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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 4, 2018 | Christie's | London | Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art to Benefit Rugby School | 146 | $****** - ****** | BIBLE, with Prologues and Interpretation of Hebrew names, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum |
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25.8 x 17.8 cm (10.16 x 7.01 in)
(1) Several 16th-century scribbles, pentrials and inscriptions in various English hands including ‘Iohn Shurley’ (f.150v) and ‘Yevane Fairburn of madibe?’ (f.275v). (2) John Bowen: his inscription on f.1 ‘Johannes Bowen Anna Aetat 70. Annoque Domini 1826’. (3) M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Library
inscription dated 12 May 1883 on f.ii. (4) Bookplate of Rugby School Library.
A handsome 13th-century single-volume English Bible with wide margins, written in a fine calligraphic hand and decorated with bright and unusual initials often inhabited by winged dragons, beasts and grotesques.
ii + 275 + iii leaves, modern foliation in pencil 1-275 followed here. Two columns of 51-3 lines, ruled space: 186 x 125mm. Running headers and chapter numbers in red and blue, penwork initials throughout, decorated initials to books, prologues and main divisions of the Psalms (lacking Genesis and Exodus up to 35:34, Isaiah 9:17 – Jeremiah 3:7 after f.144, a single leaf after f.9 [Numbers 4:9 – 7:13] and two leaves after f.243 [I Tim. Prol. – Hebrews 2:17], initials excised on ff.107, 109, 112, 120, 133, 143, 174, 179, 180, 240, margin on f.1 torn and repaired, margin on f.2 torn, upper margin of f.173 sliced, occasional marginal staining). 19th-century calf (edges lightly scuffed).
