COMMEMORATIONS OF STS JOHN AND GUIDO, in Latin, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Speyer, 1599 and 1606] 258 x 175mm, final section 252 x 170mm. 78pp with original pagination, collation: A-D 8 , an unsigned final gathering of 8, written in a calligraphic bookhand in black ink, initials touched red, rubrics in red, headings and 2-3 line initials in red and blue, double red ruling around text (occasional smudging and spotting with candle-wax). Contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, blind-tooled with rolls, with contemporary straps and brass corner-pieces, vellum pastedowns and flyleaves (slightly worn, one corner-piece lacking). The manuscript consists of weekly 'commemorations' of Sts John and Guido, patrons of the church of that dedication in Speyer, with lections and homilies (from Bede and Peter Damian), WRITTEN BY THE ORGANIST OF THE CHURCH GEORG ALEXANDER FLECKENSTEIN in 1599 (colophon, p.63). A final section was added in 1606 (dated p.78), commemorating SS. Eucharius and Jodocus as well as the Deposition of St Guido. This manuscript somehow escaped destruction in the sack of Speyer by the French in 1689.
COMMEMORATIONS OF STS JOHN AND GUIDO, in Latin, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Speyer, 1599 and 1606] 258 x 175mm, final section 252 x 170mm. 78pp with original pagination, collation: A-D 8 , an unsigned final gathering of 8, written in a calligraphic bookhand in black ink, initials touched red, rubrics in red, headings and 2-3 line initials in red and blue, double red ruling around text (occasional smudging and spotting with candle-wax). Contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, blind-tooled with rolls, with contemporary straps and brass corner-pieces, vellum pastedowns and flyleaves (slightly worn, one corner-piece lacking). The manuscript consists of weekly 'commemorations' of Sts John and Guido, patrons of the church of that dedication in Speyer, with lections and homilies (from Bede and Peter Damian), WRITTEN BY THE ORGANIST OF THE CHURCH GEORG ALEXANDER FLECKENSTEIN in 1599 (colophon, p.63). A final section was added in 1606 (dated p.78), commemorating SS. Eucharius and Jodocus as well as the Deposition of St Guido. This manuscript somehow escaped destruction in the sack of Speyer by the French in 1689.
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