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MISSAL: MASS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, SANCTORAL, OCTAVE OF THE FOUR CROWNED MARTYRS (8 NOV.)
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Description |
MS in Latin on vellum, Amiens (or Beauvais), France, 1300-1325, 2 ff., 29x20 cm, 2 columns, (20x14 cm), 21 lines in a formal Gothic book script of highest grade, square notation on a 4-line red staff with C clef, a 1-line decorated initial in blue, pink and orange with white highlighting, 14 2-line decorated initials in gold, blue and pink, some with single bar borders, with ivy leaf motif sprays, in pink, orange, blue and gold with white highlighting, 1 initial in the shape of a fish, illuminated with colours.
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Context |
This MS had 309 ff. when sold by Sotheby's in 1926. It was broken up by Otto F. Ege. Other leaves from same MS: 2 ff.: Rochester, Eastmann School of Music, Sibley Music Library; 1 f.: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Otto Ege, Cleveland, Ohio: 50 Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts ca. 1950, no. 33 (Christie's 26.6.1997:16), leaf 15; 2 ff.: Boston, Public Library, MS 110 + 1538; 1 f.: Chicago, University Club; 1 f.: Virginia, Hollins College Library, no 11; 1 f.: Pennsylvania, Pitcairn Collection, Glecairn Museum; 1 f.: New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M1021; 1 f.: Boston, Endowment for Biblical Research, MS Leaf 86; 1 f.: Sotheby's 25.11.1985:61; 1 f.: Maggs Bull. 11(1982):43; 2 ff.: Ferrini Cat. 1(1987):48-49; 1 f.: Duschnes Cat. 54:25; 1 f.: London, Christopher de Hamel Collection, MS 135; 1 f.: Harvard, Houghton Library pf. MS.Typ.405.
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Provenance |
Leaf 1: 1. Robert de Hangest, canon of Beauvais; 2. Beauvais Cathedral; 3. Henri Auguste Brölemann, Lyon (until 1854); 4. Arthur Brölemann, Lyon; 5. Etienne Mallet, Lyon (until 1926); 6. Sotheby's 4.5.1926:161; 7. Permain (from 1926); 8. Otto F. Ege, Cleveland, Ohio, 50 Leaves from Medieval MSS 1944/1945:10; 9. Ellin Mitchell, New York; 10. Bruce Ferrini, Akron, Ohio, March 1989; Leaf 2: 1 - 8 : As above; 9. Bernard Rosenthal Collection, I/226, San Francisco; 10. Bernard Quaritch Ltd., Cat. 1147(1991):60.
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