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1110
[Breviary]
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Breviary with prayers and Psalms, in Latin and French
. [France, 15th c.].
Manuscript on vellum, c. 13,7 x 10 cm, 18th-c. calf (rubbed), richly gilt spine on 4 raised bands, gilt
sides, red edges, marbl. endpapers, [156] ruled ff., skilfully written in various gothic hands in black/
brown ink, 14 ll. (a few margins sl. soiled or stained); kept in a cloth box. Well-preserved.
Cfr. ill.
€ 5000/7000
Very attractive religious manuscript,
rubricated
throughout, with
hundreds of 2- or 3-line penwork
initials in red or blue, all with gold foil
(some initials extending into the margin), 1 f. with extensive
leafy decoration in the margin, a number of ff. with rectangular horizontal penwork decoration in
red and blue.
Contents
: (f. 1-11) French Calendar (lacking “July”), with some typical saints in red
(Pol, Adix, Yves, Eloy, Loys Roy, Andrieu); (f. 12-156) Gospel readings, Psalms and prayers, with
1 blank f. (ruled) and last 7 ff. in French. Old entry on top of f. 1. Modern bookpl. François Eygun.
1111
[Breviary]
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Breviary, containing Psalterium, Hymnarium, various Officia
, and smaller related
texts. [France?, Low Countries?, 1487?]. Latin manuscript on vellum, cont. blind gauffered leather
(skilfully repaired with blank ff. as pastedowns, catch and clasp gone), spine on 3 raised bands,
a.e.g. (fading), c. 13,5 x 9,5 cm, 245 ff., quired 1:10, 2:8, 3-19:10, 20:14, 21:10, 22:8, 23:6(?), 24:10
(-1?), numbered 1-10 in pencil, 1-235 in old red ink (blank f. 225 cut out, blank ff. 231-232 bound
at front as pastedown and flyleaf), writing area of f. 8,2 x 5,8 cm, 21 ll., catchwords within penwork
border and centered; kept in a cloth box. Exc. condition.
Cfr. ill.
€ 6000/8000
Interesting nicely executed liturgical ms.
Contents
: [1]v-[3]v “Ratio ad invenie(n)du(m) pasca (...)”,
dated 1487
; [4] blank; [5]r-[10]v
Calendar (Rome); 1r-142v Psalterium; 143r-163r “Hymni per totum annum”; 163v-178v Offices
of the Holy Virgin, and of the Dead; 178v-181v 7 Psalmi Penitentiales + Litany; 182r-188r Kyrie,
Antiphona, Hymni; 188r-192v Officium Sanctae Crucis; 193r-208v Missa; 209r-223v Confessionale
Magistri Ioannis Viterbiensis; 224r-235 blank (but for 2 ll on f. 234r).
Decoration
: rubricated in red/blue throughout;
2
five-line gilt initials
(one with King David);
numerous 2-line and 5-line initials in red/blue with penwork extending into the margin. Pasted on
front flyleaf: drawing of an angel, c. 9,5 x 4 cm, on vellum, cut out of another ms., in blue and red
with a gilt halo.
1112
[Cervera University]
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Doctoral degree in philosophy
awarded to Ignatius Riera y Balle by the
University of Cervera in 1784
, vellum, c. 33,5 x 48,5 cm. Good condition.
€ 100/200
Rare specimen of a doctoral degree awarded by the University of Cervera (Lleida, Catalonia),
created by Philip V (1683-1746) in 1707, but in 1842 relocated to Barcelona. The student Riera y
Balle was a native of Arens de Mar (Gerona). General text printed 1760 and names and dates added
in handwriting in red and brown ink (margin soiled, sm. marginal tears).
1113
[Chronology]
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[ROCOLES, Jean-Baptiste de]
- “Explication du calendrier romain; Traite de la
grammaire en general; Abregé de chronologie avec la maniere de lire l’histoire; Genealogie; Des
filosofes”. [France or Netherlands?, after 1682]. French manuscript on ruled paper, c. 16 x 10 cm,
cont. sheep (rubbed), gilt titled spine on 5 raised bands (head and tail def.), gilt sides, sp. edges,
marbl. endpapers, 305-[3 blank] pp., well written in brown ink. Very good condition.
€ 120/200
Collection of historical essays, in all probability by the former French Benedictine scholar Rocoles
(1630-1696), in those years settled in the Netherlands. Pp. 244-257 agree with pp. 122-146 of his
“Introduction générale à l’histoire prophane” (4th ed. Paris 1672). On p. 210 there is a reference
to a recent French trsl. of Denis Petau, “Abregé chronologique de l’histoire” (Paris 1682). Old
name on flyleaf “Du Tillet”.