(Q2561)
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From a manuscript bequeathed to Beauvais Cathedral by Robert de Hangest (d. 1356); the cathedral library was dispersed at the French Revolution; a group of its best manuscripts re-appeared in the sale of the architect Gay, Lyons, October 1833.
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Henri-Auguste Brölemann (1775-1869), of Lyons, and by descent to his grandson Arthur Brölemann (1826-1904) and his great-granddaughter Madame Etienne Mallet; her sale, Sotheby’s, 5 May 1926, lot 161, to Permain; Otto F. Ege (1888-1951), who cut it up.
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s. XIII(ex); 1285-1299
13. century
1285Gregorian
1299Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Figurative details, One leaf: 8 illuminated initials, 2-line, in colours with long branching marginal extensions.
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Other decoration, One leaf: Some capitals touched in red, 7 calligraphic capitals with yellowish wash.
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Script, One leaf: Gothic.
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Music, One leaf: Music in black neumes on 4-line red staves.
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Layout, One leaf: Apparently ruled in plummet (very faint), ruled for 21 lines (although interrupted by bars of music), each column 197 mm. by 59 mm. with 15 mm. between columns.
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Manuscript note: The Lilly leaf is no. 15 in a boxed set Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, Western Europe: XII-XVI century limited to 40 copies (of which the Lilly set is no. 24), assembled by Otto Ege (1888-1951); cf. Chalmers 2005, p. 114, no. 51. Other leaves from the Missal of Robert de Hangest include Cleveland Museum of Art, 82.141; Ohio, Oberlin College, Allen Memorial...
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One leaf: Written in two sizes of script, the larger writing in a liturgical textualis ‘sine pedibus’ (with flattened-off downstrokes), rubrics and smaller script in a slightly less formal textualis.
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One leaf: Latin.
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f. 1r-v: The leaf is from the summer portion of the Sanctoral in a Missal, from the secret on the feast of Saint John before the Latin Gate (6 May), followed by the translation of Saint Nicholas (9 May), and Saints Gordian and Epimachus (10 May) as far as the collect.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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