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[Miniature] - Vierge à l'enfant
, fin XIXe-début XXe s., Maredret. Gouache et feuille d'or, 6,2 x
4 cm, peau de vélin 9 x 6 cm à vue; signée "Abbaye de Maredret" dans le coin inf. g. Sous verre
et cadre doré (non désencadrée).
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€ 150/200
Scène très finement exécutée figurant une Vierge assise, son enfant sur les genoux, les auréoles à la feuille
d'or piquetée; à l'arrière-plan, compositions colorées de mosaïques et carrelages savamment agencés.
Chatoyante pièce néo-gothique
.
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[New Year's present] - GERRIJTS, Jacob -
"Een zegenwensch gemaakt ter gelegentheit van
den aenvang des jaers 1765". [Netherlands], 1 January 1765, Dutch manuscript on paper, c. 39,5
x 30,5 cm, written in black/brown ink within a border of red and green illustrations i.a. a
windmill. Mounted under passe-partout (old folds, holes in centre and frayed edges underlaid). In
good condition.
€ 250/300
Religious New Year's wish in rhyming Dutch verses.
822
[Reformation - portraits] -
"
Soeculum [!] Decimum VI
". [Germany, 18th c.], illustrated
German manuscript on paper, c. 34,5 x 23 cm, cont. half sheep (worn, joints split), gilt spine on 6
raised bands, red edges, 108 (+ 2 blank) ff. (1 f. with portrait of Calvin loose, paper age-toned,
some spotting and staining). In good condition.
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€ 250/350
Anonymous German compilation chronicle history of the Reformation, illustrated with
27 full-page drawn
portraits
, 13 coloured red, 14 grey i.a. Julius II, Leo X, Luther, Charles V, Adrian VI, Zwingli, Melanchthon,
Calvin. Loosely added portrait of "Josephus I" (from a continuation?). Monogram stamp P P W on 1st ff.
Bookseller's stamp.
823
[Switzerland] - WILD, Johann Jakob -
Inscription in praise of his friend Sigmund Scheler,
Pfarrer in Kirchberg and Lütisburg (St Gallen, Switzerland). [Albikon (Kirchberg), 1814],
German manuscript on paper, c. 34 x 22 cm. Good condition.
€ 100/200
With a large calligraphic inscription in brown ink within an ornamental border, c. 23,5 x 17,5 cm, headed by
a (baptismal?) font with a chalice and a Bible. Probably written when Scheler took up his "Pfarramt" in
Kirchberg and Lütisburg in 1814.
824
[Venice] - "Matricula sive Constitutiones Reverendi Subsidij Sacerdotum Saecularium
erecti in parochiali ecclesia, & collegiata Sancti Martini Venetiarum
sub auspicijs Dolorum
Beatae Mariae Virginis. Anno ejusdem salutiferi Partus MDCCXVIII", Latin manuscript on
vellum, folio, 32 x 21,5 cm, mod. red half morocco, gilt spine on 5 raised bands (minor traces of
use), [8]-48-[2 bl.] pp., writing area 27,5 x 17,5 cm. Superb copy.
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€ 900/1200
Fine and interesting manuscript , all written in
a very nice calligraphic letter
, with the constitutions and
rules for a Venetian priest's congregation. Title in red and gilt letters, ruled with double line borders;
preliminary texts in Latin and Italian; "Matricula" in Latin (pp. 17-44), signed by the orig. participants,
sealed; on p. 48 Italian additions dated "1776"; detailed index.
Incunabula ~ Incunabula
825
[Brussels] - PETRUS BLESENSIS -
Epistolae. [Brussels, Fratres Vitae Communis, between
1479 - 9 June 1481], folio, mod. overl. pigskin, flat spine (sl. rubbed), blue-green edges, [207 (of
208)] ff., 40 ll. (lacking final blank, erroneous mod. pencil foliation, paper age-toned, marginal
stains in last quires, occ. spotting and soiling). Good
rubricated
copy.
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11th book (of 33 titles) printed in Brussels in the 15th century, all by the Brethren of the Common Life. The
French poet, diplomat and theologian Pierre de Blois (1135-1211) was a.o. tutor of King William II of Sicily,
Latin secretary of Henry II of England, and of his widow Eleanor of Aquitaine, ending his career as
Archdeacon of Bath, finally also of London. His letters are a mirror of courtly and diplomatic life in the 12th
century. Printed in 2 cols. Capital spaces, occ. with guide-letters.
Ref.
ISTC ip0045600. GW M32107. ILC
1744. Goff P-456. Polain 3088. IDL 3590. BMC IX:174. BN Paris P-220. Not in BSB München.
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[Cologne] - Decisiones Rotae Romanae
[and :
Decisiones novae
, ed. Guillelmus Horborch;
with Additiones by Jacobus de Campio]. Cologne, [U. Zell], 18 April 1477, folio, mod. overl.
pigskin, flat spine, blue edges, [340 (of 344)] ff., 33 ll. (lacking all blanks, some very minor
staining, 1st & last ff. sl. soiled, worming in blank bottom margin of last ff.). Excellent well-
preserved
rubricated
copy.
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€ 4000/6000
Very rare and early ed. of a sourcebook of canon law. The Rota, named after the wheel-shaped arrangement
of the benches used by the court in the great hall at Avignon, is the highest ecclesiastical court of the
Catholic Church. The Decisiones are detailed case studies, focusing on the perennial subjects of heresy,