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Breviary of Dominican use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Italy, third quarter of the fifteenth century]
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- Vellum
125 leaves, 157mm. by 110mm., text complete, collation: i6, ii-xii10, xiii9 (first leaf probably a singleton), single column, 28 lines in dark brown ink in a late gothic bookhand, with cadels in last part of book extending into upper margin and terminating in decorative shapes, a flower bud and a human face on fol.97r, music on a 4-line red stave, one- to 2-line initials in red or blue, larger initials in same with elaborate tracery in ornate colour wash, fol.1 a modern replacement (perhaps nineteenth century), small stains, else excellent condition, contemporary binding of dark brown leather blind-tooled with ropework patterns over wooden boards, restored, two clasps; with 12-leaf fragment of fourteenth-century sermons (once forming the endleaves of the breviary, but now bound separately in limp red leather as Bergendal MS.111)
Provenance
provenance
1. Written and decorated for an Italian Dominican: Calendar with St. Dominic and his translation, SS. Thomas Aquinas, Peter Martyr and Vincent Ferrer (canonized in 1455). Contemporary addition of St. Catherine of Siena.
2. Bergendal MSS.66 and 111; bought by Joseph Pope in our rooms, 3 July 1984, lot 70: Bergendal catalogue no.66; Stoneman, 'Guide', pp.191-92.
Catalogue Note
text
The volume comprises: a Calendar (fol.1r); a Ferial Psalter (fol.7r) interspersed with music and antiphons, a Litany (fol.99r), and Hymns from the Temporal, Sanctoral, and Common of the Saints.