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Hymnal, of Dominican use, in Latin, manuscript on paper
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description
48 leaves, 155mm. by 104mm., lacking a gathering after fol.8 and some leaves (not many) at end, perhaps (not necessarily) lacking other texts at the beginning, else complete, collation: i-vi8, with horizontal catchwords, 6 lines each of text in a rounded gothic hand and of music on a 4-line red stave, rubrics in red, large calligraphic initials with penwork surround filled with yellow wash, rather thumbed and a bit dampstained, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, sides panelled with multiple lines, border stamped with repeated impressions of a tool of two long-necked birds pecking at a vase, inner compartments stamped with repeated impressions of an arabesque tool, edges gilt and gauffered, remains of one metal catch (of an original pair of clasps and catches), binding very worn, rebacked and repaired, paper endleaves
Catalogue Note
The text comprises hymns for Vespers and Matins for various feasts from the beginning of Advent through to Corpus Christi and from the Sanctoral and Common. They include the feasts of Saint Dominic and the Dominican saints, SS. Thomas Aquinas (and his translation), Peter Martyr, Vincent Ferrer (canonised 1455) and Katherine of Siena (canonised 1461). The manuscript is not easily localised. The combination of rather rounded script but Germanic calligraphic initials may suggest Austria, or even the far north-east of Italy.