Auction Bloomsbury (mars 2008) : \”Exemplari\”, \”trattato dell’ abbaco\”, Livre d’ heures …

Bloomsbury Auctions, Inc., New York présente à la vente (sur Ebay) plusieurs précieux manuscrits, dont un exemplari, origine France, copié par un Karolus. Il s’agit peut-être de Charles, copiste cité par R. H. Rouse & M. A. Rouse, Manuscripts and their makers, II, p. 21, comme étant censitaire en 1285 de Saint-Merri. J’ai moi-même lu ce nom dans le Paris AN S 1626/1 qui est un censier de l’abbaye Sainte-Geneviève, daté de 1276: Karolus scriptor (in bordellis) 
Les exemplaria servaient de modèle aux copistes et étaient loués pièce par pièce.

 
Descriptions d’après notices en ligne
[Lot 3B] ARISTOTLE. [Organon.] Composite manuscript on vellum, containing: PORPHYRY. Isagoge; ARISTOTLE. Categoriae, Liber peri hermenias [De interpretatione]; BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Severinus. Liber de divisione, De differentiis topicis; ARISTOTLE. Liber topicorum, De sophisticis elenchi, Priora analytica, Posterioria analytica, in Latin. France: mid- and late 12th century and early 13th century]. Decorated manuscript on vellum. 173 ff., complete. Collation: 114 2-68; 7-108 116 125 (of 6, f. 12/1 blank removed); 13-146 158; 16-198; 20-228. Detailed contents: Porphyry, Isagoge ff.1-4 and 11-14v (ff. 5-10v a second copy inserted in the middle of the first gathering); Aristotle, Categoriae ff. 14v-25v; Aristotle, Liber Peri hermenias ff. 25v-31v; Boethius, Liber de divisione ff. 31v-38v; Boethius, De differentiis topicis, books I-III, ff. 38v-53v; Boethius, De syllogismus categoricis, opening sections only, ff. 53v-54v; Aristotle, Liber topicorum ff. 55-97 [a blank leaf, the pair to ff.55, has been removed from the end of this section but there is no gap in either this text or the following]; Aristotle, De sophisticis elenchis ff. 98-117v; Aristotle, Priora analytica, in the Chartres recension ff. 118-149v; Aristotle, Posteriora analytica ff. 150-172v; notes on humors and brief quotations, additions in a 15th-century hand, ff.172v-173v. Six discrete text blocks (200 x 135 mm. and smaller), each ruled in a different pattern of between 29 and 38 lines, written in dark brown or black ink in different small proto-gothic or gothic bookhands. Opening initials of pale red or brown and red, diagrams in text on ff.132v and 138 and in margin of f.3, extensive marginalia in various hands, ranging from detailed explanatory text and diagrams to informal marginal sketches. Modern blindstamped calf over 15th-century bevelled wooden boards, 15th-century French manuscript deed on vellum (written on recto of a folded folio leaf), formerly used as pastedown, at end. Condition: a few wormholes in first leaves, rubbed or stained with some loss to text of ff. 1 and 2, f.106 with repair crossing text, vellum repairs to lower corner of f. 11, outer margin of f. 74 and lower margin of f. 91. Provenance: The individual text blocks are all in French hands, and several of the annotations are in French, providing evidence that the collected manuscript remained in France. Many of the marginalia are seim-effaced A few are dated to the mid-13th century (1240 and 1269). Some of the annotations are unrelated to the text, transcribing for example, the opening of a letter, or recording the receipt of a mattress, but one note, on f. 117v, records payment to a scribe and may relate to the manuscript’s production (Mag[ist]ri karoli scriptoris p[ro] exemplari. ii sol[idi]) (1). — The manuscript deed that was used as a pastedown, dated 1407 and relating to a marriage settlement of Johanette, daughter of Jehan, living at \”Poulorgny,\” suggests that the manuscript was still in France when it was rebound in the fifteenth century. — Count Oswald Seilern (1901-1967, booklabel, sale Christies London, 26 March 2003, lot 3). A remarkable composite manuscript, consisting of a compendium of discretely produced manuscripts, originally from more than one codex, that were assembled in the 13th century to provide the entire corpus of works that make up the Aristotelian Organon (\”The Instrument\”). Organon was the name given by his followers to Aristotle’s six works on philosophical logic, accompanied by Porphyry’s introduction (Isagoge) and the commentaries by Boethius, through whose Latin translation the works were rediscovered and disseminated throughout medieval Europe. This corpus became the basis for the study of logic and the determining influence on scholastic thought. the assemblage of all of these texts in this thirteenth-century volume provides valuable evidence of the revival of interest in and circulation of the fundamental texts of Antiquity during the in the 12th and 13th centuries. The composite nature of the manuscript mirrors the incremental rediscovery of the Aristotelian corpus during the \”Renaissance of the twelfth century\”: the first section contains the works subsequently known as the logica vetus, written in a particularly fine and elegant hand, apparently in southern France in the middle of the 12th century. The quality of the penmanship in this section may have been the inspired the addition of the other texts and possibly ensured the preservation of the volume as a whole. The remaining texts contain the other logical texts of Aristotle, which became known as the logica nova, as they were only recovered in the course of the 12th century. It is not clear whether these other texts were added in a single campaign at a later date, although this seems unlikely, but it is evident that some attempt was made to give them a more uniform look by the addition of the pink-red initials and occasional paragraph marks. The annotations and marginalia attest to the manuscript’s extensive use by various readers from the 13th century and later. Precise clues as to provenance are scarce, most names being illegible or incomplete. The notes include erudite explanatory text and logical diagrams, including one, in a 13th-century hand, which schematically depicts Porphyry’s questions on the status of \”universals\” (the problem that brought forth scholasticism), as well as frivolous sketches: at the foot of f.51v is a labeled sketch of a physician holding a urine bottle, and in the outer margin of f.109 a knight astride his horse. Medieval Aristotle manuscripts of this quality and early date appear rarely on the market.
  

