Sunday, 5 July 2026

More Lauria Leaves

The images we looked at in the previous blog from Arthur Lauria's 1955 catalogue of Manuscrits, incubables, livres rares, reliures, has a couple more images of the interior of his premises. One shows an open doorway in the corner of a room, shown above, through which can be seen parts of three framed manuscript leaves hanging on a wall:

I have not yet been able to identify the two at the top:

 but the one below them:

can be recognised as a leaf that Lauria offered in his Catalogue 54, Livres rares (December 1960), as no. 217 with a reproduction of a detail of the initial:


 

 

 

 

 

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