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Lot 71
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Missal, Use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [northern Italy (probably Bologna), fourteenth century and Bavaria, fifteenth century]

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Vellum
269 leaves, 230mm. by 160mm., complete, collation: i6, ii-iii12, iv-vi10, vii12, viii-xii10, xiii4, xiv10, xv12, xvi-xxvi10, xxvii8, xxviii1, xxix2, double column, 27 lines in black ink in a rounded gothic bookhand, 1-line initials in red or blue touched in contrasting penwork, 2-line initials in same with elaborate swirling penwork to contrast (often several to each page), some larger initials (mostly 5-line) in divided red, blue and iridescent yellow enclosing sprigs of foliage on same yellow grounds, full-page miniature of the Crucifixion within red and green border on fol.126v, some small wear to edges of border and lower part of miniature (perhaps through ritual use), some small stains, else excellent condition, contemporary blind-stamped pink leather, over wooden boards, scuffed at corners with small losses to leather and cracked on spine, skilful modern restoration, remains of two clasps

Provenance

provenance

1. Probably written and illuminated in Bologna for an itinerant Franciscan friar: the Calendar includes entries in red for St. Francis (4 October) and his translation (25 May), and near contemporary additions of the translation of St. Anthony of Padua (16 February) and St. Bernadinus (20 May). In the fifteenth century it was supplemented with the full-page miniature and the additions of SS. Ulric (4 July), Boniface (5 June), Willibald (7 July) and Kilian (8 July; also found in the prayers added at the end of the Canon) suggesting use in the vicinity of Würzburg, perhaps in the Franciscan convent there.

2. Domenico Gravina: his eighteenth-century armorial bookplate.

3. Bergendal MS.12; bought by Joseph Pope from Sam Fogg in October 1992 (Fogg, cat.15, 1992, no.14): Bergendal catalogue no.12; Stoneman, 'Guide', p.170.

Catalogue Note

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A Missal for the entire year, with a Calendar (fol.1r); the Temporal (fol.7r) from the first Sunday in Advent to the twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost; the Sanctoral (fol.177v); and other prayers and masses (fol.251r).