Leaf from a Missal, of Cistercian Use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Austria or southern Germany, c. 1175] Single leaf, with single column of 24 lines in two sizes of a tall and angular proto-gothic hand, numerous letters with hairline calligraphic penstrokes, capitals touched in red or with red dots added within their bodies, red rubrics, five large red initials, two of these in split bands or with baubles mounted within their bodies, instructions to rubricator preserved in smaller version of same fine hand vertically along inner margin, line-prickings preserved at outer edges, modern pencil folio no. '78' in upper outer corner of recto, small spots and stains, else excellent condition, 345 by 242mm. Provenance: 1. From a handsome and visually imposing manuscript most probably produced in Austria or southern Germany c. 1175: thought by Ege to be Spanish, but the crucial opening leaf reproduced in the 1948 catalogue recognised by C. de Hamel in 1989 as Austrian or southern German. The parent manuscript had a Mass added to fol. 105v for St. Robert of Molesmes, co-founder of Cîteaux, canonised in 1222. 2. The parent manuscript was owned by Emil Hirsch (1866-1954), bookdealer of Munich (of Jewish extraction and so fleeing to New York in 1938, when he was 72, to continue trading there); his catalogue Valuable Manuscripts of the Middle Ages, Mostly Illuminated (c. 1928), no. 17, and then with 173 leaves. 3. Arnold Mettler (1867-1945) of St. Gallen; then sold by his son in Parke-Bernet, New York, 29-30 November 1948, lot 317. 4. Otto Ege (1888-1951), and partly dispersed in his Fifty Original Leaves, with the 26 leaf remnant emerging in Sotheby's, 11 December 1984, lot 44 (see M.M. Manion, V.F. Vines and C. de Hamel., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections, 1989, no. 113, p. 108; and S. Gwara, Otto Ege's Manuscripts, 2013, p. 117, his HL 3). That said, leaves from this attractive manuscript are not common on the market. The last appeared in Christie's online sale, 3 December 2015, lot 5. 5. This leaf acquired by Roger Martin from the Australian trade in 2019.
Leaf from a Missal, of Cistercian Use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Austria or southern Germany, c. 1175] Single leaf, with single column of 24 lines in two sizes of a tall and angular proto-gothic hand, numerous letters with hairline calligraphic penstrokes, capitals touched in red or with red dots added within their bodies, red rubrics, five large red initials, two of these in split bands or with baubles mounted within their bodies, instructions to rubricator preserved in smaller version of same fine hand vertically along inner margin, line-prickings preserved at outer edges, modern pencil folio no. '78' in upper outer corner of recto, small spots and stains, else excellent condition, 345 by 242mm. Provenance: 1. From a handsome and visually imposing manuscript most probably produced in Austria or southern Germany c. 1175: thought by Ege to be Spanish, but the crucial opening leaf reproduced in the 1948 catalogue recognised by C. de Hamel in 1989 as Austrian or southern German. The parent manuscript had a Mass added to fol. 105v for St. Robert of Molesmes, co-founder of Cîteaux, canonised in 1222. 2. The parent manuscript was owned by Emil Hirsch (1866-1954), bookdealer of Munich (of Jewish extraction and so fleeing to New York in 1938, when he was 72, to continue trading there); his catalogue Valuable Manuscripts of the Middle Ages, Mostly Illuminated (c. 1928), no. 17, and then with 173 leaves. 3. Arnold Mettler (1867-1945) of St. Gallen; then sold by his son in Parke-Bernet, New York, 29-30 November 1948, lot 317. 4. Otto Ege (1888-1951), and partly dispersed in his Fifty Original Leaves, with the 26 leaf remnant emerging in Sotheby's, 11 December 1984, lot 44 (see M.M. Manion, V.F. Vines and C. de Hamel., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections, 1989, no. 113, p. 108; and S. Gwara, Otto Ege's Manuscripts, 2013, p. 117, his HL 3). That said, leaves from this attractive manuscript are not common on the market. The last appeared in Christie's online sale, 3 December 2015, lot 5. 5. This leaf acquired by Roger Martin from the Australian trade in 2019.
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