8vo. 124 x 90mm. (written space 67 x 48mm) [1]12,[2]9, [3]10,[4-9]8, [10]6, [1-13]8, [14]5, [15]8, [16]11,[17]2. lacks c7 leaves. 135 leaves. Modern vellum ,covers bowed, ownership inscription “Hic Liber est Vincentii Bonii” on folio114v; a few leaves dampstained. Written in brown ink in a rounded gothic liturgical hand, rubrics in red, initials in alternate red and blue, numerous 2-line verse initials with contrasting penwork and scrolling flourishes, several calligraphic letters adorned with faces, 8 4-line illuminated initial in blue, red and liquid gold on burnished gold (one very worn). Text: Calendar, f1-12; Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome, f13-64; Compline, followed by the second nocturn for Tuesday and Friday for the canonical Hour of Matins, f65-73; Prayers for Advent and Christmas, f74-81; Office of the Dead, f82-114; Penitential Psalms, f115-125; Litany, and unidentifed prayers, f126-135.
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CRETIN (DUBOIS) Guillaume G
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| Les poesies
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A Paris: Edition collective la plus complete, augmentee de deux pieces inedites, a savoir deux lettres en vers de Cretin a Molinet, avec une reponse de ce dernier. Preface de l'editeur, qui s'etait fait une specialite dans la reedition de poetes du moyen-age et de la Renaissance. !Plein Veau d'epoque. Dos a nerfs orne de 5 petits fleurons dans des caissons de 3 filets. Piece de titre en maroquin rouge. Coiffe de tete elimee. Page de titre jaunie. !Guillaume Dubois, dit Cretin, (1460?-1525) fut tresorier de la Sainte-Chapelle a Vincennes, puis chantre de la Sainte-Chapelle de Paris et aumonier ordinaire du roi Francois Ier. Il fut Reconnu comme un maitre, notamment par Jean Lemaire de Belges et Clement Marot. On le range parmi les Grands Rhetoriqueurs. Ses poesies se divisent en deux grandes parties que sont les chants royaux et les epitres (lettres en vers adresses a differents personnages)., Les poesies. Litterature | Divers litterature, , 1723, A Paris, 1723. Pet. in 8 (10x16cm). Edition collective la plus complete, augmentee de deux pieces inedites, a savoir deux lettres en vers de Cretin a Molinet, avec une reponse de ce dernier. Preface de l'editeur, qui s'etait fait une specialite dans la reedition de poetes du moyen-age et de la Renaissance. !Plein Veau d'epoque. Dos a nerfs orne de 5 petits fleurons dans des caissons de 3 filets. Piece de titre en maroquin rouge. Coiffe de tete elimee. Page de titre jaunie. !Guillaume Dubois, dit Cretin, (1460?-1525) fut tresorier de la Sainte-Chapelle a Vincennes, puis chantre de la Sainte-Chapelle de Paris et aumonier ordinaire du roi Francois Ier. Il fut Reconnu comme un maitre, notamment par Jean Lemaire de Belges et Clement Marot. On le range parmi les Grands Rhetoriqueurs. Ses poesies se divisent en deux grandes parties que sont les chants royaux et les epitres (lettres en vers adresses a differents personnages).
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| Illuminated manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours: Full-page miniaturedepicting the Nativity recto, with the opening of the hour of Prime verso
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Rouen, ca. 1460-70 Miniature depicts Mary, Joseph, three angels, and the shepherds surrounding the infant Christ in the stable, within an architectural frame. Below the Holy Family is an Old Testament prophet, possibly Moses, with horns sprouting from his head, kneeling and clutching his foot, as God speaks from a bush. Verso is a floral, berry, and acanthus-leaf border to the left of the text, which has one large and several smaller illuminated capitals "Deus in adiutorium meum intende. Domine ad adiuvandum me festina. Gloria Patri. Alleluia." Followed by the hymn: "Veni creator spiritus mentes tuorum visita imple superna gratia que tu creasti pectora" Hymn: "Memento, salutis Auctor, quod nostri quondam corporis, ex illibata Virgine nascendo, formam sumpseris Maria, mater gratiae Gloria tibi" Antiphon "Maria virgo," followed by Psalm 1:1-3: "Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum, et in via peccatorum non stetit, et in cathedra pestilentie non sedit Sed in lege Domini fuit voluntas eius, et in lege eius meditabitur die ac nocte. Et erit tamquam lignum quod..." (NATIVITY) 8vo (6-7/8 x 4-7/8 inches). .
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CRETIN (DUBOIS) Guillaume G.
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| Les poesies.
