Two leaves from liturgical manuals, in Latin, decorated manuscripts on parchment [Germany, twelfth century] One near complete leaf from an early choirbook, with 14 lines of text in a good German early gothic hand, with music in neumes arranged around red and pale green clef-lines, capitals touched in red, simple red initials, 304 by 215mm; smaller cutting from the centre of a leaf, with remains of double column of 30 lines in two sizes of an angular early gothic hand, music in staffless neumes, faded red initials, 295 by 112mm.; both recovered from bindings and hence with losses to edges, scuffs, holes and stains, overall fair condition Both from the collection of Hans Thiesen: his twentieth-century inkstamp.
Two leaves from liturgical manuals, in Latin, decorated manuscripts on parchment [Germany, twelfth century] One near complete leaf from an early choirbook, with 14 lines of text in a good German early gothic hand, with music in neumes arranged around red and pale green clef-lines, capitals touched in red, simple red initials, 304 by 215mm; smaller cutting from the centre of a leaf, with remains of double column of 30 lines in two sizes of an angular early gothic hand, music in staffless neumes, faded red initials, 295 by 112mm.; both recovered from bindings and hence with losses to edges, scuffs, holes and stains, overall fair condition Both from the collection of Hans Thiesen: his twentieth-century inkstamp.
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