Three leaves from a large Choir Psalter, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Germany (Würzberg), end of fifteenth century (probably dated 1499)]Three leaves, each with single column of 23 lines of angular late Gothic script, accompanying music in hufnagelschrift notation, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, initials in alternate red or blue, one leaf with folded leather tab pasted to outer edge, eighteenth-century foliation at head of rectos in middle of text column and modern pencil annotations (see below), some small original flaws, discolouration at foot and edges (with small amounts of ink flaking from text at foot), else fair and presentable condition, each approximately 493 by 350mm.These are hitherto unrecorded leaves from a grand Choir Psalter of St. Stephen's, Würzberg (the house founded c. 1013, secularised in 1803, thereafter becoming a Protestant church and school), dispersed by the wife of the 'biblioclast' Otto Ege from 1947 onwards (here the leaves are foliated '66', '95' and '103' in an eighteenth-century hand, with the first of those with a lengthy pencil inscription by Mrs Ege at its foot and the price in USD "20 00"). Leaves from it were numbered 42 in Ege's portfolios, and other leaves have been recently traced in the Meyer Library in Missouri State University (see Gwara, Otto Ege's Manuscripts, 2013, p. 133). A forthcoming article by Scott Gwara and Timothy Bolton notes the rediscovery of a sister volume, the name of scribe as the prolific Frater Matheus Hartung of St. Stephen's, Würzberg, and the distinguished provenance of the parent volume of Ege's leaves through the collections of Leander van Ess (1772-1847) and Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872).
Three leaves from a large Choir Psalter, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Germany (Würzberg), end of fifteenth century (probably dated 1499)]Three leaves, each with single column of 23 lines of angular late Gothic script, accompanying music in hufnagelschrift notation, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, initials in alternate red or blue, one leaf with folded leather tab pasted to outer edge, eighteenth-century foliation at head of rectos in middle of text column and modern pencil annotations (see below), some small original flaws, discolouration at foot and edges (with small amounts of ink flaking from text at foot), else fair and presentable condition, each approximately 493 by 350mm.These are hitherto unrecorded leaves from a grand Choir Psalter of St. Stephen's, Würzberg (the house founded c. 1013, secularised in 1803, thereafter becoming a Protestant church and school), dispersed by the wife of the 'biblioclast' Otto Ege from 1947 onwards (here the leaves are foliated '66', '95' and '103' in an eighteenth-century hand, with the first of those with a lengthy pencil inscription by Mrs Ege at its foot and the price in USD "20 00"). Leaves from it were numbered 42 in Ege's portfolios, and other leaves have been recently traced in the Meyer Library in Missouri State University (see Gwara, Otto Ege's Manuscripts, 2013, p. 133). A forthcoming article by Scott Gwara and Timothy Bolton notes the rediscovery of a sister volume, the name of scribe as the prolific Frater Matheus Hartung of St. Stephen's, Würzberg, and the distinguished provenance of the parent volume of Ege's leaves through the collections of Leander van Ess (1772-1847) and Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872).
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