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Auction Name
Western Illuminated Manuscripts
Auction Date
12/09/2025 - 12/09/2025
Sale Number
#L25410
Total Lots
19
Sold Lots
7.0
Lots Sold
36.84%
Unsold Lots
12
Total Sales (GBP)
55,880.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
32,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
47,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
1,669,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
2,444,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
2.29%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

5 fragments with St Gall Neumes

10th-11th century GBP 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 19,050.00
5 Vincent Beauvais

Speculum historiale in Latin bifolium on vellum with large illuminated historiated initial

c.1430 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 16,510.00
2

The Vision of Ezekiel | by the Almagest Master: a historiated initial on a Bible leaf, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum

13th century (c. 1220s) GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,334.00
8

Three illuminatd roundels from the margins of a Choirbook on vellum illuminated by Niccolo di Giacomo da Bologna

c.1365 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,334.00
9

A King and a Saint, historiated initials 'A' or 'N' and 'U' from a Choirbook on vellum, illuminated by an unknown Master

c.1490-1500. GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,556.00
6

Illuminated Leaf from a Missal with Dutch text on the verso

c.1430 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,302.00
11

A Bishop Saint, historiated initial 'S' from a Choirbook on vellum, illuminated by the Master of the Graduals of San Salvatore in Pavia

c.1500 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 2,794.00
19 Thomas Aquinas

Quaestiones de potentia dei. Quaestiones de malo

30 December 1480 GBP 240,000.00 - 320,000.00 Not Sold
18

Saint Augustine. Soliloquia -- Pseudo-Bernard. Tractatus de interiori domo seu de conscientia aedificanda -- St Anselmus. Orationes

1375 GBP 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 Not Sold
17

Antiphonal, Sanctoral covering the liturgical year from August 1st to Advent

circa 1270-75 GBP 150,000.00 - 240,000.00 Not Sold
16

Bible with Prologues and Interpretations of Hebrew Names, in Latin

dated 1273 GBP 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 Not Sold
15

Book of Hours in German, Use of Nuremberg(?), with Latin incipits

2nd half of the 14th century GBP 18,000.00 - 24,000.00 Not Sold
14 by Petrus Roselli

Illuminated Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean

1447 GBP 700,000.00 - 1,000,000.00 Not Sold
13 by Dierick Vijt

Illuminated Portolan Chart of Western Europe

c.1575--1580 GBP 100,000.00 - 200,000.00 Not Sold
12

Imperial Charter issued by Emperor Heinrich V of the Holy Roman Empire , with Imperial monogram and seal

 1116 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 Not Sold
10

Illuminated initial 'R', Christus Trimphans by Taddeo Crivelli

c.1460 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
7

Illuminated leaf from a Gradual with decorative floral border and historiated initial

17th century GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
4

St Anthony of Padua, historiated initial 'I' on a leaf from a Gradual, in Latin

early 1340s GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
3

Martyrdom of St Mark on a leaf from a Gradual

1st half of the fourteenth century GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
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