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First Latin edition,1554 A leaf from Mattioli’s edition of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides with woodcuts of bay and plane trees. Pietro ... more info

Dutch language Breviary leaf c.1500, Netherlands. Recto : Text in Dutch written in a rounded gothic bookhand in brown ink on heavy laid paper. Ruled ... more info

The Gospel according to St. Matthew Nicolas De Lyra (c.1270-1340) was a French doctor of theology and teacher at the Sorbonne in Paris.   His ... more info

Recto:      Full page portrait on vellum of the Madonna and Child and an unknown saint together with the Donor who is a Cistercian ... more info

Coloured initials added by hand after printing. Verso:  Two columns of Latin text printed in black in a gothic font on laid paper. Three ... more info

First Latin edition,1554 A leaf from Mattioli’s edition of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides with a woodcut of the Mastic Tree   ... more info

Medieval calendar pages look rather complicated to the modern eye. Typically they are laid our in four columns. In the far right appear the special ... more info

Yule, Peter (ed.) 0522850618 Published by Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2004. Edited by Peter Yule on behalf of the Carlton Residents ... more info

Hargreen Publishing, Melbourne,  1987.  Condition: Hardback Fine. Dust Jacket Fine. 1st Edition. pp. 430, index, bibliography.   ... more info

A charming “grotesque” in the illuminated panel. Recto: Text in Latin written on fine vellum in black ink a precise Gothic bookhand. ... more info