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Edition collective la plus complète, augmentée de deux pièces inédites, à savoir deux lettres en vers de Cretin à Molinet, avec une réponse de ce dernier. Préface de l'éditeur, qui s'était fait une spécialité dans la réédition de poètes du moyen-âge et de la Renaissance. §Plein Veau d'époque. Dos à nerfs orné de 5 petits fleurons dans des caissons de 3 filets. Pièce de titre en maroquin rouge. Coiffe de tête élimée. Page de titre jaunie. §Guillaume Dubois, dit Crétin, (1460?-1525) fut trésorier de la Sainte-Chapelle à Vincennes, puis chantre de la Sainte-Chapelle de Paris et aumônier ordinaire du roi François Ier. Il fut Reconnu comme un maître, notamment par Jean Lemaire de Belges et Clément Marot. On le range parmi les Grands Rhétoriqueurs. Ses poésies se divisent en deux grandes parties que sont les chants royaux et les épîtres (lettres en vers adressés à différents personnages). 1723 A Paris Chez Antoine Urbain Coustelier Pet. in 8 (10x16cm) relié relié
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BENOIT, Pierre Jacques.
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| Voyage a Surinam. Description des possessions néerlandaises dans la Guyane. Bruxelles, Société des beaux-arts, De Wasme et Laurent, 1839. Large folio. With wood-engraved vignette on title. Lithographed additional title and 99 lithographed illustrations on 49 plates, all mounted on China paper. Original half black morocco, spine gilt.
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(4), 1-69, (3), 75-76, (2) pp. Muller, America 1460; Sabin 4737; Suriname-cat. UBA 0508a. First edition, with illustrations on Surinam. The lively plates include topograpic views, botanical, ethnographical and zoological subjects, and scenes from the life of the native Indians, the African-Americans and the white colonists. The plates are preceded by a historical survey of Surinam. According to the text on the title-page, there are one hundred plates (cent dessins ), but the list with illustrations in the book mentions only 99 illustrations, mainly half-page, on 49 plates. It is probable that the full-page lithographed title is included in the cent dessins . The Table des figures and the Table des matières have been bound in, in that order, after the plates. Binding rubbed, some browning or foxing. Good copy of this important work on Surinam.
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CICERON
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| M. M. Tulli Ciceronis Opera omnia quae existant ex fola fere codd mss. Fide emendata studio ato industria Jani Guglielmii Jani Gruteri additis notis & indd, accura tiff : confectis
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Hamburgi (Hambourg): M. Tulli Ciceronis Opera omnia quae existant ex fola fere codd mss. Fide emendata studio ato industria Jani Guglielmii Jani Gruteri additis notis & indd, accura tiff : confectis. !Premiere edition. Un titre frontispice et vignette de l'imprimeur aux trois autres pages de titre. Impression sur 2 colonnes avec numerotation lineaire. Nous n'avons pas trouve cette edition dans les catalogues francais, pas plus qu'anglais. Un exemplaire a la bibliotheque Palatine en Allemagne. !'Quoiqu'elle soit mal imprimee et sur mauvais papier, cette edition merite d'etre citee comme une des principales de notre auteur. Elle a servi de base a presque toutes celles qui ont paru dans le XVIIe siecle et le commencement du XVIIIe. C'est d'ailleurs la premiere ou le texte de Ciceron soit divise en chapitres.' Brunet II, 8. !Plein Velin d'epoque, dos a nerfs. Grands medaillons centraux sur les plats. Traces de lacets. Le premier volume n'a plus de dos et le second a perdu ses 2 caissons inferieurs. Rousseurs eparses. !Cette edition de Froben rassemble les textes d'une edition donnee en France par jean Guillaume, elle est ici annotee et commentee par Jean Gruter. Froben est issu d'une celebre dynastie d'imprimeurs dont l'element le plus celebre fut Johannes Froben (1460-1527) qui travailla tres tot avec Erasme et Holbein, il etait etabli a Bale. !Jan Gruter (1560-1627) est ne a Anvers, il fut philologue et professeur d'histoire ainsi que bibliothecaire a l'universite de Wittemberg. Il etait considere comme un travailleur infatigable et ses ouvrages furent prises dans l'Europe entiere. !Ex libris bibliotheque des professeurs St Stanislas Mons., M. M. Tulli Ciceronis Opera omnia quae existant ex fola fere codd mss. Fide emendata studio ato industria Jani Guglielmii Jani Gruteri additis notis & indd, accura tiff : confectis. , * Livres Anciens, 1617, Hamburgi (Hambourg), *1617. in Folio (40,5x26cm). M. Tulli Ciceronis Opera omnia quae existant ex fola fere codd mss. Fide emendata studio ato industria Jani Guglielmii Jani Gruteri additis notis & indd, accura tiff : confectis. !Premiere edition. Un titre frontispice et vignette de l'imprimeur aux trois autres pages de titre. Impression sur 2 colonnes avec numerotation lineaire. Nous n'avons pas trouve cette edition dans les catalogues francais, pas plus qu'anglais. Un exemplaire a la bibliotheque Palatine en Allemagne. !'Quoiqu'elle soit