ƟLeaves from a Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, mid-fifteenth century]24 leaves, with double column of 39 lines of a squat and angular German bookhand, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, initials in alternate red and dark blue, the larger with designs of blank parchment left within their bodies and encased within contrasting penwork, other initials touched in red and with human faces picked out in their penwork details, large initials in blue with blank parchment designs left in their bodies and enclosing flowers and small yellow bezants, these on bright green grounds, some marginalia (including a textual addition in an italic hand of the sixteenth century), contemporary foliation at head of each recto in red and black (xxi, xxv, xxii, xxx-xxxii, xxvi, then 2 unfoliated leaves, xl, xlii, xlv-xlvi, lv, then an unfoliated leaf, lx, -lxi, lxv, lviii, then an unfoliated leaf, lxx-lxxi and lxxvii), some red penwork tracery overwritten with bright pink, some scuffs, stains and holes (a few with Early Modern conservation leading in places to patches being filled with sections of other leaves, or in 2 cases a leaf being formed of two unrelated columns from different leaves), a few repairs with modern tape, a few leaves darkened, but overall in fair and presentable condition, 295 by 205mm.; seventeenth- or eighteenth-century Italian limp parchment binding, with remains of ties at edges, pastedowns recovered from documents of that date pasted face-downThese leaves were written and decorated in Germany in the mid-fifteenth century as part of a large codex, perhaps made for public reading. The last additions to that codex that can be seen here were made in the sixteenth century. Perhaps soon after, they were set aside and reused as complete leaves on a long series of bindings, for books which appear to have travelled to Italy and stayed together. In the modern period (perhaps the seventeenth or eighteenth century when the paper pastedowns were written) these were rediscovered, and rescued from such bindings, conserved and bound into the volume we now have. Ɵ indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT). Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
ƟLeaves from a Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, mid-fifteenth century]24 leaves, with double column of 39 lines of a squat and angular German bookhand, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, initials in alternate red and dark blue, the larger with designs of blank parchment left within their bodies and encased within contrasting penwork, other initials touched in red and with human faces picked out in their penwork details, large initials in blue with blank parchment designs left in their bodies and enclosing flowers and small yellow bezants, these on bright green grounds, some marginalia (including a textual addition in an italic hand of the sixteenth century), contemporary foliation at head of each recto in red and black (xxi, xxv, xxii, xxx-xxxii, xxvi, then 2 unfoliated leaves, xl, xlii, xlv-xlvi, lv, then an unfoliated leaf, lx, -lxi, lxv, lviii, then an unfoliated leaf, lxx-lxxi and lxxvii), some red penwork tracery overwritten with bright pink, some scuffs, stains and holes (a few with Early Modern conservation leading in places to patches being filled with sections of other leaves, or in 2 cases a leaf being formed of two unrelated columns from different leaves), a few repairs with modern tape, a few leaves darkened, but overall in fair and presentable condition, 295 by 205mm.; seventeenth- or eighteenth-century Italian limp parchment binding, with remains of ties at edges, pastedowns recovered from documents of that date pasted face-downThese leaves were written and decorated in Germany in the mid-fifteenth century as part of a large codex, perhaps made for public reading. The last additions to that codex that can be seen here were made in the sixteenth century. Perhaps soon after, they were set aside and reused as complete leaves on a long series of bindings, for books which appear to have travelled to Italy and stayed together. In the modern period (perhaps the seventeenth or eighteenth century when the paper pastedowns were written) these were rediscovered, and rescued from such bindings, conserved and bound into the volume we now have. Ɵ indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT). Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
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