Album Amicorum Alchemy Anthologies & Miscellanies Astronomy Bibles & Bible Commentaries Biographies Books of Hours Breviaries Calligraphy & Writing Manuals Carthusians Chivalric Orders Chronicles Church Fathers Cistercians Devotio Moderna Dictionaries Documents & Charters Dominicans Drama & Theatre Fables & Bestiaries Franciscans Games Gastronomy Grammar & Rhetoric Heraldry & Genealogy Herbals Horses & Veterinary Sciences Humanism Hybrid Liturgy Magic Mathematics Miniature Books Missals Pharmacology Poetry Prints Psalters Reformation Religious Orders Romances Saint Lives Scholasticism Sermons Travel & Voyages Women Studies     4 manuscripts   PSEUDO-AUGUSTINUS, Soliloquium animae ad Deum; Liber de contemplatione Domini (Manuale); Liber de spiritu et anima; Confessio beati Augustini ad Deum; De bona voluntate In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment Italy, Veneto (Padua or Friuli?), c. 1450-1460     Magnificent illuminated humanist manuscript of the major works of Pseudo-Augustine, including the Soliloquies, the last of which "On Good Will" evidently existing in only one other manuscript. The identifiable scribe, the fine strapwork initials, the contemporary Venetian binding, and the excellent condition, coupled with the sterling provenance, contribute to the interest of the present copy.       TWINGER VON KÖNIGSHOFEN, JAKOB, Chronik In German, manuscript on paper Eastern France (Alsace), c. 1455 (additions, 1542-1566)     Called the “first German prose history of the world in Upper Germany,” this engaging work fuses the world chronicle with the local history of Strasbourg and Alsace. It was written expressly for the cultivated laity and achieved great success in the later Middle Ages. There is no modern critical edition, taking into account the c. 82 manuscripts, and the present copy combining features of all three versions of the text and original, perhaps unique, additions merits further study. Copies are exceptionally rare on the market.       ALFONSUS VARGAS TOLETANUS, Commentary on Book I of the Sentences of Peter Lombard (Lectura in primum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi) In Latin, with some Bohemian, illuminated manuscript on paper and parchment Italy, Siena, copied between end of 1469 and May 1470     This is a signed, dated, and illuminated copy of Alphonsus Vargas’s commentary on Book I of the Sentences, preserved in its near-contemporary binding. Copied in an Augustinian milieu in Siena by an unknown Bohemian scribe, who adds a colophon in Czech, this manuscript contains rare indications giving the times it took the scribe to complete his copy. Still unedited, the work is important for the history of Augustinian thought and the evolution of techniques of citation. Manuscripts are quite rare: the Schoenberg Database records only three copies changing hands since 1902, the last at Sotheby’s in 1958, which is now at Yale University.       Register Brevium [Register of Original Writs] In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment [England, London, c.1470]     This Register brevium is a deluxe, illuminated example of a manual of procedure law. Originating in the twelfth century, these writs protect every private right and interest, and later copies, like this one, offer a complete guide to medieval common law. The present example, including blank folios for the insertion of later writs as is typical, belongs with a clearly recognizable group of manuscripts associated with the Inns of Court.