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Lot 84
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Missal for Dominican Use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Germany (probably Augsburg), early fourteenth century]

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6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Vellum
127 leaves, 215mm. by 150mm., wanting a gathering after fol.8, 2 leaves after fol.38 and a single leaf from end, else complete, collation: i-iv8, v2, vi4, vii-xiv8, xv10, xvi6, xvii9 (last wanting), single column, 31 lines in black ink by a single gothic bookhand, capitals touched in red, rubrics and 2-line initials in red, space left for initial on fol.47r, later pen-sketch of Crucifixion on fol.46v, part of blank margins of fols.22, 38 and 47 cut away, water damage to fols.45-9 (perhaps from having lain open during processions), some small stains and minor discolourations, first leaf somewhat scuffed, modern grey leather over wooden boards with medieval blind-ruled panels laid on, five medieval studs on upper cover and one original and four modern replacements on lower cover, remains of medieval clasp

Provenance

provenance

1. Most probably written and decorated for use in the Dominican priory in Augsburg in the early fourteenth century: all three feasts for St. Dominic in red in the Calendar (his translation on 24 May, his principal feast on 4 August and the octave on 11 August), with the common mass for all three feasts on fol.88v; and St. Ulric (4 July) in red, and SS. Boniface (5 June), Willibald (7 July) and Kylian (8 July) in black. Prayers for members of the Lehenberg, Jausenberg, Fug and Heynberg families and a Nomina Mortuorum on fol.8v in fifteenth- or sixteenth-century hands.

2. Bergendal MS.10; bought by Joseph Pope from Sam Fogg in November 1997: Bergendal catalogue no.10.

Catalogue Note

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The volume comprises: a Calendar (fol.1r); the Temporal for the year from Epiphany (fol.9r) to the 24 Elders; the Sanctoral (fol.74r), Common (fol.111r), and prayers for the dead.