LITURGICAL PSALTER, noted, with Canticles and Litany, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Auxerre, ca.1350] 205 x 138mm, 128 leaves, COMPLETE. Collation: 1 6 2-11 12 12 2 30 lines, double column, justification: 152 x 86mm. Written in brown ink in a gothic liturgical bookhand, versal initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork decoration, similar two- and three-line initials, musical notation throughout on 4 red staves, with text initiated by calligraphic initials infilled with yellow, 8 HISTORIATED INITIALS 7 or 8 lines high with full-page bar-baguette and ivy-leaf border extensions, decorated with and containing grotesques, calendar leaves with similar shorter extensions. (First leaf of calendar badly stained; extensions cropped throughout, 3 historiated initials smudged). Late 15th-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (very worn, upper cover detached) PROVENANCE: (1) Made for the use of Auxerre. The calendar contains numerous bishops of Auxerre: Pelegrinus, first bishop (16 May); Palladius (10 April), Vigilius (10 March), Valerianus (13 May), Germanus (31 July), Censurius (10 June), Aetherius (27 July), Ursus 930 July), Desiderius (27 Oct.); also Agricola, bp. of Nevers (26 Feb.) and Guillaume of Donjeon, archbp. of Bourges (10 Jan.). The feast of Maria Jacobi and Salome (25 May) is a slightly later insertion. The calendar also has the dedication of the 'grand autel' of the cathedral of Notre Dame on 9 July, which was performed by Bishop Aymeric Guenand in 1334. The manuscript therefore has to be after 1334. (2) Francis Henry Dickinson, sold in his sale at Sotheby's 10 Nov.1886 for ¨13 (3) Athelstan Riley, seigneur de la Trinité, bookplate. Acquired at the above sale TEXT: This comprises the calendar (ff 1-6), followed by an invitatory (ff 7-16), ferial psalter, canticles and litany. DECORATION: 8 historiated initials illustrating (f.19v) David playing his harp; (f.33v) David pointing to his eyes; (f.45v) David pointing to his mouth; (f.54) the Fool (very rubbed); (f.63) David in Water (rubbed); (f.74) David playing bells; (f.84v) four monks singing; (f.96) the Holy Trinity (slightly rubbed)
LITURGICAL PSALTER, noted, with Canticles and Litany, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Auxerre, ca.1350] 205 x 138mm, 128 leaves, COMPLETE. Collation: 1 6 2-11 12 12 2 30 lines, double column, justification: 152 x 86mm. Written in brown ink in a gothic liturgical bookhand, versal initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork decoration, similar two- and three-line initials, musical notation throughout on 4 red staves, with text initiated by calligraphic initials infilled with yellow, 8 HISTORIATED INITIALS 7 or 8 lines high with full-page bar-baguette and ivy-leaf border extensions, decorated with and containing grotesques, calendar leaves with similar shorter extensions. (First leaf of calendar badly stained; extensions cropped throughout, 3 historiated initials smudged). Late 15th-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (very worn, upper cover detached) PROVENANCE: (1) Made for the use of Auxerre. The calendar contains numerous bishops of Auxerre: Pelegrinus, first bishop (16 May); Palladius (10 April), Vigilius (10 March), Valerianus (13 May), Germanus (31 July), Censurius (10 June), Aetherius (27 July), Ursus 930 July), Desiderius (27 Oct.); also Agricola, bp. of Nevers (26 Feb.) and Guillaume of Donjeon, archbp. of Bourges (10 Jan.). The feast of Maria Jacobi and Salome (25 May) is a slightly later insertion. The calendar also has the dedication of the 'grand autel' of the cathedral of Notre Dame on 9 July, which was performed by Bishop Aymeric Guenand in 1334. The manuscript therefore has to be after 1334. (2) Francis Henry Dickinson, sold in his sale at Sotheby's 10 Nov.1886 for ¨13 (3) Athelstan Riley, seigneur de la Trinité, bookplate. Acquired at the above sale TEXT: This comprises the calendar (ff 1-6), followed by an invitatory (ff 7-16), ferial psalter, canticles and litany. DECORATION: 8 historiated initials illustrating (f.19v) David playing his harp; (f.33v) David pointing to his eyes; (f.45v) David pointing to his mouth; (f.54) the Fool (very rubbed); (f.63) David in Water (rubbed); (f.74) David playing bells; (f.84v) four monks singing; (f.96) the Holy Trinity (slightly rubbed)
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