Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts

A VERY EARLY VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A SACRAMENTARY OR RITUALE.

TEXT INCLUDING BENEDICTIONS FOR TREES.

Probably France or Rhineland: 10th century.

Price: $10,000.00

MOST OF AN EARLY LEAF IN LATIN, PROBABLY FROM A LECTIONARY, WITH THE READING FOR MARTINMAS TAKEN FROM SULPICIUS SEVERUS'

DE VITA SANCTI MARTINI.

Italy, late 11th or early 12th century.

Price: $3,500.00

A FRAGMENT FROM A VERY LARGE ROMANESQUE MANUSCRIPT LEAF, WITH A FINE INITIAL DEPICTING ST. PETER AND CHRIST.

TEXT FROM A HOMILIARY IN LATIN.

Southern Germany(?): early 12th century.

Price: $12,500.00

A LEAF FROM AN EARLY VELLUM MANUSCRIPT OF GREGORY THE GREAT IN LATIN.

HOMILIAE IN EVANGELIAS, PART OF HOMILY XXXI.

South Germany or more probably Austria, second half of the 12th century.

Price: $2,250.00

A NEARLY COMPLETE VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF WITH TEXT FROM THE LIFE OF ST. TAURIN.

France: mid-to-late 12th century.

Price: $4,000.00

A VERY LARGE EARLY VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM SAINT GREGORY THE GREAT'S "XL HOMILARIUM IN EVANGELIA" IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM HOMILY XXVI, FOR THE FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EASTER.

Italy, ca. 1150.

Price: $2,750.00

A VERY LARGE EARLY VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF WITH AN IMPRESSIVE INITIAL, FROM SAINT GREGORY THE GREAT'S "XL HOMILARIUM IN EVANGELIA" IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM HOMILY XXII, FOR EASTER SUNDAY.

Italy, ca. 1150.

Price: $1,800.00

AN EARLY VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A CAROLINGIAN HOMILIARY IN LATIN.

PERHAPS THAT OF PAUL THE DEACON.

Germany: second quarter of ninth century.

Price: $20,000.00

VERY EARLY VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY, FROM A CAROLINGIAN HOMILIARY IN LATIN.

PERHAPS THAT OF PAUL THE DEACON.

Germany: second quarter of ninth century.

Price: $22,500.00

AN EARLY VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A SACRAMENTARY IN LATIN, WITH A LARGE ROMANESQUE INITIAL.

WITH TEXT FROM MASSES FOR SAINTS' DAYS IN AUGUST.

Germany: mid- to late 12th century.

Price: $9,500.00

A VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM AN EARLY GLOSSED BIBLE IN LATIN.

TEXT BEGINNING WITH 2 CHRONICLES 36:14.

Abbey of St. Oyan at St.-Claude du Jura, France: ca. 1175.

Price: $3,600.00

AN EARLY VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A HOMILIARY IN LATIN.

WITH TEXT FROM HAIMO'S HOMILY XI ON ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST.

England: second half of 12th century [but before 1180].

Price: $7,500.00

MOST OF AN EARLY BIFOLIUM (LATER REUSED AS PART OF A MASSIVE BINDING) WITH TWO VERY LARGE GILT INITIALS, FROM PETER LOMBARD'S

MAGNA GLOSSATURA IN EPISTOLAS PAULI.

France: ca. 1180.

Price: $7,500.00

A FRAGMENT OF AN EARLY VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF, WITH TEXT FROM ANASTASIUS BIBLIOTHECARIUS'

HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA.

France: late 12th century.

Price: $3,500.00

(ST18250b) TEXT FROM THE END OF THE COMMENTARY ON NUMBERS AND THE OPENING OF THE...

A VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM PETRUS RIGA'S "AURORA."

TEXT FROM THE END OF THE COMMENTARY ON NUMBERS AND THE OPENING OF THE PROLOGUE FOR THE COMMENTARY ON DEUTERONOMY.

England: first half of 13th century.

Price: $4,500.00

A VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF WITH A BEAUTIFUL HISTORIATED INITIAL AND ITS GUIDE SKETCH, FROM A FINE PORTABLE BIBLE IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM THE OPENING OF PAUL'S FIRST LETTER TO THE THESSALONIANS.

Paris: mid-13th century.

Price: $10,000.00

ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY, FROM A LARGE AND LUXURIOUSLY APPOINTED PSALTER IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM PSALMS.

Northern England: ca. 1260-70.

Price: $4,500.00

(ST15769a) TEXTS FROM THE TABLE OF CONTENTS OF DEUTERONOMY AND FROM DEUTERONOMY...

TWO VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY, FROM A LARGE BIBLE IN LATIN.

TEXTS FROM THE TABLE OF CONTENTS OF DEUTERONOMY AND FROM DEUTERONOMY 2:26-3:26.

Perhaps France: mid-12th century.

Price: $3,200.00

VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY, FROM PERALDUS' "SUMMA DE VITIIS."

TEXT FROM "DE SUPERBIA"

France: second half of the 13th century.

Price: $3,250.00

A VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A MEDICAL TREATISE IN LATIN.

Italy, ca. 1275.

Price: $2,500.00