Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts

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 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 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 MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF IN A NEAT HUMANIST HAND.

TEXT FROM LACTANTIUS' "DE OPIFICIO DEI."

Italy: 15th century.

Price: $2,250.00

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

FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.

Northern France: ca. 1480.

Price: $275.00

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

TEXT IN LATIN.

Northeastern France or Rhineland: early 14th century.

Price: $900.00

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

TEXT IN LATIN.

Northeastern France or Rhineland: early 14th century.

Price: $700.00

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

LEAVES FROM A MEDIEVAL VELLUM MANUSCRIPT SEQUENTIARY, OFFERED FOR SALE INDIVIDUALLY.

TEXT IN LATIN.

Northeastern France or Rhineland: early 14th century.

Price: $1,500.00

(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

(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

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

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

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