Romanesque Music, three leaves from Liturgical manuscripts on vellum

bidding is closed

Description

3 separate leaves, (a) 2 leaves from a large noted Breviary, 330mm. by 230mm., 21 lines, written in 2 sizes of a very fine romanesque liturgical script, capitals touched in red, 47 lines with adiastematic neumes above the text, 7 large initials in red; and (b) leaf from a Gradual, 290mm. by 213mm., 25 lines, every line with adiastematic neumes, 22 initials in red; some wear, both recovered from German bindings, one from a text dated 1582; loosely mounted