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MISSALE, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Bamberg, second half of the 15th century]
127 x 90mm, 327 leaves, COMPLETE, collation: 16 2-3310, an additional inserted leaf with pasted-in painted Sacred Monogram after 18/8, with catchwords. 15 lines, justification 82x53mm, written in dark brown ink in two sizes of a gothic liturgical hand, rubrics in red, partly in German, capitals touched in red, one and two-line initials in blue and red, 4 large decorated initials, musical notation on red 4-line staves on many pages, LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL 'R' with floral and leafy extension in margins on folio 7. Contemporary panelled calf over wooden boards, tooled in blind, spine with raised bands, (worn, but restored and rebacked, preserving original spine), one (of two) brass clasps on later leather thong.
PROVENANCE: The Calendar on ff 1-6 has the instructions for finding the Golden number in German, and contains in red the Saints for Bamberg: Kunigunde (3 March), Emperor Henry II, the patron Saint of Bamberg (12 July), Sebald (19 August; he was canonized in 1424) and Otto, bishop of Bamberg (30 September); also St. Dominic (5 August) with his translation (24 May) and Thomas Aquinas (7 March) with his translation (28 January), pointing to Dominican use. The litany also contains Dominic, Thomas, Sebald, Henry and Kunegunde, the last three also in the Common of Saints. Later ownership note 'O.H.' 1896.
The large (8-line) historiated initial at the beginning of the Temporale contains the Virgin and Child on burnished gold ground. The pasted-in Sacred Monogram preceding the Penitential Psalms,may be slightly later than the rest of the book. 18th-century musical notation for a hymn on recto of last leaf
[Bamberg, second half of the 15th century]
127 x 90mm, 327 leaves, COMPLETE, collation: 16 2-3310, an additional inserted leaf with pasted-in painted Sacred Monogram after 18/8, with catchwords. 15 lines, justification 82x53mm, written in dark brown ink in two sizes of a gothic liturgical hand, rubrics in red, partly in German, capitals touched in red, one and two-line initials in blue and red, 4 large decorated initials, musical notation on red 4-line staves on many pages, LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL 'R' with floral and leafy extension in margins on folio 7. Contemporary panelled calf over wooden boards, tooled in blind, spine with raised bands, (worn, but restored and rebacked, preserving original spine), one (of two) brass clasps on later leather thong.
PROVENANCE: The Calendar on ff 1-6 has the instructions for finding the Golden number in German, and contains in red the Saints for Bamberg: Kunigunde (3 March), Emperor Henry II, the patron Saint of Bamberg (12 July), Sebald (19 August; he was canonized in 1424) and Otto, bishop of Bamberg (30 September); also St. Dominic (5 August) with his translation (24 May) and Thomas Aquinas (7 March) with his translation (28 January), pointing to Dominican use. The litany also contains Dominic, Thomas, Sebald, Henry and Kunegunde, the last three also in the Common of Saints. Later ownership note 'O.H.' 1896.
The large (8-line) historiated initial at the beginning of the Temporale contains the Virgin and Child on burnished gold ground. The pasted-in Sacred Monogram preceding the Penitential Psalms,may be slightly later than the rest of the book. 18th-century musical notation for a hymn on recto of last leaf