ID 1053132
Lot 18 | St Gall neumes (Early German neumes)
Valeur estimée
£ 3 000 – 5 000
A leaf from a Breviary, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Northern Italy, second half 11th century]
A leaf from a Northern Italian Breviary in a Romanesque script.
c.292 x 193mm, a single leaf, 29 lines written in brown ink in a regular Romanesque book script in two sizes, ruled space: c.240 x 150mm, staffless adiastematic (unheightened) St Gall neumes (Early German neumes) above lines, rubrics and three 2-line initials in red (recovered from use as a pastedown, verso consequently almost entirely scrubbed, some darkening to the margins, some cuts, creases and fading). Bound in grey buckram at the Quaritch bindery.
Provenance:
(1) Robert Babcock, New Haven.
(2) Bernard Quaritch, acquired in 1993 by:
(3) Schøyen Collection, MS 1769.
Text:
The leaf contains readings for the Feasts of Sts Sixtus (August 6/7) Cyriacus (August 8) and Lawrence (August 10), beginning: 'Beatus Syxtus episcopus respondit: Ego semper sacrificavi [...]'.
Music:
Notation is added to some but not all of the chant texts, in a contemporary hand.
| 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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