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Auction archive: Lot number 39

PENITENTIAL PSALMS AND LITANY, part of a Breviary in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Auction 02.06.1999
2 Jun 1999
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,393 - US$3,191
Price realised:
£2,990
ca. US$4,771
Auction archive: Lot number 39

PENITENTIAL PSALMS AND LITANY, part of a Breviary in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Auction 02.06.1999
2 Jun 1999
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,393 - US$3,191
Price realised:
£2,990
ca. US$4,771
Beschreibung:

PENITENTIAL PSALMS AND LITANY, part of a Breviary in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Germany, 15th century] 115 x 87mm. 55 leaves, 1 4(ii&iii originally the outer bifolium of the gathering), 2 4, 3-7 8, 8 7, 13 lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand by at least three scribes, two of the scribes providing text over erasures, on blanks at the end of gatherings or in an additional binion (gathering 2), original text with one- and two-line initials alternately of blue and burnished gold with flourishing of red and lilac or citron, large initial with staves of inky blue acanthus and a chequered infill of gold and blue on dark pink against a ground of burnished gold and accompanied by a FULL-PAGE BORDER OF BURNISHED GOLD with interwoven fronds of thin acanthus of blue and pale green with red flourishing at edge (slight spotting, darkening of lower margins, border rubbed and cropped at outer edge). Rose plush (rubbed at extremities). The inclusion of Sts Radegonde and Ursula among the virgin martyrs of the Litany suggests that the manuscript may have been made in the region of Cologne. This was Ms 22947 in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, and was described in the Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Biblioteca Phillippica , p.424 as 'Breviarium. incipit "Domine ne in furore tuo." 32mo. red velvet V. s. xiv. 1st page illum. the initial D. chequered Gules and Or.'

Auction archive: Lot number 39
Auction:
Datum:
2 Jun 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

PENITENTIAL PSALMS AND LITANY, part of a Breviary in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Germany, 15th century] 115 x 87mm. 55 leaves, 1 4(ii&iii originally the outer bifolium of the gathering), 2 4, 3-7 8, 8 7, 13 lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand by at least three scribes, two of the scribes providing text over erasures, on blanks at the end of gatherings or in an additional binion (gathering 2), original text with one- and two-line initials alternately of blue and burnished gold with flourishing of red and lilac or citron, large initial with staves of inky blue acanthus and a chequered infill of gold and blue on dark pink against a ground of burnished gold and accompanied by a FULL-PAGE BORDER OF BURNISHED GOLD with interwoven fronds of thin acanthus of blue and pale green with red flourishing at edge (slight spotting, darkening of lower margins, border rubbed and cropped at outer edge). Rose plush (rubbed at extremities). The inclusion of Sts Radegonde and Ursula among the virgin martyrs of the Litany suggests that the manuscript may have been made in the region of Cologne. This was Ms 22947 in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, and was described in the Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Biblioteca Phillippica , p.424 as 'Breviarium. incipit "Domine ne in furore tuo." 32mo. red velvet V. s. xiv. 1st page illum. the initial D. chequered Gules and Or.'

Auction archive: Lot number 39
Auction:
Datum:
2 Jun 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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