Lot 16b: North Italy, Lombardy?: early 16th century

An abbacus manuscript, in Italian. Decorated manuscript on vellum. [Italy], 1419. Signed and dated by the scribe, Joh[ann]es de Strasburg, 18 April 1419. 47 leaves: [19 2-48 56 68]. Possibly incomplete at beginning. Written in brown ink in a small upright cursive, single column, up to 51 lines (variable), section headings and paragraph marks in red, marginal initial capitals and table headings with red capital strokes. Catchwords in center of lower margins on final versos. Ten pages with geometrical diagrams (circles and triangles). Signed and dated at end \”facto e chompiuto adi 18 April 1419 / [in red] Qui scripsit scribat et sember cu[m] d[o]m[i]ni vivat / Amen solamen Steyg der blin uff den lamen / Joh[ann]es de Strasburg\”. Modern black goatskin. Condition: First leaf wrinkled and with large stain obscuring one to two words each from 7 lines on recto, occasional small stains Provenance: \”Piero (?)Strozzo,\” contemporary ownership inscription at end (of a member of the Florentine banking family?); several illegible or partly eradicated early inscriptions on final verso. — Later manuscript notes with geometrical diagrams on 5 leaves at end. a very fine example of a \”trattato dell’ abbaco\” or italian pedagogic manual of commercial mathematics, accounting and geometry. Beginning in the thirteenth century the rise of international trade and banking companies in the Italian city-states prompted the formation of vernacular schools in which commercial mathematics, accounting and writing were taught to sons of the merchant class. This was a radical departure from the humanist educational curriculum, which, if it included mathematics at all, was limited to classical or medieval Latin mathematics – algorisms for determining moveable feast days in the church calendar, or Euclidean geometry. Known as abbaco, this practical course of mathematics was recorded and transmitted in manuscript books, of which several hundred are known to survive, all in Italian, and the vast majority in institutional collections. Long thought to be abbreviated vernacular versions of the Latin Liber abbaci of the 13th-century mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, an encyclopaedia of practical mathematics, these abbaco manuscripts, of which the earliest dated example is from 1290, may in fact derive from a more widespread culture of commercial mathematics, already known by Fibonacci, and probably flourishing in Provence and/or Catalonia before reaching Italy. From the fourteenth to the sixteenth century so-called abbaco schools flourished throughout northern Italy, in different forms, with the Florentine version being a separate two-year course of study administered to boys aged 11 to 14, while other towns integrated the abbaco teaching into the vernacular schools. The present manuscript opens with problems of addition, multiplication, and division, including fractions. (\”Abbaco books. did not usually explain addition and subtraction, probably leaving this to the teacher to do\” – Grendler, p. 313). It proceeds quickly to \”the heart of abbaco. solving the mathematical problems of business. The ordinary abbaco book might contain four hundred problems and their solutions, of which the largest group by far were business problems (op. cit., p. 314). This manuscript is no exception. The many problems, most presented in a literary, story-telling form that is typical of the genre, relate to commercial arrangements, payment of merchandise, commercial partnerships, measurements and weights, money exchange, etc. Several schematic tables show how to calculate distances; others show different accounting methods or methods of calculating interest. A few other problems are of the \”recreational\” sort described by Grendler, designed to exercise purely mathematical skills. The final section, illustrated with neat diagrams, is devoted to practical geometry. Like all abbaco manuscripts, this one contains a trove of information on late medieval Italian commercial practices. The fact that the manuscript is signed and dated adds to its interest and documentary value. The concluding jingle of the scribe Johann from Strassburg is written in an unusual mixture of Italian and German. Written in the lower margins in a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century Italian hand, the later notes testify to the manuscript’s continued use two or three centuries after its production. Abbaco manuscripts appear very rarely on the market. Cf. Paul F. Grendler, Schooling in Renaissance Italy (Baltimore & London 1989), chapter 11, \”Learning Merchant Skills\”; Warren Van Egmond, Practical Mathematics in the Italian Renaissance: a Catalog of Italian Abbacus Manuscripts and Printed Books to 1600 (Florence 1981). Cf. Paul F. Grendler, Schooling in Renaissance Italy (Baltimore & London 1989), chapter 11, \”Learning Merchant Skills\”; Warren Van Egmond, Practical Mathematics in the Italian Renaissance: a Catalog of Italian Abbacus Manuscripts and Printed Books to 1600 (Florence 1981).

