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HIERONYMUS de Villa Vitis

Panis quotidianus de tempore [– de sanctis scilicet pars hyemalis estivalis]. Iste liber i[de]o sic dictus est q[uia] quotidie p[er] totu[m] annu[m] [con]tinet speciale[m] oratione[m] cu[m] utilibus et eva[n]gelicis doctrinis insertis in q[ui]bus devotio et v[ir]tutu[m] dilectio faciliter hauriri poterit q[uia] p[re]cipua dilige[n]tia o[mn]ia illa p[ro] salute viventiu[m] edita. [(Colophon:) Hagenau, Heinrich Gran for Johann Rynmann von Öhringen, 1509.] Two parts in one vol., 4to, ff. I: [326], II: [304] (of 312, bound without first quire 2π8 containing the calendar); with blanks M8 and R8; capitals supplied in alternating blue and red by Paulus Wigg, some with pen flourishing and infilling, paragraph marks in blue and red, small capitals highlighted in red, underlining in red; some marginal wormholes at beginning of each part, occasional small marks, wormhole to outer margin of R8–aa5, D4.5 short at head, old marginal repair to E2, but overall a very good copy; bound at Tegernsee in near-contemporary calf over bevelled wooden boards (see below), boards roll-tooled and stamped in blind to a panel design, later paper labels to spine, fore-edge tabs, sewn on 3 pairs of cords with single kettlebands, spine lined with manuscript waste on vellum, several backfolds repaired before rubrication, quires numbered in Arabic numerals at backfolds; a little rubbed and scuffed, spine worn with losses to spine ends and some splitting to joints, wanting metal corner- and centrepieces, clasps, and catches, minor worming to endpapers; inscriptions to first title ‘1521’, and ‘HR 1524 Vital[i]s no[min]e’, ‘memento pauli wigg’ (in blue ink) with the date 1521 to aa2r and LL6r, a note signed by him ‘fr[ater] paulus wigg’ to Pp8r, a few neat contemporary annotations in black and red ink in Wigg’s hand, seventeenth-century inscription ‘Mon[aste]rij Tegernsee’ to first title, bookplate removed from front pastedown.

Sachgebiete: Einbände, Inkunabeln, Reformation, Religion, Theologie

6500,- EUR
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LIST, Friedrich

Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie … Erster Band: Der internationale Handel, die Handelspolitik und der deutsche Zollverein [all published]. Stuttgart, J.G. Cotta, 1841. 8vo, pp. lxviii, [2], 589, [1, blank]; closed tear in one leaf just touching text, some offsetting to titlepage and final blank, occasional light foxing and browning, but a very good copy; in contemporary half calf with marbled sides, spine gilt; spine and extremities lightly rubbed; modern collector’s gilt morocco bookplate to upper pastedown.

10000,- EUR
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SCHUBERT, Franz

A fine contemporary volume of ten works containing eighteen Lieder including his most famous early songs ‘Erlkönig’ and ‘Der Wanderer’, and several first editions; setting poems by Goethe, Rückert, Schiller, Schlegel, &c. Vienna, 1821-1833. Ten works, oblong folio, pp. 11, 11, 19, 14, 7, 19, 15, 3, 7, 19, engraved music, each work with its own engraved title-page; the first seven with the additional contemporary publisher’s stamps ‘Prag bei Marco Berra’; a few small stains, dusty in places, but very good copies bound together in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, rubbed, morocco labels; ‘Die Rose’ (Deutsch 745) includes a list of Schubert’s works as published by Diabelli in Vienna up to Opus 87, on which the contents of the present volume have been ticked off.

9500,- EUR
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[GOETHE.] REICHARDT, Johann Friedrich

Goethe’s Lieder, Oden, Balladen und Romanzen mit Musik von J.F. Reichardt. Erste [ – Vierte] Abtheilung. Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, [1809–11]. Four parts, oblong folio (c. 325 x 245 mm); pp. [6], 50; [4], 62; [4], 29; [4], 44; plate nos. 1411–1413, 1479; with engraved title-pages and engraved music; early signature to upper margin of title-pages scored through; some spotting throughout, occasionally heavy, a few light stains here and there, but nonetheless a very good copy in the original green illustrated wrappers, lightly spotted, spines professionally restored; in a folding cloth box.

