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A Study Group

Lot 154
12.12.2022 00:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 154 | 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 historical, theological, and liturgical manuscripts from across Western Europe.

Comprising:
(i) A partial leaf from Gregory the Great, Homilia in Evangelia [Germany, 12th century].
c.220 × 165mm. Preserving 24 lines of very fine late Caroline minuscule in black ink; with text from Homily 39, with Gregory the Great's commentary on Luke 19 (lower part of leaf and all margins cropped, darkened and faded from use in binding).
Provenance: Colker MS 526.

(ii) A leaf from Philippe le Chancelier, Sermones [France, third quarter? of 13th century].
c.215 × 155mm. 33 lines, ruled in plummet with pricking on fore-edge; with text comprising Philip the Chancellor's commentaries on Psalms 51-52 (small flaws in vellum, very minor staining).
Provenance: (1) much of the parent volume is now Notre Dame, Cod. Lat. B. 11; it has the medieval ownership inscription of the Servites of San Marcello al Corso, Rome; (2) Erik von Scherling, Rotulus, IV (Winter, 1937), no. 1838; (3) Otto F. Ege (S. Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts, 2013, HL4); (4) Colker MS 15; acquired in 1947 from P. Duschnes.

(iii) Two fragments from a list of German nobility, in German [Bavaria, 14th century].
c.300 × 95mm, c.310 × 110mm. Each fragment preserves a column of 37 lines, each with names and titles (both fragments with text loss from staining).
Provenance: Colker MS O17; acquired in 1978 from B. M. Rosenthal.

(iv) Two leaves from Innocent III, De miseria condicionis humanae, etc. [England, mid-14th century].
c.240 × 165mm. 2 columns of 40 lines, written in a neat cursive anglicana script in brown ink, initials, paragraph marks and underlinings in red (one side of each leaf very worn from use in a binding, a hole in one leaf). The misericordia condicionis humanae was the first of Pope Innocent III's literary works, a widely read ascetical treatise written in 1195 while still a cardinal, Lotario de' Conti di Segni. The present manuscript is either an abridgement of the text (it skips chapter 3 of part 2) or perhaps a treatise on virtues and vices incorporating it. At the end is an additional text concerning humility and citing St. Bernard.
Provenance: (1) Same as MLC 332 (see Lot 24); (2) Colker MS 496; acquired in 2001 from Quaritch.

(v) A leaf from a Calendar [Germany, Bordesholm?, 15th century].
c.270 × 185mm. Ruled for 32 lines, written in a gothic bookhand in blue, black, and red ink; for the month of December (margins cropped, wormholes throughout).
Provenance: (1) Casper Moller, brother of Bordesholm, AD 1512; (2) some musical notation added on verso; (3) perhaps from the same source as MLC 332 (Lot 24); (4) Colker MS 392; acquired in 1987-88 from Quaritch.

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