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Portable antiphoner, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Italy, second half of the fifteenth century]
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description
- Vellum
133 leaves, 225mm. by 150mm., wanting first leaf of Calendar, single leaves after fols.65 and 87 (the latter replaced with a facsimile, probably nineteenth-century), and a gathering from the front of the main text (wanting since eighteenth century at least, when volume was foliated), else complete, collation: i5 (i wanting), ii10, iii12, iv- vi10, vii9 (of 10, wanting viii), viii- xiii10, xiv7 (last a singleton), horizontal catchwords, foliated in eighteenth-century hand with errors, but followed here, single column, 7 lines in black ink in an angular gothic hand with music on a 4-line red stave, capitals touched in yellow, rubrics in red, one-line initials in red or blue, space left for initial and rubric on fol.132r, some minor discolouration of a number of leaves, else in good and presentable condition, in early wooden boards with dark leather spine (with skilful modern restoration), remains of clasps
Provenance
provenance
Evidently written for a Carthusian community in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century: Calendar with the Carthusian saints, Hugh of Lincoln (16 November) and John of Spain (25 June) in blue; a seventeenth-century hand adding St. Bruno (the founder of the order, canonised in 1623) on 6 October.Catalogue Note
text
The volume includes a Calendar (fol.1r); and the Temporal from the first Sunday in Advent (fol.7r, opening imperfectly) to the Eve of Easter.