OT; Bought this to go with my English coins.

python

I would like to have a small collection of these to go with my hammered coins. Here's the dealers discription.

IM-2602 (105x70mm) Original leaf from a medieval, manuscript Book of Hours. 14 lines of ruled text, written in Latin on animal vellum. In fine gothic, textura script. Two two-line illuminated initials in burnished gold on blue and red ground with delicate white tracery. England, c. 1450.



This leaf continues the Prayers of St. Bridget to Jesus Christ. The first illuminated “O” begins the eighth (of fifteen) prayers: “O ihesu dulcedo…” (The prayer asks that through the bitterness of the vinegar and gall which Christ tasted on the cross, he may permit us to receive communion in the hour of our death for the good of our souls). The second illuminated “O” begins the ninth prayer: “O ihesu…” (This prayer invokes the memory of the mockery of the Jews at his crucifixion, and his words: 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' (Matthew, 27:46). It asks that through the anguish which he suffered then, he may not forsake us in the anguish of our death).English manuscript Books of Hours are very uncommon. In 1533 Henry VIII decreed that books relating to the practices of the Church of Rome should be destroyed. Most of the remaining examples were held secretly in private hands

farthing

Very nice python! One of these days I will buy me one of those also.



There is an excellent source for illuminated manuscripts on eBay. Their id is leaves-of-old. While I have not purchased this type of material from Charles Puckett I have purchased other prints from him in the past. The description sounds like one of his.

farthing

Getting a page with 2 initials is a real extravagance!

Aethelred

That has got to be about the coolest thing!!!!!!

lordmarcovan

Cool.

Our library has a HUGE bound manuscript from about the same era, similarly illuminated. It takes up a whole table (or would, if it weren't in a glass case, of course.

My Dad is the Assistant Director of the library, and they recently moved into a new building, so I had the opportunity to actually leaf through that thing- it was interesting. All in Latin, of course. Might have been early 16th century (just before the troubles that Henry VIII stirred up for the monasteries).

python

Farthing, thanks I added them to my ebay favorites. This did come from Puckett, what do you think of his prices?
Do you know of any other dealers that sell these? Thanks

LordM, that's really cool.

JohnZ

I've also bought leaves of medieval books, and a few 17th-century newspapers. Very cool stuff.

Thank you for posting it.

1jester

Python, that's way cool! One of my favorite finds was a big old leather bound and embossed family Bible printed in Philadelphia in about 1820, with some family history written on one page. It's amazing!

python

Jester, that Bible sounds like a really cool item.

1jester

Thanks Python. It is, and I'm very happy and fortunate to have found it. I was in Ft. Smith Arkansas while the Delta Queen was docked for a few hours so I went into town looking for old Matchbox cars. In the back of one antique shop was a bookstore, and on a pile of books sat this Bible. I bought it and since it was on consignment, I was able to talk to the old lady whose father had given it to her. Later the administrator of the steamer company tried to buy it from me but I refused. The Bible has lots of colored illustrations too. I also like how each page has the impressions from the moveable type. It's cool!

python

You have me very jealous at the moment.

SYRACUSIAN

What exactly do you mean by "illuminated" ?

1jester

Python, I'll trade it for your hammered English coin collection!

spoon

Awesome!

Jester, if you're interested in antique books Philly has an abundance of great shops. And, yeah, that is really neat to see the effects of the type.. I've got one where the first "A" on page is always cocked sideways.. neat, but kinda annoying to read through though

I also collect old-timey maps to go with my colonial coin collection

python

Jester, if you throw in a English medieval Bible and you've got a deal.

1jester

How about an original Gutenberg Bible?



Yeah right.

Aethelred

<< <i>Python, that's way cool! One of my favorite finds was a big old leather bound and embossed family Bible printed in Philadelphia in about 1820, with some family history written on one page. It's amazing!

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I have a Bible printed in PA in 1810, in German and a French play book from 1785, they are neat, but Brett's page blows them away!

farthing

python, His prices are high for the usual eBay crowd but I found them competitive with other highly respected manuscript dealers. I have not purchased anything from him in a number of years. I used to see him when he came to town twice a year as part of a high end antique dealer show and sale.

I have not dealt with any other illuminated manuscript dealers. At the time I was buying Audubon and Gould bird prints from him as well as early 19th Century architectural prints of Romanesque and Gothic Churches, Abbeys and Cathedrals.

Askari

A very lovely illuminated MS!! What Henry VIII burned was what was left of what the Vikings hadn't burned.

python

Farthing, thanks for the info. Sorry for all the questions but I don't know any thing about these.
I bet those church prints are pretty cool.

Thanks for the comments. I thought it was pretty cool.

farthing

I can honestly invite women up to "see my etchings"

sumnom

Loooking at the title of this thread, I thought you bought some fast food to go using your English coins.

ColinCMR

that's really cool!