[GRADUAL.]

Bifolium containing chants for Easter Monday...

Northeast Spain, 11th century.

A remarkable bifolium containing chants...

£5000

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

A very fine large initial painted in a...

£6750

QUR’AN.

Maghribi Qur’an leaf with illumination...

?Andalusia, c. 1250–1350 AD.

A fine example of a maghribi frontispiece...

£15000

BEDFORDSHIRE – ARLESEY.

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

Bedfordshire, 1st half of 13th century.

Witnessed by Roger Burnard, William Rixpaud,...

£1400

[GRADUAL.]

Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

A spectacular initial on the scale of a...

£20000

[LECTIONARY.]

Northeast Spain?, 2nd half of the 12th century.

Four leaves from a large and handsome twelfth-century...

£4500

[CHOIRBOOK.]

Large historiated initial ‘I’.

Italy (Umbria), c. 1300.

A very elegant initial in a style characteristic...

£4500

[HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]

Deed granting land to the hospice.

Metz, 5 May 1464.

A significant document recording the grant...

£450

BALBUS, Johannes.

Catholicon.

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

Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon,...

£65000

LACTANTIUS.

Opera.

[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

£25000

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

Summa de potestate ecclesiastica.

Augsburg, [Johann Schüssler,] 6 March 1473.

First edition of this highly important...

£22500

PAULUS DE SANCTA MARIA.

Scrutinium scripturarum.

[Strasbourg, Johann Mentelin, c. 1474.]

Third edition of this treatise of Christian...

£10000

GERSON, Johannes [Pseudo-].

Donatus [moralisatus].

[Nuremberg, Friedrich Creussner, c. 1475.]

Early editions of two rare devotional tracts...

£8500

THOMAS of Cantimpré.

Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

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

Second edition of this manual of moral...

£6000

URSINIS, Bartholomaeus de.

[Quadragesimale quod dicitur Gratia Dei.]

[Naples, Francesco del Tuppo for Bernardinus...

First and only edition, a handsome, wide-margined...

£27500

[PUBLICIUS, Jacobus.]

Ars memorativa.

[Cologne, Johann Guldenschaff, c. 1481.]

First illustrated edition, with moving...

£18000

[SERMONS.]

[Sermones sensati.]

[(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...

First and only incunable edition of a rare...

£8500

[LAURENTIUS, Frater; Jan van BREDERODE, translator.]

[Summe le roy of des conincs summe.]

[(Colophon:) Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert],...

Rare early edition in Dutch (first Delft...

£40000

MEFFRET, Johann.

Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...

[Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]

A volume of sermons with early English...

£6500

[PSALTER.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]

Psalterium.

[Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.]

First edition of the Psalter with the commentary...

£24000