8250,- EUR
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LUDOLPH of Saxony

Vita Christi. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 20 December 1478. Two volumes, imperial folio, ff. [372]; [a–m8 n6 o–z8 [et]6 A–Z8]; gothic type printed in two columns, f. 1r bearing contemporary south German illumination comprising an initial ‘F’ in green against a red and gold ground and with extensive marginal decoration of scrolling foliage incorporating two bearded faces, a frog, three birds, and a monkey wearing pointed red shoes and grasping a rope, first leaf of text [a4] bearing a large initial ‘D’ composed of blue foliage against a burnished and overpainted gold ground and containing the blessing Christ before a richly woven cloth held up by an angel with wings spread, first initial in vol. II in the form of a fish and acanthus leaves against a ground of blue, green and dark pink quatrefoils within a green frame infilled with gold, smaller initials and paraphs in red or blue (some highlighted with a yellow wash), yellow initial strokes, some headings and chapter titles with a coloured wash (presumably once yellow, now darkened), the names of three of the Evangelists written in red in margins of [Y1]; illumination on first leaf trimmed at top and foredge (the foot of the leaf folded up to retain the decoration), [a4] with section of decoration excised at foot and also trimmed at margins, [A1] with decoration at foot cut away, [C1.8] strengthened along gutter, a few small wormholes (more at end of vol. II), final leaf in vol. II somewhat worn, occasional light staining or soiling, but a good crisp copy; bound in eighteenth-century German vellum stained purple (now mostly faded) over pasteboard, green vellum lettering-pieces, blue patterned edges; rubbed, tear in vellum of upper cover of vol. II, flyleaves removed, small paper labels at foot of upper covers; annotations to c. 15 pp. in an early sixteenth-century hand, and to c. 50 pp. in a late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century hand, various manicules, clipping from an English sale catalogue pasted to inside front cover with the price £10-10-0 in pencil, with the bookplates of Bishop John Vertue (1826–1900).

60000,- EUR
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[PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor

Ψαλτηριον. Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October 1498]. 4to, ff. [150]; α–θ8 ι6 κ–ν8 ο–υ8; Greek text printed in red and black, woodcut initials and headpieces, α3r and κ1r within woodcut borders (very slightly shaved), text on ι1r in its first setting with manuscript correction erased (see below); title-page and final verso dusty, first two leaves with very small wormhole, α2 with small paper-flaw to inner margin and short split to backfold, α3 with neatly erased inscription at head resulting in a small hole, light staining to ι1r, small flaw to final leaf with neat repair to blank verso, nonetheless a good copy; early nineteenth-century russia tooled in gilt and blind, spine gilt in compartments and lettered directly in gilt, edges gilt; front joint neatly repaired, tailband lacking, spine and corners a little rubbed; inscription ‘6 […] in catalogo Edwards 1794’ to front free endpaper verso, armorial bookplate of John Vertue (1826–1900, first bishop of Portsmouth from 1882), to front pastedown.

57500,- EUR
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[PSALTER.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]

Psalterium. [Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.] Folio, ff. [278] (of 280); [*8 a8 b–z8/6 A–H8/6 I1–4 I6–8 K–O8/6 P1–9] (bound without blanks I5 and P10); gothic letter, in two columns, printed in red and black throughout, first initial space with later manuscript initial B; a few leaves browned, occasional light damp-staining and worming, marginal paper-flaws to [t6], [y6] and [I1], [*2] repaired at edges and chipped with loss of text in upper corner (affecting c. 10 words), conjoint leaf also browned and repaired, but a very good copy; bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, from the bindery of the Benedictine monastery of Sankt Stephan in Würzburg (EBDB w000064), front board lettered ‘Psalteriū’ in black, two brass catchplates and remains of clasps, coloured plaited endbands, watermark to endleaves of a pot surmounted by a cross [cf. Briquet 12497, Troyes 1488]; binding slightly soiled with a few small wormholes; inscription erased from head of [*1]r (from Sankt Stephan, Würzburg?), nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Frederic Perkins to front pastedown, with his red ink shelfmark SR/L and (his?) bibliographical note to flyleaf, subsequent bookplate of John Vertue to front pastedown (see below), small paper shelf label to front board.

