St Gall neumes

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£ 800
Date de l'enchèreClassic
08.11.2023 11:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 1053161
Lot 47 | St Gall neumes
St Gall neumes
A partial leaf from a noted Breviary, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Eastern France, ?Alsace, early 13th century]
A handsome leaf from a noted Breviary with readings and hymns from Palm Sunday to Easter Monday.

c.440 x 260mm, 2 columns of 36 lines written in brown ink in an early formal Gothic bookhand, St Gall diastematic (heightened) staffless neumes, rubrics in red, large initials alternately red or blue, smaller initials touched in red, one elaborate line-filler in red ink (recovered from a binding and consequently trimmed, creased and stained, the number '862' across the middle where the spine would have been, a few holes).

Provenance:
(1) Ludwig Rosenthal Antiquariaat, Hilversum, acquired in May 1986 by:

(2) Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017). Acquired in 1989 by:

(3) Schøyen Collection, MS 209/1.

Text:
The leaf contains readings, prayers and hymns for the Divine Office from Palm Sunday to Monday of Holy Week, beginning in Bede's Homilia XXIII for Palm Sunday: '[Sed invidorum corda pri]ncipum in cunctis' to the reading from Jeremias for Monday of Holy Week: 'et iustitiam in terra. Hec enim placent [mihi ait Dominus]'.
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