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Auction archive: Lot number 27

Leaf from a Psalter, with Great Gloss of Peter Lombard, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchme

Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,108 - US$1,662
Price realised:
£1,300
ca. US$1,800
Auction archive: Lot number 27

Leaf from a Psalter, with Great Gloss of Peter Lombard, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchme

Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,108 - US$1,662
Price realised:
£1,300
ca. US$1,800
Beschreibung:

Leaf from a Psalter, with Great Gloss of Peter Lombard, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [probably England, perhaps northern France, last decades of the twelfth century] Single large leaf, with main text in small rectangular blocks in a handsome proto-gothic bookhand (these no more than 11 lines long, and with Psalm 101:1-11) set within 55 lines of gloss in smaller proto-gothic bookhand, quotations underlined in red, running titles in red capitals, one-line initials in red or pale blue (those in gloss without ornament, those in main text with contrasting penwork in red or dark green), two large penwork initials in same with ornate penwork, one very large initial 'D' (opening 'Domine exaudi orationem ...', the opening of Psalm 101) variegated in red and green, enclosing scrolling blue penwork and surrounded by red penwork, some cockling and folds at edges, small spots and stains, else good condition, 238 by 173mm. Sold in Dominic Winter Auctions, UK, 10 April 2013, lot 426, to Roger Martin The use of green in the large initial and to decorate smaller initials points towards an English origin for this leaf (compare its use in twelfth-century English manuscripts in P. Binski and P. Zutschi, Western Illuminated Manuscripts, 2011, pls.xv-xxvi, especially xxi), but similar decoration can also be traced in adjacent mainland Europe, in Normandy and along the northern French coast in centres working in the 'Channel style' (W. Cahn, Romanesque Manuscripts: the Twelfth Century, 1996, pls. xiii-xvi).

Auction archive: Lot number 27
Auction:
Datum:
6 Jul 2021
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Leaf from a Psalter, with Great Gloss of Peter Lombard, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [probably England, perhaps northern France, last decades of the twelfth century] Single large leaf, with main text in small rectangular blocks in a handsome proto-gothic bookhand (these no more than 11 lines long, and with Psalm 101:1-11) set within 55 lines of gloss in smaller proto-gothic bookhand, quotations underlined in red, running titles in red capitals, one-line initials in red or pale blue (those in gloss without ornament, those in main text with contrasting penwork in red or dark green), two large penwork initials in same with ornate penwork, one very large initial 'D' (opening 'Domine exaudi orationem ...', the opening of Psalm 101) variegated in red and green, enclosing scrolling blue penwork and surrounded by red penwork, some cockling and folds at edges, small spots and stains, else good condition, 238 by 173mm. Sold in Dominic Winter Auctions, UK, 10 April 2013, lot 426, to Roger Martin The use of green in the large initial and to decorate smaller initials points towards an English origin for this leaf (compare its use in twelfth-century English manuscripts in P. Binski and P. Zutschi, Western Illuminated Manuscripts, 2011, pls.xv-xxvi, especially xxi), but similar decoration can also be traced in adjacent mainland Europe, in Normandy and along the northern French coast in centres working in the 'Channel style' (W. Cahn, Romanesque Manuscripts: the Twelfth Century, 1996, pls. xiii-xvi).

Auction archive: Lot number 27
Auction:
Datum:
6 Jul 2021
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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