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Lot Number
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86
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Title
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Sermones Quarelli, sermons for the temporal, in Latin
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Place Printed
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apparently England
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Description
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Sermones Quarelli, sermons for the temporal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [apparently England, late thirteenth century] 142 leaves (plus 2 original endleaves at front and another at end), 135mm. by 100mm., complete, collation: i-xi12, xii10, single column, 31 lines in dark brown ink in a single early gothic minuscule hand, rubrics in red, spaces left for initials, some discolouration to a number of leaves, else fair and presentable, marbled endleaves, eighteenth-century gilttooled calf over pasteboards
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Lot Note
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The same sermons occur in Paris, Bibl. Mazarine ms.1042, opening "Ecce rex tuus ... [Matthew 21:5] In verbis istis persone venientis dignitas ...", and ending on fol.138v, "Expliciunt quarrelli vocaliter concordati ...". There was a copy at St. Augustine's, Canterbury in the late fourteenth century (B. Barker-Benfield, St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, 2008, pp.776-77; recording no other copy).
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Estimated Price
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GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00( USD 7600.00 - USD 10640.00)
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Actual Price
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GBP 34,850.00 ( USD 52972.00)
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