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Auction archive: Lot number 21

BIBLE with Prologues and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Auction 08.06.2005
8 Jun 2005
Estimate
£18,000 - £25,000
ca. US$32,733 - US$45,463
Price realised:
£32,400
ca. US$58,920
Auction archive: Lot number 21

BIBLE with Prologues and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Auction 08.06.2005
8 Jun 2005
Estimate
£18,000 - £25,000
ca. US$32,733 - US$45,463
Price realised:
£32,400
ca. US$58,920
Beschreibung:

BIBLE with Prologues and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [northern France, probably Paris, 1220s] 217 x 140mm. i paper + i + 340 leaves with modern pencilled foliation running from first parchment leaf: 1-24 1 2, 25-26 1 4, 27 1 2, 28 3(of 4, iv cancelled blank), 29 9(of 12, x-xii cancelled blanks), COMPLETE, most gatherings numbered in centre of lower margins of final versos, some catchwords written below to the right remaining untrimmed, two columns of 58 lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand between four verticals, with a fifth vertical dividing the central margin, and 59 horizontals ruled in metalpoint, justification: 151 x 45 - 8 - 45mm, additional pair of horizontals for running headings in upper margin, opening line of Genesis written in burnished gold on a pink ground, rubrics in red between blue patterning, letters for running headings and chapter numbers alternately of red and blue delicately flourished in both colours, one-line versal initials, chapter initials and paragraph marks alternately in red and blue, two-line initials in red or blue with flourishing in both colours, OVER 110 LARGE INITIALS IN RED AND BLUE EXTENSIVELY FLOURISHED in both colours, FIVE HISTORIATED INITIALS IN BLUES, PINK, GREEN AND WHITE ON BURNISHED GOLD GROUNDS, three with dragons or other beasts; later thirteenth-century addition ff.331v-340 following the same decorative conventions, with rubrics in blue and red ff.333-335v, and extensively flourished initials in blue and red (many medieval annotations and corrections, margins worn, paint losses to initials on ff.3, 182v). Red velvet over pasteboard, a FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EMBROIDERED ANGEL appliquéd to upper cover, in split stitch in pink and green silks, the wings modelled in blue and pink silk over raised threads, couched gold or silver-gilt threads, the figure cut below the knee and sewn to a terrace of couched gold or silver-gilt threads with braided edging (angel rebacked, embroidery with loose threads and design exposed on face and tunic, velvet rubbed at spine and edges). PROVENANCE: 1. The texts, layout and illumination show that this one-volume Bible preceded the format known as the Paris Bible which was established c.1230. Later in the century, texts were added in a congruent style, apparently for a cleric who expected to be an active preacher, possibly a member of the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans, for whom the use of Paris in the Temporal readings would have been appropriate; French saints are commemorated in the Sanctoral. 2. Eighteenth-century stamp with the arms of an ecclesiastic on the paper flyleaf. 3. Mrs Evelyn Stainton, Bacham House, Canterbury: her sale, Sotheby's, 26 February 1951, lot 20, to Apsley Cherry-Garrard. 4. Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959), the Antarctic explorer: his sale, Sotheby's, 5 June 1961, lot 29, to Maggs; cutting from Maggs Catalogue pasted inside upper cover. 5. Sold Sotheby's, 14 July 1981, lot 103, to Dr Charles Hartley; his sale, Sotheby's, 20 June 1995, lot 63. 6. Friedrich Georg Zeileis (b.1939), Gallspach, musician, collector of manuscripts and eastern art: bookplate inside lower cover. CONTENT: Vulgate Bible with Prologues ff.2-317v; the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, headed de Genesi and opening Adam interpretatur homo ff.318-331; added list of Psalms headed Incipit liber hymnorum seu soliloquiorum prophetas de Christo. Hymnus est laus Dei cum cantico; canticum esr exultacio mentis habita de eternis in vocem prorumpens from the Proemium to St Thomas Aquinas's In Psalmis Davidis expositio , followed by further Hebrew names ff.331v-332; a list of readings for Temporal, Sanctoral and Communal ff.333-335v; texts for sermons grouped under seventy-six headings, opening De discretione loquendi. Ja.i. sit omnis homo ff.336-340. This volume comes from an early phase in the development of the standardised single volume Paris Bibles that emerged in the 1230s to become a staple of th

