- 57
Antiphonary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Germany (perhaps northern border with Low Countries), fifteenth century]
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Paper
179 leaves (plus one paper flyleaf at the beginning and one at the end), 204mm. by 143mm., perhaps wanting a few single leaves, but tightly bound and heavily reworked in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by the pasting of paper pages with replacement text over numerous leaves, single column, six 4-line red staves with accompanying text (later fifteenth- and sixteenth-century additions with black 4-line staves), original rastrum 17mm., capitals stroked in red, rubrics in red, initials mainly in plain red or blue, or inked initials stroked in red with brown pen-flourishing, some initials with penwork picking out tiny human faces within their bodies, red leather-tags as book-markers, one initial on fol.2v with later colouring, water stains at front and back, some leaves at back damaged at the edges and woolly in places, in fair condition, sixteenth-century white pig-skin binding with panel stamps and rolls over bevelled wooden boards carved with sloping recesses in each outer face, the stamps including the Annunciation to the Virgin on the upper and the Baptism of Christ on the lower board, within borders of palm sprays, allegorical figures and coats-of-arms, back board rubbed and stained in places, two metal clasps