Amazing Illuminated Medieval 15 c Manuscript Breviary
Medieval German Breviary with 100s of rubric initials
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Sunday, July 13, 2008 |
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Description
GERMAN BREVIARY/TEMPORAL ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT IN LATIN ON PAPER [Southern German or Austria, c. 1490-1500] ¡¡¡WONDERFULLY ILLUMINATED AND DECORATED MANUSCRIPT!!! This is an ORIGINAL (NOT A REPRODUCTION!!!) medieval Breviary handwritten and handpainted on STURDY WELL-PRESERVED PAPER!!! Complete in itself, though beginning with the feast of the Trinity, this large-scale Breviary opens with an unusual painted initial and, whereas some saints point to the area of Salzburg in Austria, the manuscript may have been made for use by a member of the secular clergy rather than in a monastic foundation. The Breviary is the composite book of the Divine Office, used both privately and in the performance of the office in common. Its importance resides in its liturgical as well as personal devotional use. Its importance to the Middle Ages rests on its ability to reveal local usage despite the increasing standardization of liturgical use prompted by the desire for uniformity in the Catholic Church. ¡¡¡Amazing Illuminated Front Initial!!! This manuscript begins with a LARGE EIGHT-LINE ILLUMINATED FULLY DECORATED INITIAL (52 x 45 mm). The large initial ‘I” has show a delicate artist’s hand with a brown, yellow, and black paint filling a geometric diamond pattern. This pattern is surrounding by blue and red patterns. The white letter “I” exhibits ACANTHUS TRAITS showing the quality of the artist. Click On Image to Enlarge Hundreds of painted initials and rubrics in the manuscript!! Click On Images to Enlarge These amazing Lombard initials are set in a text with several important liturgical offices. ff. 3v, Rerum creator optime; f. 4r, Nox atra rerum contegit; f. 5r, Conditor alme syderum; f. 11r, Vexilla regis prodeunt fulget; f. 13v, Veni creator spiritus mentes tuorum; f. 21r, Exultet celum laudibus resultet terra gaudiis; f. 24v, Populus qui ambulat in tenebris vidit lucem; f. 26r, Qvis est iste qui venit de edom; Click On Images to Enlarge Manuscript and Binding Details This manuscript has 31 folios, complete in itself, written in an WONDERFUL ANGULAR GOTHIC liturgical bookhand on 30 lines per page in two columns. The text is ruled in pencil and rubricated throughout. This manuscript is bound in modern brown leather binding, spine rounded, bumps on edges and slight wear to cover, modern heavy bonded paper used as guard pages and pastedowns. CONDITION Several guide letters for the rubricator appear throughout, corrections to text in two contemporary gothic hands. corrections to text by rubricator marginalia in mid sixteenth-century semi-humanist script, very slight worming on spine edge and upper margin, slight to moderate foxing, water stains in upper margin from ff. 20-31 with no affect on text, medieval repairs to paper on ff. 1, 3, 24 and 25. This is a high quality Breviary. PROVENANCE A provenance in southern Germany or Austria can be conjectured on the style of the decoration and by the prominence of certain saints. Bishop Rubert of Salzburg (March 27), Saint George Martyr (April 24), Saint Walpurgis (May 1), and Saint Mauricius of Agaunum (Sept. 22). The paper, from northern Italy or Germany, is consistent with this proposed origin. Dimensions 290 X 216 mm. Click On Images to Enlarge This exquisite illuminated Germany Breviary is being offered here for sale with a modest reserve. The buyer of this manuscript will have the item shipped once the bank cashier's check or money order has cleared. The manuscript will be shipped to both the United States and abroad.
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