Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, first half of the twelfth century] Four leaves, each with double column of 30 lines of text in an angular German hand, with simple neumes set above, blank spaces between words filled with thin red penlines, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, small initials in simple red or brown penwork with red dots, larger initials in red with penwork flourishes at their ends and baubles set within their bodies, some small contemporary flaws in parchment, nineteenth-century purple ink stamp on first leaf (see below), reverses of two leaves with dark stains at edges and scuffs, margins slightly trimmed, else good condition, 340 by 233mm.; nineteenth-century marbled paper boards with buckram spine, description Huit pagea dun Manuscrit … in paper label on spine, as well as AR.2 / 7-18 in smaller label at foot and handwritten notes of same date in French inside front board From the library of the Redemptorists (Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer) of France: their purple inkstamp (smudged and upside down on recto of first leaf): Cong. SS. Redempt. Prov. Gallica. Domus Studiorum. The library classmark AR2, 7-18 on label on front and inside front cover along with pencil description in capitals Manuscrit di XIIe Siècle Antiphonaire probably also theirs. The Redemptorists were a society of missionary priests founded in 1732 by Alphonsus Liguori (d. 1787, canonised 1839) at Scala, in Italy. By the middle of the nineteenth century the movement had spread to France, and there were foundations in Alsace in 1842, St.-Nicolas-du Port in 1845 and two in Savoy in 1847.
Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, first half of the twelfth century] Four leaves, each with double column of 30 lines of text in an angular German hand, with simple neumes set above, blank spaces between words filled with thin red penlines, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, small initials in simple red or brown penwork with red dots, larger initials in red with penwork flourishes at their ends and baubles set within their bodies, some small contemporary flaws in parchment, nineteenth-century purple ink stamp on first leaf (see below), reverses of two leaves with dark stains at edges and scuffs, margins slightly trimmed, else good condition, 340 by 233mm.; nineteenth-century marbled paper boards with buckram spine, description Huit pagea dun Manuscrit … in paper label on spine, as well as AR.2 / 7-18 in smaller label at foot and handwritten notes of same date in French inside front board From the library of the Redemptorists (Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer) of France: their purple inkstamp (smudged and upside down on recto of first leaf): Cong. SS. Redempt. Prov. Gallica. Domus Studiorum. The library classmark AR2, 7-18 on label on front and inside front cover along with pencil description in capitals Manuscrit di XIIe Siècle Antiphonaire probably also theirs. The Redemptorists were a society of missionary priests founded in 1732 by Alphonsus Liguori (d. 1787, canonised 1839) at Scala, in Italy. By the middle of the nineteenth century the movement had spread to France, and there were foundations in Alsace in 1842, St.-Nicolas-du Port in 1845 and two in Savoy in 1847.
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