Littera Scripta

    Printing Medieval History Art Ephemera Early Printed Leaves Prints - Antique Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

Specialist dealer in manuscript and early printed leaves from the 11th to 17th century. We only deal in original material. Selected artworks on paper, 16th to 20th century, books and ephemera.

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Featured Books

NORTH AMERICA Map by John Rapkin, published by John Tallis and Co., London, c. 1855.
by Tallis/Rapkin
From the last of the highly decorative steel engraved atlases of the 19th century. Decorative foliate border with nine vignettes of Cossaks, Esquimaux Dog-sledge, Mount Hekla, Beavers, Niagara Falls, ...
Leaf from Ptolemy’s Geographica, 1535, Lyon.
by Ptolemy
An original post incunable leaf with splendid woodcut headers and initials from the gazetteer of a French edition of the "Geographica". The most popular geographical work to be printed from movable ty...
St. Jerome’s biblical commentaries. Incunable leaf, 1498, Venice.
by Saint Jerome
This Venetian edition of "Commentaria in Bibliam" brings together all of St. Jerome's biblical commentaries dating from the fourth and fifth centuries. Even though Jerome's works were hugely popular i...
Original 1872 colour woodblock print by Kuniteru II
by Kuniteru II
Artist: Kuniteru II (1829 - 1874) Title: "The First Steam Train in Japan". Date:1872. Medium: Colour woodblock print on washi paper. Notes: This 2-4-0 tank engine was the one that started the railway ...
Antiphons for St. Catherine of Siena
by Liturgical chant
"Greatest is Catherine, Virgin of Siena..." Recto:7 lines of music notation in square and diamond shaped neumes and text in Latin written in a gothic bookhand on parchment. Five line staves with a ke...
Tiny illuminated leaf from a medieval lady's Book of Hours. France, c.1475.
by Book of Hours
Verso:14 lines of text in Latin written on vellum in an accomplished rounded gothic bookhand, Ruled in red and rubrics in red. One two-line illuminated initial 'T' in liquid gold on a red ground outli...
Antiphon for the Annunciation to the Shepherds Gregorian Chant leaf, c.1600, Spain.
by Liturgical cjant
Verso:7 lines of music notation in square and diamond shaped neumes and text in Latin written in a gothic bookhand on parchment. Five line staves with a key signature. Rubrics in red. Two large decora...
Manuscript leaf from a Parisian ”Pocket Bible”, c.1250.
by BIBLE
"afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly" Recto: Latin text written in black ink on fine vellum in an extremely precise gothic minuscule script in two column...
Early, rare bifolium manuscript Missal leaf, c. 1420, Italy.
Bifolia are much scarcer than individual leaves. This is a very good example of an early 15C Italian decorated Missal. The term "octave" is applied to a period of eight days, during which certain majo...
Illuminated manuscript Missal leaf with decorated initials by a known illuminator, Sano di Pietro.
by Sano di Pietro
Sienese easel painter and manuscript illuminator Sano di Pietro (1405-1481) was the head of a workshop that fulfilled the demands of civic and religious institutions in the city. His production, techn...
"By the Rivers of Babylon..."
by Breviary
The leaf includes the entire psalm 136 and one line of liturgical chant music. Despite its appearance, this leaf is almost certainly from a Breviary, not a Book of Hours. The beloved Psalm 136 (KJV 13...
Highly decorative manuscript Missal leaf, c.1425
Large & finely illuminated leaf in the style of a Book of Hours. Recto: Double column text in Latin written in an assured gothic bookhand in black ink on parchment. Ruled in red, with rubrics in red. ...