mal imprimee et sur mauvais papier, cette edition merite d'etre citee comme une des principales de notre auteur. Elle a servi de base a presque toutes celles qui ont paru dans le XVIIe siecle et le commencement du XVIIIe. C'est d'ailleurs la premiere ou le texte de Ciceron soit divise en chapitres.' Brunet II, 8. !Plein Velin d'epoque, dos a nerfs. Grands medaillons centraux sur les plats. Traces de lacets. Le premier volume n'a plus de dos et le second a perdu ses 2 caissons inferieurs. Rousseurs eparses. !Cette edition de Froben rassemble les textes d'une edition donnee en France par jean Guillaume, elle est ici annotee et commentee par Jean Gruter. Froben est issu d'une celebre dynastie d'imprimeurs dont l'element le plus celebre fut Johannes Froben (1460-1527) qui travailla tres tot avec Erasme et Holbein, il etait etabli a Bale. !Jan Gruter (1560-1627) est ne a Anvers, il fut philologue et professeur d'histoire ainsi que bibliothecaire a l'universite de Wittemberg. Il etait considere comme un travailleur infatigable et ses ouvrages furent prises dans l'Europe entiere. !Ex libris bibliotheque des professeurs St Stanislas Mons. * Livres Anciens
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| (on the Somme, 30 miles east of Amiens) Interesting and varied Archive of papers in French,
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revealing a rich picture of this ancient town in Picardy, apparently assembled by members of the families of Dehaussy de Robécourt and Eudel, lawyers and administrators, and chosen to illustrate various aspects of life there and in the wider Bailliage of Péronne. The oldest are three leaves from the town’s records of 1460-1463, one concerned with placing a patient in the town’s leper hospital. 18th c. legal memoranda include a detailed inventory for probate and sale, with valuations, prices realised, buyers and their occupations; the case of a farmer against his son-in-law for theft of crops and equipment with violence; an order against a notary to maintain his natural son; applications to farm certain lands belonging to the Town’s hospital; a tax case, and a will. Other documents show how public office was regarded as a chattel that could be bequeathed, on suitable payments to the revenue, and how the government charged the holder for an increase in the office’s value. The pedigree of the new Marquis de Feuquières includes an ancestor killed at Agincourt. On the eve of the revolution, the Three Estates are summoned to prepare their grievances and elect deputies to assemble at Versailles; the Jacobin Club of Paris sends a circular letter protesting at a move by Talleyrand and others, which had particular consequences for the clergy at Péronne; and Dehaussy has to get a 4-side identity document. The revolution also brought in equal inheritance by children. In family letters, M. Eudel describes how his attempt to help his brother-in-law to get round the new rule, and exactions by a revolutionary tribunal, all but caused his ruin. Other pieces include a travelling dentist’s advertisement (c. 1780), the setting up of a vaccination committee (1804), and a call-up notice to defend the town in 1870. Altogether the many names and family relations, and the legal and economic details, are a valuable source for the local historian, and may be followed up in Jules Dournel, Histoire Général de Péronne (1879) and Les Mayeurs de Péronne: leurs familles et leurs descendants (1896), also Abbé Paul de Cagny, Histoire de l’Arrondissement de Péronne, 2 vols., 1869, which has a note on the measures of Péronne that occur in these documents. Together 30 items or groups of items, about 176 sides in various sizes, with a checklist, 1460 - 1895, CHECKLIST 1. 3 leaves from the minutes of the Mayor and Jurés (sworn men, échevins) of Péronne: 1(a) Tuesday 8th July 1460. Present: Jean Pestel, licencié en droit, mayor (side 1, line 6). On proof that Jean de Cremollu, freeman of the town, son of Fursy, has contracted leprosy, he is assigned to the care of the brothers at the Maison de Santé, and is taken there the same day, accompanied by some friends via the barrier at the Porte Robin. Jean Pestel, mayor 1458-1460, 1463-1465 and 1467-1470, led important negotiations with Louis XI, particularly in 1477 when the Somme towns, so long claimed by, or rented from, Burgundy, became indisputably French. Mentioned also: Simon de Herleville, prebend and chaplain at St Leduc (side 2, line 7). 1(b) Thursday 16th December 1462. Present: Jean Desconchy, licencié en lois et en droit, mayor (side 3 line 16), and several named jurés, including Roger le Boulanger, who also appears (side 4, line 8) in connection with some corn belonging to the town (side 4 line 6). 1(c) Tuesday 21st June 1463. Present: Jean Desconchy, mayor (side 5, line 3), and several named jurés. Actions taken following various requests. Together 6 sides 12” x 8¾”, 8th July 1460 - 21st June 1463, sides 5 & 6 have a tear mended with old paper without loss, also about ten lines lack a few letters at beginning or end. Desconchy or de Conchy was elected mayor 12 times between 1450 and 1478. 