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from the Dring Bible, substantial fragment of a large format manuscript in Latin …

Auction 06.07.2016
06.07.2016
Schätzpreis
3.000 £ - 5.000 £
ca. 3.948 $ - 6.580 $
Zuschlagspreis:
2.000 £
ca. 2.632 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 30

from the Dring Bible, substantial fragment of a large format manuscript in Latin …

Auction 06.07.2016
06.07.2016
Schätzpreis
3.000 £ - 5.000 £
ca. 3.948 $ - 6.580 $
Zuschlagspreis:
2.000 £
ca. 2.632 $
Beschreibung:

from the Dring Bible, substantial fragment of a large format manuscript in Latin on parchment [England (perhaps Salisbury), c. 1250-70] 27 leaves, wanting 2 leaves from the 2nd gathering (once containing a number of entries for ‘t’), else complete: collation i16, ii12, 3 columns of 51 lines in a small and precise English early gothic bookhand, initials and paragraph marks in alternating red or blue, small initials marking off each section in red and blue with contrasting penwork and occasional spiky leaf-like decorative flourishes, one large variegated initial ‘A’ in red and blue with penwork infill and surround in same, extending at its foot into a long offshoot of mirrored stylised leaves eitherside of a bar and delicately scrolling penwork terminating in tiny cross-hatched penwork ‘tongues’ at their curling tips, all leaves with damage to borders in form of trimmings or tears (some of those at foot repaired later with strips of parchment), stripe of discolouration from old water damage along space between second and third columns throughout (causing splits and losses to some leaves; and perhaps from a period in which this section of book was stored folded over), a small section of last leaf cut out removing last 3 lines of first column there (this perhaps removed for reuse in other volume, see below), somewhat crudely sketched acanthus leaves in blank border of last leaf and penmarks of later ownership at foot of that leaf, else fair condition, first leaf detached, whole disbound but held together by original binding structures, 293 by 201mm. Provenance: (1) This is the missing final section of the Dring Bible (sold Sotheby’s, 18 June 1991, lot 74, for £71,500). The main body of the codex contains 64 historiated initials in the style of the Sarum Master, one of the earliest English professional painters whose style can be recognised, and the whole was produced for an English Benedictine house, most probably in the workshop of the Sarum Master c. 1250-70. The whole manuscript is best known for having been in Oxford by the fifteenth century and used there as a security for a loan in one of the university chests. An erased cautio mark on the endleaf now in the other volume, was read by N.R. Ker in 1949 (copy of correspondence included) as identifying the Chycheley Chest, established by Archbishop Henry Chichele with an endowment of 200 marks in 1432, and intended for members of the university to draw loans from, leaving behind an item of value (such as this book) until such time as the loan could be repaid. It may well have been deposited there by a Franciscan named Symon Dadynton, who named himself in an erased inscription read by Ker as having taken the book from an Oxford library: “Istum librum contulit frater Symon dadynton de custodia oxon’ librarie studencium oxon’ set et qua[…] alios contulit”. (2) The loan was probably never redeemed, and beside the cautio mark in the other volume is the monogram of the mid fifteenth-century Oxford stationer, John Doll. (3) The whole codex was owned by John Whyte c. 1500, and by November 1924 was in the collection of E.H. Dring (d. 1928), who had the borders of the other volume repaired and its missing initials replaced, and had that part bound by Riviere and Son. Both parts passed to his son, E.M. Dring (1906-90), with the other volume being sold by his executors in 1991, reappearing most recently in Jörn Günther’s Brochure 13, Discoveries from the Past (2013), no.1, and now in a private collection. Text: The text is that of the Interpretation to the Hebrew Names, in the “Aaz apprehens … Zusim consiliantes eos aut consiliatores eorum” form.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 30
Auktion:
Datum:
06.07.2016
Auktionshaus:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
Großbritannien und Nordirland
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

from the Dring Bible, substantial fragment of a large format manuscript in Latin on parchment [England (perhaps Salisbury), c. 1250-70] 27 leaves, wanting 2 leaves from the 2nd gathering (once containing a number of entries for ‘t’), else complete: collation i16, ii12, 3 columns of 51 lines in a small and precise English early gothic bookhand, initials and paragraph marks in alternating red or blue, small initials marking off each section in red and blue with contrasting penwork and occasional spiky leaf-like decorative flourishes, one large variegated initial ‘A’ in red and blue with penwork infill and surround in same, extending at its foot into a long offshoot of mirrored stylised leaves eitherside of a bar and delicately scrolling penwork terminating in tiny cross-hatched penwork ‘tongues’ at their curling tips, all leaves with damage to borders in form of trimmings or tears (some of those at foot repaired later with strips of parchment), stripe of discolouration from old water damage along space between second and third columns throughout (causing splits and losses to some leaves; and perhaps from a period in which this section of book was stored folded over), a small section of last leaf cut out removing last 3 lines of first column there (this perhaps removed for reuse in other volume, see below), somewhat crudely sketched acanthus leaves in blank border of last leaf and penmarks of later ownership at foot of that leaf, else fair condition, first leaf detached, whole disbound but held together by original binding structures, 293 by 201mm. Provenance: (1) This is the missing final section of the Dring Bible (sold Sotheby’s, 18 June 1991, lot 74, for £71,500). The main body of the codex contains 64 historiated initials in the style of the Sarum Master, one of the earliest English professional painters whose style can be recognised, and the whole was produced for an English Benedictine house, most probably in the workshop of the Sarum Master c. 1250-70. The whole manuscript is best known for having been in Oxford by the fifteenth century and used there as a security for a loan in one of the university chests. An erased cautio mark on the endleaf now in the other volume, was read by N.R. Ker in 1949 (copy of correspondence included) as identifying the Chycheley Chest, established by Archbishop Henry Chichele with an endowment of 200 marks in 1432, and intended for members of the university to draw loans from, leaving behind an item of value (such as this book) until such time as the loan could be repaid. It may well have been deposited there by a Franciscan named Symon Dadynton, who named himself in an erased inscription read by Ker as having taken the book from an Oxford library: “Istum librum contulit frater Symon dadynton de custodia oxon’ librarie studencium oxon’ set et qua[…] alios contulit”. (2) The loan was probably never redeemed, and beside the cautio mark in the other volume is the monogram of the mid fifteenth-century Oxford stationer, John Doll. (3) The whole codex was owned by John Whyte c. 1500, and by November 1924 was in the collection of E.H. Dring (d. 1928), who had the borders of the other volume repaired and its missing initials replaced, and had that part bound by Riviere and Son. Both parts passed to his son, E.M. Dring (1906-90), with the other volume being sold by his executors in 1991, reappearing most recently in Jörn Günther’s Brochure 13, Discoveries from the Past (2013), no.1, and now in a private collection. Text: The text is that of the Interpretation to the Hebrew Names, in the “Aaz apprehens … Zusim consiliantes eos aut consiliatores eorum” form.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 30
Auktion:
Datum:
06.07.2016
Auktionshaus:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
Großbritannien und Nordirland
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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