Manuscripts

Our ‘Manuscripts’ section includes beautifully illuminated bibles and books of hours, papal bulls and statutes, medical compendia, armorials, and astrological and alchemical notebooks.

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  • [‘Book of secrets’].

    [‘Book of secrets’].

    Manuscript on paper, France, last quarter of the 17th century. £3,250.00 More Details

  • [ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES].

    [ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES]. Prophéties perpetuelles depuis 1521 jusquà la fin du monde.

    Manuscript, on paper, France, 1680 [but early 1700s] £2,750.00 More Details

  • [ALCHEMY]

    [ALCHEMY] ‘Wer rechten Alchomey’, an exceptionally rare alchemical text in Low German with twenty- eight illustrations of early scientific equipment, together with two related works including a version of the Buch ysaac semys sun von Babilon, manuscript on paper

    [northern Germany, fifteenth century (probably mid century)] £150,000.00 More Details

  • [CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.]

    [CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.] Coded text and verse by Cambridge students.

    Manuscript on paper, [England, c.1526-35]. £4,950.00 More Details

  • [CAPESTRANO, Johannes de, et al.]

    [CAPESTRANO, Johannes de, et al.] [Canon law documents on the Franciscan Third Order.]

    Italy, first half of the 15th century £20,000.00 More Details

  • [CATHOLIC CHURCH]

    [CATHOLIC CHURCH] Gradual

    Florence, manuscript on paper, 1584 £27,500.00 More Details

  • [HERALDRY].

    [HERALDRY]. Institution Royale de toutes les ordres militaires de la Chrestienté.

    France, 1669. £15,000.00 More Details

  • [HERALDRY].

    [HERALDRY]. Les Rois, Ducs, Comtes, &c. qui furent au grand Tournois à Compiègne en l’an 1238, au mois de Février.

    France, Manuscript on paper, c.1600. £15,750.00 More Details

  • [LILLY, William, PARTRIDGE, John, after].

    [LILLY, William, PARTRIDGE, John, after]. [English Astrological MS]

    Manuscript, on paper, England, [mid- to third quarter of the 18th century] £2,750.00 More Details

  • [MEDICAL MS]

    Medical Compendium

    Manuscript on paper, probably Italy, [1529-c.1540]. £5,750.00 More Details

  • [MODENA].

    [MODENA]. Grida sopra il datio Della Carne, Pesce, & Oglio & dell’Estrattione de gl’Animali.

    Modena, Per Giulian Cassiani Stampator Ducale, 1636 £1,250.00 More Details

  • [PARLIAMENT]

    An Ordinance…For the Preservation and Keeping together for publique Use such Books, Evidences, Records and Writings sequestered or taken by Distresse or otherwirse, as are fit to be Preserved

    London, Edward Husbands, 1643 £4,950.00 More Details

  • [PAULUS V]

    [PAULUS V] Bulla

    Rome, Manuscript on vellum, 1607 £2,450.00 More Details

  • [SLANY/KLADNO.]

    [SLANY/KLADNO.] [Ledger of the Company of Bakers, Millers and Gingerbread Makers].

    ms., Czech, early 17th to early 19th century £4,750.00 More Details

  • [SOCINIANISM]

    [SOCINIANISM] (with) [SCHMALTZ, Valentin?] (and) [STEGMANN, Joachim?] Catechesis Ecclesiarum. (with) Warhafftige Erklerung aus grundt der Heiligen schrifft von des Herren Jesu Christi Gottheit. (and) Examen, Welche die sint die da verleucknen Jesum…

    Raków, [S. Sternacki], 1609; [Raków, S. Sternacki, c.1612]; [Raków, S. Sternacki, c.1610] £7,750.00 More Details

  • [WINE].

    [WINE]. [Cambio de Víñas en Morales.]

    Zamora (Spain), Manuscript on paper, 1455 £8,750.00 More Details

  • ALBERTUS MAGNUS, Pseudo.

    ALBERTUS MAGNUS, Pseudo. Secreta mulierum ab Alberto Magno composita

    [Speyer], [Conrad Hist], [about 1495-97] £22,500.00 More Details

  • ANONYMOUS

    ANONYMOUS Tractatus theologicus De Sacramento Poenitentiae.

    Manuscript, Sicily, mid-seventeenth century. £2,350.00 More Details

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