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A Study Group

Lot 151
12.12.2022 00:00UTC +00:00
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 869558
Lot 151 | A Study Group
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£ 4 000 – 6 000
A Study Group
A study group of leaves and fragments, in Latin, manuscripts on vellum [12th to 15th centuries]
A selection of liturgical and hagiographical manuscripts from across Western Europe, ranging from an Austrian Calendar to a manuscript containing a collection of 14th-century English Statutes.

Comprising:
(i) A fragment from Vita Sancti Andreae [Italy, 12th century].
c.253 × 360mm. The lower section of a leaf, preserving part of 2 columns of 22 lines, blind-ruled, written in a fine Caroline minuscule in brown ink; text comprising part of Vita Sancti Andreae ch.2-4, 6-8; see BHL 428 (remains of adhesive on recto, vertical crease in vellum).
Provenance: Colker MS 180; acquired in 1971 from Maggs.

(ii) A fragment from Bernard of Clairvaux, Selected writings [?Germany, 12th century].
c.160 × 205mm. The upper part of a leaf, preserving 17 lines from 2 columns, ruled in plummet with pricking visible on fore-edge, written in a protogothic bookhand; text comprising a selection of writings from Bernard of Clairvaux, including Sermo In Transitu S. Malachiae; Sermo 85: Super Cantica Canticorum; Epistola 42. Colker wrote: 'The original mid-point punctuation was converted to punctus flexus by a (probably early) subsequent hand (this change is a rather frequent phenomenon). This punctus flexus sign has a German look to it'. (slightly stained from use in a binding).
Provenance: (1) Inscriptions in German "1801 10 April Majo"; (2) Colker MS 521.

(iii) A leaf from the Bible [France, Paris, first-half 14th century].
c.187 × 129mm. 2 columns of 32 lines, ruled in plummet, written in a gothic bookhand, with pen-work initials and foliate ornament, forming a border along the left edge of the first column, heading across both faces "AD" "PHILI", with cues visible at upper margin; text comprising part of Philippians 2–4 (upper and gutter margins slightly trimmed).
Provenance: (1) From a Bible of which other leaves are described in P. Kidd, McCarthy Collection, III, no. 79; (2) Dawson’s Book Shop, Los Angeles; (3) Otto F. Ege (de Ricci, Census, II, 1937, p. 1937 no. 4; S. Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts, 2013, HL61), broken up by him by October 1936; (4) Colker MS 19; acquired in 1947 from P. Duschnes.

(iv) A leaf from a collection of English Statutes [England (probably London), 14th century].
c.197 × 155mm. 27 lines, ruled in plummet with pricking visible on the fore-edge, written in an Anglicana script with heavy vertical strokes, with pen-drawn initials with foliate ornament; text from a compilation of English statutes, including parts of 'Dies communes in Banco', 'Dies Communes de dote', 'Iudicium Pillorie et Tumberelli' (cockled, some pigment slightly faded).
Provenance: Colker MS 473; acquired in 1996 from Unsworths, London.

(v) A leaf from a Calendar, use of Salzburg [Austria, 15th century].
c.275 × 195mm. Ruled in plummet for 31 lines, written in a gothic semi-quadrata script in red and black ink; calendar entries for September and October (all corners cropped, stained from use in an early modern binding).
Provenance: Colker MS 436; acquired in 1991 from Quaritch.

(vi) A fragment from a Breviary [Germany, 15th century].
c.355 × 135mm. Preserving a column of 37 lines, and the edge of a second column, ruled in plummet, written in a gothic semi-quadrata bookhand; with a long excerpt from Isaiah on one side (creases and darkening from use in a binding, text of one side somewhat faded).
Provenance: Colker MS 529; acquired from Bernard M. Rosenthal.
Auction house category:Medieval & renaissance manuscripts
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