Speculum Ecclesiae, manuscript in Latin on paper [northern Europe (probably Brunswick, Troyes or Holland), late fourteenth century (probably c. 1380)] 12 leaves (single quire), main text complete (but with a number of leaves wanting from the second text which begins here on the verso of the last leaf), double column, 30 lines in a small secretarial hand with title in larger script written with a thick nib (combination of scripts similar to that of contemporary texts from the Low Countries: cf. the gathering written near Aachen and dated 1371 which was sold in Sotheby’s, 2 December 2014, lot 43), paragraph marks and initials in iridescent red, one large initial ‘I’ opening “Incipit” on first leaf, eighteenth-century “No 174” at head of first leaf and foliation at foot of leaves, spots, stains, and damage to initial of frontispiece, binding now coming apart, with first and last leaves loose in volume and others becoming so, overall fair, 216 by 142mm., modern card binding with parchment spine, separated from text at front and back Provenance: (1) Most probably written in either Brunswick, Troyes or Holland, c. 1380: the watermark is a letter P surmounted by a cross, which while recorded in general form by Briquet from the last decades of the fourteenth century through the first decades of the fifteenth, the size and simplicity of the cross here is a near match to Briquet 8462 (Brunswick, 1379), 8465 (Troyes, 1385) and 8470 (Holland, 1388). If this is correct, then this is an important witness to the earliest production of paper in northern Europe. By 1276, there were paper mills in Fabriano and Treviso, most probably introduced to the former by Arab prisoners who settled there. By 1340, paper production had proliferated in northern Italian towns, and the process then spread north of the Alps with an early mill functioning at Mainz, and others at Troyes in 1348, Holland in the 1340s or 1350s, and Nuremberg in 1390. No paper mill would be recorded in England until 1490. By the early decades of the fifteenth century, paper became a relatively common material for small collections of sermons and tracts, but remained the poor cousin to parchment until the invention of printing. Thus, these leaves here are witness to a period in which paper was in its first few decades of production outside of Italy, and was still far from common. (2) Harold Marshall of Harlesden: his early twentieth-century printed bookplate pasted inside front board, above a contemporary cutting from a catalogue with this as item “33”. Text The main text here is that of the Speculum Ecclesiae or Tractatus supra missam by Hugh of Saint-Cher (c. 1200-63), a French Dominican friar who became a cardinal and was the author of numerous Biblical commentaries and related works, including his Correctorium, a collection of variant readings of the Bible, the first concordance of the Bible, and a commentary on the Book of Sentences.
Speculum Ecclesiae, manuscript in Latin on paper [northern Europe (probably Brunswick, Troyes or Holland), late fourteenth century (probably c. 1380)] 12 leaves (single quire), main text complete (but with a number of leaves wanting from the second text which begins here on the verso of the last leaf), double column, 30 lines in a small secretarial hand with title in larger script written with a thick nib (combination of scripts similar to that of contemporary texts from the Low Countries: cf. the gathering written near Aachen and dated 1371 which was sold in Sotheby’s, 2 December 2014, lot 43), paragraph marks and initials in iridescent red, one large initial ‘I’ opening “Incipit” on first leaf, eighteenth-century “No 174” at head of first leaf and foliation at foot of leaves, spots, stains, and damage to initial of frontispiece, binding now coming apart, with first and last leaves loose in volume and others becoming so, overall fair, 216 by 142mm., modern card binding with parchment spine, separated from text at front and back Provenance: (1) Most probably written in either Brunswick, Troyes or Holland, c. 1380: the watermark is a letter P surmounted by a cross, which while recorded in general form by Briquet from the last decades of the fourteenth century through the first decades of the fifteenth, the size and simplicity of the cross here is a near match to Briquet 8462 (Brunswick, 1379), 8465 (Troyes, 1385) and 8470 (Holland, 1388). If this is correct, then this is an important witness to the earliest production of paper in northern Europe. By 1276, there were paper mills in Fabriano and Treviso, most probably introduced to the former by Arab prisoners who settled there. By 1340, paper production had proliferated in northern Italian towns, and the process then spread north of the Alps with an early mill functioning at Mainz, and others at Troyes in 1348, Holland in the 1340s or 1350s, and Nuremberg in 1390. No paper mill would be recorded in England until 1490. By the early decades of the fifteenth century, paper became a relatively common material for small collections of sermons and tracts, but remained the poor cousin to parchment until the invention of printing. Thus, these leaves here are witness to a period in which paper was in its first few decades of production outside of Italy, and was still far from common. (2) Harold Marshall of Harlesden: his early twentieth-century printed bookplate pasted inside front board, above a contemporary cutting from a catalogue with this as item “33”. Text The main text here is that of the Speculum Ecclesiae or Tractatus supra missam by Hugh of Saint-Cher (c. 1200-63), a French Dominican friar who became a cardinal and was the author of numerous Biblical commentaries and related works, including his Correctorium, a collection of variant readings of the Bible, the first concordance of the Bible, and a commentary on the Book of Sentences.
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