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Auction archive: Lot number 21

Temporale of a Soresina Antiphonary, in Latin

Estimate
£30,000 - £50,000
ca. US$38,464 - US$64,106
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 21

Temporale of a Soresina Antiphonary, in Latin

Estimate
£30,000 - £50,000
ca. US$38,464 - US$64,106
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Temporale of a Soresina Antiphonary, in Latin [ITALY (LOMBARDY, CREMONA), 16TH CENTURY (SECOND HALF)] c.510x380mm , manuscript on vellum, 187 leaves, complete, mostly in quires of 4 leaves (quires xxix and xlvii are bifolia), discreet foliation in lower right corner, pagination (used here) in stencilled numerals in the top corners (‘14’ omitted), written with five lines of text and music on 4-line staves (rastrum: c.38mm), the ruled space c.380x265mm, pp.2, 368 ruled, otherwise blank, illuminated with ten large and five smaller historiated initials each on a gold ground , of varying sizes, the largest the height of two lines of text and music (c.170x170mm), numerous smaller initials alternately in red or blue, some very finely drawn cadell initials with human heads, bound in its contemporary binding (c.580x420mm including spikes), sewn on six double bands, the thick wood boards covered with plain brown leather, metal corner-pieces stamped with Agnus dei, sunburst , ‘ave’ and ‘yhs’ monogram tools, centre-pieces with bosses, and the lower cover with corner bosses and two large pins for strap-and-pin fastenings (straps missing), the lower back panel engraved ‘V. XII’, approximately 35 fore-edge tabs, rebacked

Auction archive: Lot number 21
Auction:
Datum:
4 Dec 2018
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Temporale of a Soresina Antiphonary, in Latin [ITALY (LOMBARDY, CREMONA), 16TH CENTURY (SECOND HALF)] c.510x380mm , manuscript on vellum, 187 leaves, complete, mostly in quires of 4 leaves (quires xxix and xlvii are bifolia), discreet foliation in lower right corner, pagination (used here) in stencilled numerals in the top corners (‘14’ omitted), written with five lines of text and music on 4-line staves (rastrum: c.38mm), the ruled space c.380x265mm, pp.2, 368 ruled, otherwise blank, illuminated with ten large and five smaller historiated initials each on a gold ground , of varying sizes, the largest the height of two lines of text and music (c.170x170mm), numerous smaller initials alternately in red or blue, some very finely drawn cadell initials with human heads, bound in its contemporary binding (c.580x420mm including spikes), sewn on six double bands, the thick wood boards covered with plain brown leather, metal corner-pieces stamped with Agnus dei, sunburst , ‘ave’ and ‘yhs’ monogram tools, centre-pieces with bosses, and the lower cover with corner bosses and two large pins for strap-and-pin fastenings (straps missing), the lower back panel engraved ‘V. XII’, approximately 35 fore-edge tabs, rebacked

Auction archive: Lot number 21
Auction:
Datum:
4 Dec 2018
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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