30000,- EUR
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HERP, Hendrik

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei. [(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10 September 1474.] Two vols, folio, ff. [407] (of 408); [a12 b–k10 l8 m4 n–q10 r4 s–x10 y7 z10 A–C10 D6 E–N10 O6 P5 Q–T10 V–X8] (with final blank [X8] but without preliminary blank [a1]); printed in gothic letter in two columns, incipit printed in red, woodcut printer’s device in red below colophon, printshop rubrication comprising larger initials supplied in red and heightened with silver, a few with penwork decoration, red initial-strokes, paraphs, and underlining, final blank leaf (partially laid down) with large red ink rosette on verso, manuscript quiring and catchwords largely trimmed; light dampstain to outer margin of [a6–7], very occasional marginal marks or smudges, neat marginal repairs to [m4] and [P1], but a magnificent copy; eighteenth-century French red morocco by Luc-Antoine Boyet (attributed in the Syston Park catalogue, see below), spines richly gilt in compartments with gilt green morocco lettering-pieces, edges gilt, marbled endpapers, blue ribbon place-markers, traces of index tabs, offsetting from former quire guards of manuscript waste (of which some in Hebrew); spines sunned, extremities a little rubbed; contemporary or early annotations in red and brown inks to c. 6 pp. and a few scattered reading marks, seventeenth-century ink ownership inscription ‘Fratrum Augustinensium Spirae’ to upper margin of [a2], eighteenth-century note in French on verso of flyleaf, engraved armorial bookplate and monogram booklabel of Sir John Hayford Thorold to front pastedown, with his pencil notes (see below), later manuscript shelf label to front boards.

30000,- EUR
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EUCLID

Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ των θεωνος συνουσιων. Εις του αυτου του πρωτον, εξηγηματων Προκλου βιβλ. δ. Adiecta praefatiuncula in qua de disciplinis Mathematicis nonnihil. Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533. Folio, pp. [xii], 268, 115, [1]; text in Greek, woodcut printer’s device to title-page and final verso, woodcut initials, α1r within woodcut border, woodcut diagrams, woodcut headpieces, skilful repair to title-page where an old inscription removed, old ink stains to lower margins of κ4–6 and ξ4–5, very slight dampstain to outer margin of final leaves, nonetheless a very good copy; bound in eighteenth-century Italian vellum, gilt red morocco lettering-piece to spine, edges speckled red; manuscript diagrams in brown ink to the margins of a few leaves and a few notes and corrections in Greek (e.g. on π2–3 and σ5), eighteenth-century Italian shelfmark to front pastedown ‘Pluteus octavus capsula prima’ below erased inscription, later note in German, modern collector’s bookplate.

22500,- EUR
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ARCHIMEDES, BOETHIUS, and CAMPANO da Novara; Luca GAURICO, editor

Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura per Campanum Archimedem Syracusanum atque Boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinventa. Venice, [Giacomo Penzio for] Giovanni Battista Sessa, 28 August 1503. 4to, ff. 32; small woodcut Sessa device on title-page and different device below colophon, title with woodcut illustration of Archimedes standing on a map and looking up at the heavens, woodcut initials and diagrams; title-page slightly dust-soiled with small repair at foot, title tipped in and (conjoint) leaf a4 strengthened along gutter, a few headlines shaved, occasional light spotting, final verso with slight offsetting; a good copy in nineteenth-century boards, green morocco spine label, year of publication lettered to upper cover in manuscript, remains of index tabs; binding a little soiled; bookplate of ‘Progel’ (probably Joseph Bonaventura Progel, of Munich, d. 1851).

22500,- EUR
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[BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT and APOCRYPHA, Greek; Johann LONITZER, editor.]

