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1114
[Dutch literature]
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[VAN HEUSDEN, Bruno, O.Carth.]
- “Gedichten”. [Leuven, 2de helft 18de
eeuw]. Nederlands handschrift op papier, c. 20 x 15 cm, latere kartonnen band (versleten), 293 pp.
(marges besnoeid, vochtvlekken, laatste blad los). In redelijk goede staat.
€ 300/500
Verzameling van zo’n 60, meest religieuze, (gelegenheids)gedichten en enkele liederen, 1778-1796
– vermoedelijk autograaf met correcties. Pieter-Antoon van Heusden (Antwerpen 1738 – Leuven
1797) was jezuïet tot de ontbinding van de orde in 1773, werd dan kartuizer, tot ook die orde in 1783
werd opgeheven. Een selectie van zijn verzen werd gepubliceerd door P.-C. Cassier (Antwerpen
1856). Achteraan bijgevoegd: planodruk (beschadigd) met een gedicht voor de intrede van Joanna
de Becker bij de Witte Vrouwen te Leuven op 22 oktober 1793.
1115
[Epistolography]
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[CECCHINI, Dominus Franciscus de]
- [Latin and Italian letters]. [Lucca?],
1662-1666. Manuscript on paper, c. 20 x 14 cm, limp vellum wr. (worn), c. 200 ff. (some blank),
written in brown ink (some dampstaining). In good condition.
€ 150/250
Cont. copies of Italian and Latin letters from and to D.F. Cecchini (a relative of Cardinal Domenico
Cecchini?), and other texts, i.a. a Latin treatise on letter-writing.
1116
[Flanders]
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“Nieu Vlaemsche corte cornicke, 1-1627”
. [Flanders, after 17th c.]. Dutch ms. on
paper, c. 32 x 21 cm, mod. quarter vellum binding, flat spine titled in ink, 199 [of?] ff. (incl. 3
blanks; text inc. at end; fore-edge soiled and frayed, worming in inner margin of a few quires, some
ff. in 2nd half partly torn off with loss of text), written in black ink with keywords in red. A few
smaller sheets with additional notes bound with. Good condition.
€ 400/600
Annalistic chronicle of the County of Flanders for the years 1-1627 (esp. for the period 1450-1627),
including, of course, the year 1302.
1117
[Fragments]
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[ALEXANDER DE VILLADEI]
- [Doctrinale]. [Western Europe, c. 1400?].
Latin fragment, vellum bifolium, c. 19,4 x 29 cm, 26 ll, 1st letters of each line and larger initials
rubricated. Taken from a binding: one p. hardly legible, loss at bottom margin of 1 f., some worming
and holes, 1 f. discoloured. In reasonably good condition.
Cfr. ill.
€ 500/700
Interesting bifolium from a manuscript of the major school text of the Middle Ages: a versified
Latin grammar composed by the French Franciscan Alexander de Villadei (Villedieu-les-Poêles,
Normandy, c. 1175-1250). Present are ll. 877-980 (ed. Reichling, 1893, pp. 59-64 – with many
variants). Used as a school text with very tiny interlinear and marg. student’s notes.
1118
[Fragments]
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[ARISTOTELES]
- [Ethica Nicomachea, Latin trsl. Leonardo Bruni Aretinus].
[France?, 2nd half 15th c.], vellum bifolium, c. 31,5 x 47,5 cm, 31 ll., expertly written in a gothic
littera cursiva (marg. staining, holes in blank inner margin). In good condition.
€ 350/500
Nice bifolium, containing Bk X, 17-28 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in the Renaissance Latin
version of Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo (1370-1444). This version is preserved in many manuscripts
and early printed editions (e.g. Paris, S. de Colines, 1535: on ff. 38-39). In the margin of 1 p. a
16th-c. hand wrote “In hoc signo vinces” (the famous “IHS”, ascribed by Lactantius to Emperor
Constantine the Great).
1119
[Fragments]
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Two decorated ff. from Books of Hours
. [France, 15th c.]. In very good condition.
€ 120/200
1.
Ruled vellum leaf, c. 21 x 15,5 cm, 15 ll., gothic littera currens. Gilt 2-line initial with red and
blue penwork. Rubric in red. Blank line endings filled out in red, yellow or blue. Border decoration
in fore-edge margin with red, blue or green leaves touched with gold. Texts: on f. 1r i.a. quotation
from Psalm 7 and beginning of the Office of the Dead.
2.
Ruled vellum leaf, c. 17,5 x 12 cm, 17 ll.,
littera bastarda. Gilt one- or two-line initials with blue or red penwork. Rubric in red. Blank line
ending filled out in red, yellow and blue. Marginal decoration (on recto only) with small green and
blue leaves touched with gold. Text starting with quotation from Hebrews (3:9-11).