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAVES , France,15th Century. Three leaves from a noted Missal , in Latin, on vellum. [France, ? Britanny, c. 1430s]. each (310 x 230 mm). Double column, 30 lines in black ink in an upright gothic bookhand between 4 verticals and 31 horizontals ruled in grey, one leaf with respectively 9 and 10 lines of musical notation on verso, in square neumes on four-line red staves. Rubricated in red, one heading in gold. Guide letters for rubrics in margins. Numerous illuminated initials in various sizes: three large initials in blue or red on burnished gold grounds with red or blue infill and white penwork decoration, 43 three- to one-line initials in gold on blue and red grounds and with gold, blue and red foliate infill, three line-fillers or Greek crosses in blue or red on gold grounds. Three pages including the page with music with bar borders in burnished gold and pink or blue and with full illuminated borders of acanthus leaves and flowering naturalistic plants in red, blue, green, or gold and hairline tendrils in black ink terminating in gold disks, flower buds and trefoils. Condition: a few small marginal holes and some holes in text block caused by acidic ink. Provenance: Cornelius J Hauck Collection, sale Christies New York, 27th June 2006 lot 104. These leaves were part of a lavishly decorated Missal. The style of the border decoration, particularly the use of orange and liquid gold fruits, evokes the illuminator known as the Master of Margaret of Orléans (duchess of Brittany), and the manuscript may have been produced in Brittany. The leaves contain the opening of the Introit Benedicta sit sancta trinita for Mass on Trinity Sunday, the Introit Resurrexi et adhuc tecum for Mass on Easter Sunday, and the Preface Per omnia secula seculorum from the Canon of the Mass.

BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rouen, in Latin. Late 15th Century Northern France (probably Rouen), [c. 1470-80 and c. 1520]. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Small 4to (160 x 110 mm). 236 leaves, 1 blank, complete, red ink foliation skips a leaf between fols.86 and 87, ruled in red ink, 25 lines, written-space 112mm. by 70mm.