2. Single leaf from the arrangements for the Sieur d’Happencourt to pay over certain rents to the damoiselles Marcelet and Dodaucourt (their married names) and their husbands, totalling 2397 livres 10s 4d, the first payment to be on 4th January 1646, and emphasising that the husbands will not be involved in the management of the properties. 2 sides vellum, 11¾” x 7¾”, [1645]. 3. Group of 4 receipts for payment to the Revenue, by Conseillers-Secrétaires du Roi, of successive increases in the value of their office, to be matched by an increase in salary from named taxes. The payment for 1698 is by J.-B. de la Feuille, the later ones by J.-B. Morgan. In 1698 la Feuille paid 12866 livres 13s 4d, borrowed from several men and women named on the document. Three are countersigned by Contrôleurs des Finances Louis Phélypeaux, Comte de Pontchartrain (1698), and Philibert Orry, Comte de Vignory (1731, 1745: he brought France’s road system to a high state of repair, and instituted the Paris Salon). Vellum, printed with manuscript additions, 8 sides folio or larger, Paris or Versailles, 1698, 1715, 1731 and 1745. These legal posts in the Treasury were highly sought after and could be inherited or acquired from a predecessor on paying a “survivance” of 1500 livres to the revenue. 4. Group of documents transferring J.-B. Morgan’s office (see above) to Jean-Joseph Laborde. (a) Power of attorney to make the transfer, signed by Morgan, Paris, 17th September 1756. (b) Receipt by the treasurer of the Company of Conseillers-Secrétaires for 1350 livres paid by Laborde (1200 membership, 150 to the Hôpital Général et Enfants Trouvés), oblong folio, printed with manuscript additions, Paris, 1st December 1756. (c) Receipt by the revenue for 1500 livres paid by Laborde for the right to pass on his office, vellum, oblong folio, Versailles, 11th December 1756. (d) Right of Laborde to pass on his office, with many interesting details, Versailles, large folded vellum, 20th December 1756. (e) Right of Laborde to practice as Conseiller-Secrétaire at Bayonne, signed by the Mayor’s clerk, 2 sides folio, 17th April 1758. The document mentions that Laborde, “born in Spain on the frontier”, had been naturalized French in 1749. In two “liasses” with contemporary cover sheets, the items defective at the top, about a quarter of (d) is missing. [The second liasse also mentions Laborde’s actual “provisions” or letter of appointment with three endorsements, not present]. Together 6 sides, 1756-1758. 5. 2 Summonses to the Sieur [Dehaussy] de Robécourt, at the request of J.-B. Amelot, Receiver of Taxes, to appear before the Intendant at Arras the following Thursday, to account for capitations unpaid by (1) Sieur Devillers and (2) Sieurs Mallemain, Dournel and Maillart, which they say are in Robécourt’s hands, plus 2s per livre for costs, Amelot will ‘press his advantage’ whether Robécourt is ‘present or absent’, signed by huissier Perceval, together 4 sides 7¾” x 6¾”, [Arras], Saturday 6th July 1709. 6. 6 sets of receipts and expenditure (four in summary form) for the Bailliage of Péronne in the neat hand of Fursy Jean Dehaussy (appointed Treasurer in May 1708), with clear introductions and explanations of overdue items, arranged under the headings of Augmentation de Gages (central funding), from 1710 to 21 March 1716 (2 sides), the rest, from 1708 to 29th November 1712, concern the office of Lieutenant-Général d’Épée (held by the Sieur Eudel), the Augmentation de Gages, the office of Treasurer of the Common Purse, the dispute with the Count of Toulouse, and the Common Purse itself. These last two are particularly interesting. The dispute with Toulouse, son of Louis XIV and Admiral of France, was funded by Eudel (600 livres) and the Damoiselle Eleonnorre Eudel, widow of Charles Fournier (500 livres). Expenses include legal fees and sending the town’s charters to Paris. In the days when people paid to hold public office, the Purse received sums ranging from 6 livres for installing a huissier to 112 for a councillor such as Dehaussy, with 162 for the Lieutenant. Payments were made to the locksmith, fuel merchant, woodworker and plasterer for the Council Chamber. Other costs include printing, church services, and an express messenger to Amiens over their dispute with the Intendant. Each account is signed by Eudel, Dehaussy and the other seven councillors, to be retained by Dehaussy. Together 26 sides 11¾” x 7½” including cover sheet, Péronne, 21 March 1716 and 29th November 1712. 7. Group of 5 documents about applications by husbandmen (‘laboureurs’) to work portions of the 151 journaux 28 verges at Forest, Maurepas parish, belonging to the Hôtel Dieu (hospital) of Péronne. With interesting details of the sizes, boundaries, rent offered in kind (measured in septiers of corn per journal per year) and money, plus a single payment as ‘pot de vin’, and of the discussions before the Mayor and Échevins leading to the successful application, with the applicants’ and mayors’ signatures, that of 16th June 1721 also records the announcements at Maurepas of the forthcoming auction. On 14 January 1732 there is a joint application by several families. A journal of 100 square verges, Péronne measure, is about a British acre. A septier is 12 bushels, probably about 150 litres. Agreements were for nine years, and the new tenant had to repay the previous for seed and labour in the current season. With many names, including surnames Lenté (Lanté), Thuilly, Le Dez, Colombier, Desfresnes, Boquart, Lecombe, Machoire, Berthot, Lanne, Hubert, Foucquet, Pillot and Tattegrain. 