WAGNER, Richard. (1) Barber and perfumer's bill for Wagner, signed (to acknowledge payment) by one Jakob Zeisel; 27 August 1881. (2) Pencil note in an unknown hand to Wagner's father-in-law, Franz Liszt, probably left by the Wagner family at Liszt's address in Rome on finding him not at home. In...
LANGTON, Stephen. The Interpretation of Hebrew names, the beginning of the text with entries for the letter 'A', a single vellum leaf. England. Creation dates: 1st quarter of 13th century
SAPENTIA VETERUM. ALCHEMY. An alchemical manuscript, containing ink and watercolour illustrations, with a Latin introductory treatise, including an address to the reader and discussions of the significance of sulphur and the forms of the elements, in a single early seventeenth century hand, foll...
BIBLE. Ill. upper leaf fragment (containing Genesis 34, 15-35, 16 and 35, 26-36, 37), on vellum, England. From a Bible manuscript in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (McClean MS. 15). Creation dates: [Circa 1300]
STRADA, Octavius de (1550-1612). Simbola Romanorum Ponticum, Imperatorum Occidentalis et Orientalis, containing symbols and mottoes of popes, emperors and monarchs, with a dedicatory epistle signed to Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy. Bohemia (Prague?). Creation dates [Circa 1600]
Manuscript (not autograph) of 3 poems by John Hoskyns, and an incomplete poem by Walter Raleigh, as follows: (1) Hoskyns - 'Little Ben whilest thou art young'. (2) Hoskyns - Latin poem addressed to James I. (3) Hoskyns - 6-line Latin poem to fellow prisoners in the Tower. (4) Raleigh - 3 (of 6) ...
ALNWICK CASTLE BIBLE. Folios containing five historiated initials and two coloured drawings from an illuminated manuscript on vellum, the Alnwick Castle Bible. England, East Anglia. Sotheby's, 08 July 2014, Lot 49. Creation dates: [Circa 1240-1250]
BIBLE. Ill. leaf in vellum, with text from Thessalonians in gothic script in 2 columns, with a 5-line large illuminated letter 'T' in blue against a gold ground, with one large initial missing, having been cut out and replaced with blank vellum. Produced by the Parisian workshop of the Pucelle c...