Metz-German notation

Lot 52
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Lot 52 | Metz-German notation
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£ 2 000 – 3 000
Metz-German notation
A leaf from a noted Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [German, mid-14th century]
An illuminated leaf from a German Missal with Metz-German notation.

c.370 x 255mm, 2 columns of 33 lines written in brown ink in a formal Gothic bookhand, Metz-German Gothic notation on a 4-line staff with C-clef, two large initials in burnished gold, other initials in red or blue, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, contemporary foliation XLIII in upper margin of recto and modern foliation '45' in upper margin of verso (a little cockled and stained). Bound in grey buckram at the Quaritch bindery.

Provenance:
(1) Antiquariat J. Voerster, Stuttgart.

(2) Bernard Quaritch, acquired in 1993 by:

(3) Schøyen Collection, MS 1671.

Text:
The leaf begins in the Communion hymn for Saturday in the 17th week after Pentecost: '[Mense septimo festa celebrabitis cum in] tabernaculis habitare fecerim filios Israel' and continues with the Feast for the Dedication of an Altar ('Terribilis est locus iste'), ending in Corinthians 3:11, the reading for the Dedication of an Altar: 'Fundamentum enim aliud nemo potest ponere praeter id quod positum est, quod est Christus Iesus.'
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