22 sides 10” x 7½”, Péronne, 5th July 1717, 26th April 1720, 16th June 1721, 14th January 1732, and 23rd May 1732. 8. Autograph note signed ‘Nogar’, asking the addressee “to remove from my inventory Marie Filieu wife of Louis Grain for the complete bed which he had bought in her name”, 1 side 7½” x 5”, Peronne, 7th July 1724. 9. Inventory of the belongings of François Vallincourt, merchant of Péronne ‘at the sign of St Martin’, deceased, with the estimates of their value and the prices at which they were sold, with the buyers’ names and occupations. At the end is a detailed account of credits and debits on the estate. Drawn up by Nicolas Rousseau, Greffier, at the request of Robert Vallincourt & Thomas Hocquet, 32 sides 10” x 7½”, beginning on 30 August 1732. Somewhat worn with occasional loss. With a multitude of local names. The prices realised are consistently a good deal higher than the estimates, for example (side 3, no. 14) “Item an old sabre with two poor swords, a powder horn and several pipes estimated at 20 sols sold and delivered for 33 sols to the said Grain”, other items were sometimes bought by the family, such as “a little musket” to Robert for 3 livres (no. 19). 10. Extract from the Register of Cases of the Election of Péronne, the Procureur du Roi against certain named defenders over taxes, recording the judgement on 28th November 1732, with further matters dated 1st December 1732 and 12th October 1733, signed by huissier Augustin Lacourt, 2 sides 9½” x 7¼”, 1732-1733. 11. 2 bookplates from different plates but with the same coat of arms, one with the name in manuscript of François-de-Paul Barthelemi Jean Dehaussy, the other of M. B. Dehaussy de Robécourt (n.d.), 2 sides engraved surface 3½” x 3½”, 1750 and n.d. 12. Printed copy of Louis XV’s grant of the rank of Marquis and freedom from taxes to Antoine-Constant de Hamel-Bellanglise [Bellenglise], currently the last representative of Lupart, Sieur de Hamel & Bellenglise, Châtelain of Péronne in 1210, recalling the military services of his relations in the elder branches, now extinct, including Jean, killed at Agincourt, and his own, his father’s and his uncle’s, with two sons mousquetaires in the Garde ordinaire, woodblock pictorial heading and initial L, both with the arms of France, 3 sides 12½” x 8”, Versailles, November 1759, edges a little crumpled, short tears in folds without loss. With much genealogical information. 13. Travelling Dentist’s advertisement, by “le Sieur Cazenove de la Faculté de Montpellier”, with a long list of preparations and cosmetics, on the back is a manuscript note addressed to the notaires and others of the Bailliage of Peronne ending “sentence given the 23rd”, right margin defective (words easily supplied, but affecting note on verso), printed, 1 side 7” x 8”, n.p., n.d., c. 1770. 14. Order by the Parlement of Paris in the case of the Appeal by Augustin François De L’Estrées, notary of Péronne, living at Fins, against sentence at Péronne of 22 March 1771 (whereby he was ordered to pay maintenance to Margueritte Mire for their natural son Adrien Joseph Louis De L’Estrées), that both parties be “put out of court”, in view of a “transaction” on 15th April 1771 between De L’Estrées’ lawyer, Jean Marie Louis Ballu (who had power of attorney) and Margueritte Mire, agreeing sums of 250 livres on top of 250 livres already awarded, plus 25 livres every six months for 10 years, and her costs. The transaction, here copied in full, provided that either party might appeal against the original sentence, and in fact De L’Estrées had already so appealed on 26th March 1771. Margueritte Mire took the opportunity to apply for a larger sum, but on 1st July 1772 the Parlement ruled that the transaction must stand. With notes by and signature of Dehaussy de Robécourt. 3 sides 11¾” x 7¼”, this copy c. 1772. 15. Long account by Dehaussy de Robécourt, of the attempts by Augustin Gruzon, ‘mulquinier’ at Gueudecourt on land belonging to the Collegiate Church of St Fursy at Péronne, to obtain redress against his son-in-law Guillaume Cartel senior, daughter Marie Claire, and grandsons Guillaume junior (a farrier), Jean Jacques, and Honoré Cartel, for acts going back to 1772, culminating in the theft with violence of crops, horses and plough in 1773. The case was transferred to the Crown at Péronne, where there were suitable prisons, at the request of the procureur of the jurisdiction of St Fursy. The Cartels suffered two heavy civil awards on 19th March 1774 (side 2, lines 4 & 7), followed by criminal sentences of banishment (2nd January 1775) from the Bailliage for six years. However, Guillaume senior simply went back to Gueudecourt. In the hand of Dehaussy de Robécourt, who took over the case for the Crown, with two copy records in another hand (sides 1-3) dealing with Guillaume’s breach of the ban. 4 sides 9¾” x 7” and 2 sides 9¾” x 6¼”, (Péronne), c. 1775. With many names of witnesses, their occupations and ages. 16. 