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Palladio,Andrea

PALLADIO,ANDREA

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Schinkel,Karl Friedrich

SCHINKEL,KARL FRIEDRICH

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L'Estrif de Vertu et Fortune - The Fight Between Virtue and Fortune,poem by Martin Le Franc for Philippe Le Bon of Burgundy.Illustrations perhaps by Fouquet. French,parchment,28,5 x 20,5 cm,101 pages.Fortune and Virtue vaunt their merits before Reason.Fol.1 verso.
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L'Estrif de Vertu et Fortune - The Fight Between Virtue and Fortune,poem by Mart...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages. Probably written and painted in the Abbey of St.Bertin. The kingdom of the Merovingians is divided between the four sons of Clotaire I. Background: Huns destroy the city of Metz. (Antecedents of the Battle on the Catalaunian Plains: around 7 April 451 the Huns passed through Straßbourg and Metz, destroying both cities as they went.) Fol.36 versus.
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Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 c...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages.Probably written and painted in the Abbey of St.Bertin.Charles Martell imprisoned in Cologne;he flees and wins three battles and conquers Alemannia,Suabia and Bavaria.Fol.102
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Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages. Good King Louis IX (the Saint)during the 7th crusade: his ships on the Nile;battle against the Sarazens; burial of masons killed by the Sarazens. Fol.338
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Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm...

Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm 441 pages.Probably written and painted in the Abbey of St.Bertin.The coronation of Philippe VI in Reims,1328.The battle of Cassel in which the French subdued the Flemish uprising.Fol.398
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Les Grandes Chroniques de France,middle 15th.French, parchment,46,5 x 32,5 cm...

Les Onze Joies de Mariage - The eleven joys of marriage 1485,French,paper,27,9 x 20 cm, 126 pages.A satyre on married life.8th "joy":The husband suffers during a difficult delivery;his wife leaves on a pilgrimage with her lover;souvenir-booths upon arrival.
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Les Onze Joies de Mariage - The eleven joys of marriage 1485,French,paper,27,9 x...

Livre d'Heures dit de Louis d'Orleans,around 1490. Latin,parchment,21,5 x 14,8 cm, 112 pages. The creation of Eve,against a choir of angels. In the foreground the owner of the book,praying. Heavenly Jerusalem,the Garden Eden. fol.11 verso.
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Livre d'Heures dit de Louis d'Orleans,around 1490. Latin,parchment,21,5 x 1...

Plutarque,Dicours sur le Mariage de Pollion et Eurydice end 15th,early 16th.French,parchment,24,5 x 16,5 cm, 46 pages.Translation from the Latin by Jean Laudet,1499 for the wedding of Anne de Bretagne with Louis XII. Presentation of the book to Louis XII.fo.2 verso.
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Plutarque,Dicours sur le Mariage de Pollion et Eurydice end 15th,early 16th.Fren...

The Venerale Bede,Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Northumbria, 746. Initials of the First Book,"Britannia" folio 3 verso.
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The Venerale Bede,Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Northumbria, 746...

The New Testament according to Matthew,from Northumberland,end 13th. Page with Initials,folio 18.
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The New Testament according to Matthew,from Northumberland,end 13th....

Bestiarium,England, end 12th. Latin,parchment, 20 x 14,5 cm,91 pages. Adam distributes names to the animals.fol.5
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Bestiarium,England, end 12th. Latin,parchment, 20 x 14,5 cm,91 pages....

Bestiarium,England, end 12th. Latin,parchment, 20 x 14,5 cm,91 pages. A whale,in mediaeval iconography often an allegory for the devil.The whale lifts the boat wihch founders. fol.71
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Bestiarium,England, end 12th. Latin,parchment, 20 x 14,5 cm,91 pages....