Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts

A FINE MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A HEAVILY DECORATED BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM COMPLINE, HOURS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

Paris: ca. 1430.

Price: $1,600.00

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM CALENDAR LEAF FROM THE LLANGATTOCK BREVIARY.

TEXT FROM JULY AND AUGUST.

Italy [Ferrara]: 1441-48.

Price: $5,000.00

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN DUTCH, WITH A LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL DEPICTING PENTECOST.

TEXT FROM THE HOURS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

Netherlands: ca. 1470-80.

Price: $10,000.00

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A HEAVILY DECORATED BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM SEXT, HOURS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

Paris: ca. 1430.

Price: $2,800.00

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A HYMNAL IN LATIN, WITH A LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL.

WITH TEXT FROM "AVE MARIS STELLA."

Italy: 15th century.

Price: $5,500.00

A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN AND FRENCH, WITH A MINIATURE OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD.

TEXT FROM "OBSECRO TE."

Paris: ca. 1500.

Price: $3,250.00

A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN AND FRENCH, WITH A SMALL MINIATURE OF ST. MARK.

TEXT FROM THE GOSPEL LESSONS.

Paris: ca. 1500.

Price: $1,800.00

A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A GRAND ROMANESQUE BIBLE IN LATIN.

WITH TEXT FROM DEUTERONOMY.

Italy: late 11th or early 12th century.

Price: $4,800.00

A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A MASSIVE BIBLE IN LATIN.

WITH TEXT FROM EXODUS.

Italy: second half of 11th, or opening of 12th century.

Price: $4,500.00

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

(ST20622) WITH A BORDER BEARING THE INSCRIPTION "VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN...

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM LEAF WITH A FULL-PAGE MINIATURE DEPICTING THE HARROWING OF HELL, AFTER ALBRECHT DÜRER.

WITH A BORDER BEARING THE INSCRIPTION "VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN ETERNUM."

Germany: ca. 1540.

Price: $8,500.00

(ST21107) A SUBSTANTIAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER FROM T. J. COBDEN-SANDERSON, WITH ORIGINAL...

(DOVES PRESS). COBDEN-SANDERSON, T. J.

A SUBSTANTIAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER FROM T. J. COBDEN-SANDERSON, WITH ORIGINAL DOVES PRESS RECEIPT AND FOUR PAGES OF RUBBINGS FOR SPECIAL DOVES BINDINGS.

March 15, 1917.

Price: $3,500.00

LEAVES FROM A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY.

TEXT IN LATIN.

Northern France: ca. 1475.

Price: $225.00

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

TEXT IN LATIN.

Germany: 14th century.

Price: $475.00

(ST20509a-b) THE LEAVES FROM A LECTIONARY IN LATIN, WITH TEXTS FROM JOHN AND EXODUS on...

TWO LARGE 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: $2,250.00

TWO SEPARATELY OFFERED VERY FINE MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES IN A LOVELY HUMANIST HAND FROM "RHETORICA AD HERENNIUM."

TEXT IN LATIN.

Northern Italy: last quarter of 15th century.

Price: $3,500.00

FRAGMENT OF A VELLUM MANUSCRIPT BIFOLIUM, FROM GREGORY THE GREAT'S "HOMILIAE IN EVANGELIAE."

TEXT FROM HOMILY XXVI ON JOHN 20:19-31.

Germany: ca. 1100.

Price: $1,500.00

A VERY EARLY VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A LECTIONARY IN LATIN.

WITH READINGS FROM MATTHEW 21:35-46 AND GENESIS 27:6-28.

Probably Germany: third quarter of ninth century.

Price: $25,000.00

CHARMING ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY.

FROM A COLLECTARIUM IN LATIN MADE FOR A FEMALE RELIGIOUS.

France[?]: ca. 1450.

Price: $600.00

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 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 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

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF WITH TWO CHARMING MINIATURES OF FEMALE SAINTS, FROM A FINE BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.

TEXT FROM THE SUFFRAGES.

Bruges, ca. 1465.

Price: $5,000.00

(ST10994) CUT FROM A. MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK A LARGE HISTORIATED VELLUM INITIAL SHOWING...

A LARGE HISTORIATED VELLUM INITIAL SHOWING THE STONING OF SAINT STEPHEN, CUT FROM A MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK.

Verona/the Veneto, ca. 1475.

Price: $5,500.00