Early Printing & Manuscripts / Manuscripts & Documents

JOÃO I, King of Portugal. [Judgement in a legal suit, incipit:] Dom Johann ... Rey de Portugal ...
Coimbra, 3 April 1388. Document in Portuguese, written in brown ink on sheepskin parchment (23 x 44 cm) in an upright gothic cursive, with 16 full lines of text (plus one word on a 17th line and the signatures of the two judges). Full description

[MINIATURE - GERMAN]. [The Arrest of Christ].
[Flanders (Bruges?), or Nürnberg, ca. 1520]. Miniature painted on vellum (7.8 x 5.6 cm) in numerous colours, highlighted with gold and in a gold border, probably from a book of hours, but with no text. Full description

PASO Y TRONCOSO, Francisco del and Franz EHRLE. Il manoscritto Messicano Vaticano 3773 riprodotto in fotocromografia ...
Rome, Stabilimento Danesi (financed by Joseph Florimond, Duc de Loubat), 1896. 3 unnumbered parts plus the facsimile, bound as 4 volumes. Oblong large 16mo (12.5 x 15 cm). With an accordion-fold photo-chromolithographed facsimile (96 pages on 49 leaves, with page numbers added for the facsimile in red in square brackets) of the polychrome codex with 104 pictures and a Nahuatl text in Mexican hieroglyphs including calendrical data. With 3 text parts in the original publisher's boards covered with printed paper; the facsimile in accordion-fold with the first and last leaves pasted to thick, rounded walnut(?) boards as a facsimile of the manuscript's pre-Hispanic Mexican wooden boards. It is kept in a book-shaped wooden box partly covered with gold-tooled dark brown calf, with a crowned rampant lion (the Duc de Loubat's bearing) on the front. Full description

PHILIP II, King of Spain. [Mortgage agreement, granting Jan Hanneman, Steward General of North Holland, the rights to the tithes of the King's lands of Voorburg and Voorschoten].
The Hague and Brussels, 1557 (with additions to 1565). Folio (36 x 25.5 cm). Manuscript mortgage agreement, signed by King Philip's representatives, written in brown ink on parchment in a nearly upright cursive gothic hand. With a typescript transcription of the main text and an interlinear translation in Spanish. Full description

[WOMEN'S STUDIES]. Decor puellarum.
[Paris, ca. 1740]. 4to (23.5 x 18 cm). Manuscript in Italian written in black ink on laid paper. Loose quires, never sewn or bound. Full description