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Pocket Gradual and a collection of Papal Bulls, in Latin, manuscripts on paper [fifteenth to eighteenth century]
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Vellum
two manuscripts: (a) Pocket Gradual, 234 leaves (41 blank, plus 6 endleaves at front and 1 at back), 134mm. by 90mm., 8 lines of text with music in hufnagelschrift on a 4-line red stave, rubrics and initials in iridescent red touched in yellow, leaves at each end and between main texts with additions of music in eighteenth-century hands, text of masses opens wanting first few leaves, followed by the Common of Saints, and the Sequences for various feasts (ending at Feast of Corpus Christi), engravings added, numerous antiquarian notes in pencil, else good condition, contemporary panel-stamped white leather over wooden boards, scuffs and splits along spine, two working clasps, Germany, fifteenth or sixteenth century; (b) Collection of Papal Bulls, 324 leaves, 285mm. by 210mm., including a letter from Pope Adrian IV to Henry II of England dated 1156 and numerous documents of the late sixteenth century, ink-burning through paper in some documents (one with significant losses), elsewhere causing shine-through of text from other side, edges of paper woolly in places, else fair condition, Italy (perhaps Rome), late sixteenth or very early seventeenth century, early vellum over pasteboards
Catalogue Note
Item (a) contains several marginal directions of "Organum" and "Chorus" (directing the soloists to sing in addition to the choir, doubling the notes of the latter), and records its use in early polyphonic singing.