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CATALOGUE

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WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION BY MESSRS.

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE

Auctioneers of Kiterary Property & Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, AT THEIR HOUSE, No. 13, WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND, W.C. On THURSDAY, the 25th of JUNE, 1914,

Immediately after the Conclusion of the First Day's Sale of the Pembroke ‘ullection, provided that collection 18 sold by public auction.

MAY BE VIEWED TWO DAYS PRIOR. CATALOGUES MAY BE HAD.

DRYDEN PRESS: J. DAVY AND SONS, 8-9, FRITH-STREET, SOHO-SQUARK, W.

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

I. The highest bidder to be the buyer ; and if any dispute arise bet ween bidders, the Jot so disputed shall be immediately put up again, pro- vided the Auctioneer cannot decide the said dispute.

II. No person to advance Jess than 18.; above five pounds 2s. 6d. ; and 80 ON In proportion.

III. All lots are sold subject to the right to Impose a reserve ; and subject to the right to bid by, or on behalf of, the seller.

IV. The purchasers to give in their names and places of abode, and to pay down 10s. in the pound, if required, in part payment of the purchase- money, in default of which the lot or lots purchased to be immediately put up again and re-sold.

V. The lots to be taken away, at the bnyer’s expense, immediately after the conclusion of the sale; in default of which Messrs. SorHesy, Winkixson & Hopce will not hold themselves responsible if lost, stolen, damaged, or otherwise destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the purchaser. If, at the expiration of ONE WEEK after the conclusion of the sale, the books or other property are not cleared or paid for, they will then be catalogued for immediate sale, and the expenses, the same as if re-sold, will be added to the amount at which the books were bought. Messrs. SorHEBY, WILKINSON & HopGE will have the option of re-selling the lots uncleared, either by public or private sale, without any notice being given to the defaulter.

VI. All the books are presumed to be perfect, unless otherwise expressed ; but if, upon collating, any should prove defective, the purchaser will be at liberty to take or reject them, provided they are returned within Ten Days after the conclusion of the sale, when the purchase-money will be returned.

VII. The sale of any book or books 1s not to be set aside on account of any worm holes, stained or short leaves of text or plates, want of list of plates or blank leaves, or on account of the publication of any subsequent volume, supplement, appendix, or plates. All the manu- scripts, autographs, all magazines and reviews, all books in lots, and all tracts in lots or volumes, will be sold with all faults, imperfections and errors of description. The sale of any illustrated book, lot of prints or drawings, is not to be set aside on account of any error in the enumeration of the numbers stated, or error of description.

VIII. No Imperfect Book will be taken back, unless a note accompanies each book, stating its imperfections, with the number of lot and date of the sale at which the same was purchased.

IX. To prevent inaccuracy in the delivery, and inconvenience in the settlement of the purchases, no lot can on any account be removed during the time of sale.

X. Upon failure of complying with the above conditions, the money required and deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited; and 7 any loss 18 sustained in the ve-selling of such lots as are not cleared or pant for, all charges on such re-sale shall be made good by the defaulters at this sale.

Gentlemen who cannot attend the Sale may have their Commissions Satthfully executed by their humble Servants, SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE, 13, Wellington Street, Strand, London. Telegraphic Address: “' Abinitio, Rand, London.” = Telephone: 3852 Gerrard.

In sending Commissions please refer to this Catalogue as “SOLON.”

COMMISSIONS CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BE ACCEPTED BY TELEPHONE.

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HARRY YATES THOMPSON, Esa.

