Christies: Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 23879, London - King Street
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 09, 2025 - July 09, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tally stick, in Latin, manuscript on wood |
England, probably Westminster | 13th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 50,400.00 | |
| 2 | Dunois Master | Lancelot dining with a knight and his sweetheart, miniature cut from the Livre du Lancelot del Lac, in French, illuminated manuscript on vellum |
Paris | c.1440 | GBP 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 3 | Lombard illuminator | St Benedict, historiated initial 'V' on a leaf from a Gradual, illuminated manuscript on vellum |
Lombardy | final quarter 15th century | GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 4 | The Spanish Forger | The arrival of a Saint, illuminated miniature on vellum |
Paris | c.1900 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 |
| 5 | Peter Lombard (c.1096-1160) | Sentences, in Latin, manuscript on vellum |
England | late 13th century | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | GBP 47,880.00 |
| 6 | A Noted Breviary from Langres | Noted Breviary, summer part, use of Langres, illuminated manuscript on vellum |
North-Eastern France | last third 13th century and 14th century | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 25,200.00 |
| 7 | One of the oldest Sephardi Torah scrolls | A fragment of a Sephardi Torah Scroll containing Gen 28:7-47:3, in Hebrew, manuscript scroll on vellum |
probably Spain, perhaps Toledo | late 13th/early 14th century | GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | GBP 18,900.00 |
| 8 | Jacobus de Voragine (c.1230-1298) | Sermones quadragesimales, in Latin, manuscript on vellum |
Germany | c.1300 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 9 | A portable Magna Carta | Magna Carta and Statutes of the Realm, in Latin and Anglo-Norman French, manuscript on vellum |
England | 14th century | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 32,760.00 |
| 10 | Maestro degli Statuti padovani | The Gladstone Missal, use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, |
Padua | 1420 | GBP 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 | GBP 151,200.00 |
| 11 | Psalter, for Celestine use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum |
Central Italy | 1442 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 7,560.00 | |
| 12 | Talbot Master | Book of Hours, use of Rouen, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum |
Rouen | c.1445-50 | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | GBP 56,700.00 |
| 13 | St Augustine (354-430) | Enchiridion, with the Letters of Lentulus and Pilate and patristic extracts, in Latin and Italian, illuminated manuscript on vellum |
Florence | mid-15th century | GBP 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 |
| 14 | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) | Cicero, Epistolae ad Familiares, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum |
Italy, probably Genoa | mid-15th century | GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 15 | Raymond Llull (c.1232-1316), Arnold of Villanova (c.1230-1311) and others | Anthology of Alchemy, in Latin and Italian, illustrated manuscript on paper |
north-eastern Italy | final third 15th century | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | GBP 100,800.00 |
| 16 | Juvenal (c.55-128) and Persius (34-62) | Satyrae, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum |
Spain or Italy | second half 15th century | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | GBP 37,800.00 |
| 17 | Il Libro di Sidracho, in Italian, decorated manuscript on paper |
Verona | 2nd half 15th century | GBP 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 18 | Master of the Prince of Piedmont | Book of Hours, use of Lyon, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum |
Lyon or perhaps Savoy | 1460s | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 19 | Anonymous French illuminator | Book of Hours, use of Rome, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum |
southwestern France | final third 15th century | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 20 | Master of Dobree 33 | Book of Hours, use of Rome, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum |
?Hainault | c.1480s | GBP 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 | GBP 88,200.00 |
| 21 | Follower or workshop of Maitre Francois | Book of Hours, use of Paris, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum |
Paris | c.1480-90 | GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 15,120.00 |
| 22 | Jean Boutin | Book of Hours, use of Rome, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum |
northern France | c.1480-1500 | GBP 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 | GBP 30,240.00 |
| 23 | Giovanni Facio Patarino dell'Amendolara (fl.1450) | Trattato di mascalcia, in Italian, manuscript on paper |
southern Italy, probably Naples | final quarter 15th century | GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 24 | Alchemical miscellany, in Italian and Latin, illustrated manuscript on paper |
northern Italy | late 15th-16th century | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 25 | Noted Hymnal with liturgical texts, Franciscan use, in Latin and Dutch, decorated manuscript on paper and vellum with illuminated manuscript cuttings on vellum and three prints pasted in |
Southern Netherlands | 16th to 17th centuries; illumination late 13th to 15th centuries | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 8,820.00 |
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