Western Manuscripts
Catalog Information: 106 lots | 84 with images
Date: 2005
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: ROMANESQUE MUSIC, THREE LEAVES FROM LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPTS ON VELLUM
[Germany, twelfth century]3 separate leaves, (a) 2 leaves from a large noted Breviary, 330mm. by 230mm., 21 lines, written in 2 sizes of a very fine romanesque liturgical script, capitals touched in red, 47 lines with adiastematic neumes above the te [...more]
Lot 2: s - MEDIEVAL MUSIC, THREE LEAVES FROM LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPTS ON VELLUM
[fourteenth century]3 separate leaves, (a) 2 leaves from what seems to be a polyphonic setting of the Mass, 325mm. by 230mm., 7 lines of extremely elaborate music on 5-line red staves, red and blue initials, parts of 2 very large red initials with el [...more]
Lot 3: A LARGE COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENTS AND CUTTINGS, MOSTLY IN LATIN, SOME ILLUMINATED, ON
A LARGE COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENTS AND CUTTINGS, MOSTLY IN LATIN, SOME ILLUMINATED, ON VELLUM AND PAPER[thirteenth to seventeenth century]approximately 128 leaves and fragments, including (a) a leaf of a Latin Bible (Numbers 6-7), 147mm. by 9 [...more]
Lot 4: LEAVES AND FRAGMENTS FROM LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPTS, IN LATIN, ON VELLUM
[mostly Germany, thirteenth to fifteenth century]20 fragments from various manuscripts, including (a) a horizontal strip from a noted Missal, 62mm. by 228mm., with Matthew 2:22-23 and the gradual for Epiphany; (b) a piece of an Antiphoner, 78mm. by 1 [...more]
Lot 5: 29 LEAVES FROM A BREVIARY AND 15 LEAVES FROM A GRADUAL, MANUSCRIPTS ON VELLUM AND PAPER
[Rhineland, fourteenth and fifteenth century]44 detached leaves (a few bifolia) from 2 manuscripts, (a) 29 leaves from a Breviary [Use of Cologne], on vellum, 169mm. by 122mm., double column, 31 lines, written-space 123mm. by 85mm., small gothic scri [...more]
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