Stockholm: Alqvist and Wiksell, (1954). Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in very good yellow and black dust jacket with white title to front panel and yellow title to spine panel. Minor edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Light red pencil underlining in Preface, but the rest of the text is clean. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Photograph of Mary Renault is laid in. Latin. 95 pages. GRE1/9250. Very Good / Very Good. More

This is a leaf from a Prayer book and Benedictional for the use of Cistercian Nuns, in Latin, France second quarter of the 16th century (207 x 143 mm). There are eighteen lines in black ink of angular Gothic script from the section of Temporal Benedictions. Provenance: Cistercian House presumably a nunnery since the opening, and only illustrated, office for the profession of female novices, who promise to live secundum regulam sancti Benediciti. The Illumination within this Prayer Book shows considerable similarities with those of the Master of Francois de Rohan, active in Paris from c. 1525 - 1546. Framed. #6802. Fine. More

This is an illuminated medieval manuscript Psalter leaf, in Latin, on vellum, Flanders, second half of the thirteen century (125 x 90 mm). There are eighteen lines in a rather small gothic script with single bar borders and serrated line extenders in pink, blue, and burnished gold. Verso: Eighteen lines of gothic script. Framed. #18931. Fine. More