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OUDE MANUSCRIPTEN ~ MANUSCRITS ANCIENS
1104
[Album amicorum]
- “
Stammbuch
”, with some 60 inscriptions. Schnepfenthal (Thüringen), 1872-
1873. German manuscript on paper, c. 14,5 x 22 cm, [65] ff. (at least 5 ff. torn out), cont. leather
(loosening, edges rubbed), gilt title “Album” on front cover, a.e.g. In good condition.
€ 150/250
Farewell album for a friend/pupil “Charles” at the famous Salzmannschule, founded in 1784 as
“Philanthropin”. German or French (and 1 English) poems and texts by fellow students from
Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, England, Canada (2), U.S.A. (2 from New York),
Russia, and India (1: Hyderabad).
1105
[Antwerp]
- “
Bezondere anteekeningen over Antwerpen beginnende ten jare 1801
”. [Antwerp,
c. 1872]. Dutch manuscript on paper, c. 40 x 24,5 cm, [40] ff. (28 text ff. + 12 blank], expertly
written, on recto sides, in a very legible hand. Cont. quarter vellum (rubbed), green edges. Very well
preserved.
€ 150/200
Chronicle description of important events and new buildings in Antwerp 1801-1872, with interesting
details (i.a. f. 4 “Aanteekeningen over de timmerwerf van Antwerpen”, i.e. Napoleon’s shipyard).
On f. 1 short notes for the period 690-1585. Loosely inserted, 1 f. in the same hand titled “Notes de
voyage par M.E. Guibout” (2 pp.) and 1 f. (in another hand, on stationery) with notes on works of
art in the St Jacobskerk and in other Antwerp churches.
1106
[Astronomy - magnetism]
-
CAVALLERY, Antoine, S.J.
- “Conclusion de la Dissertation sur
l’aiman lue dans differentes seances et finie dans celle du 8 may 1760”. [Toulouse, 1760]. French
manuscript on paper, c. 25,2 x 19 cm, sewn, [8] ff. (central vertical fold). In very good condition.
€ 150/250
Essay on magnets by the French Jesuit A. de Cavallery (1698-1765), who taught mathematics
in Cahors and theology in Toulouse. It was discussed in meetings of the Académie des Sciences,
Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de Toulouse, 1759-1760. Orn. with 1 pen drawing.
Joined
:
University course in astronomy
. [France], 1778. Latin ms. on paper, c. 21,5 x 17 cm, mod.
half calf, gilt titled spine, marbl. endpapers, [384] pp. (pencil numbering), written in brown ink
(dampstained throughout, edges of last ff. frayed, 1st ff. and engr. loose). Reasonable condition.
Extensive Arts Faculty course, illustrated with an engraving (“Systema Copernico-Cartesianum”,
Paris, Hecquet) and 12 pp. with pen drawings and diagrams. (2 pcs)
1107
[Book of Hours – Croÿ/Luxembourg]
-
Horae
. [Northern France? Hainaut or Flanders?], 2nd
half 15th c. Illuminated Latin manuscript on vellum, c. 12,5 x 8,8 cm, old cerise leather binding
(rubbed, corners bumped), gilt spine on 4 raised bands, a.e.g. (faded), paper flylvs and endpapers
(front flyleaf gone), [141] ff., 16 ll., expertly written in brown/black ink (some marg. soiling, i.a. on
miniatures, occ. sm. stains, traces of use). In good condition,
Cfr. ill.
€ 12000/15000
Text
: Calendar; Hours of the Virgin; Penitential Psalms; Office of the Dead; litanies and prayers.
Decoration
: rubrics in red; numerous one- and two-line initials in gold on grounds of blue; large
initials, 4 or 5 lines high, with blue or pink penwork;
12 fully decorated borders
formed of small
leaves with coloured flowers, some of the borders including birds, 9 of these borders with green, red,
blue and yellow leaves; borders of f. [42]v with yellow background at top and bottom, and with bluish-
grey background at left and right; border of f. [45]r with silver leaves on a blue background; border of
f. [131]v partly on a yellow background; 2 partial borders at the end (ff. [137]r and [138]v).
Illumination
: 2 full-page miniatures on a green background, with figures in blue, pink, red or
yellow, and in full borders matching the 9 decorative borders (as described above). Subjects: David
in prayer in a landscape (f. 57v); the Raising of Lazarus (f. 87v - soiled), full-page arms of Croÿ-
Renty.