Oct 14, 2021 - Sale 2582

Sale 2582 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Manuscript in Skull and Crossbones Binding.
Uffizio de Morti.



Italy, late-18th to early-19th century.

Folio format manuscript containing the Office of the Dead, written on a combination of laid and wove paper stocks and consisting of twenty-eight leaves, text in an italic hand in brown and red ink, bound in original paper wrappers with a bold skull and crossbones design on both covers with the background in black, the front cover damaged with water, loss of painted surface, the back cover in better condition, 16 x 11 in.