Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIBLE IN LATIN. PSALMS.) [Psalterium Davidicum.] 131, [1] leaves; lacking preliminaries and end matter, which have been replaced with extensive contemporary manuscript additions. Gothic type, printed in red and black. 8vo, 158x118 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with brass catches, lacking clasps, rebacked, endpapers renewed, raised bands worn. (Paris: Claude Chevallon, 1536)

Additional Details

The manuscript additions consist of an 8-leaf calendar at the beginning (with the first leaf bound out of order) and over 100 leaves at the end comprising collects, chapters, prayers, and litany, followed by hymns with music in Hufnagel notation and another litany, with a few leaves excised from the music section. The text is in Latin with rubrics in Dutch, written in semi-Gothic hand in black ink with small initials in red or blue.