- Lot 2
Decorated initial 'F' on a fragment from an Atlantic Bible
[Central or Southern Italy, 13th century]
EstimateUSD 700 - 1,000Price realisedUSD 1,375Closed - Lot 4
The Temple of Solomon, initial 'I' on a leaf from an Antiphonal
[Italy, final quarter 15th century]
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 7,500Closed - Lot 6
A substantial fragment of a Spanish devotional manuscript
[Spain, c.1470s]
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 3,250Closed - Lot 8
The Presentation in the Temple, with five other leaves from devotional manuscripts
[France, 14th to 16th centuries]
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 2,000Closed - Lot 9
Diplomatic letters concerning relations with Turkey at the time of the second Ottoman-Venetian War
Venice, 1497-1503
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,250Closed - Lot 12
Four papal grants to Pietro Basadonna (1617-1684), Venetian ambassador and cardinal
Venice, 1663-1673
EstimateUSD 600 - 1,000Price realisedUSD 625Closed - Lot 16
Exaltation of the Cross, initial 'D' cut from a choirbook
[Umbria, third quarter 13th century]
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 17
Queen Evaine of Guannes joins Queen Elaine of Benoic at the Abbey of Moustier Royal, miniature from the Arthurian romance Lancelot du Lac, in French
[Artois or Flanders, c.1290-1300]
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 18
A Bagpiper, on a leaf from the 'Ghistelles Hours'
[South West Flanders, c.1300]
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 5,625Closed - Lot 20
David harping, historiated initial 'D' cut from an Antiphonal
[Emilia, c.1300]
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,375Closed - Lot 22
A leaf from the Hungerford Hours and a leaf from a Dutch Book of Hours illuminated by the Monkey Master
[Lincolnshire, c.1340s] and [Southern Netherlands, possibly Delft, c.1480s]
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed - Lot 24
St John the Evangelist, initial ‘U’ cut from a choirbook
[Bologna, c.1410-20]
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 26
Inhabited penwork initial 'A' on a leaf from a Gradual, and an Armenian Headpiece
[Upper Rhine, perhaps Switzerland, 14th century] and Armenia [16th century]
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,500Closed - Lot 27
Fool, initial 'D', from an illuminated choirbook
[North-Eastern Italy, Padua, last quarter 15th century]
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed - Lot 29
The Resurrection, miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours
[Flanders, perhaps Ghent, 3rd quarter 15th century]
EstimateUSD 700 - 1,000Price realisedUSD 1,500Closed - Lot 30
Caesar's envoys pleading before a Gallic king, miniature cut from the Romuléon
[Eastern France, c.1480]
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 5,625Closed - Lot 31
The Defeat of Antiochus, King of Syria at the Battle of Magnesia, miniature cut from the Romuléon
[Eastern France, c.1480]
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 5,625Closed - Lot 42
Fragment from a Qur'an folio
[Iran, 13th century]
EstimateUSD 500 - 800Price realisedUSD 1,000Closed - Lot 43
An illuminated folio from a copy of Nizami's Khusraw and Shirin
[Safavid Iran, 16th century]
EstimateUSD 800 - 1,200Price realisedUSD 1,125Closed - Lot 44
A bifolio from a Persian manuscript of poetry
[Iran, 17th century]
EstimateUSD 300 - 500Price realisedUSD 625Closed - Lot 51
A seated figure of a Jain Tirthankara
[Probably Western India, 19th century]
EstimateUSD 300 - 500Price realisedUSD 500Closed - Lot 52
A lady receiving advice from her older companion
[Hyderabad, Deccan, 19th century]
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,250Closed - Lot 55
Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780-1839) seated on a terrace with Raja Dhian Singh (1796-1843) and other Sikh noblemen
[Punjab, North India, circa 1830-40]
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 17,500Closed - Lot 56
Yusuf being rescued from a well by passing merchants
[Kashmir, North India, late 19th century]
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 1,625Closed - Lot 57
A portrait of the Prophet Isma'il
[Mughal India or Deccan, 19th century]
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 1,000Closed - Lot 58
A lady holding a pomegranate
[Bundi, Rajasthan, 19th century or later]
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,250Closed