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Auction : History roll ~ Psalterium ~ Horae …

Sur ebay, plusieurs pièces intéressantes. Les notices sont celles des vendeurs …
§ Un document d’origine française assez exceptionnel: une pancarte chronique du XIVe s.

Comment Godefroy de Billon conquist Ierusalem et en fut fait roy. etc

A 14 or 15th century sheet of parchment (125 x 57 cm) which traces the history and descent of the Popes, the Holy Roman Emperors, the Kings of France and of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Lot 111 in the celebrated Hauck sale (the History of the Book, 28 june 2006) was the last time to my knowledge that a complete roll came up for auction 55.5 x 1915cm (63’10\” x 1’10\”) and made a staggering 140.000 $.
In the last section of the sheet, the following genealogy of kings and queens is mentioned:
Philip IV (April-June 1268 – November 29, 1314)
Philip V (c.1292/93 – 3 January 1322)
Blanche of Valois (1317–1348)
On left side is a list with popes
Clement VI (1342-52)
Innocent VI (1352-62)
Urban V (1362-70)
Gregory XI (1370-78)
Urban VI (1378-89)
As I can figure out the segment next to Clement VI talks about indulgences, and I take this to refer to the Bull Unigenitus, January 27, 1343, in order to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences.
For it says in the HAUCK catalogue:
Other versions survive, showing that it was a composition (meaning the history of the kings of France, the conquest Jerusalem etc) that was repeatedly updated to provide a pedigree for the current King of France. For example the introduction to the manuscript in Paris (Bib. Nat. MS fr. 61) that ends with Charles VII (d.1461) declares the scope of the work to continue until 1375 and Charles V. The copyist obviously overlooked this anachronism. There is a similar scribal oversight in the present manuscript showing that this too was an updated copy of an earlier text.
Four other Chronicle rolls closely related to the Hauck manuscript and apparently copies of the same version are in the New York Public Library, MS 124 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the end of the Middle Ages, 1975, p.166), Cambridge, Mass., Houghton Library, bMS Typ 41 [Link] (Roger Wieck, Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts 1350-1525 in the Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass. 1983, pp. 22-23), A roll in the London Borough of Croydon Archive and a roll formerly the property of the Earl of Derby sold at Christie’s, London, 26 November 1997 lot 5, for £40,000.
Illumination:
There are three miniature roundels: two of a king and one of a knight or king in a boat. Most likely depicting Godefroy de Bouillon on board a ship to conquer the Holy land (his name is mentioned in the manuscript). In the text 39 illuminated capitals, in blue with burnished gold.
Link: ebay Item number: 300198922634

§ Un psautier-hymnaire du XIV. Sud de la France, ou Italie.

