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Auction archive: Lot number 32

MISSAL, for the use of Augustinian hermits, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Auction 08.06.2005
8 Jun 2005
Estimate
£7,000 - £10,000
ca. US$12,729 - US$18,185
Price realised:
£16,800
ca. US$30,551
Auction archive: Lot number 32

MISSAL, for the use of Augustinian hermits, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Auction 08.06.2005
8 Jun 2005
Estimate
£7,000 - £10,000
ca. US$12,729 - US$18,185
Price realised:
£16,800
ca. US$30,551
Beschreibung:

MISSAL, for the use of Augustinian hermits, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [northeastern Italy, 1490s]250 x 355mm. i (former pastedown) +235 + i (former pastedown) leaves, modern pencilled pagination: 1 6, 2 8(of 10, lacking bifolium i/x), 3-13 1 0, 14 2, 15 9(of 10, lacking i), 16 2(of 10, lacking ii-ix), 17 6(of 10, lacking i/x, ii/ix), 18-26 1 0, 27 2, catchwords, written vertically along the inner ruling of final versos, some signatures, two columns of 32 lines written in brown ink in a gothic bookhand between four verticals and 33 horizontals ruled in grey, justification: 229 x 73 - 17 - 73mm, or in two columns of six lines written below six lines of music of square notation on a four-line stave of red, rubrics in red, text capitals touched yellow, one- to three- line initials alternately in red flourished with light blue and in dark blue flourished with red or purple, the flourishing extending into the borders and frequently terminating with human heads, birds, rabbits and beasts, TEN HISTORIATED INITIALS ON GROUNDS OF BURNISHED GOLD WITH BORDER EXTENSIONS of blue, pink and green acanthus incorporating antique grotesque forms and intertwined with hairline tendrils linking large burnished gold disks (lacking one gathering between 2 and 3, probably two gatherings between 19 and 20 and one gathering between 20 and 21, slight wear to margins). Contemporary brown calf over wooden boards, tooled in blind with floral motifs forming a central rectangle around a lozenge within triple fillets, four roundels of YHS, the ascender of the H barred to form a cross, spine in five compartments (lacking two clasps and seven metal attachments to each cover, rubbed). PROVENANCE: 1. The Calendar commemorates the feast of St Augustine in red, 28 August, with octave, his conversion 5 May and his translation 11 October; the translation of his mother, St Monica, 9 April; St William ordinis heremitarum sancti augustini 10 February, the Augustinian St Nicholas of Tolentino 10 September and his canonisation 5 June, which occurred in 1446, and St Simplicianus, 13 August. The Franciscan St Bernardino of Siena, in red on 20 May, was canonised in 1450. Sts Augustine and Monica are invoked in the litany, p.221; there is a noted preface for St Augustine, pp.251-2, a missa generalis sancti augustini pro vivis et defunctis , pp,421-2, a mass for St William ordinis heremitarum with reference to in ecclesia ordinis heremitarum , p.454, and a mass for St Simplicianus, bishop and confessor ordinis heremitarum , pp.454-5. Throughout rubrics refer to 'brothers', e.g. p.169, but the places where the name of a specific church or patron could be cited are deliberately left open, e.g. pp.227, 402. In the Temporal, the specifying of Roman churches as stations for particular services need not relate directly to Rome, since Innocent VIII in 1490 granted to the churches of the Augustinian Hermits the same Indulgences as those gained by making the Stations in Rome. The translation of St Mark, 31 January, and his apparition, 25 June, might suggest a connection with Venice, as might the inclusion of St Gerard Sagredo on 23 February (his translation 24 February) and 24 September. There was also an active devotion to Old Testament prophets and patriarchs in Venice, several of whom are commemorated in the Calendar. 2. Twentieth-century pencilled notes in German inside upper cover. Typed description in English loose inside upper cover. CONTENT: Calendar with Augustinian feasts pp.3-14; Temporal masses, lacking opening, beginning in the second Sunday in Advent p.15 and breaking in the Christmas Mass p.30, resuming in Sexagesima p.31 and running to Holy Saturday, with musical notation for the blessing of lights, and followed by noted prefaces, chants for the blessing of the font, etc, ending with the Creed p.254; the Ordo missae lacking opening pp.255-262; Temporal masses from Easter p.263, breaking in the Saturday after Easter p.274, resuming and breaking in th

