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PSALTER WITH CANTICLES and Litany, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM.
已結束1996年6月26日
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GBP 8,280
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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.
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.