$738
Leaves of Early Printed Books and Books of Hours. Five small-format parchment leaves from manuscript Latin prayer books with initials in gold and colors; a single leaf (signed t4) from a small-format Latin edition of the Ship of Fools [ Navis Stultifera or Das Narrenschiff] with the woodcut, "Stroking a Fallow Stallion," attributed to Durer, the text in a gothic type, woodcut ornaments flanking the image; folio-format leaf CCCXCV (signed Lll3) from the first German edition of Livy's Römische Historien , Mainz: Schöffer, 1523; initial added in red; [and] seventeen contiguous small folio leaves (ccxxviii-ccxlv) from a book of the saints in German, late 15th-early 16th century, perhaps Voragine, including hand-colored woodcuts of the martyrdoms of the following six saints: Oswald, Pope Sixtus II, Afra, Donatus of Fiesole, Cyriacus, and Lawrence of Rome; sizes vary.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-10-30
