Live auction - Lot 1138
[Fragments]
A large collection of more than 90 printed and manuscript pieces of binding waste.
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
Various sizes, on paper, some ff. with capitals touched in red (some ff. with stains or traces of glue).
Some 15 large sheets and a number of smaller fragments (i.a. lower half of a bifolium) or snippets, from books printed during the 15th c., some during the 16th c., mainly in Latin, a few in French. A few manuscripts to be identified, incl. official deeds, from 14th to 16th c.
Joined: 8 leaves from 2 folio editions and 1 uncut leaf from an 8vo edition [15th-16th c.].