NO, 4: =—= > ORAE BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS SECUN- | G20) 4 DUM USUM ECCLESIAE PARISIENSIS cum CALENDARIO [FRENCH, XVTH CENTURY], bound in old black pig-skin, with massive perforated

silver clasps, enclosed in a new wood and morocco case sm 4to. SC. XV

*.* A RICHLY ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM (190 leaves, 84 by 6 in.), finely written in bold gothic letters, long lines, 15 to a full page; red rubrics, full Calendar in French in gold, red and blue; Prayers at end in French. EVERY PAGE WITH LATERAL BORDERS OF DELICATE FLORAL DECORATION ; TWELVE SMALL CIRCULAR MINIATURES of the Occupations of the

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Months in rich floral frames; 16 LARGE, RICHLY PAINTED AND BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATED SEMI - ARCHED MINIATURES, SURROUNDED BY DEEP DECORATIVE BORDERS OF UNUSUAL RICHNESS, consisting of leafy branches, flower scrolls, natural flowers and fruits, birds (including the peacock), grotesyues, angels, ete., with a slight inner border of flowers on gold grounds connected with a finely decorated large initial; also numerous smaller decorative Initials and much textual ornament.

The subjects represented by the large miniatures are as follow: (1i-1v) THE Four EVANGELISTS with their Emblems, S. John in Patmos, the others writing in interiors; (Vv) THE ANNUNCIATION, angels adoring in the borders; (v1) VISITATION OF MARY AND ELIZABETH, a rocky landscape, diapered back- ground; (vil) THe NATIVITY, a canopied exterior; (vin) THE SHEPHERDS, a rocky landscape, the figures richly clothed ; (1x) OFFERINGS OF THE MAG), a rich miniature: (X) PRESENTATION IN THE Temple; (x1) FoGur intro Eayrr, a rocky landscape ; (xtt) CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN, an interior with diapered background; (xi) DAvip PRAYING, a rocky landscape, a harp and lute on the ground, and figures in the border; (xiv) THE CRUCIFIXION, chequered background, a fine group; (XV) PENTE- COST a fine group, peacocks and a baboon in borders; (xXVv1) Viciuia MorTUORUM, a graveyard, a soul departing from its dead body received by the Deity in Heaven, the archangel Michael in armour slaying a gilded hairy demon.

Besides these large miniatures there are FOUR INITIAL MINIATURES, representing: (1) The Virgin suckling the infant Jesus; (2) The Virgin and Dead Christ; (3) The Madonna and Child, a kneeling figure adoring (probably meant as a portrait of the gentleman for whom the MS. was executed) ; (4) The Trinity. These are surrounded by deep rich borders of floral decoration. Two escutcheons with the arms of the original owner in the lower margins of ff. 22 and 96 have been erased and overlaid with brush gold.

Tuts MS. 18 A BEAUTIFUL AND UNUSUALLY FINE EXAMPLE OF THE BEST STYLE OF FRENCH ILLUMINATING ART OF THE PERIOD. ‘The colours used are many: green, purple, red, blue, pink, slate, silver, etc., and the gold heightening is very brilliant, and the whole composition harmonious and pleasing.

The MS. is No. lvi of the Ashburnham (Appendix) collection.

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‘Tiberiadis Visio’’], old calf large folio. SC. XIII

*,* MANUSCRIPT ON THIN VELLUM (360 leaves, 14 by 10 in.) BY AN ANGLO-NORMAN OR ENGLISH SCRIBE, written in neat gothic letters, double columns of 60 lines. DECORATED WITH 133 FINE LARGE PAINTED AND ILLUMINATED HISTORIATED AND ORNA- MENTAL INITIAI, MINIATURES, many with marginal extensions ; also many hundred ornamental pen-letters, with marginal flourishes in blue and red. Head titles of the different books and chapter divisions in blue and red.

THE DECORATIONS IN THIS MS. ARE EXCEEDINGLY GOOD ENGLISH WORK. The historiated miniatures number seventy- eight, and the ornamental ones fifty-five, the latter consisting of involved scrolls ending in grotesques, chiefly serpents. There is a fine full-length strap-initial # before Genesis, containing twelve small circular miniatures of The Works of Creation, The Tempta- tion and Expulsion of Adam and Eve, etc., and there are three or four other strap initials. The historiated initials are very fine and depict the usual subjects connected with the particular book at the head of which they occur, and several have grotesque marginal extensions. The volume was in the CONVENTUAL LIBRARY OF St. STEPHEN AT DiJON, in the diocese of Langres, in the sixteenth century, and has an inscription on the first page of Genesis to that effect; and there are two other sixteenth century inscriptions.

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