EDWARD VI, King of England (1548-1553). Letters Patent in the name of the King, on vellum, confirming a decree of the Court of Augmentations allowing the Bishops of Worcester to continue to enjoy revenues deriving from various dissolved monasteries and convents, with seal. Bloomsbury Auctions, 0...
BOOK OF HOURS. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, being the Fitton Hours, use of Sarum, Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges). Sotheby's, L10241, 07 Dec 2010, Lot 25. Creation dates: Mid-15th 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, ...
SURGERY. Guy de Chauliac, Chirurgica Magna, the great manual of medieval surgery, decorated manuscript on paper, [Italy]. Sotheby's, L10241, 07 Dec 2010, Lot 22. Creation dates: [Circa 1450]
GERARD, Henry, of Wadham College. Manuscript of satirical oration 'Oratio Terraefilii Oxoniensis' given at Oxford at the grand opening of the Sheldonian Theatre, with a few scribal revisions and deletions, 10 July 1669, in Latin, mock-Latin and English. Creation dates: Circa 1669
FLORENCE. Autograph letter, deliberately unsigned, to 'P' (possibly the papal ambassador Pier Francesco Portinari), giving an account of events leading to the fall of Niccolo Capponi as leader of the Republic of Florence. Bonhams, 19386, 29 Mar 2011, Lot 439. Creation dates: April 1529
BOOK OF HOURS. Miniature representing the Presentation in the Temple, above an illuminated initial and five lines opening none from the Hours of the Virgin, on a leaf from the Chester Beatty Book of Hours. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, by the Mazarine Master, Paris. Christie's, 8002, 23 Nove...
BODULGATE CHANTRY, Cornwall. Foundation deed, ink on vellum with original vesica-shaped seal, for the Bodulgate Chantry in the chapel of St Thomas the Martyr, Camelford. Cornwall, Trecorne, Quethiock. Creation dates: 20 Jan 1435
ELIZABETH I (1533-1603), queen of England and Ireland. Document signed (at head, 'Elizabeth R'), being letters patent binding herself for the repayment of a loan delivered by the Antwerp merchant Jeronimus Relinger to her financial agent Sir Thomas Gresham, countersigned on the verso by eight me...
[LITURGY]. MISSAL. A complete leaf (from a missal containing feasts for Saint Sebastian, Saint Agnes and SS Vincent and Anastasius), with double columns in two sizes of a late romanesque liturgical script, recovered from use as an archival wrapper. Probably German. Creation dates: [Late 12th c...