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Auction archive: Lot number 1

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT VELLUM WRAPPERS ON TWO PRINTED BOOKS

Auction 09.07.2001
9 Jul 2001
Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,414 - US$2,121
Price realised:
£2,232
ca. US$3,156
Auction archive: Lot number 1

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT VELLUM WRAPPERS ON TWO PRINTED BOOKS

Auction 09.07.2001
9 Jul 2001
Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,414 - US$2,121
Price realised:
£2,232
ca. US$3,156
Beschreibung:

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT VELLUM WRAPPERS ON TWO PRINTED BOOKS [Germany, 11th-century and 13th-century] i) Half a bifolium from a Gradual, with plainchant for Masses from the 9th to 11th Sundays after Pentecost on the lower cover, and the 21st Sunday after Pentecost on the upper cover [Germany or Switzerland, 11th century], 16 lines written in dark brown ink in a caroline minuscule and 16 lines of music written in Old German neumes in open field, rubrics and two-line initials in red, one-line initials touched red, used for a binding c.1609, thin pasteboard with the gutter of the bifolium over the spine, 160 x 410mm overall, tawed-skin ties, two at fore-edge, one each at upper and lower edges (lacking three ties, darkened and some spotting). over ROTH, Johan Jacob. Arithmetica: Das ist: Rechenkunst . Basel: Johan Jacob Genath, 1609. Oblong 8° (153 x 190mm). Title printed in red and black. (Browned, occasional staining, tiny marginal wormhole in first two leaves.) Provenance : 'Jehan Jaques' of Bologna, 1616 (pastedown inscription) -- Hans Jacob Püntz, of Bruges, 1652 (pastedown inscription). Not in BLSTC. Apparently the first edition, written for businessmen, craftsmen and scribes. WITH ii) Part-leaf from a Calendar or Obituary written in a church or religious house, perhaps St Michael [Germany, 13th century] with added feasts and benefactions in later hands, original entries in dark brown ink in a gothic hand between horizontals ruled in brown, paraphs and figures in red, capitals touched red, used for a late 19th- or early 20th-century binding, thin pasteboard, 195 x 153mm overall (darkened, abrasion to some of the later entries). The entries open with Sts Pancras, Nereus and Achilleus (May 12), then the translation of the head of St Louis IX to the Royal Chapel, Paris in 1306 (May 17) is added above the next entry which opens with 'H. de Bimgena' (?Hildegard of Bingen). Another of the benefactors originally listed is D[omi]n[u]s B[r]u[n]o de Sewa, who conferred farmland on the church. over BOLTZ or BOLTZEN zu Ruffach, Valentine (d.1560). Illuminirbuch/künstlich alle Farben zu machen und bereyten , in German. Strassburg: Marc von der Heyden, 1630. 8° (146 x 88mm). Title printed in red and black. TITLE WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION OF ILLUMINATORS' PIGMENTS AND BRUSHES, type-ornament and woodcut head- and tail-pieces. (Lightly browned.) Valentine Boltz was a Basel pastor who served as chaplain of one of the hospitals between 1547-1555. He translated Terence and wrote plays of his own so that his interest in illumination perhaps developed from his own, physical, writing. His influential manual on illuminating and how to paint and prepare artistically all colours was first printed in Basel in 1549, and was regularly reprinted well into the 17th century. Boltz proceeds methodically from media and primings to metals and pigments in the first book and then instructs how to apply them to model flesh, draperies, etc. and to writing in the second book. Its significance for the history of painting techniques extends beyond illumination: among the insights Boltz offers is that true ultramarine, the most prized of pigments, is seldom seen in German lands. His treatise was drawn on by Sir Charles Eastlake for the pioneering Materials for a History of Oil Painting , 1847, and frequently cited thereafter; a modern edition appeared in Munich in 1913, edited by C.J. Benziger. As Eastlake remarked, Boltz seems to have been in some sense familiar with the contents of an anonymous 15th-century treatise known as the Strassburg Manuscript, which was destroyed by fire in the Strassburg Library in 1870 after a full transcription had been made (edited and translated by V. and R. Borradaile, The Strassburg Manuscript , London, 1966). Boltz's instructions, therefore, preserve many of the traditions from the golden age of illumination for the scribes, Briefmalern , illuminators and colourers of prints, and art lovers for whom he wrote. Their continuing relev

