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Lot 143
12.12.2022 00:00UTC +00:00
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£ 1 890
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 869550
Lot 143 | Music
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 5 000
Music
A study group of noted medieval fragments and leaves, in Latin, manuscripts on vellum [Europe, 12th to 15th centuries]
A selection of liturgical leaves and fragments, some decorated, with musical notation from the 12th to the 15th centuries.

Comprising:
(i) A partial bifolium from a noted Missal [France, c.1100].
c.240 × 200mm, the partial leaf measuring c.240 × 100mm. 23 lines, in late Caroline minuscule in light brown ink, with neums (upper margin cropped, remains of adhesive on outer faces, vellum cockled at lower margin, with small holes).
Provenance: Colker MS 148; acquired in 1968 from Maggs.

(ii) A leaf from an Antiphonal [Italy, 12th century].
c.325 × 223mm. 12 lines, alternating with neums, blind ruled, in Caroline minuscule in red and black ink (vellum fragile, with significant damage from wormholes throughout, upper and gutter margins cropped, horizontal crease, and remains of adhesive on verso).
Provenance: (1) Memorandum, in Italian, of AD 1541, about money assigned to the prior for purchase of meat; (2) The leaf had been used in the binding of a copy of Sacerdotale, Venice, 1561; (3) Colker MS 131; acquired in 1967 from Maggs.

(iii) A leaf from a noted Breviary [?France, 12th century].
c.390 × 275mm. 2 columns of 32 lines, in a late Caroline minuscule, with elegant penwork initials in red ink, with text comprising readings for feasts of Saints Maurus, Marcellus, and Sulpicius (vellum torn along gutter edge with some text lacking, horizontal crease with small holes).
Provenance: (1) Early modern note "Cartel de (?) [...] 1575", from use as a wrapper; (2) Colker MS 143; acquired in 1968 from Maggs.

(iv) A bifolium from a noted Missal [France, 12th century].
c.280 × 205mm, the second leaf measuring, c.280 × 197mm. 2 columns of 36 lines, in a protogothic bookhand, with neums (lower margin torn, with some text lacking, various tears and holes in vellum, recto of first leaf has pigment of another medieval manuscript transferred in the margin, from use in a binding).
Provenance: Colker MS 251; acquired in 1975 from Maggs.

(v) A partial bifolium from a noted Missal [France, 13th century].
c.260 × 135mm, c.260 × 155mm. 2 columns of 31 lines, in a gothic bookhand, with penwork initials with ornament in red and blue ink; with text comprising reading and music for the Easter Vigil (both leaves torn, with outer much of outer column and lower text missing, vellum stained).
Provenance: Colker MS 228; acquired in 1973 from Maggs.

(vi) A leaf from a noted Psalter [Germany, 15th century].
c.172 × 125mm. 18 lines, ruled in plummet with a double row of pricking on fore-edge, in a formal gothic bookhand, with 2 ornamental initials: 'I' with head in profile; 'R' with head and bird; with text comprising Psalms 31-32 (very small stain on verso).
Provenance: Colker MS 95; acquired in 1965 from Dawson’s Book Shop, Los Angeles, gift of Hazel Colker.
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