ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Manuscript with illuminated initials and tailpieces, containing the Gospel readings for the seven weeks from Easter to Pentecost, beginning at John 1:1, followed by those for the Saturdays and Sundays of the rest of the year. Southern Italy. Creation dates: 11th century
GREEK. Paterikon (Apophthegmata Patrum, Sayings of the Desert Fathers), for the use of an Arabic-speaking monastic community. In Greek with additional headings in Arabic, Mount Athos or Jerusalem. Creation dates: 18th century
ILLUMINATIONS. Christianus (Druthmar) of Stavelot, commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, decorated manuscript in Latin and Greek with a single word in a Germanic vernacular (probably Old Frankish/Old Low Franconian), on vellum. [Germany, almost certainly Bamberg]. Sotheby's, L10413, 07 Dec 2010, ...
2 autograph manuscripts, the first signed by Lord Cochran, Admiral of the Greek Navy, to Mr Schilher, Captain of the transport ship 'Bavaria', dated 15 July 1827 (in Greek, with a typed translation in English provided); the second from [Mrs?] Carter to Lord Spencer at the Admiralty, requesting h...
LAURA GREY (pseud. of Joan Lavender Baillie Guthrie). WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. 2 autograph letters, one signed 'Laura Grey' in Greek script to an unknown friend, written from Holloway prison, 10 Mar 1912; the other initialled 'J.L.G.' to A. Goldner, written on the headed paper of the Women's Social and...