ID 1053146
Lot 32 | Beneventan neumes
Valeur estimée
£ 1 000 – 1 500
A partial leaf from an Antiphonal, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Italy, c.1150]
A Romanesque fragment from the Feast of St Martin with Beneventan neumes.
c.210 x 152mm, a partial leaf, 8 lines remaining written in a rounded Romanesque book script of medium quality, headings and rubrics in a fine uncial, 7 lines of Beneventan neumes, 5 initials in bright red with some flourishing (recovered from use as a flyleaf, with two vertical creases and some holes, some staining). Bound in grey buckram at the Quaritch bindery.
Provenance:
(1) H. P. Kraus, Text manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the XVIII century: for the most part from the Giuseppe Martini collection, 189 (1958), no 192.
(2) Sotheby’s 21 June 1994, lot 4c.
(3) Schøyen Collection, MS 1853.
Text and music:
The text is for the Feast of St Martin, opening with the rubric 'In Sancti Martini Episcopi' and ending with the antiphon 'Ego signo [crucis non clipeo]'. The notation is Beneventan, with the F-line in red and the C-line in yellow.
| Lieu d'origine: | Italie |
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| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Manuscrits médiévaux et de la Renaissance |
| Lieu d'origine: | Italie |
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| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Manuscrits médiévaux et de la Renaissance |
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