Auction archive: Lot number 21
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jun 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

BIBLE with Prologues and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [northern France, probably Paris, 1220s] 217 x 140mm. i paper + i + 340 leaves with modern pencilled foliation running from first parchment leaf: 1-24 1 2, 25-26 1 4, 27 1 2, 28 3(of 4, iv cancelled blank), 29 9(of 12, x-xii cancelled blanks), COMPLETE, most gatherings numbered in centre of lower margins of final versos, some catchwords written below to the right remaining untrimmed, two columns of 58 lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand between four verticals, with a fifth vertical dividing the central margin, and 59 horizontals ruled in metalpoint, justification: 151 x 45 - 8 - 45mm, additional pair of horizontals for running headings in upper margin, opening line of Genesis written in burnished gold on a pink ground, rubrics in red between blue patterning, letters for running headings and chapter numbers alternately of red and blue delicately flourished in both colours, one-line versal initials, chapter initials and paragraph marks alternately in red and blue, two-line initials in red or blue with flourishing in both colours, OVER 110 LARGE INITIALS IN RED AND BLUE EXTENSIVELY FLOURISHED in both colours, FIVE HISTORIATED INITIALS IN BLUES, PINK, GREEN AND WHITE ON BURNISHED GOLD GROUNDS, three with dragons or other beasts; later thirteenth-century addition ff.331v-340 following the same decorative conventions, with rubrics in blue and red ff.333-335v, and extensively flourished initials in blue and red (many medieval annotations and corrections, margins worn, paint losses to initials on ff.3, 182v). Red velvet over pasteboard, a FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EMBROIDERED ANGEL appliquéd to upper cover, in split stitch in pink and green silks, the wings modelled in blue and pink silk over raised threads, couched gold or silver-gilt threads, the figure cut below the knee and sewn to a terrace of couched gold or silver-gilt threads with braided edging (angel rebacked, embroidery with loose threads and design exposed on face and tunic, velvet rubbed at spine and edges). PROVENANCE: 1. The texts, layout and illumination show that this one-volume Bible preceded the format known as the Paris Bible which was established c.1230. Later in the century, texts were added in a congruent style, apparently for a cleric who expected to be an active preacher, possibly a member of the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans, for whom the use of Paris in the Temporal readings would have been appropriate; French saints are commemorated in the Sanctoral. 2. Eighteenth-century stamp with the arms of an ecclesiastic on the paper flyleaf. 3. Mrs Evelyn Stainton, Bacham House, Canterbury: her sale, Sotheby's, 26 February 1951, lot 20, to Apsley Cherry-Garrard. 4. Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959), the Antarctic explorer: his sale, Sotheby's, 5 June 1961, lot 29, to Maggs; cutting from Maggs Catalogue pasted inside upper cover. 5. Sold Sotheby's, 14 July 1981, lot 103, to Dr Charles Hartley; his sale, Sotheby's, 20 June 1995, lot 63. 6. Friedrich Georg Zeileis (b.1939), Gallspach, musician, collector of manuscripts and eastern art: bookplate inside lower cover. CONTENT: Vulgate Bible with Prologues ff.2-317v; the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, headed de Genesi and opening Adam interpretatur homo ff.318-331; added list of Psalms headed Incipit liber hymnorum seu soliloquiorum prophetas de Christo. Hymnus est laus Dei cum cantico; canticum esr exultacio mentis habita de eternis in vocem prorumpens from the Proemium to St Thomas Aquinas's In Psalmis Davidis expositio , followed by further Hebrew names ff.331v-332; a list of readings for Temporal, Sanctoral and Communal ff.333-335v; texts for sermons grouped under seventy-six headings, opening De discretione loquendi. Ja.i. sit omnis homo ff.336-340. This volume comes from an early phase in the development of the standardised single volume Paris Bibles that emerged in the 1230s to become a staple of th

Auction archive: Lot number 21
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jun 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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