Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS, WITH A MINIATURE OF PENTECOST.

TEXT FROM THE HOURS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

France: ca. 1490.

Price: $6,000.00

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF, RECOVERED FROM A BINDING.

WITH TEXT IN LATIN FROM THE "SENTENTIAE" OF PETER LOMBARD.

Germany(?): late 12th or early 13th century.

Price: $3,200.00

A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN AND FRENCH, WITH A LARGE MINIATURE OF THE ANNUNCIATION TO THE SHEPHERDS.

TEXT FROM TERCE.

Paris: ca. 1500.

Price: $5,500.00

A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF IN A NEAT HUMANIST HAND.

TEXT FROM LACTANTIUS' "DE OPIFICIO DEI."

Italy: 15th century.

Price: $2,250.00

A VERY FINE MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF IN LATIN, FROM THE LLANGATTOCK BREVIARY, WITH AN HISTORIATED INITIAL DEPICTING ST. PAUL.

TEXT FROM THE FEAST OF STS. PETER AND PAUL.

Italy [Ferrara]: 1441-48.

Price: $10,000.00

ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY, WITH LOVELY PANEL BORDERS.

FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.

Northern France: ca. 1480.

Price: $275.00

PART OF A MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT BIFOLIUM, PREVIOUSLY USED AS BINDING WASTE.

TEXT ON A COMMENTARY OR SERMON ON GENESIS 27:27.

France: ca. 1300.

Price: $950.00

PART OF A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A NOTED MISSAL, RECOVERED FROM A BINDING.

TEXT IN LATIN.

Germany: 14th century.

Price: $475.00

(ST20509c-d) THE LEAVES FROM A LECTIONARY IN LATIN, WITH TEXTS FROM JOHN AND EXODUS on...

TWO MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT BIFOLIA RECOVERED FROM BINDINGS, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY.

THE LEAVES FROM A LECTIONARY IN LATIN, WITH TEXTS FROM JOHN AND EXODUS on one leaf and LUKE, LEVITICUS AND DANIEL on the other.

Germany: Late 11th or early 12th century.

Price: $2,500.00

MOST OF A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF, FROM GREGORY THE GREAT'S "MORALIA IN JOB."

TEXT FROM BOOK I, CHAPTERS XXIX-XXXII.

Germany: 12th century.

Price: $1,250.00

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 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 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 ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF ON VELLUM WITH AN EXTREMELY EMOTIONAL MINIATURE OF THE DEPOSITION, FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.

USE OF SAINTES. TEXT FROM THE HOURS OF THE CROSS.

France [probably Paris], ca. 1420.

Price: $5,500.00

ESPECIALLY PRETTY SMALL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF.

FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.

Paris: ca. 1440.

Price: $425.00

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF WITH A GRUESOME MINIATURE OF THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS, FROM A FINE BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN AND FRENCH.

TEXT FROM THE OPENING OF VESPERS.

Paris, ca. 1450.

Price: $5,500.00

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM CALENDAR LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS, DEPICTING LABOR OF THE MONTH AND ZODIAC SIGN.

TEXT FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER.

Paris, ca. 1460.

Price: $6,500.00

FRAMED ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY, SOME WITH SMALL MINIATURES OF SAINTS, FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.

TEXTS FROM LAUDES, VESPERS, AND THE SUFFRAGES.

Northeastern France, probably Arras, late 15th century.

Price: $1,950.00

INDIVIDUAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY, WITH SMALL MINIATURES FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM THE SUFFRAGES.

Northeastern France, probably Arras, late 15th century.

Price: $1,800.00

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF WITH SMALL MINIATURES OF SAINTS FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM THE SUFFRAGES.

Northeastern France, probably Arras, late 15th century.

Price: $3,000.00

A BEAUTIFULLY CALLIGRAPHED CARTA EXECUTORIA ON VELLUM.

Spain: 1793.

Price: $7,500.00

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