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Miscellaneous artifacts, mostly related to writing or printing and including such things as papyrus fragments, palm-leaf manuscripts, medals, seals, playing cards, old eye glasses and pens, Arabic scrolls, print blocks, including six by Theodor Jung, and two marble (alabaster?) busts, one of Charles Dickens and one of Dante, nd.

Materials consist of three ampullae (or pilgrim flasks) and one oil lamp. The ampullae are of the "St. Menas ampulla" type. One ampulla is mostly intact while the others are incomplete. The complete one mould on both side with the saint (St. Menas) as an orant, nimbed, flanked by two camels and two crosses; another flask showing on one side the saint on a horse and the inscription ‘blessing’ on the other in Greek characters; and a fragmentary example inscribed with the word ‘blessing’ and a cross on one side and ευλογiα του αγiου Μηνa (or, in Latin script, EULOGIA TOU AGIOU MENA) - "[Receive the] blessing of Saint Menas" on the other.

The collection consists of Roman and Byzantine coin weight sets from approximately the 3rd-8th century A.D.

A leaf from a Carolingian folio of a major patristic text.

Sentemir and his wife Florídia sell land in Castellar del Vallès (near Barcelona) to Baió and his wife Todesera for 12 solidi. Signed Trasovario (scribe and priest) and witnessed by Marazinus (deacon).

Chinese translation of a Mahayana text originally from India, which has women as central figures or contains important discussions about women.

Contains text of II Samuel 24: 9-25 (end) and beginning of I Kings 1:1-3. Incipit: "Dedit ergo Ioab numerum descriptionis populi regi..." Explicit: "...et calefaciat dominum nostrum regem. Quaesierunt igitur" There are some textual variations, for example "mortui sunt ex populo a Dan usque ad Bersabee sexaginta [instead of the canonical septuaginta] millia virorum" in II Samuel 24:15

A document recording an agreement between Guillelm, his bothers Guillelm and Joan, and their sisters Guisla and Fruiló, and Sunyer Argemir, before a court in Sant Julià d’Altura, concerning vineyards in Marçans, belonging to Sant Llorenç del Munt, that they inherited from their mother. Written with 14 lines in a somewhat cursive Caroline minuscule, the first initial enlarged, the names of the witnesses each preceded by word ‘Sig+num’ (containing a cross with a point in each quadrant, that in the lower right larger than the others, and perhaps added by the witnesses), the final line identifying the scribe Benedictus and with his notarial mark in the form of a knotwork design, endorsed by medieval hands 'Ad mon. de Llorenz del munt a Terraça' and 'Terraca mercans' and ‘Monte 1062' by Plandolit. [From dealer description]

Includes words (dealing with Saint Stephen) and chant notation.

Nearly complete large folio leaf from Tractaus in Iohannem written in double columns of a fine late Carolingian script, brown ink, 42 lines, ruled with a hard point; one column of text shaved with loss of text, creased from use as an archival wrapper, with labelling in an eighteenth-century hand. The text here discusses "virginity of the mind," baptism and the Donatists.

15 manuscript fragments or cuttings of various sizes (circa 110x100 to circa 315x220 mm), most of which have been recovered from use in bindings and thus with creases and staining, consisting of: (a) two leaves with consecutive text (Matt.17:12-18:5; 17:22 with a red initial i.e. treated as the start of a chapter) from a glossed gospel of Matthew, a primitive layout with a widely-spaced main text, with short interlinear glosses and longer glosses in the outer margin [Italy, c.1130s]; (b) two cuttings from a Psalter (with parts of Pss.52:1-7 and 59:10-60:9), each preserving part of a major illuminated initial [Germany, 13th century]; (c) two nearly complete leaves from a Psalter (Pss.28:6-30:8, 35:1-14) with large and small red initials [Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, c.1200-1250]; (d) three column-wide strips and an incomplete bifolium of a canon law text, with series of subjects arranged alphabetically, and a table headed ‘Tituli et capitula Decretalium hic sunt registrata et signata’, with an 8-line puzzle initial ‘U’ [France, 14th century]; (e) a section of letter in German, beginning with a mention of ‘sein hausfrau’ and mentioning ‘Regenspurg’ (lines 2, 7) [Germany (Regensburg?), 15th century]; (f) most of a leaf from a Missal including parts of the 8th-10th Sundays after Pentecost, the lections marked-up in red, presumably to aid reading aloud [Germany, 15th century]; (g) two partial bifolia, including part of Augustine’s Sermon 354, citing authorities including Hugo, Bernard, and Gregory [Netherlands or Germany, 15th century]; (h) a fragment of a Breviary, with parts of lessons IV-VI apparently for Christmas day [Netherlands, 14th century] [Descriptive information provided by dealer]

