Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts

A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN, WITH A FULL-PAGE MINIATURE OF KING DAVID AND THE PROPHET NATHAN.

TEXT FROM THE PENITENTIAL PSALMS.

Rouen: late 15th century.

Price: $5,500.00

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 FROM A CISTERCIAN BREVIARY.

TEXT IN LATIN.

France (Picardy, perhaps Amiens): ca. 1290.

Price: $2,400.00

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 SMALL MINIATURE OF ST. MARK.

TEXT FROM THE GOSPEL LESSONS.

Paris: ca. 1500.

Price: $1,800.00

A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN, WITH A LARGE MINIATURE OF THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN.

TEXT FROM COMPLINE.

Paris: ca. 1500.

Price: $6,000.00

A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN, WITH A LARGE MINIATURE OF PENTECOST.

TEXT FROM THE HOURS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

Paris: ca. 1500.

Price: $3,200.00

AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A LECTIONARY IN LATIN, WITH A LARGE WHITE-VINE INITIAL.

TEXT FROM ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM'S HOMILY LXXI ON MATTHEW 22.

Austria (Salzburg): second half of 12th century.

Price: $12,500.00

LEAVES FROM A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK CONTAINING A SEQUENTIARY, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY.

TEXT IN LATIN.

Northeastern France or Rhineland: early 14th century.

Price: $250.00

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

TEXT IN LATIN AND/OR FRENCH.

Paris: ca. 1500.

Price: $275.00

MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY.

FROM A PSALTER-HOURS IN LATIN.

Southern Netherlands: ca. 1280.

Price: $400.00

(MODERN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER). [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.]. "MARK TWAIN," (Pseudonym).

A MARK TWAIN BESTIARY. EXCERPTS FROM FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR.

[Ashfield and Easthampton, Massachusetts: 1987].

Price: $14,000.00

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

TEACHING PACKET OF FIVE MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES RECOVERED FROM BINDINGS, OFFERED AS A GROUP.

EACH LEAF FROM A DIFFERENT LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPT WITH MUSICAL NOTATION.

Germany and Low Countries: 14th & 15th centuries.

Price: $2,900.00

(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

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 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 ENGLISH VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF, IN LATIN, FROM PETRUS RIGA'S "AURORA."

TEXT FROM COMMENTARY ON I KINGS (LINES 185-248),

England: ca. 1375.

Price: $3,750.00

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 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

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

TEXT FROM PSALMS 41 AND 127.

Paris: ca. 1460.

Price: $475.00