Lot 62

Missal for Franciscan use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Italy, thirteenth century (probably not later than 1260)]

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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Description

Vellum

114 leaves, 180mm. by 125mm., complete, collation: i-xi^{10, xii^{4 (a gathering added in the fourteenth or fifteenth century) single column, 19-24 lines in dark brown ink in two early gothic bookhands, music on a 4-line stave, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, 2-line initials in red, first and last page of main codex somewhat rubbed, large smudge on fol.108v, some worming at beginning and end, slightly trimmed with folded-in corners of fols.30 and 58 revealing original dimensions, else good condition, nineteenth-century white vellum over pasteboards}}

Provenance

provenance

1. Evidently written for a Franciscan friar in the years immediately before 1260: St. Clare (12 August and canonised in 1255) in the Calendar, but without the feast of her translation (added to the Franciscan calendar in 1260), and without the changes to the text introduced by Haymo of Faversham, fourth minister general of the Franciscan Order, in 1260. Early additions of SS. Maximus and Raynier to the Calendar (19 October and 30 December), perhaps indicating that the volume was in use in Aquila at some time in fourteenth century.

3. Comte Paul Durrieu (1855-1925).

3. Paul Jammes (1890-1983) of Paris.

4. Bergendal MS.93; bought by Joseph Pope from Bruce Ferrini in August 1989: Bergendal catalogue no.93; Stoneman, 'Guide', p.201.

Catalogue Note

text

This is an early portable Missal in the simplified form (ie. without the propers for the temporal), common among itinerant Francican preachers. It contains the ordinary of the mass (fol.1r); the masses for the dead (fol.13v); the ritual (fol.21r); the mass propers (fol.46v); the votive masses (fol.48r); the remainder of the mass propers (fol.55v); a Calendar (fol.98v); and a number of blessings (fol.111r).