Haymo [Of Auxerre].

Expositio in Epistolas Pauli…, in Latin, Manuscript on Vellum,

      [Paris? ], 1481. Folio. ff. [ii] 193. [19, 2-248], complete. Lettre Bâtarde, double column ruled in red, 34 lines in brown ink in a fine and clear hand, running titles, ruled in red, rubrics and small initials in red and yellow, occasional side notes, vertical signature catchwords. Full-page illuminated t.p. comprising multicoloured floral and gilt foliage border enclosing double column ILLUMINATED NARRATIVE MINIATURES BY AN ARTIST FROM THE CIRCLE OF THE MAITRE FRANCOIS depicting St Paul enthroned in Gothic palace presenting his epistle to a messenger boy seen running across the fields through an open window; in the second miniature he delivers it to the erring Galatians, shown listening to a debate between a rabbinical figure and a Galatian, in a domed temple very richly gilt; 10-line gilt capital 'P', decorated with blue in the Lombard style; arms of Jean Budé (silver shield a bit oxydised) at foot. Eleven 10-12 line foliated initials of delicate red and blue heightened with white on a background of burnished gold inset with complex foliage commencing each commentary and ten large illuminated initials 5-9 lines high, of blue and red with delicate liquid gold foliated patterning at the beginning of the first chapter of each. The opening illumination is very lightly rubbed in one or two small areas with very minor paint loss, but extremely attractive, a few tiny wormholes neatly repaired to first and last pages. A very good, clean, fresh and large ms. in handsome late 18th-C straight-grained red morocco gilt, covers delicately framed with gilt rolltools and the spine richly gilt in 6 compartments, lettered in the second and third, attributed to Bozerian. Jean Budé's partially erased ms ex-libris dated 1481 on fol. 190, his arms at foot of first page, Nicolas Thoynard of Orleans' 17th-C ms ex-libris on second preliminary leaf, 'hic liber est Nicolai Thoynardi Aurelianensis', from the libraries of? M. Loget (procureur-generale of Aguesseau, by inheritance), Joseph Barrois, sold by...<