111 f. 142 x 102 mm
Description: Measures approx. 6\” x 4.25\” (142 x 102mm) Collation is as follows: (1-11(8), 12(9) (of 10, lacking v, a blank? exised during construction?, a3(8), 14(6). 11 and vIII are blanks, as both 141 and v1. Both 1(8) and 14 have been folded back to form fly leaves when the present binding was put on. 28 lines written in a round gothic bookhand in dark brown and black ink. In two columns, except for the Kalendarium, between 4 verticals and 29 horizontals. Justification, written space 102 x 71mm; rubrics in red. Two-line initials in red or blue to begin with; hymns and canticles with penwork infill decoration and flourishes extending into margins. Each sentence beginning with a one-line initial in alternate red and blue. Eight historiated initials (Five seven-line; two six-line, and one five-line). Of very high quality. Some rubbing in places with a slight loss of text (except under UV light) at 12.8 recto. Written in one main hand, with a few additions by two other hands, the neater of which may have written the Kalendarium. There is no foliation, but 12 of the 14 gatherings have catchwords at the bottom of the verso of their last leaf, answered by the first word of the next gathering. These are from gatherings 2 to 13 inclusive. Content: (1) Kalendarium. (1.2 recto to 1.7 verso). Then (2) The 150 Psalms, interspersed with 25 hymns, dominical and ferial, with canticles, antiphons, and rubrics for offices of Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext etc. (On 2.1 recto to 12.1 verso column a). Then (3) Hymns, Canticles, including Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis, TeDeum etc and Litany. The main text begins at 2. 1 recto with Incipit Liber Hymnorum vel Soliloquiorum Prophetans de Christo etc. Quire 12 has nine leaves. One leaf (the 5th in order) has been neatly removed, leaving only a stub. One would expect the bibliofola to conjunct thus; 1+10, 2+9, 3+8, 4+7, 5+6 but 5 is not conjunct with 6. Without stressing the binding, it is difficult to see its fellow. However it may have been cut out during the writing of this quire, as otiose. Comparison with the list of saints invoked in the Litany in York Minister Library Psalterium XVI.0.19 (of the 13th Century) reveals that ‘Omnes Sancti Confessores’ is immediately followed by ‘Sancta Maria Magdalena’. This is exactly the same sequence as we find here from the last entry on 12.4 verso and the and the first entry on the recto of the next text leaf. There is the further point that had a text leaf been lost, it would have had to contain an additional 112 saints names. For both these reasons, it seems safe to conclude that no text is missing, and that this handsome volume from circa 1350 A.D.
Illumination: The subjects of the historiated initials, and their placing are as follows: 2.1 Recto: Beatus Vir Qui. (Psalm 1) King David against cobalt blue background; the aged King plucks a four-stringed harp and wears a golden crown and halo. 3.5 Verso: Dominus Illuminatio Mea. (Psalm 26). S.James the Great. Against a pink oval field, clutching a black cross, with his left side covered by a lime green gown. Also a rough brown hair shirt etc. 5.4 Verso. Dixit Insipiens. In Corde Suo. (Psalm 52). A Fool against a light blue background, wearing a five-pointed jesters crown, and a three-buttoned orange tunic. His right hand loosely grips a curiously-headed rattle. There are further miniatures for Psalm 68 (S. Laurence); Psalm 80 (S.Benedict?), Psalm 97 (St. Barbara) and Psalm 109 (Christ). The 150 Psalms were sung each week. The historiated initials placed at the head of the Psalms mentioned, mark the first Psalms for Matins each day, and the first Psalm for Sunday Vespers. Hence there are, as there should be, eight such initials. The Hymarium with its 68 hymns begins at 12.8 recto. Its beginning is marked by an initial ‘P’ (for Primo dierium omnium). The figure which would originally have been within the bowl of the ‘P’ has, puzzingly, been rubbed out. (May one guess at a saint who subsequently fell into disfavour, or who’s feast was suppressed?)
Binding: The hollow back indicates the present binding to be later than 1770, probably 19th century. The covers are blindtooled to a panel design using a 7-line fillet, Inside this border is an intricate interlace pattern etc. Vellum pastedowns and rougher parchment endleaves. The four compartments of the spine are decorated with an X pattern framed by a 3-line fillet on each side. The sewing does not correspond with the three false raised bands, and its brightness suggests it may well be contemporary with the binding. The slight worming in the gutter margin of the Kalendarium leaves is not continued into the Incipit leaf which follows. This, coupled with the different hand of the Kalendarium from that of the main text, may suggest that the Kalendarium was written a little later than the main text.
Dating: A terminus post quem for the Kalendarium is provided by the presence of Peter Martyr O.P. among the April Saints. He was not canonised until 1253. A terminus for the main text is given by the inclusion (13.5 recto) of the Feast of Corpus Christi, whose observance was commanded by Urbanus IV in the Bull Transiturus of 1264. The liturgical, gothic bookhand remained remarkably consistent even to the end of the 15th century, but to suggest a date in the middle of the 14th century would seem reasonable. (1270 A.D.-1350 A.D.) Colouring and stylistic features of the historiated initials are both consonant with this date of 1350 A.D. Research into costume dress and features (eg. The three buttons of the Fools smock) (5.4 verso) may help to furnish a more precise date still.
Provenance: Of the saints in the Kalendarium whose feasts have a local rather than a general celebration, some 29 enjoy special veneration in the South of France and North Italy. The Feasts have either three or nine readings attached to them – a mark of a secular rather than a monastic church. This Psalterium seems likely to have been written then for a secular church somewhere near the borders between Provence and Northern Italy, a church rich enough to pay the services of an accomplished painter of miniatures.
Link: ebay Item number: 330208582330

§ HORAE B.M.V. Illuminated Manuscript Book of Hours.
Très modeste Livre d’heures.

