No. 190] EVARD COLLEGE CVII, 40 [Price 6d AUG 14 1899 A CATALOGUE OFFERED AT THE NET PRICES AFFIXED, BY BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 Piccadilly LONDON, July, 1899 he printing and posting of my Rough Lists is a considerable expense to me. herefore appeal to the recipients to favour me occasionally with an order, erwise the sending of these Catalogues must be suspended.-B.Q. OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS One Volume, impl. 8vo. hf. bd., £5. 5s. List of the Sections and the Prices at which they may be had: 1, 2. Two pages from Henry VIII's Golden Gospels written in the eighth 3. Illuminated Title-page of an Arabic MS. written in Cairo about 1400. 5. A page from the first edition of Quintilian printed at Rome in 1470, 6. Illuminated Miniature and border from the Erizzo Juramentum, written in Venice about 1475. 7. Part II. Miniature and illuminated border from a MS. of Martial written in Illuminated Title-page from Bembo's vellum copy of the Aldine Petrarch ILLUSTRATIONS to MILTON'S COMUS: 8 unpublished Drawings by WILLIAM BLAKE, hf. bd. £1. 1890 Part III. MINIATURES from MSS. and Illustrated Books selected as giving pictures of the customs and costumes of the DAYS OF CHIVALRY. comprising 14 illuminated Miniatures and 5 facsimiles of early woodcuts; altogether 19 plates, hf. bd. 1OS Part IV. MEXICAN PICTURE-CHRONICLE 1890 of Cempoallan, painted and written at Tezcuco about 1529-30, on 16 leaves of a coarse fabric made from the maguey fibre. 31 plates reproduced and tinted in exact facsimile of the original (slightly reduced), hf. bd. £1. Is 1899 Parts V.-X. FACSIMILES of ILLUSTRATIONS in BIBLICAL and LITURGICAL MSS. executed in Germany England, France, Italy, and Flanders, between the years 1100 and 1500; with an introduction and a table for chronologica arrangement. comprising 47 plates reproduced in gold and colours from Miniatures and decorative pages of MSS. in the possession o the editor, hf. bd. £2. 189 A CATALOGUE OF RARE AND VALUABLE BOOKS OFFERED FOR SALE BY BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY, W. ILLUMINATED AND DECORATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS ON VELLUM From the famous Ashburnham Library, and the Collection of M. Henriques de Castro of Amsterdam 1 HRABANI MAURI IN MATHEI EXPOSITIO . . EVANGELIUM Imp. 4to. MS. ON VELLUM, written in double columns, the words of the Gospel in Rustic capitals, and the words of the commentary in Caroline minuscules (some headings in uncial capitals), 31 lines to the column; the first three leaves supplied in a bold German hand of the fifteenth century; in the original wooden boards, re-covered in the fifteenth century with red velvet; the upper cover overlaid with a frame of enamelled metal in eight plaques of blue, green, gold and white; with cornerpieces of filigreed metal in which are set oval crystals; and four minor settings of coloured stones in filigree; in the centre a sunk decoration of five figures (the Paschal lamb, flanked by the symbols of the Evangelists) painted in gold and colours on a blue ground on medallions encircled in gold From Lord Ashburnham's collection. £ s. d. About A.D. 950 360 0 0 The enamelled border is probably a little later than the original MS. and was done perhaps in the eleventh century; but the book and binding are in precisely the same condition as they were in, four hundred and forty years ago, when the monastic scribe supplied the first three leaves, and added a preliminary table of a harmony of the Gospels. His writing looks like that of the region of Cologne, and the ancient work is undoubtedly Rhenish. We have therefore in this volume a precious art-monument of some old church or monastery on the Rhine, between Cologne and Mentz, which has been carefully treasured for nearly a thousand years. In the writing, the a is usually of the Carslene style, but following at it appears open like u. The combination of et is frequent. The The first words of the Gospel text in the original scribe's hand, N.B. For a facsimile of the enamelled Binding INCIPIT LIBER ESDRE Pa. 251:.. UERBA NEEMIE FILII ELCHIE Pa. 259: Large folio, MS. ON VÉLLUM, 268 leaves written in double columns in a German Caroline hand, 35 lines to the column; with 8 very large initials ILLUMINATED IN GOLDEN INTERLACEMENTS GENERALLY UPON GREEN GROUNDS AND DECORATED WITH PAINTED FIGURES, in some cases several £ s. d. |