Lot 108

Antiphoner, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Austria (perhaps Klosterneuberg or its vicinity), c.1490]

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Vellum

141 leaves, 217mm. by 162mm., wanting a number of leaves from second gathering (once foliated 9-12), collation: i^{8, ii^{3 (last a singleton), iii-xv^{10, contemporary foliation in red arabic numerals, single column, in black ink in at least two rounded gothic bookhands with musical notation in hufnagelschrift on 4-line red staves, numerous angular initials in red or black, blank border cut away from fols.95 and 98, some small stains, else in very good condition, pastedown at front from a fourteenth-century Italian legal manuscript, that at back from a fourteenth-century Italian copy of Justinian,}}}contemporary calf over wooden boards, stamped with the emblems of the Passion and a crowned double-headed eagle on a fleur-de-lys within a lozenge, marks of missing central bosses and corner-pieces on each cover, rebacked and restored, two restored clasps

Provenance

provenance

1. Most probably made for an Augustinian house in Austria c.1490: the Translation of St. Augustine on fol.134r, and that for St. Leopold IV (c.1075-1136), margrave of Austria, on fol.141v. St. Leopold founded the abbey of Klosterneuberg in 1106, oversaw its transfer to Augustinian observance in 1133, and was buried there; and this manuscript may be from the medieval library of that house or another closely affiliated with it.

2. Bergendal MS.87; bought by Joseph Pope from Bernard Rosenthal in June 1988: Bergendal catalogue no.84; Stoneman, 'Guide', p.199.

Catalogue Note

text

The volume comprises the Temporal from the first Sunday in Advent to the twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost; with the dedication of a church between Corpus Christi and the first Sunday after Pentecost. This is followed by the Sanctoral from St. Nicholas (6 December) to St. Leopold (15 November), ending imperfectly.