Της θειας γραφης παλαιας δηλαδη και νεας απαντα. Divinae scripturae, veteris noveque omnia. Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel, 1526. Three vols, 8vo, ff. I: [iv], 275, [1], II: 344, III: [1], 455; titles printed within woodcut borders by Hans Weiditz, vol. I title printed in red and black and f. 1 with woodcut headpiece and initial printed in red, ruled in red, woodcut initials and headpieces throughout, woodcut printer’s devices to titles of vols II and III, to final versos, and to vol. III f. 263v; occasional light marginal staining, minor wormhole to lower margin of quires I cγ-eε, small rust-hole to I AΑ1 (affecting a few characters without loss of sense), neat old repairs to vol. I title verso (with small loss to lower inner corner of border), nonetheless a very good set; bound in late eighteenth-century French marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments with gilt red paper lettering-pieces, edges stained red, green ribbon place-markers; skilful repairs to joints and extremities, very slightly rubbed; ink stamp to first and third title-pages of the Jesuits of Lyons.

10750,- EUR
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VORAGINE, Jacobus de

Lombardica historia que a plerisque aurea legenda sanctorum appellatur. Strasbourg, [Georg Husner,] 1502. Folio (290 x 210 mm), ff. 258 (all blanks present); gothic letter in double columns, spaces for initials with guide letters; some light browning, occasional staining, short wormtrack in outer blank margin of c. 23 leaves, single wormholes mainly towards beginning and end affecting the odd single letter, neat repairs to tears in D6 and D7 affecting two letters on each verso, small burn on p2 obscuring a two-letter word on the recto, but generally in good condition; scattered marginalia in various different hands throughout; contemporary (probably Nuremberg) blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, top compartment of upper cover stamped ‘Lambardica’ in gilt in large gothic letters, fragment from an incunable used as the rear pastedown (see below), front pastedown and free endpaper apparently renewed at an early date; some rubbing and wear, loss to head of spine, tears and loosening to tailcap, old worming to boards, lacking clasps.

10000,- EUR
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[SAINT-LAMBERT, Monsieur de.]

‘Les principes du clavecin contenant une explication exacte de tous ce qui concerne la tablature et le clavier avec toutes les remarques necessaires pour l’intelligence des plusieur diffculté [sic] de la musique, le tout divises par chapitre. 1743.’ Namur, 1743–4. Manuscript in French on paper, oblong 4to (190 x 243 mm), ff. [89] (of 94), paginated in a contemporary hand to 185, final 11 leaves blank except for pagination; a total of five leaves (almost certainly blank except for pagination) removed before and after present final blank leaf, dampstain at head of first few leaves, small rectangular area of title (probably on ownership inscription) excised and replaced with blank paper (with loss of a few words on verso); contemporary calf, spine gilt, upper cover lettered direct ‘Les principes du clavecin’ in gilt within gilt border, marbled paper pastedowns, edges sprinkled red; rubbed and worn, extreme head and foot of spine chipped, a few wormholes.

8500,- EUR
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MÜNSTER, Sebastian

