11-17-201311-17-2013
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November 17, 2013 11:00 AMCalender
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Incunabula Leaves.

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$800$650
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2687BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 17, 2013 11:00AM

Description:

Incunabula Leaves. Twelve separate paper, folio-format early printed book leaves removed from the following works: 1) Capreolus's Quaestiones in IV Libros Sententiarium Petri Lombardi, Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 1483-84; 2 & 3) two leaves from Panormitanus de Tudeschis's Lectura Super V Libris Decretalium, Venice: Jenson, 1477-78; 4-6) three leaves from Alliaco's Tractatus et Sermones, Strasbourg: Husner, 1490; 7) Utino's Sermones de Sanctis, Cologne: Zel, 1473; 8 & 9) two leaves from Valerius Maximus's Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, Venice: de Spira, 1471; 10 & 11) two leaves from La Mer des Histoires, Paris: Pierre le Rouge for Vincent Commin, 1488-89, one with a small woodcut; and 12) an unidentified leaf. (12)
Estimate $400-600


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Keywords

Strasbourg, Cologne, Paris, Pierre le Rouge, Vincent Commin