May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 164

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Das Wundersame Lebe[n], Leyde[n], und Wunderthaten etlicher Heilige[n] Gottes, so ich aus dreyen Büchern . . . herauss geschribe[n], u[nd] allhier zusame[n] gesetzt hab . . . Johann Georg Michele Kraucher. manuscript in german written in cursive script in black ink, with decorated calligraphic divisional headings. 408 leaves. 325x205 mm, modern leather-backed boards; inscription in lower margin of title noting the scribe's death in 1765 after a long illness. Armorial bookplates of Abbot Bartholomaeus of the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross dated 1760, and Count Maximilian von Gravenreuth. Np, 1739

Additional Details

Lives of biblical figures and saints excerpted from works by Hieronymus Drexel, Reginbald Perckmayr, and Martin von Cochem.
For more manuscripts see lots 66, 270, 275, and 325.