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Crucifixion of Christ, a historiated initial on a leaf from an Antiphonary, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Germany (Regensburg), c.1310]
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Vellum
single leaf, 458mm. by 368mm., historiated initial ‘O’ (opening “Omnes amici mei dereliquerunt me …”, the first response for the first nocturn of Matins for Good Friday) in blue with red foliage on a silver ground framed in thin black and broad red lines and decorated with red and blue pen-flourishing extending into the borders, enclosing Christ on the Cross bleeding profusely and being mourned by the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist against a burnished gold ground, eight 4-line red staves with music and text in a gothic bookhand, rastrum 24mm., original prickings as ruling guides along inner margin, rubrics in red, initials in plain red or brown with similar penwork decoration, contemporary foliation on recto in brownish-red ink in centre at top ‘187’, and modern pagination in brown ink in upper right corner ‘384’ and ‘[3]85’, illumination with pigment losses affecting the body of Christ, gold and silver scuffed and chipped, remains of paper and tape along edges on verso from previous mounting, good to fair condition
Catalogue Note
From the same manuscript as the previous lot.