2 letters signed ‘Eudel’ to Dehaussy de Robécourt, Avocat du Roi to the Bailliage of Péronne, the first about property in which they have a joint interest, he had well expected lower returns given the fall in the price of wheat last November, urging a quick sale of the property at Mortencourt, and asking him to send M. Préville in Paris 800 livres to be converted into a “rescription” on the dues on tobacco at Quimper, with detailed notes by Dehaussy on the actions he has taken, he has a buyer in mind for Mortencourt at a higher price, 2 sides 9½” x 7¼”, from Pont au Buis (Finistère), postmarked ‘Quimper’, 7th May 1775, in the second he thanks him for news of their relations at Péronne, his elder two sons are at home learning mathematics and drawing, one preparing for “notre partie” (probably the customs service), the other to be a naval engineer, and suggesting a way of getting money transferred to him from Péronne, 2 sides 8½” x 6¾” and conjugate address leaf, Rouen, 14th February, 1788. 17. Copy of the will of Jean Antoine Choquet, Seigneur de Courcelette, of rue des Chanoines, Péronne, dated 6th June 1768, with the codicil as dictated on 19th May 1777 to notary Louis Antoine Nicolas Vinchon, which added his cousins M. Dehaussy de Robécourt and Mme. Ducauroy in place of their late father and father’s brother, the copy made by and signed ‘Dehaussy’, 4 sides 10” x 6½”, Péronne, 14th June 1777. The will provides generously for three domestic servants as well as the wife. 18. Licence for Théodore Blanchart, born 1758, to practise surgery at Marchélepot near Péronne, 16th November 1784, issued and signed by Daniel Jean François Bréhou, lieutenant of the “premier chirurgien du Roy”, with an impressive list of Blanchart’s certificates in all branches of medicine, verified and signed on 18th Messidor An XI (7th July 1803) by souspréfet Malafolie, vellum, 2 sides 9½” x 14½”, Péronne, 16th November 1784, soiled on verso but can mostly be made out. 19. Autograph note signed ‘Dehaussy de Robécourt’ to notary Le Febvre jeune, in Paris, asking him to pay Mlle de la Roque Coursel 17 livres 13s 3d, being part of the 20 livres interest p.a. due from a shoemaker in Péronne, explaining the deductions and saying how to find her, the writer will reimburse Le Febvre out of his present month’s salary, 1 side 4½” x 6”, n.p., 8th January 1788. 20. Ordonnance of Antoine-Adolphe de Seiglières, Marquis de Feuquières, as Bailli of Péronne, Montdidier & Roye, summoning the Three Estates of Clergy, Nobles and Commoners within the bailliage to assemble at Péronne on the 16th March 1789, the third estate to a preliminary assembly on the 9th March in order to reduce all their complaints to a single ‘cahier’, and to elect a quarter of their number to attend on the 16th, so as to debate and record “the needs of the State, the reform of abuses, the establishment of a fixed and lasting order in all parts of the administration, the general prosperity of the realm, and the good of each and every subject of the King”, with the aim of producing a single cahier, or at least one for each estate, and then to elect 2 clergy, 2 nobles and 4 commoners as deputies to the forthcoming assembly at Versailles, 8 sides 4to., printed at St Quentin, 21st February 1789. The first summoning since 1612 of the Three Estates, on the eve of the Revolution. Many politicians (including Talleyrand, Bishop of Autun) rose to prominence by presenting their local cahiers at Versailles. This copy is signed ‘Ballu de Mont-joie’, (Mayor, 1790), as Greffier (chief clerk) of the bailliage. 21. Circular letter of the Jacobin Club of Paris to its network all over France, protesting at the action of certain ‘petitioners’ (including Talleyrand, see p. 3) who have called for the royal veto against the lawful decree of the National Assembly, which had been designed “to put an end to the religious troubles”, and fearing civil war if the wish of the Assembly under the monarch can be overturned so lightly. At the end are the names “Max. Isnard, député à l’Assemblé nationale, président” and other Jacobins, and a note that “this extract” is to be appended to “M. Robespierre’s address”. Apparently the Assembly had simply wished to restrain certain independent-minded priests by an oath of loyalty, while the petitioners wanted them exiled. Printed, 10 sides 8vo, Paris, [December] 1791. At Péronne the parish clergy took the oath to the new Constitution on 23 January 1791 but most retracted the following March. As a result the parish churches were closed and the congregations became attached to the former collegiate church of St Fursy. 22. Certificate of residence and identity, with physical appearance, of Jean de Dieu Barthelemi Dehaussy, born 29th November 1728, who has always lived in the Place du Marché aux Herbes at Péronne, with the names and occupations of nine prominent citizens who have vouched for him, signed Charlard by the secretary of the Canton of Péronne, his signature confirmed by Cadot, 4 sides 7¾” x 9¾”, 23rd Fructidor An V (9th September 1797), wear in upper portion touching three letters. 