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Lot 66
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 -
600
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$1,088
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Lot Description
[LEAF BOOK - GRABHORN PRESS]. SCHULZ, H.C. The Gothic Script of the Middle Ages...Together with an original leaf from a Gothic Manuscript Collectar. San Francisco: David Magee at the Grabhorn Press, 1939.
Small 4to. With an original 14th century illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum, laid in (formerly tipped in). Original silk boards (slightly bowed).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 71 copies, WITH AN ORIGINAL ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF: 241 x 165 mm, single leaf from a collectar, late 14th century, probably in Northern France, , on vellum, ruled in light brown for one column of 11 lines, in Latin written in alternating dark brown and red ink in a formal gothic bookhand, rubrics in red and blue, 2-line initials in both burnished gold and blue with a background of blue and red flourishes.
Chalmers, Disbound and Dispersed Checklist 83.