Auction archive: Lot number 32
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jun 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

MISSAL, for the use of Augustinian hermits, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [northeastern Italy, 1490s]250 x 355mm. i (former pastedown) +235 + i (former pastedown) leaves, modern pencilled pagination: 1 6, 2 8(of 10, lacking bifolium i/x), 3-13 1 0, 14 2, 15 9(of 10, lacking i), 16 2(of 10, lacking ii-ix), 17 6(of 10, lacking i/x, ii/ix), 18-26 1 0, 27 2, catchwords, written vertically along the inner ruling of final versos, some signatures, two columns of 32 lines written in brown ink in a gothic bookhand between four verticals and 33 horizontals ruled in grey, justification: 229 x 73 - 17 - 73mm, or in two columns of six lines written below six lines of music of square notation on a four-line stave of red, rubrics in red, text capitals touched yellow, one- to three- line initials alternately in red flourished with light blue and in dark blue flourished with red or purple, the flourishing extending into the borders and frequently terminating with human heads, birds, rabbits and beasts, TEN HISTORIATED INITIALS ON GROUNDS OF BURNISHED GOLD WITH BORDER EXTENSIONS of blue, pink and green acanthus incorporating antique grotesque forms and intertwined with hairline tendrils linking large burnished gold disks (lacking one gathering between 2 and 3, probably two gatherings between 19 and 20 and one gathering between 20 and 21, slight wear to margins). Contemporary brown calf over wooden boards, tooled in blind with floral motifs forming a central rectangle around a lozenge within triple fillets, four roundels of YHS, the ascender of the H barred to form a cross, spine in five compartments (lacking two clasps and seven metal attachments to each cover, rubbed). PROVENANCE: 1. The Calendar commemorates the feast of St Augustine in red, 28 August, with octave, his conversion 5 May and his translation 11 October; the translation of his mother, St Monica, 9 April; St William ordinis heremitarum sancti augustini 10 February, the Augustinian St Nicholas of Tolentino 10 September and his canonisation 5 June, which occurred in 1446, and St Simplicianus, 13 August. The Franciscan St Bernardino of Siena, in red on 20 May, was canonised in 1450. Sts Augustine and Monica are invoked in the litany, p.221; there is a noted preface for St Augustine, pp.251-2, a missa generalis sancti augustini pro vivis et defunctis , pp,421-2, a mass for St William ordinis heremitarum with reference to in ecclesia ordinis heremitarum , p.454, and a mass for St Simplicianus, bishop and confessor ordinis heremitarum , pp.454-5. Throughout rubrics refer to 'brothers', e.g. p.169, but the places where the name of a specific church or patron could be cited are deliberately left open, e.g. pp.227, 402. In the Temporal, the specifying of Roman churches as stations for particular services need not relate directly to Rome, since Innocent VIII in 1490 granted to the churches of the Augustinian Hermits the same Indulgences as those gained by making the Stations in Rome. The translation of St Mark, 31 January, and his apparition, 25 June, might suggest a connection with Venice, as might the inclusion of St Gerard Sagredo on 23 February (his translation 24 February) and 24 September. There was also an active devotion to Old Testament prophets and patriarchs in Venice, several of whom are commemorated in the Calendar. 2. Twentieth-century pencilled notes in German inside upper cover. Typed description in English loose inside upper cover. CONTENT: Calendar with Augustinian feasts pp.3-14; Temporal masses, lacking opening, beginning in the second Sunday in Advent p.15 and breaking in the Christmas Mass p.30, resuming in Sexagesima p.31 and running to Holy Saturday, with musical notation for the blessing of lights, and followed by noted prefaces, chants for the blessing of the font, etc, ending with the Creed p.254; the Ordo missae lacking opening pp.255-262; Temporal masses from Easter p.263, breaking in the Saturday after Easter p.274, resuming and breaking in th

Auction archive: Lot number 32
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jun 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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