Nov 24, 2015 - Sale 2400

Sale 2400 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(MANUSCRIPT BOOK.) The Seven Penitential Psalms. Manuscript on vellum. 36 leaves in Gothic script in black with initials in red and blue, divisional titles featuring mostly flowers and insects, in gold and colors. 140x81 mm; 5 1/4x3 3/8 inches, cherry red velvet over boards, later rebacking in velvet, covers and bevelled edges rubbed with some surface loss; gilt and gauffered edges. A charming little hand-illuminated book of psalms much in the mid-19th century style of Owen Jones. Np, circa 1850