Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 71

The Manuscripts, Collectibles & Space Auction

Religion

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 233		Illuminated Leaf From A Book of Hours. Holland or Flanders, c. 1400, 3¼ x 2¼". Delft-style penwork, each side with one column of 15 lines. Initials in red, blue, and gold; elegant blue marginalia. Framed (no glass) to 10¾ x 8¾". Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $320
Lot 234		Illuminated Leaf From A French Book of Hours. C. 1450, 6 x 4¼". on vellum. Psalms 123, 124, Latin text, on recto and verso, each side with one column of 13 lines. Upright gothic script is brown; red, blue and gold initials and decorations. Matted and framed to 12 x 10"; glass on recto needs replacing. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $295
Lot 235		Illuminated Leaf From a Psalter. Italy, c. 1350, 4½ x 3". Latin gothic minuscule script, each side with one column of 30 lines. Red and blue initials and elegant marginalia. Matted and framed to 10 x 8½". Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $276
Lot 236		Illuminated Manuscript Leaf From Magdeburg Missal, 1486. Brown and red Latin text on vellum, each side with two columns of 37 lines, 15 x 10½". Red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Matted and framed to 18 x 13½". The Magdeburg Missal was the first book printed at Magdeburg (1480) by Bartholomaeus Ghotan, with the assistance and types of Lucas Brandis. This leaf is from the 1486 edition. Framed to 18 x 13½". Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $240
Lot 237		Illuminated Manuscript Missal Leaf on Vellum. Italy, c. 1420, 6 x 4¼". Written in Latin on recto and verso, each side with two columns of 32 lines. Upright gothic script is brown and red; illuminated initials in red and blue. Some ink erosion. Matted and framed to 12 x 10¼". Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 238		Illuminated Manuscript Missal Leaf on Vellum. France, c. 1250, 5¼ x 3½". Prophecy of Daniel, I-II. Latin gothic minuscule script, each side with two columns of 49 lines. Rubricated chapter numbers and initials; elegant marginalia in red and blue. Matted and framed to 10½ x 9". Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $221
Lot 239		King James Bible Leaf From the Book of Joshua, 1611. A leaf from the 1st Edition King James Bible, printed in 1611 in London, England. "Pulpit" folio, 15 x 10", made of rag paper. This leaf contains Joshua XI:12 through Joshua XIII:16. Handsomely framed to an overall size of 17½ x 12½" and ready for display. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $160
Lot 240		Original Leaf From Foxe's Book of Martyrs, London, 1626. Leaf from The Third Volume of the Ecclesiasticall Historie Containing the Acts and Monuments of Martyrs, with a generall discourse of these later Persecutions, horrible Troubles and Tumults, stirred up by Romish Prelates in the Church, especially to this Realme of England and Scotland….from the time of Queene Maries entering upon the Crowne, to the Reigne of our late gracious Soveraigne Queen Elizabeth of blessed Memorie. The leaf is 13 x 8¾, two columns, and is page 157, with "Q. Mary" at upper left and "Anno 1555" in the left margin. Content of the page is "Master Hooper compared with Polycarpus." Affixed to a larger sheet with facsimile of title page. "From the Darwin Collection purchased in London 1960." Estimated Value $125 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 241		Two Illuminated Manuscript Music Leaves. Hand-inscribed leaves on vellum, one 20 x 14" and one 20 x 13½", each with six lines of music written in black ink with red accents. The five-line stave is in red ink, as is the border. Antiphonals were choir books used by priests, monks and nuns in churches and religious enclaves; the word "antiphonal" is from a Greek word meaning "sung in response." The large size allowed them to be seen by multiple members of a choral section. Age yellowing to vellum. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $180
Lot 242		Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, and Uzi Narkiss. Famous 7 x 5" photo taken in 1967 after Israeli forces recaptured the Old City of Jerusalem from the Jordanian Legion during the Six Day War, signed in English and Hebrew by Dayan as Minister of Defense, Rabin as Chief of Staff, and Narkiss as Commanding General. The Lion's Gate is behind the three men as they enter the Old City to pray at the Wailing Wall. No Jews had been allowed into the city to pray there since 1948, when the Israelis lost the Old City. Dayan signed at the lower edge of the photo; Narkiss and Rabin signed just below on the pink cardstock to which the photo is mounted. A famous poster was made from this photo. Estimated Value $800 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,320