161 - Middle Ages - Antiphonary Leaves

Middle Ages - Antiphonary Leaves Four fragments from an antiphonary or psalter, featuring numerous colored initials in red and blue and a colored staff system. Latin manuscript. Gothic Textualis (liturgical minuscule) on parchment. 15 x 16.5 cm to 38.6 x 22 cm. Central Europe, late 14th–early 15th century (1370–1430). Provenance: Estate of a bookbinder. - Fragments of endpapers from a book binding. The music is written on red four-line staves with squares and diamonds (square notation), a system that developed from the late 11th century onward and became the standard for Gregorian chant in the 13th–15th centuries. The shape of the neumes (clear squares, pes, clivis, etc.) and the relatively dense, uniform textual notation suggest the 14th–early 15th century rather than early Romanesque or very late Renaissance script. Content includes the antiphons for Psalms 80 and 88. — Partially typical of such fragments, with lacunae and blackened areas on the verso. Four fragments from an antiphonary or psalter with numerous colored initials in red and blue and colored staff lines. Latin manuscript. Gothic textualis (liturgical minuscule) on parchment. 15 × 16.5 cm to 38.6 × 22 cm. Central Europe, late 14th to early 15th century (1370–1430). Provenance: From the estate of a bookbinder. — Scrap fragments removed from a binding. The music is written on red four-line staves with square and diamond-shaped notes (square notation), which developed in the late 11th century and became the standard for Gregorian chant from the 13th to the 15th century. The form of the neumes (clear squares, pes, clivis, etc.) and the relatively dense, even textualis script point more toward the 14th to early 15th century than toward early Romanesque or very late Renaissance script. Contents include the antiphons of Psalms 80 and 88, respectively. - Partially exhibits the typical defects and darkening on the verso side found in such fragments. This lot is subject to standard tax. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offset Prints, Photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union. This work is subject to the standard tax regime. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints, and photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union.