23. Document setting up a Central Vaccination Committee for the arrondissement of Péronne, who will in turn set up local committees in each canton, naming the members headed by Dehaussy-Robécourt (president of the tribunal), Rabache Duquenoy, Mayor, the administrators of the hospital, councillors, lawyers, the local schoolmaster and the curé, “neglecting nothing to support the fatherly view of the Government ... the good of humanity and the increase of the populaton”, signed by souspréfet Malafolie, 2 sides 13” x 9”, Péronne, 16th Thermidor An XII (4th August 1804), a little worn at top without loss. 24. Specification, unsigned, for a calèche (open carriage), addressed to master coachmaker Raffard, rue St. Florentin, Paris, new or second hand, to seat four comfortably, with leather curtains, lanterns, “a fine varnish” in green, yellow or cerise, to clear at least 54 inches above the wheels, with a “vache” (luggage boot) which must weigh at most 28 or 30 pounds, for which “a little trunk” could be made, “a good town and country Berlin” would suit if no calèche can be found, 2 sides 8¼” x 6½”, n.p., August 1812. 25. Letter to the Mayor of Péronne from the Colonel Commandant of the Département of the Somme, requesting a passport for Lieutenant Francisco Torregrosa, Spanish prisoner of war, who has been given permission to visit Châlons sur Marne, 1 side 9½” x 7¼”, Amiens, 24th November 1812, v-shaped tear in top holding without loss. 26. Group of 3 letters from Joseph Théodore Eudel, (d. 1850, Director of Customs, Cherbourg), to his nephew, son of his sister Mme Arbellot, about advancing the nephew’s career, Arbellot has been a “vérificateur” in the customs at Bremen and is now with the same rank at head office in Paris, commiserating over his misfortunes, however with conscription continuing new vacancies may occur (16th December 1813), he urges Arbellot to see M. De la Pierre in Paris to whom Eudel has proposed 6 new posts in Manche and Calvados, and to act “with spirit, moderation & address” (25th January 1814), congratulating him on settling in at Calais, talking of his daughter Zoé’s marriage to Michel Cousin Despréaux, a rich businessman “d’un caractère précieux pour une femme”, regretting the coolness between “my brother and your Father and Mother”, urging Arbellot to do anything he can to overcome it, also to improve certain turns of phrase which can be out of place in a family, and reassuring him “that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds” (28th January 1823), together 6 sides 4to or 8vo and address leaves, 1813-1823. 27. Autograph copy letter signed ‘Eudel’ in the same hand as those of 1775 and 1788 above, but much shakier, to his brothers, saying he has wanted for many years to explain his own reduced circumstances and the terms of his own will. His brother-in-law Arbellot had been the main beneficiary of Arbellot senior’s will, as was allowed by local custom. When the revolution decreed that all children should share equally, with retrospective effect, the husbands of Arbellot’s three married sisters began to threaten him, so Arbellot followed his late father’s advice and put his estate of La Gasnes in Eudel’s name, with Eudel leaving it in his will back to Arbellot or his heirs. Both had other troubles over this period. Eudel was forced to lend 30,000 francs by a revolutionary court at Limoges, lost his official position almost as soon as he had bought it, made to overstock with tobacco, and the assignats from the sale of his house in Péronne were now worthless. He has in fact survived only with help from Arbellot and one of his sisters. “If you had been in my place, you would have done the same”. 4 sides 9½” x 7¼”, Bellac, Haute-Vienne, 17th July 1817. 28. Leaf from the mayor’s register of births, describing two foundlings left at the hospital, a boy apparently new-born, and a girl about a month old, and the clothes in which they were found, signed “Serêt” from the hospital, also “Ed. Herein”, mayor, who registered them as “Alexandre Damase” and “Sophie Constance”, with on the verso two further registrations (one incomplete at end), of children born the previous day, 2 sides 9¾” x 7”, Péronne, n.d. and 12th-14th December 1820, defective in inner margin with loss of several words. 29. Printed leaflet from the Council for the Recensement [list of those liable for service] of the National Guard of Péronne, saying the recipient should consult the list (name not filled in), Péronne, 1 side 8¼” x 5¼”, 22nd August 1870. Péronne was besieged and heavily bombarded from 27th December 1870 - 9th January 1871. 30. Document signed by A. Quantin as publisher of the illustrated monthly Le Monde Moderne, stating the right of Paul Eudel, who has received 250 francs for the text and music of Une Nuit Blanche, to publish or translate it after 6 months, lithographed with manuscript additions, 10½” x 8½”, Paris, 31st May 1895, margins a little crumpled and torn, touching signature without loss.
