St Gall neumes (Early German neumes)

Lot 15
08.11.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 15 | St Gall neumes (Early German neumes)
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£ 3 000 – 5 000
St Gall neumes (Early German neumes)
A leaf from a noted Breviary, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Germany, 11th century]
A handsome and very clear example of Carolingian miniscule and St Gall neumes.

c.250 x 210mm, 27 lines written in light brown ink in a clear Carolingian minuscule, ruled space: c.230 x 160mm, 19 lines of staffless adiastematic (unheightened) St Gall neumes (Early German neumes), initials and rubrics in red (top and bottom corners frayed with small loss to the first and last lines of text, some staining and wormholing). Bound in grey buckram at the Quaritch bindery.

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

(2) Bernard Quaritch, London, acquired in 1993 by:

(3) Schøyen Collection, MS 1704.

Text:
The fragment contains text for the Feasts of Sts Sebastian and Agnes, with collects, gospels, prayers etc., beginning '[in libro vitae] celestis ascriptum est' and ending 'a praefecti filio adamatur. Cuius [parentes]'.
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