A LEAF FROM A NOTED MISSAL, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [southern Germany, Regensburg, third quarter 10th century]
A LEAF FROM A NOTED MISSAL, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [southern Germany, Regensburg, third quarter 10th century]
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No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium. Lots 2-7 are handsome and rare examples of German liturgical manuscripts with musical notation, some from well-known codices. All date from the 10th to the 13th centuries and are a testament to the evolution of European script throughout the Middle Ages: we see the familiar shapes of Caroline minuscule, striking for its clarity and legibility, followed by a gradual compression and angularity of letter forms, anticipating the advent of Gothic.
A LEAF FROM A NOTED MISSAL, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [southern Germany, Regensburg, third quarter 10th century]

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A LEAF FROM A NOTED MISSAL, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [southern Germany, Regensburg, third quarter 10th century]

An exceptionally handsome — and early — leaf from a Regensburg scriptorium, part of what would once have been a splendid Missal (the bulk of which is now in Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Frag. 63).

289 x 209mm. 27 lines of text and St Gall neumes in open field, ruled space: 202 x 160mm, rubrics and large initials in red, 8 added lines of noted text in a later hand at bottom of verso (some marginal soiling and remnants of adhesive tape, natural flaw in the vellum in lower margin not affecting text, one small wormhole affecting line 3, light smudging). The text opens '[...] fixerunt miserationes' and ends 'inter mortuos liber', and contains the responsory for the third nocturn on Holy Saturday, 'Sepulto Domino, signatum est monumentum', followed by a reading from St Matthew. Provenance: The bulk of the parent manuscript is Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Frag. 63, catalogued by Hartmut Hoffmann as in a Regensburg hand of the last third of the tenth century (Buchkunst und Königtum, 1986, p.283). Another leaf appeared in Quaritch, cat. 1315 (Bookhands of the Middle Ages VII, 2004), no 57, and reappeared in Sotheby’s, 6 July 2006, lot 3; a third appeared at Bloomsbury, 9 December 2015, lot 3 — early 20th-century German typed description accompanying the leaf (not, apparently, describing the present leaf), with 'Aukt. R. [...] . 9' in pencil and 'von R W Meisermein Leipzig 1919' in pen.
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