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| Southern Netherlands (Bruges), ca. 1460. Small 8vo, 112 mm x 75 mm (4 3/8 inches x 2 15/16 inches),173 leaves + 2 added vellum leaves at end. Complete, with all full-page miniatures on added sheets, 16 lines, ruled in very pale ink, written-space 60 mm x 41 mm, written in dark brown ink in a small rounded gothic liturgical hand, rubrics in purplish red, capitals touched in yellow, versal initials throughout in blue or burnished gold with penwork in red or black, 2-line initials throughout in burnished gold on red and blue grounds with white tracery, FOURTEEN VERY LARGE INITIALS WITH FULL ILLUMINATED BORDERS, the initials 5 lines high in gothic ivy-leaf designs in colors on burnished gold grounds, the borders with blue and liquid gold acanthus leaves and small colored flowers and strawberries infilled with black dots and tiny gold bezants, FOURTEEN FULL-PAGE MINIATURES in gently arched compartments, 65 mm x 42 mm, in colors and liquid gold within narrow burnished gold frames and full borders, early sixteenth-century additions on pages added at end, upper outer extremities of final leaves fractionally nibbled, some thumbing sometimes affecting full borders, border on fol. 34v a little smudged, generally in good state, pale brown velvet over pasteboards, pierced silver clasps and catches, gilt edges, vellum endleaves, in a fitted brown morocco case, title gilt. PROVENANCE (1) Written in Bruges, for male use (fol. 172v), probably for export to Spain or Portugal, not earlier than 1450, since the Calendar includes St. Bernardinus, canonized in that year. There is a sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century signature on fol. 1r, “fray hosef acahla”. (2) The collection of Joel and Maxine Spitz, Glencoe, Illinois, bought in 1946 from Wallach, New York (C.U. Faye and W.H. Bond, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1962, p. 166, no. 6); and by descent to the present owners. Sotheby’s 7/6/2000 to Windle. TEXT A Calendar (fol. 1r), with relatively sparse entries including in black St. Donatian, patron saint of Bruges; the Hours of the Cross (fol. 14r) and of the Holy Ghost (fol. 22r); the Mass of the Virgin (fol. 28r), with the Gospel Sequences (fol. 32r); the Hours of the Virgin “secundum consuetudinem romane curie”, with matins (fol. 35r), lauds (fol. 53r), prime (fol. 65r), terce (fol. 70r), sext (fol. 75r), none (fol. 80r), vespers (fol. 85r) and compline (fol. 93r), with the Advent office (fol. 99r); the Penitential Psalms (fol. 108r) and Litany; the Office of the Dead (fol. 129r); and “Obsecro te” (fol. 170r, in male form). ILLUMINATION This is an altogether charming little book in the early style of the Bruges illuminator Willem Vrelant, with the small heads and soft-colored cherubic faces that occur in the Gold Scrolls style of the 1440s. The deep reds and blues and wide palette of greens are all typical of Vrelant, and many of the compositions here echo well-known Vrelant patterns, such as Pentecost, the Nativity, and the Massacre of the Innocents (cf. B. Bousmanne, “Item a Guillaume Wyeland aussi enlumineur” Willem Vrelant, Un aspect de l’enluminure dans les Pays-bas meridionaux, 1997, p. 181, fig. 163; p. 114, fig. 97; and p. 120, fig. 108, respectively). The minatures here are: 1. Folios 13v–14r The Crucifixion, saints on the left, soldiers and Pilate on the right, landscape background including mountains and Jerusalem with pink walls and blue roofs. 2. Folios 21v–22r, Pentecost, in a gothic church, tiled floor, lattice windows, with the Holy Dove entering from the left. 3. Folios 27v–28r, The Virgin and Child adored by angels, enthroned in a tall chair, angels on either si | |
