Vente du 18 / 19 mars 2011 Book & Print Auctions Devroe & Stubbe

979  [GUILLAUME de LORRIS, JEAN de MEUNG] – Roman de la Rose [and] [RABBI SAMUEL] – Epistola contra Iudaeorum errores. [France, 1300-1325 (I), after 1339 (II)]. French (I) and Latin (II) manuscript on vellum, c. 24,7 x 19 cm, 163 ff., written by at least two copyists (one each for I & II), in brown and black/brown ink. Preserved in a mod. conservation binding of overlapping pigskin, flat spine, mod. vellum endpapers; quires sewn; first and last ff. mounted.

987  [Miniature – Flanders] – [Pentecost], Flanders, c. 1490-1500. Leaf from a Book of Hours on vellum, miniature 15 x 10,7 cm, leaf 17,2 x 11,5 cm. Passe-partout.

989  [Music – Spain] – Graduel. [Tolède], XVIe s. Manuscrit ornementé en latin, vélin, +/- 38,5 x 29,5 cm, en cahiers séparés (1 cahier mal assemblé), conservés dans une reliure de réemploi de l’époque, 40 x 30 cm, veau brun (qqs frottements et éraflures), fermoirs, écoinçons et cabochons métalliques (renouvelés) sur les plats divisés en 2 larges compartiments encadrés de roulettes ornementées et ornés de croix de Saint-André et de fleurons à froid, dos à 7 nerfs (restauré), entrenerfs ornés de croisillons à froid, 7 cahiers totalisant 46 f. (composition inégale : 10, 8, 8, 7, 4, 4, 5 avec le f. [42] détaché; qqs souillures d’usage), grande écriture gothique, notation neumatique carrée en noir sur portées de 5 ou 6 lignes en rouge. Cfr. ill. € 1000/1500 Manuscrit incomplet conservant une partie de l’oeuvre du compositeur espagnol \”Maestro Blanco\” qui semble inconnu jusqu’ici. Provenance : D’après son contenu, le manuscrit provient de Tolède. Cette origine est confirmée par certaines graphies (\”Kyrie por il primo\”, f. 12v, \”Introito\” et \”salbatorem\”, f. 31v et l’inscription du f. 44v). Ex-libris armorié Baron de Launoit.

992  [Music] – Antiphonarium. [Northern Low Countries ?, 15th c. ?], Latin manuscript on vellum, c. 29 x 19,5 cm, remains of original embossed half leather binding over wood (worn, lower cover loose, leather of covers partly gone, that of spine largely preserved, bosses of front cover and 1 of lower cover gone, clasps gone), wood covers with bevelled edges, spine on 5 raised bands, 3 bosses on lower cover preserved, metal catches, [248] ff. (collation : A-V12, W14; lacking S11, T4 & T9, V10 & V11, W2 & W5, all (?) after W14; thumbing esp. at bottom fore-edge corner, some soiling, bottom margin of ff. [209, 232, 242, 248] cut off, burning holes in upper half of bottom margin of 1st ff. touching some letters), written in black ink. In reasonably good condition for a manuscript that has been used for what it had been written for. Cfr. ill. € 3000/5000 Interesting extensive pre-Tridentine liturgical music manuscript with music (neumes) on 4 staves. With 8 additional ff. on paper bound with between ff. 132-133 (4, dated \”1702\”), f. 184-185 (2 with \”Missa SS Rosarij\”) and f. [201-202]; half vellum f. between f. [211-212]. Also some later additions to the music. Curious contemp. foliation in red ink within circles in middle of fore-edge margin up to f. 192. Origin : probably from the Northern Low Countries with references to \”Sci lebuini\” (f. 111r, 137r), \”Sci Odulfi\” (f. 108r), \”Sci Willebrordi\” (f. 136v). Decoration : ill. on f. [217]r; rubricated in red or blue with 5-line initials; 8 very large initials i.a. f. 2r within border of c. 11 x 9 cm, on a blue or green floral background within gilt borders; somewhat grotesque or decorated initials on f. 19v, 81r, 103v; a few initials extending into the margin and 3 sm. pen-drawings i.a. Virgin with child (f. W13r, lower margin).

995  [Psalter] – Illuminated text leaf from a Psalter in Latin on vellum, Flanders, c. 1300, 15 x 10,8 cm. Under passe-partout.

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