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26 hist. initials;210 ornate letters;

#16800

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Accordion-pleated Manuscript (Lokisuttalankara)

Red lacquer cover

#9257

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Archery contests were not only fun but also a way of encouraging medieval men to learn this valuable skill. Excellent archers could make all the difference in battle; in England, men were required by law to learn how to use a bow. Note the artist's irreverently playful juxtaposition of imagery here; just above the archery contest, St. Sebastian is being martyred in a barrage of arrows.

#81322

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Bible, Proverbs, in Hebrew and in the Judaeo-Arabic Translation of Sa'Adya Gaon

5 leaves, 22 lines, written in an old square yemenite hand, nikud added in a later hand, some rubbing, edges frayed, defects in last 2 leaves, bound in red cloth This is a fragment of Proverbs 8:2-27 and 11:9 to 14:20, alternating verse by verse with hebrew and the Judaeo-Arabic translation by Sa'adya Gaon (882-942), the oldest Arabic translation of the Hebrew Bible

#23200

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Binding from Incomplete Book of Hours

12 pp 12 img

This Book of Hours was made ca. 1310-20, likely in Ghent. It was badly rebound with a sixteenth-century Flemish binding by Léon Gruel in Paris at the end of the nineteenth or early twentieth century, and the initials of Gruel and Engelmann are printed on the bookplate on the front pastedown. The manuscript lacks its calendar, and the text is incomplete and misbound. In the fourteenth century a prayer for Communion, written in French, was added at the end of the book. Initials in gold, blue and pink mark the divisions of the text. The manuscript is richly illuminated with drolleries; painted on the borders of each folio, they would have amused the reader with their playful animals, hybrids, and human figures.

#95764

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Binding from Two Ethiopian Prayer Books copied together

8 pp 8 img

Binding is non-original. Dark goatskin over heavy pasteboard(?)

#88532

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Accordion-pleated Manuscript (Lokisuttalankara)

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Archery Contest

Bible, Proverbs, in Hebrew and in the Judaeo-Arabic Translation of Sa'Adya Gaon

Binding from Incomplete Book of Hours

Binding from Two Ethiopian Prayer Books copied together