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Pontifical, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern France (perhaps Avignon), fourteenth century]
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- Vellum
23 leaves, 285mm. by 210mm., complete, collation: i-ii8, iii7 (last probably a singleton), single column, 17 lines in black ink in a large gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, paragraph marks in red or blue, versal initials in red or blue, one- and 2-line initials in red or blue, other 2-line initials in burnished gold on pink and blue grounds heightened with white penwork (fol.1r, 2r and 3r), with extensions up and down border in same, coloured border frame of blue and pink terminating in ivy-leaves and a winged dragon biting at blue fruit in the upper border (apparently unfinished, fol.1r), outermost borders repaired using vellum from a twelfth-century manuscript (remnants of faded text on leaves 12 and 23), first leaf slightly discoloured, else excellent, marbled pasteboards with red morocco spine
Provenance
provenance
1. Made in southern France for use by a cardinal, perhaps for a member of the papal curia in exile at Avignon from 1309 to 1378, or of that of the antipope Clement VII (held office 1378-94): text opening on fol.1r with the rubric, "Incipit ordo romane ecclesie quando debet cardinalis celebrare ...".
2. Bergendal MS.35; bought by Joseph Pope from Kraus (his cat.157, no.92) in March 1983: Bergendal catalogue no.35; Stoneman, 'Guide', p.180.
Catalogue Note
text
The text opens with prayers to be said by a cardinal before and after Mass (fol.1r); the rite for the conferring of tonsure and the office of cantor (fol.6r), and for the ordination of a number of offices including that of lector, exorcist, subdeacon and priest.