Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
(MANUSCRIPT.) [Noted Ferial Psalter and hymnal.] liturgical manuscript in latin on vellum, written in gothic script in black ink with headings and rubrics in red, and with music in Hufnagel notation on 4-line staves. Initials of varying sizes in red or blue, including 8 large initials with penwork decoration at beginning of Psalms 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 97, and 109. Ruled in brown throughout. [146] (of [150]) leaves (1 in 6, 2-19 in 8); lacks leaves 1, 26, 94, and 150 (blank?). 294x205 mm, 17th-century calf over wooden boards, covers blind-tooled to panel design formed by ornamental rolls enclosing repetitions of Holy Monogram stamp, brass catches, lacks clasps, portions of leather missing from top of spine and cover edges and corners; darkening of vellum and soiling throughout, occasionally heavy, intermittent rubbing of text with some passages nearly or entirely illegible, hole in leaves 105, 110, 111, and 138 causing generally limited text loss, 113 torn in lower outer corner affecting several words, scattered dark stains, other imperfections not affecting text. Western Germany (diocese of Münster?), 14th century

Additional Details

Contents: 2r-6v, Calendar, lacking first leaf; 7r-112v, Ferial Psalter, lacking leaves 26 and 94; 113r-118v, canticles, litany, and miscellaneous prayers; 119r-132r, Office of the Dead; 132v-149r, miscellaneous prayers and hymns, lacking leaf 150, possibly blank.

The calendar follows Grotefend's example for Münster with only minor variations and includes feasts for several saints from Western Germany and the Low Countries, of which 3 are for St. Ludger, the first Bishop of Münster (March 26, April 24 in red, and October 3).