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Auction Name: Online: Western Medieval Manuscripts: the Property of a Gentleman
Auction Date: 12/03/2025 - 12/03/2025
Sale Number: #1087
Total Lots: 60
Sold Lots: 30.0
Lots Sold: 50.00%
Unsold Lots: 30

Total Sales (GBP): 30,911.80
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 22,900.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 33,600.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 55,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 80,100.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 38.59%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
56		Breviary, of Franciscan Use, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [northern Italy, second	second half of the fifteenth century	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 3,810.00
57		Monastic prayerbook, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [Italy (perhaps Brescia), fifteenth	fifteenth century	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	GBP 3,048.00
23		The last leaf of the Psalms, from the so-called 'Bible of Mirmelus Arnandi', in Latin,	c. 1300	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,794.00
28		Single leaf from the glittering Bute-Soissons Hours, in Latin, opulently illuminated manuscript on	c. 1370-1400	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 1,905.00
14		Leaf from a finely illuminated Book of Hours, with border decoration ascribed to an associate of the	c. 1450	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,270.00
25		Leaf from a manuscript of the 'Saint-Jacques Bible Concordance', in Latin, on vellum, [France,	early fourteenth century	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,206.50
8		Leaf from an English illuminated Psalter, in Latin, manuscript on vellum, [England (probably East	mid-fourteenth century	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,206.50
4		Two near-complete leaves from a compilation of texts on the Sacrament, including Ivo of Chartres,	third quarter of the twelfth century	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,079.50
29		Text leaf from the 'Chester Beatty Book of Hours', in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum,	dated 1408	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,079.50
40		Leaf from the Psalter with Passion Sequences copied by Pietro Ursuleo of Capuo, in Latin, opulently	c. 1460	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 952.50
10		Leaf from the so-called 'Norwich Breviary', Use of Sarum, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on	c. 1400	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	GBP 825.50
30		Leaf from a Book of Hours, decorated with medieval dragons, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on	first half of the fifteenth century	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	GBP 825.50
50		Leaf from an early manuscript of Gratian's Decretum, C.xxxviii-xliv, on heresy, and the Church's	second half of the twelfth century (before c. 1180)	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 825.50
59		Two modern studies of medieval Insular or English illumination, in Latin and West Saxon (Old	nineteenth or twentieth century	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 825.50
16		Two leaves from Peter Lombard, Magna Glossatura in Epistolas Pauli (the letters of St. Paul,	c. 1210-20	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	GBP 825.50
22		Leaf from Rufinus of Aquilea's continuation of his Latin translation of Eusebius of Caesarea,	c. 1300	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	GBP 825.50
24		Text leaf from the 'Chester Beatty Bible', his manuscript MS.W.173, in Latin, manuscript on	c. 1300	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 762.00
60		Three modern facsimiles of initials, miniatures and corresponding sections of text by William Thomas	nineteenth century	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 762.00
11		Leaf from a large English Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [England, fifteenth	fifteenth century	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 698.50
13		Large cutting from a leaf from an English Breviary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum,	early years of the fifteenth century	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 698.50

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