Use of Poiters, France, Circa 1460 – 1480.
107 leaves on vellum, 99 x 77.5 mm with 17 lines per page.
Written in brown ink of letter batarde script. Rubrics in red, initials throughout in burnished gold on red and blue grounds and calendar with major feasts in red.
Seven leaves with ¾ borders of acanthus leaves and flowers with burnished gold bezants, three and four line initials of burnished gold on colored grounds, and colored initials on burnished gold grounds. Two miniatures in arched compartments above two and eight lines of text with full borders of colored acanthus leaves, flowers, branches and a bird.
Rebound in recent years in genuine 15th century red brocade velvet having string closures and nail studs on fore-edge of binding.
Fifteenth century English lead pilgrim badge mounted on front fly-leaf, probably remounted there when rebound.
f. 1-12. Calendar
f. 13. Fragments of Passion according to St John
f. 14v-17. Intercessory Prayers to the Virgin
f. 18-20. Blanks, ruled and lined
f. 21r-29r. The Hours of the Virgin (Matins); opens with a miniature of the Annunciation in a Gothic interior
f. 29v-38. Lauds through Vespers, each Hour opened with a ¾ border
f. 39r-56. Compline opened with a ¾ border
f. 57r-66. Penitential Psalms opens with miniature of King David in Prayer
f. 67r-70v. Litany of Saints
f. 71-100. Miscellaneous prayers
f. 101-102. Blanks, ruled and lined
f. 103. Prayers in Fench
f. 104-107. Prayers in Latin
Largely fine throughout, text lightly faded, a few leaves slightly rumpled, miniatures lightly thumbed with some light chipping. An elegant little personal prayer book no-doubt once owned by a wealthy nobleman or woman.
Link: ebay Item number: 270207745449

Un processionnal des dominicaines du monastère des Emmurées de Saint-Mathieu de Rouen

Le couvent des frères prêcheurs de Rouen fut fondé par saint Louis, dans le manoir Saint-Mathieu, au faubourg Saint-Sever, hors le pont, que le roi avait acquis dès 1261 de l’archevêque Eudes Rigault, en échange du vivier de Martainville. Y succédèrent les religieuses dites Emmurées, et antérieurement Sœurs de Saint-Dominique. En juin 1266, le roi leur fit présent d’une épine de la sainte couronne et de magnifiques ornements. Après sa mort, on leur donna un des os de sa main, dans un reliquaire de cristal.
Farin nous apprend qu’on lisait autrefois, à l’entrée de l’église, la vieille épitaphe sur pierre, ci-après :
L’an mil deux cent soixante-neuf,
Ce monastère fut fait neuf
Que l’en dit les sœurs Emmurées,
Et lequel en temps ancien
Saint Louis, roi très chrétien.
De François fonda en ce lieu
Au titre de saint Mathieu
De son règne l’an troisième
Avec le quarantième.
(Histoire de Rouen, édition 1738)

En faite, la date de la fondation du premier monastère est inconnue. Il fut détruit en 962, et dépendait de l’abbaye de Marmoutier (Indre-et-Loire). Occupé par les jacobins de 1222 à 1247, puis par les dominicaines à partir de 1263. Chapelle construite fin 3e quart 13e siècle. Couvent ruiné lors du siège de Rouen par Henri V roi d’ Angleterre en 1418. Reconstruction de la chapelle, consacrée en 1479. Cloître 15e siècle. Couvent dévasté par les Calvinistes en 1562 et lors du siège de Rouen par Henri IV en 1591. Travaux de restauration au 17e siècle. Nef (et peut-être choeur) reconstruite en 1666. Supprimé à la Révolution. Bâtiments conventuels détruits vers 1855. Chapelle détruite par un incendie en 1876. Vestiges du cloître détruits vers 1935 © Inventaire général, 1986.
Sources: service régional de l’inventaire Haute-Normandie
Biblio: Paul Baudry, Le monastère des Emmurés, dans Revue de Rouen, 1848, p. 545-560. Sauvage, R.-N., Notes sur le monastère des Emmurées de Rouen, S.l.n.d. Voir cartulaire aux AD 76, H 68.
 
