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PSALTER WITH CANTICLES and Litany, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM.
[Cologne or Munster, ca.1440]
123 x 88mm, 229 leaves (lacking 1 leaf after f.68), collation: 1-2310 (lacking 7/9), with old foliation, 15 lines, ruled in plummet, justification: 71 x 50mm, written in dark-brown ink in a gothic liturgical hand, versal initials in alternate gold and blue, two-line initials in gold or blue with penwork decoration and flourishes, 8 SIX-LINE INITIALS in burnished gold, blue and red with spiky three-quarter or full-page border extensions of coloured bar borders, with acorn and gold ivy leaves, (the first page rubbed). 15th-century Westphalian blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, spine with four raised bands. Provenance: The litany includes SS Quirinus, Agilulf, Swithbert, Heribert and Adelgund, all venerated in Cologne and Munster; Martin White of Milton (early 19th-century bookplate inside upper cover); old German bookseller's cataloguing on final fly-leaf.
DECORATION: The large illuminated initials are at the beginning of Psalms 1, 26, 38, 68, 80, 97, 109 and the Canticles. The initial for Psalm 52 dixit insipiens is lacking.
[Cologne or Munster, ca.1440]
123 x 88mm, 229 leaves (lacking 1 leaf after f.68), collation: 1-2310 (lacking 7/9), with old foliation, 15 lines, ruled in plummet, justification: 71 x 50mm, written in dark-brown ink in a gothic liturgical hand, versal initials in alternate gold and blue, two-line initials in gold or blue with penwork decoration and flourishes, 8 SIX-LINE INITIALS in burnished gold, blue and red with spiky three-quarter or full-page border extensions of coloured bar borders, with acorn and gold ivy leaves, (the first page rubbed). 15th-century Westphalian blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, spine with four raised bands. Provenance: The litany includes SS Quirinus, Agilulf, Swithbert, Heribert and Adelgund, all venerated in Cologne and Munster; Martin White of Milton (early 19th-century bookplate inside upper cover); old German bookseller's cataloguing on final fly-leaf.
DECORATION: The large illuminated initials are at the beginning of Psalms 1, 26, 38, 68, 80, 97, 109 and the Canticles. The initial for Psalm 52 dixit insipiens is lacking.