A Study Group

Лот 153
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Лот 153 | A Study Group
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A Study Group
A study group of leaves and fragments, in Latin, manuscripts on vellum [c.1100 to the 16th century]
A selection of literary and liturgical manuscripts from across Western Europe, ranging from the elaborate mise-en-page of Eberhard of Béthune's Graecismus to a fine humanist copy of Terence's Andria.

Comprising:
(i) A fragment from Haymo of Halberstadt, Commentarium in Epistolas Paulinas [?Germany, c.1100].
c.65 × 97mm. A fragment of a leaf, preserving 9 lines of a column, written in a compressed Caroline minuscule with ticked minims; text from Haymo of Halberstadt's commentary on Paul's letter to the Hebrews (remains of adhesive on verso).
Provenance: Colker MS 24; acquired in 1963 from Salloch.

(ii) A leaf from a Calendar [France, 12th century].
c.202 × 145mm. A leaf for the months of September and October, with 2 coloured wheel pen-drawings at bottom of September page; the majority of feasts are for regional French saints (Mansuetus, Amatus, Eutropius, Remigius, Leodegar, Menna, Fide, etc) (stains obscure some text on both sides of leaf).
Provenance: (1) includes dedication of church of St. Deodatus at 18 September (perhaps the cathedral of St-Dié at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in Lorraine); (2) Colker MS 322; acquired in 1984 from Maggs.

(iii) A fragment from Eberhard of Béthune, Graecismus, with extensive glossing [England, 13th century].
c.215 × 75mm. A vertical strip of a leaf, preserving part of 15-16 lines, with extensive marginal and interlinear glossing, verse written in a gothic bookhand with pen-work initials with ornamental flourishes (some text faded and small hole in vellum from use in a binding).
Provenance: Colker MS 275; acquired in 1978 from B.M. Rosenthal.

(iv) A leaf from Terence, Andria [Florence, Italy, mid-15th century].
c.252 × 177mm. 30 lines of verse, blind-ruled, in a humanist script, by the scribe Iulianus Antonii de Prato; text comprises the last lines of Act 2 and part of Act 3, with catchword.
Provenance: (1) Copied in Florence c.1450–60 by the scribe Julianus Antonio de Prato; (2) Otto Ege, acquired in 1935 and broken-up before the end of the following year (Gwara, Otto Ege’s MSS, HL 78); (3) Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue 1088: Medieval Manuscript Leaves, Principally from the Rosenthal Collection, Bookhands of the Middle Ages, III (London, 1988), no. 90; (4) Colker MS 410; acquired in 1989 from Quaritch.
For a more detailed provenance of the parent volume, see Christie's, Schøyen sale, 10 July 2019, lot 456.

(v) A leaf from a Bible [Germany or Bohemia], dated 1507.
c.415 × 270mm. 2 columns of 35 lines, ruled in plummet, written in a Gothic script with a flourished pen-drawn initial 'I'; text comprising II Kings 19:20–20:20 (vellum cockled and repaired in upper corner).
Provenance: (1) Otto F. Ege (Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts, 2013, HL44); (2) Colker MS 17; acquired in 1947 from P. Duschnes.
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