Auction archive: Lot number 1
Auction:
Datum:
9 Jul 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT VELLUM WRAPPERS ON TWO PRINTED BOOKS [Germany, 11th-century and 13th-century] i) Half a bifolium from a Gradual, with plainchant for Masses from the 9th to 11th Sundays after Pentecost on the lower cover, and the 21st Sunday after Pentecost on the upper cover [Germany or Switzerland, 11th century], 16 lines written in dark brown ink in a caroline minuscule and 16 lines of music written in Old German neumes in open field, rubrics and two-line initials in red, one-line initials touched red, used for a binding c.1609, thin pasteboard with the gutter of the bifolium over the spine, 160 x 410mm overall, tawed-skin ties, two at fore-edge, one each at upper and lower edges (lacking three ties, darkened and some spotting). over ROTH, Johan Jacob. Arithmetica: Das ist: Rechenkunst . Basel: Johan Jacob Genath, 1609. Oblong 8° (153 x 190mm). Title printed in red and black. (Browned, occasional staining, tiny marginal wormhole in first two leaves.) Provenance : 'Jehan Jaques' of Bologna, 1616 (pastedown inscription) -- Hans Jacob Püntz, of Bruges, 1652 (pastedown inscription). Not in BLSTC. Apparently the first edition, written for businessmen, craftsmen and scribes. WITH ii) Part-leaf from a Calendar or Obituary written in a church or religious house, perhaps St Michael [Germany, 13th century] with added feasts and benefactions in later hands, original entries in dark brown ink in a gothic hand between horizontals ruled in brown, paraphs and figures in red, capitals touched red, used for a late 19th- or early 20th-century binding, thin pasteboard, 195 x 153mm overall (darkened, abrasion to some of the later entries). The entries open with Sts Pancras, Nereus and Achilleus (May 12), then the translation of the head of St Louis IX to the Royal Chapel, Paris in 1306 (May 17) is added above the next entry which opens with 'H. de Bimgena' (?Hildegard of Bingen). Another of the benefactors originally listed is D[omi]n[u]s B[r]u[n]o de Sewa, who conferred farmland on the church. over BOLTZ or BOLTZEN zu Ruffach, Valentine (d.1560). Illuminirbuch/künstlich alle Farben zu machen und bereyten , in German. Strassburg: Marc von der Heyden, 1630. 8° (146 x 88mm). Title printed in red and black. TITLE WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION OF ILLUMINATORS' PIGMENTS AND BRUSHES, type-ornament and woodcut head- and tail-pieces. (Lightly browned.) Valentine Boltz was a Basel pastor who served as chaplain of one of the hospitals between 1547-1555. He translated Terence and wrote plays of his own so that his interest in illumination perhaps developed from his own, physical, writing. His influential manual on illuminating and how to paint and prepare artistically all colours was first printed in Basel in 1549, and was regularly reprinted well into the 17th century. Boltz proceeds methodically from media and primings to metals and pigments in the first book and then instructs how to apply them to model flesh, draperies, etc. and to writing in the second book. Its significance for the history of painting techniques extends beyond illumination: among the insights Boltz offers is that true ultramarine, the most prized of pigments, is seldom seen in German lands. His treatise was drawn on by Sir Charles Eastlake for the pioneering Materials for a History of Oil Painting , 1847, and frequently cited thereafter; a modern edition appeared in Munich in 1913, edited by C.J. Benziger. As Eastlake remarked, Boltz seems to have been in some sense familiar with the contents of an anonymous 15th-century treatise known as the Strassburg Manuscript, which was destroyed by fire in the Strassburg Library in 1870 after a full transcription had been made (edited and translated by V. and R. Borradaile, The Strassburg Manuscript , London, 1966). Boltz's instructions, therefore, preserve many of the traditions from the golden age of illumination for the scribes, Briefmalern , illuminators and colourers of prints, and art lovers for whom he wrote. Their continuing relev

Auction archive: Lot number 1
Auction:
Datum:
9 Jul 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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