Arader Galleries de New York présente à la vente un processionnal ayant appartenu au monastère des dominicaines de Saint-Mathieu de Rouen. Le manuscrit fut par la suite en possession du bibliophile normand Jacques Ribard (sans-doute Jacques Paul Vincent Adrien Ribard (° 24/01/1738, + 11/11/1813), fils de Jean-Nicolas Ribard & d’Elisabeth Sangdelion.
Notice du catalogue:
PROCESSIONAL, for the use of Dominican nuns, in Latin and French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [France, c.1520 and 1674] 225 x 158 mm. 69 leaves: iv +18, 23 (ii a singleton), 310 (vii and viii a bifolium), 42, 5-64, 72, 88, 96, 10-144, pagination 1-132 followed here, pp.i-iv, pp.35-40, pp.65 and pp.83-134 are all part of the 1674 remodelling, when pp.133 and 134 were left blank, nine lines of music of square notation on a four-line stave of red between nine lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand, justification: 193 x 108mm, rubrics in red, capitals touched yellow, original leaves with two-line initials of liquid gold on grounds of brick-red or blue and gold decoration within the rubrics, antiphons opening with either fine two-line illuminated initials with monochrome staves against grounds of liquid gold, usually with a flower-sprig as an infill, or with two-line black calligraphic initials with yellow wash, TWELVE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS with staves of liquid gold against grounds of red and blue, the biblical scenes in full colour and highlighted with liquid gold, TWO FULL-PAGE ILLUMINATED BORDERS, one of renaissance architectural forms, the other containing the standing figures of saints between flower-sprays against a liquid gold ground; the later leaves of the same format but with up to 28 lines on text-only pages, and restricted to two-line initials of red (borders rubbed, three historiated initials smudged, text erased and replaced, some text alterations made by pasting on updatings). Contemporary calf, panelled in blind with spine gilt in six compartments and with red morocco lettering-piece (some rubbing). CONTENT: Prefatory instructions ff.ii-iv; Table of contents ff.iv verso; chants for the processions on the following feasts: Purification of the Virgin, Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Ascension, Corpus Christi, Dedication of the Church, St Dominic, Assumption, St Louis, King of France, St Matthew, All Souls’ Day, St Adrian, St Roch pp.1-97; Offices for taking the veil, for the burial of the Dead and the Office of the Dead, Antiphon of St Barbara pp.97-132; chants in honour of the Virgin added in a slightly later hand pp. 133-134. The Processional has undergone extensive remodelling from its original form. This may have been to bring it into line both with post-Tridentine usage and the liturgical requirements of S. Mathieu at Rouen. Sections of text and music have been erased and replaced with detailed instructions and rubrics in French, often evoking a vivid picture of the ritual of religious life. ILLUMINATION: The historiated initials are the work of the illuminator known as the Master of Girard Acarie from his work in the splendid copy of the Roman de la Rose that Acarie presented to Francois I around 1525: Margareta Friesen, Der Rosenroman fur Francois I. New York Pierpont Morgan Library M.948, Graz 1993. The Master, along with the Master of the Ango Hours — with whom he sometimes collaborated — was part of the final phase of illuminated manuscript production in Rouen, where the trade in luxury manuscripts continued to flourish well into the 16th century, benefitting from the patronage of Cardinal d’Amboise, Louise of Savoy and other members of the court of Francois I. On a more modest scale, as befits its liturgical and monastic provenance, the present manuscript is, nonetheless, a characteristic demonstration of the Master of Girard Acarie’s decorative and suave style. The subjects of the historiated initials are as follows: p.1 Presentation in the Temple with full-page border; p.7 Entry into Jerusalem; p.18 Agony in the Garden; p.22 Christ washing Peter’s feet; p.41 Resurrection with full-page border; p.44 Transfiguration; p.49 Ruler offering bread and wine; p.55 Dedication of a Church; p.61 St Dominic; p.67 Assumption; p.73 St Louis; p.77 Apostle. Provenance: 1. The presence of three Dominican saints in the border of p.41 and the provision for the procession on the feast of St Dominic, p.61, suggest that the manuscript was originally made for the use of a Dominican convent. The style of illumination indicates that the manuscript was made in Rouen around 1425. 2. The title-page identifies the manuscript as ‘Pour le Chantre du Royal Monastere de S. Mathieu dit les Emmurees … Rouen‘ in the year 1674. The manuscript does contain the chants for the feasts of the Dedication of the Church and St Louis of France — founder of S. Mathieu — processions that the introduction says are specific to that convent, but it is unlikely that it was originally intended for the use of the precentress there. The manuscript was extensively modified in order to customise it, and other feasts specifically marked with a procession at the convent of S. Mathieu are part of the later additions, or, in the case of St Matthew, an adaptation of the feast for the Common of an Apostle. 3. M. Ribard, rue Morand [Rouen]: his label inside the upper cover. 4. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Ms 4393 (spine label and inscribed on flyleaf), bought from Royez; British Library, Loan 36/18.
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Richer de Senones et Jean Herculanus