A collection of fragments from six manuscript leaves, circa 12th century Germany, from the Historiarum adversum paganos. Two complete bifolia and two single leaves with vertical borders trimmed away, each with text in single column of 31 lines of a tiny and precise early gothic bookhand, remains of one simple red initial, another in green with foliate penwork and a very large initial in red penwork touched with green wash, terminating in an acanthus leaf frond (opening book VII). Pricking for lines visible at vertical edges of larger leaves, cuts and splits in places, some darkening and translucency from reuse on binding. Areas covered in black paint (that once was on outside of binding that these fragments survived on), these areas scored with three parallel lines in multiple places. The largest leaves are approximately 230 x 160 mm. Orosius (perhaps Paulus Orosius was one of the most important historians of the period which saw the collapse of the late Roman Empire and the dawning of the Middle Ages. He was a student of Augustine of Hippo,, and may have collaborated with that author on the City of God. Orosius lived in Hispania until the invasions of circa 410 forced him to flee to Hippo, from where he traveled to Palestine to liaise on Augustine's behalf with Jerome. On his return to Hippo, be began this work, his magnum opus, completing it circa 417. The work sets out to prove that the world had improved greatly since the recent Roman conversion to Christianity and was designed to complement Augustine's City of God. The leaves here contain parts of book V, 20-22, VI, 2-6 and 15-22, and the opening of book VII which detail the Second and Third Punic Wars, as well as the campaign against the Celtic Iberian trive of the Lusitani, the destruction of Corinth, the battles of Thapsus adn of Munda in 46 and 45 BCE during Julius Caesar's war with Pompey and the Roman Republic. The last words of book VI her enote the emergence of Christ, before book VII opens with a discussion of Christianity and paganism. [From dealer description]

A collection of 5 silver ingots, or "grivna," dating from the pre-coinage period in Russia. They are from the Tartar period in old Russia, of the "Novgorod type" as well as of the "Lithuanian type" from northern regions of ancient Russia. [From dealer descriptions]

A manuscript fragment of a part of the Corpus juris civilis, Digesta.

A will drawn up prior to the testator’s departure on pilgrimage ‘ad sanctum sepulchrum domini’, i.e. to the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Fragment from a work of the lives of saints. Text describing the life of St. Barnabas including his journey to Cyprus: "Barnabas repeteret cyprum insulam qua exortus erat." The journey of St. Barnabas' journey to Cyprus with St. Paul is recorded in Acts chapter 13.

• I, Ḥadā'iq al-sālikīn (folio 1-7) in Persian and copied by author, 1163
• /1750. II, Rawḍat al-Ḥaramayn (folio 11-41, copied 1167/1753). III, Leters of intercession from Dar al-Sʻādah Ağası to Masʻūd (folio 41-43), Sharif of Mecca, witten by ʻUmar Nuzat. IV, Letters written by al-Ḥāj ʻAtıf Mustafa to Sultan Maḥmūd concerning adjustment of salaries needed because of variation of solar and lunar years in March. V, Letters and documents (folio 47-80) written by ʻUmar Nuzhat as secretary of various dignitaries (dating from the 1750s). IV, Folio 99, note death of Sultan Mustafa on 7th Zulkaedah 1187/1774 and accesion to the throne of Sultan ʻAbd al-Hamid I.

A work on Islam, and Islamic ethics.

This text (28:16-26) has the better part of the description of the garments of the priests contained in the verses of Exodus 28. It is written in a large textura hand, each sentence or lengthy phrase beginning with a red or blue capital. The Biblical text is presented in a single, narrow column just under 2" wide. To its left and right is the extensive commentary of Bede (ca. 672-735), the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine scholar and theologian. The commentary is written in a smaller textura hand. There is additional inter-linear commentary within the column of Bible text in an even smaller hand.

These two leaves form part of the New Testament portion of the HISTORIA.

A lectionary contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for worship on a particular day. This text includes a portion of Deuteronomy:1 and Ezekiel:18.

Containing feasts for Saint Sebastian (20 January), Saint Agnes (21 January) and SS Vincent and Anastasius (22 January).

St. Gall neumes written without staves.

St. Gall neumes written without staves, marginal musical cues.

A fragment of an unidentified devotional text treating the dangers of worldly temptations occasioned to the believer in the Christian life by the vices of the world.

Manuscript fragment on the subject of worms and intestinal ailments from an unidentified medical text.

Nearly complete leaf with the life of St. Bartholomew from a Vitae Sanctorum, or collection of saints' lives. Written in double columns of late Carolingian script, brown ink, 37 lines, ruled lightly with plummet; a trivial crease on one side from use in a binding, the top line of text trimmed, otherwise in excellent condition. The identifier "M623" is written in pencil in the bottom right corner of the recto.

From an early manuscript of the verse Bible traditionally known as the Aurora for the light it shed on obscure passages of scripture. The present text appears to be the second of the three original versions (see the note to Sotheby’s, 26 November, 1985, lot 48), and the parent manuscript is among the earliest known (see Stegmüller, Repertorium, IV, 1954, pp. 380 – 82, and P. E. Beichner, Aurora Petri Rigae Biblia Versificata, University of Notre Dame, 1965). [dealer description]

Parts of St. Jerome's prologue to Job.

St. Gall neumes written without staves.

Primarily land leases and conveyances. Includes a Royal Letters Patent of Henry VIII settling a land dispute.

Rectangular manuscript cutting, with remnants of 7 lines from a single column (suggesting this was once a double column manuscript, that here too slight to allow easy identification, but including the phrases “la place de la cite” and “je veul dist il q[ue] [com]mander”), the script on the front just visible in normal light, that on reverse visible only in UV light, that overlaid with red ink on front marking out shapes of imprinted letters in reverse, small strip cut from upper part (for red script to be printed through during secondary use as frisket), scuffs, cuts, overall fair condition, 35 by 95mm. [From dealer description]

The text comprises a long alphabetical list of Latinized Hebrew words, followed by their meanings, translations or explanations. Mostly they are names of characters in the Old Testament such as David ("manu fortis"), Jethro ("honorabilis"), Ruth, Obadiah, Naomi, etc. as well as places like Hebron and Jericho ("luna... ut odor eius") but also frequently used words, e.g. omen ("sum fiat"). The text exists in both long and short versions -- this is the long, much fuller, and much to be preferred. [Notes from dealer description]