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A Study Group

Lot 160
12.12.2022 00:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 869567
Lot 160 | 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 literary and liturgical manuscripts from Western Europe, including a leaf from Aristotle's De Anima and part of the popular Chronicle by Martinus Polonus.

Comprising:
(i) A leaf from a Missal, use of Sarum, with musical notation [England?, 12th century].
c.155 × 100mm. 7 lines of text and musical notation, in a gothic script; with text comprising music for the third day after Pentecost (cropped on upper edge with text lacking, verso dirty and faded).
Provenance: (1) "Lechlade in Gloucestershr Jan: 9: 1733-4"; (2) Thomas Banes [18th century]; (3) James Stevens Cox (1910-1937); (4) Colker MS 531, probably acquired from Maggs.

(ii) A leaf from a Bible [France, 13th century].
c.325 × 225mm. 2 columns of 60 lines, ruled in plummet with pricking visible on the fore-edge, in a gothic bookhand, with a heading in red and blue across both faces 'IU' 'SUE'; text comprising Joshua 2:3-6:22.
Provenance: (1) Otto F. Ege (Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts, 2013, HL5); (2) Colker MS 20; acquired in 1947 from P. Duschnes.

(iv) A leaf from Aristoteles, De Anima, with contemporary glossing [13th century].
c.280mm × 195mm. 2 columns of 30 lines, ruled in plummet with pricking visible on the fore edge, in a gothic bookhand, with notes in a contemporary cursive hand and a penwork initial with ornamental flourishes; text comprises part of Aristotle's De Anima, bk. II, ch. 7-8 on the perception of lights and sound (three cuts in vellum at bottom corner, holes in margins, adhesive staining on recto, blue paint stain on verso).
Provenance: (1) Notes on verso in an early modern hand, from use as a wrapper; (2) Colker MS 69; acquired in 1965 from Scribners, New York.

(v) A fragment of a bifolium from Eberhardus Bethuniensis, Graecismus, glossed [England, 13/14th century].
c.50 × 200mm. A horizontal strip from a bifolium, preserving 8-10 lines of a column on each side of one folio, with glosses in both margins, and glosses from a stub of the other leaf; ruled in plummet, with verse written in a gothic script with influence from Anglicana, with red underline (two lines folded at lower edge and vellum cockled).
Provenance: Colker MS 274; acquired in 1978 from B.M. Rosenthal.

(ii) Five leaves from Martinus Polonus (also called Martin of Troppau or Martin of Opava), Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum [England, 15th century].
c.340 × 220mm. Number of lines preserved varies between 50-68 lines, in a gothic cursive script, with small penwork initials with ornament; with text comprising entries for popes and emperors for the years A.D. 307-950, from Martinus Polonus's extremely popular Chronicon (f.v bound out of order due to vellum lacking in gutter, all leaves cropped, with ff.i, iii, v lacking text, remains of adhesive and other dirt, cockling, and wear from use in binding).
Provenance: (1) front and back flyleaves and spine from parchment document(s) (18th century) in English; (2) R.F. Homer of Wokingham, Berkshire; (3) Colker MS 45; acquired in 1964 from Maggs.

Auction house category:Medieval & renaissance manuscripts
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