La vente du 31 janvier 2008 (Paris, Cornette de Saint-Cyr) propose sous le lot 58 un très intéressant manuscrit concernant l’histoire de la Lorraine.
• Fratris Richerii Senoniensis religiosi Liber.
•• Anthonii illustrissi[mi] Lotharingie ducis vita.
Il s’agit d’un manuscrit de la première moitié du XVIe siècle en un volume petit in-12° (97 x 142 mm), maroquin brun, décor à froid ornant les plats, dos à nerfs (reliure fin XIXe s.) réunissant deux ouvrages distincts:
• Fratris Richerii Senoniensis religiosi Liber [Chronique de l’abbaye de Senones], par Richer, religieux de cette abbaye, suivi de:
•• Anthonii illustrissi[mi] Lotharingie ducis vita [Histoire d’Antoine (le Bon), duc de Lorraine], par Jean Herquel, dit Herculanus, chanoine de Saint-Dié.
119 f. numérotés (y compris la table) et 8 f. non numérotés.
Le premier manuscrit est daté de 1539 (f. 114) et la table porte les dates de 1539 (f. 118v) et 1545 (f. 119v). Textes rubriqués; lettrines rouges et bleues, la première ornée d’armoiries.
Quelques inscriptions manuscrites additionnelles en début et en fin du volume, dont quelques exlibris. L’une de ces mentions signale que « ce livre a appartenu à Jean Herquel, dit Herculanus, chanoine de St-Diez, qui a composé l’Histoire de St Diez qu’il a tiré presque en entier du présent ouvrage […]. »

On trouvera dans l’étude [en ligne] de Marie-José Gasse-Grandjean, Manuscrits médiévaux des monastères et chapitres vosgiens. Catalogues et inventaires (ARTEM / MENESTREL) plusieurs références à d’autres manuscrits du texte de Richer, moine de Senones (Epinal BM 121 & 229; Paris BnF Lat. 10016 (XIIIe s.), et de celui de Jean Herculanus (Nancy BM 537(348)

Richerii, Senoniensis monachi, historiarum liber.—Incipit :« Cum ea que, de mundi hujus creatione. » — 1588. Ecrit à longues lignes, en cursive. Il ne manque qu’un ou deux feuillets à la fin. La table est complète; elle se termine ainsi : Expliciunt capitula quinque librorum tractatus fratris Richerii, monachi Senoniensis, 1588, penultima Julii. » A la suite deux feuillets de prières. Cette chronique a été publiée par Dachery. (Voy. Spicil. t. II, p. 603, édit. in-fol.) D. Calmet en a donné des fragments dans les Preuves de son Histoire de Lorraine, et M. J. Cayon en a publié une traduction ancienne du XVIe siècle, intitulée: Chronique de Richer, moine de Senones, traduction française du XVIe siècle, sur un texte beaucoup plus complet que tous ceux connus jusqu’ici, publiée pour la première fois avec des éclaircissements historiques, sur les manuscrits des Tiercelin, de Nancy, et de la bibliothèque publique de la même ville. Nancy, librairie de Cayon-Liebault, 1843 (in-4°, 248 p., tiré à 100 exemplaires)
Sources: Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques des départements, III, 1861, p. 435
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