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Antiphoner, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Spain or Sicily, late sixteenth or seventeenth century]
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Vellum
110 leaves, 605mm. by 420mm., wanting leaves from 5th and 7th quires, else complete: collation: i-iv8, v4, vi8, vii2, viii-xv8, 5 lines in a large rounded late gothic bookhand, with cadels on fol.67r enclosing a human face, rubrics and explicit in red, large simple initials in red, large illuminated initial 'M' (80mm. high) in an Italianate Renaissance style with putti, winged classical creatures and architectural scrollwork, scuffing and tears to first and last leaves, stains throughout, else fair and presentable, partially loose in contemporary binding of blind-stamped leather over heavy wooden boards, metalwork cornerpieces and central boss with scallop-designs (one detached, three missing from back board), rebacked with leather, traces of two clasps
Catalogue Note
This volume, while it appears Spanish, ends with a colophon recording that it was written by a Sicilian scribe from Catania: "Hoc opus Ille [perhaps Ildefonsus] cathinensis faciebat. Orate pro anima eius". He is otherwise unrecorded.
The text contains the antiphons from Vespers on the first Sunday in Advent through to Epiphany.