Selected Books from Rugby School Library

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1 Book of Hours, Use of Paris, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, single column, 17 lines, in black and red ink in a regular gothic bookhand, miniature of the Virgi
Lot 1

Book of Hours, Use of Paris, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, single column, 17 lines, in black and red ink in a regular gothic bookhand, miniature of the Virgin and Child and one page with elaborate margins of floral decoration in gold, blue and green, numerous one and two-line initials, 19th century leather covered boards, [Paris], [c. 1450].

 

Hammer Price: £2,200

2 Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus) Opera, the second book printed in Rome, Rome, Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1468.
		 
Lot 2

Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus) Opera, the second book printed in Rome, Rome, Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1468.

 

Hammer Price: £17,000

8 Bible, Latin.- Biblia latina, with the Glossa Ordinaria of pseudo-Walafrid Strabo and interlinear glosses of Anselmus Laudunensis, [Adolf Rusch, for Anton Kobe
Lot 8

Bible, Latin.- Biblia latina, with the Glossa Ordinaria of pseudo-Walafrid Strabo and interlinear glosses of Anselmus Laudunensis, [Adolf Rusch, for Anton Koberger at Nuremberg], 1480.

 

Hammer Price: £7,500

9 Orosius (Paulus) Historiae adversos paganos, edited by Aeneas Vulpes and Laurentius Brixiensis, [Vicenza], Leonardus Achates de Basilea, 1482.
		 
Lot 9

Orosius (Paulus) Historiae adversos paganos, edited by Aeneas Vulpes and Laurentius Brixiensis, [Vicenza], Leonardus Achates de Basilea, 1482.

 

Hammer Price: £1,700

10 Bartholomaeus Anglicus. De proprietatibus rerum, Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 11 August, 1491.
		 
Lot 10

Bartholomaeus Anglicus. De proprietatibus rerum, Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 11 August, 1491.

 

Hammer Price: £6,000

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