מלאכת הדיקדוק [Melechet ha-Dikduk]. Institutiones grammaticae in Hebraeam linguam FR Sebastiani Munsteri Minoritae, Ingelnheimensis, in quibus quid per ordinem tractetur, sequens indicabit pagella. [Basel,] Johann Froben, 1524. [with:] יונוה נביא בארבעה לשונות [Yonah nevi be-arba’ah leshonot]. Ionas propheta in quatuor orbis principalioribus linguis, Graeca, Latina, Hebraea atque Chaldaica, pulchre sibi correspondentibus columnellis. [Basel,] Johann Froben, 1524. [bound with:] LEVITA, Elia; Sebastian MÜNSTER, translator. ספר ההרכבה [Sefer ha-Harkavah]. Composita verborum & nominum Hebraicorum. Opus vere insigne atq[ue] utile: Hebraicae Gra[m]maticae studiosis in primis necessariu[m], Romae Elia Levita autore aeditum, & nuper per Sebastianum Munsteru[m] Latinitate donatum. Basel, [Johann Froben], November 1525. Two works, in one vol., 8vo: Münster: two parts: ff. [128]; [16]; a–s8; in Hebrew and Latin, read left to right, r1v–s7r printed in two columns with parallel Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic text, woodcut printer’s device to title-page and verso of last leaf, woodcut musical notation to p2 and p3, decorated woodcut initials and headpieces (several hand-coloured in red); title somewhat stained with short repaired tear to lower margin, occasional marginal dampstaining, a few scattered spots, old repaired paperflaw to lower corner of f2, a few neat repairs to gutters; contemporary annotations in red and brown inks to c. 189 pp., with manicules, underlining, and markings to a further c. 49 pp.; contemporary motto ‘εργον τεχνη’, ?near-contemporary Hebrew inscription, seventeenth-century ownership inscription ‘Luigi ?Scotto’ (faded), and early eighteenth-century ownership inscription ‘Bibliothece C.R.S. Vincentij Placentie’ [i.e. Clericorum regularium S. Vincenzo Piacenza] to title-page; Levita: ff. [84]; in Hebrew and Latin, read right to left, preface in parallel Hebrew and Latin on facing pages; woodcut printer’s device to title-page and verso of last leaf, printed manicules throughout; very short repaired tear to outer margin of title-page, light marginal dampstaining; contemporary annotations in dark brown ink to c. 17 pp. in a single hand, markings and underlining to a further 4 pp; bound together in blind-tooled panelled modern calf, spine blind tooled in compartments; rear endpapers preserved from an earlier binding and copiously annotated in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek.

8200,- EUR
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MELCHIOR, Christian

‘Synechia sive summa lectionum Plutarchicarum a domino conrectore huius scholae Salderianae praelectarum. Et a me Christiano Melchioris Goltzoviensi Marchico observatarum anno MDCXX’. [Brandenburg an der Havel, 1620.] Manuscript on paper, in Latin and Greek, pp. [84], very neatly written in brown ink in a single hand, c. 25 lines per page, chronogram (1620) at foot of title, with 2 pp. of notes in a later hand at end signed ‘C.D. Geisler 1735’; a few chips to fore-edges, some losses and tears to last leaf. [bound after:] THEOGNIS, et al. Theognidis Megarensis sententiae elegiacae, cum interpretatione et scholiis Eliae Vineti. Accesserunt et horum poetarum opera sententiosa: Phocylidis … Simonidis … Omnia in usum scholarum collecta … per Iacobum Hertelium … Leipzig, Hans Ramba, 1576. Ff. [184]; woodcut initials, Latin and Greek on facing pages; losses at head of first few quires touching text with old repairs, losses at head of title and dedication completed in old manuscript, occasional chips to edges, repair at foot of Y7; underlining, numerous marginal annotations (some slightly trimmed) in different hands, notes to blank last page. [and:] PLUTARCH, and ISOCRATES. Plutarchi Chaeronei opusculum de liberorum institutione. Item Isocratis orationes tres … Graece et Latine. Frankfurt an der Oder, Nikolaus Voltz for Johann Hartmann, 1603. Pp. [2], 170, [4]; woodcut device to title, initials, Greek and Latin in parallel columns; small loss to title (repaired) touching a few letters; some marginal and interlinear annotations, notes to final blank pages. Three works in one vol., 8vo; toned throughout; overall good in seventeenth-century stiff vellum, covers and spine filleted in blind, edges blue; joints split but holding, some wear to extremities and marks to covers; inscription to front free endpaper ‘C.H. Geisler(?) 1691 23 Novembr’, ink stamp of ‘A.W.R. Miller’ to front pastedown.

8200,- EUR
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ANTIPHONAL

Antiphonal, with neumes, containing antiphons, responses and versicles for Trinity Sunday, the Octave of Pentecost, Sundays after Pentecost and Summer Histories. Germany, first half of twelfth century. Two bifolia (leaves not consecutive) written in double columns of an angular German romanesque hand, ruled lightly in plummet, adiastematic neumes, blank spaces between words filled with a single red line, marginal differentia, one three-line initial and several two-line initials in red, some with guide-letters, smaller initials in red or in black touched with red, rubrics; recovered from use in bindings and with consequent staining and wear, trimmed at fore-edges just affecting a few rubrics, initials and differentia, a few natural vellum flaws, but generally in very good condition and entirely legible; loose in mid-nineteenth-century marbled boards, large paper label on upper cover describing contents, smaller paper label with class-mark ‘AR.2. 7-18’. 336 x 234 mm (text area 255 x 200 mm).

