Ketterer Kunst announces results of Rare Books Auction in Hamburg
Aristotle, Logica vetus, Pergamenthandschrift, um 1250. Estimate: 60,000 / $ 70,200. Sold: 90,000 / $ 105.300.
HAMBURG
.- With total proceeds of more than 1.4 million, the Rare Books Auction at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg on May 31, 2021 yielded a very good result. The sales quota in the Evening Sale alone was at 85 % and many of the objects on offer changed owners with excellent price increases. The evenings undisputed star was a 13th century vellum manuscript with texts on logic by Aristotle.
With the Logica vetus Aristotle did not only lay the foundations for higher education in all of medieval Europe, but also had an impact on methods and discussions in almost every other scientific discipline. In light of this it is little surprising that this extremely rare compilation of medieval texts was hotly contested by a number of proxy bids and online bidders, as well as by nearly half a dozen phone bidde