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A Study Group

Lot 159
12.12.2022 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 159 | 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 homiletic, liturgical, and hagiographical manuscripts from Western Europe, with an illuminated French Calendar, and an Italian Dowry arrangement from 1208.

Comprising:
(i) A partial bifolium from Haymo Halberstatensis, Commentarium in Canticum Canticorum [Germany?, 12th century].
c.190 × 130mm. Preserving 2 columns of 24 lines, ruled in plummet, in a protogothic bookhand; text comprises part of Chapter 4 (upper and out margins cropped, with some text lacking at upper margin, vellum stained and creased from use in a binding).
Provenance: Colker MS 67, probably acquired c.1964-65.

(ii) A partial leaf from a Bible [Germany, 12th century].
c.210 × 165mm. Preserving 26 lines, blind-ruled, in a very distinctive protogothic script, with some forked ascenders and very pronounced ticks on minims; with text comprising Isaiah 24:3-25:8, 28:22-29:3 (on one side of the leaf, initial cues remain but the initials were never added; cropping to upper and lower part of leaf has resulted in some text lacking, minor holes and staining).
Provenance: (1) Otto F. Ege (S. Gwara, Otto Ege’s MSS, 2013, HL156); sold by his heirs at Sotheby’s, 26 November 1985, part of lot 39 (item 2), bought by Maggs; (2) Colker MS 374; acquired in 1985 from Maggs.

(iii) A Dowry arrangement, "in castro Montasii", Italy, 1208.
c.185 × 165mm. 18 lines.
Provenance: Colker MS 159; acquired in 1969 from Renzo Rizzi.

(iv) A leaf from Historia Actuum Apostolorum [England, 13th century].
c.300 × 190mm. 2 columns of 41 lines, ruled in plummet, written in a gothic bookhand; text comprising part of Historia Actuum Apostolorum (Patrologia Latina, 198, 1645-1722), a work sometimes attributed to Peter of Poiters, and often transmitted alongside Peter of Comestor's Historia Ecclesiastica (doodles in margins, remains of adhesive on one side, margins cropped, 2 very small holes).
Provenance: (1) Same as MLC 332 (see Lot 24); (2) Colker MS 402; acquired in 1987-88 from Quaritch.

(v) A gathering of 12 leaves from Ricardus de Sancto Laurentio, De laudibus beatae Mariae Virginis [Italy, c.1300].
c.185 × 135mm. 2 columns of 40 lines, ruled in plummet with pricking visible on the fore-edge, written in a gothic bookhand in black ink, with red underline and annotations; text comprising Richard of Saint-Laurent's Mariale, part of books 4-5 (vellum cockled).
Provenance: (1) Item 120 in a modern German catalogue; (2) Colker MS 523.

(vi) A Calendar [France, 15th century].
c.155 × 100mm. i + 12 + i leaves, ruled in plummet for 17 lines, written in a gothic quadrata bookhand, with 12 illuminated initials on grounds of blue and purple with foliate ornament extending into margin, text comprising entries for January to December (modern binding, foliated in pencil, some folios mildly cockled, with light staining throughout and some initials rubbed).
Provenance: Colker MS 144; acquired in 1968 from Folio Society.

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