7000,- EUR
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[BREVIARY, Use of Passau.]

Breviarium s[ecundu]m chorum alme Ecclesie Pataviensis. [(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein for Vienna, Lukas and Leonhard Alantsee, 25 May 1515.] Part II only (of II), 8vo, ff. [xii], ‘382’ (recte 394); printed in red and black throughout, title-page with woodcut portrait of Saints Stephen and Valentine incorporating the Alantsee device with letterpress name of Leonhard Alantsee within the frame, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion, four other full-page woodcuts with historiated woodcut borders on facing pages, smaller woodcut illustrations throughout; upper margin of title-page excised and repaired, marginal wormholes to first 3 ff., marginal paper-flaws to a few leaves, small stains to x8, the odd mark, else a very good copy; bound in contemporary Austrian blind-stamped sheep over wooden boards, front board lettered ‘BREVIER E’ in blind, spine blind-tooled in compartments with an eighteenth-century gilt paper lettering-piece, traces of nails from bosses at centre and corners, remains of two clasps, index tabs, sewn on 3 split tawed thongs, spine lined with manuscript waste on vellum; somewhat worn and rubbed, spine defective at head and foot, endpapers renewed; late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century notes on m2–4, inscription of the Augustinian Canons Regular of Klosterneuburg to title dated 26 May 1656.

5750,- EUR
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SCHÜBLER, Johann Jacob, et al.

Designs for furniture, funerary monuments, garden buildings. Augsburg, [c. 1710s–20s]. Eight items in one vol., folio (420 x 260 mm), containing a total of 52 engraved plates; some spotting, foxing, and light soiling, some creasing to corners and edges, marginal tears or chips to a few plates, overall good; sewn longstitch in eighteenth-century carta rustica; small tears and losses to spine, marks to covers; pencil sketches inside rear cover.

4750,- EUR
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[BIBLE.]

Book of Habakkuk 1–3. Southern Germany?, c. 1475? A complete vellum leaf (c. 390 x 295 mm, text area c. 275 x 210 mm), double columns of 50 lines written in brown ink in a neat, slightly slanting Cursiva; one sixteen-line historiated initial ‘O’ (Onus) to recto, in pink with foliate infill, enclosing a bearded Habakkuk (in blue dress and red hat, with a blank white scroll beside him) in a green, hilly landscape, looking up at God in a cloud (with red cloak and gilt halo, holding an orb and pointing), a city in the background, foliate tendrils terminating in three flowers extending from the initial into the border, in blue, green, red, and gold; two three-line initials alternately in red and blue, capitals touched in red, rubrics, headlines in alternating red and blue letters (‘[Haba]cuc’, ‘Sopho[nias]’); historiated initial rubbed and with areas of loss to paint, smudge to border, central horizontal crease from folding, some small tears (without loss) to inner margin, small chip to outer margin, some light marginal staining, slight cockling; in good condition.

5250,- EUR
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[ANTIPHONAL.]

Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music for the blessing of the Paschal Candle on Holy Saturday. Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth century. A complete folio leaf (388 x 287 mm, text area 297 x 205 mm), ten lines written in red ink in a gothic liturgical script, ruled in red ink, diamond-shaped musical notation entirely in burnished gold outlined in dark brown ink on ten four-line red staves, large illuminated initial ‘E’ (Exultet jam angelica, 78 x 74 mm) of blue leafy design set against a quadrangular panel of burnished and shell gold framed in pink and enclosing two leafy x-shaped motifs in green, border extension of green foliage enclosing burnished gold bezants, smaller initials in green ink, green ink dividers indicating the relationship of the notes to the words, extensive penwork flourishing in green ink in lower margin of recto and in both upper and lower margins of verso, penwork flourishing in brown ink along inner and outer margins of both recto and verso, rubrics; some light soiling and smudging but generally in excellent condition.

4850,- EUR
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