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ST AUGUSTINE (354-430). Enarrationes in Psalmos , in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Auction 11.07.2000
11.07.2000 - 13.07.2000
Schätzpreis
150.000 £ - 250.000 £
ca. 226.224 $ - 377.040 $
Zuschlagspreis:
245.750 £
ca. 370.630 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 3

ST AUGUSTINE (354-430). Enarrationes in Psalmos , in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Auction 11.07.2000
11.07.2000 - 13.07.2000
Schätzpreis
150.000 £ - 250.000 £
ca. 226.224 $ - 377.040 $
Zuschlagspreis:
245.750 £
ca. 370.630 $
Beschreibung:

ST AUGUSTINE (354-430). Enarrationes in Psalmos , in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Lambach Abbey, Upper Austria, second half 12th century] With initials by Gottschalk. 333 x 225mm. 279 leaves: 1 6(of 8, lacking i and ii), 2-19 8, 20 3(of 4, iv cancelled blank), 21-35 8, 36 6(of 8, vii and viii cancelled blanks), two sequences of quire signatures in lower case roman numerals survive on some final versos, for example 'vi' on f.38v, 'vii' on f.46v, 'xi' on 78v, 'iii' on 169v, 35 lines in brown ink in a romanesque bookhand by two scribes between two pairs of scored verticals and on 35 scored horizontals, top and bottom pairs ruled across margins, justification: 250 x 160mm, rubrics in orange-red, large initials from f.162 of orange-red, FORTY-SIX LARGE FOLIATE INITIALS in orange-red and purple penwork, EIGHTEEN OF THEM INHABITED WITH BIRDS, AND THREE INCLUDING FIGURES, in addition TWO STANDING FIGURES in the same technique, plummet preparatory drawing sometimes visible (strip cut from outer margin of final folio, opening folio darkened and spotting to outer margin, and marginal mark on verso). BINDING: CONTEMPORARY TAWED SKIN OVER THICK BEECH BOARDS sewn on three double thongs, with perimeter-sewn tabs at head and foot of spine, remains of two pins in edge of lower cover and grooves from clasp straps at edge of upper cover, two brass catches at edge of upper cover and clasp straps on lower, medieval vellum title and shelf-mark labels on upper cover, the shelf-mark 'B.41.' in red ink, a paper label at top of spine, later paper pastedowns two bifolia from a 15th-century Austrian manuscript giving abbreviated incipits for masses in the sanctoral (lacking one clasp, upper board wormed and weak, lower board slightly wormed and with mark from chain hasp, corners rubbed, upper joint split at foot with 15th-century repair of inserted vellum). Brown morocco-backed box. A LAMBACH ABBEY MANUSCRIPT WITH INITIALS BY GOTTSCHALK IN ITS ORIGINAL BINDING PROVENANCE: 1. Lambach Abbey, the Benedictine abbey of Sts Mary and Kylian to the north-east of Salzburg, founded about 1056 by St Adalbero of Würzburg. The press-mark label on the upper cover is characteristic of Lambach books: A.C. de la Mare, Catalogue of the collection of medieval manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford by James P.R. Lyell (1971), pl.XXXa, and E. Hainische Die Kunstdenkmäler des Gerichtsbezirkes Lambach, Österreichische Kunsttopographie, XXXIV (1959). In fact this manuscript can be identified as the second volume of the six-volume set of Augustine's commentary on the Psalms, rebound in five volumes in the 15th century, that was listed in the inventory of the Lambach library compiled at the end of the 12th or early in the 13th century: K. Holter, 'Zwei Lambacher Bibliothekverzeichnisse des 13 Jahrhunderts', Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung , LXIV (1956), p.273. The present manuscript, given the shelfmark xviii in the 18th century, was still in Lambach in 1924 when it was seen by Hans Gerstinger who described it in his unpublished notes now deposited in the ÖNB in Vienna (Ms ser.n.9713). 2. Sotheby's 11 November 1929, lot 389: although Lambach is still a functioning Benedictine abbey, manuscripts from its library have been sold on various occasions from the 1920s, and the present manuscript, with three other volumes from Lambach, was sold in 1929. It was not identified as from Lambach. Three of the other four volumes of the set of Augustine's commentary to which this volume belongs are now Leutkirch, Waldburg-Zeilisches Gesamtarchiv Zms 5 (1st volume, Pss 1-50), Frankfurt Stadt- und Universitätbibliothek Ms Lat.qu.64 (4th volume, originally vols 4 and 5, Pss 118-133), Yale, Beinecke Library Ms 699 (final volume, Pss 134-150): see K. Holter, 'Mittelalterliche Buchkunst in Lambach', in 900 Jahre Klosterkirche Lambach , ex. cat. 1989, pp.56-57 & pp.205-208. 3. Katalog von Graupe, Berlin 1935, no 144 4. Sotheby's 3

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 3
Auktion:
Datum:
11.07.2000 - 13.07.2000
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

ST AUGUSTINE (354-430). Enarrationes in Psalmos , in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Lambach Abbey, Upper Austria, second half 12th century] With initials by Gottschalk. 333 x 225mm. 279 leaves: 1 6(of 8, lacking i and ii), 2-19 8, 20 3(of 4, iv cancelled blank), 21-35 8, 36 6(of 8, vii and viii cancelled blanks), two sequences of quire signatures in lower case roman numerals survive on some final versos, for example 'vi' on f.38v, 'vii' on f.46v, 'xi' on 78v, 'iii' on 169v, 35 lines in brown ink in a romanesque bookhand by two scribes between two pairs of scored verticals and on 35 scored horizontals, top and bottom pairs ruled across margins, justification: 250 x 160mm, rubrics in orange-red, large initials from f.162 of orange-red, FORTY-SIX LARGE FOLIATE INITIALS in orange-red and purple penwork, EIGHTEEN OF THEM INHABITED WITH BIRDS, AND THREE INCLUDING FIGURES, in addition TWO STANDING FIGURES in the same technique, plummet preparatory drawing sometimes visible (strip cut from outer margin of final folio, opening folio darkened and spotting to outer margin, and marginal mark on verso). BINDING: CONTEMPORARY TAWED SKIN OVER THICK BEECH BOARDS sewn on three double thongs, with perimeter-sewn tabs at head and foot of spine, remains of two pins in edge of lower cover and grooves from clasp straps at edge of upper cover, two brass catches at edge of upper cover and clasp straps on lower, medieval vellum title and shelf-mark labels on upper cover, the shelf-mark 'B.41.' in red ink, a paper label at top of spine, later paper pastedowns two bifolia from a 15th-century Austrian manuscript giving abbreviated incipits for masses in the sanctoral (lacking one clasp, upper board wormed and weak, lower board slightly wormed and with mark from chain hasp, corners rubbed, upper joint split at foot with 15th-century repair of inserted vellum). Brown morocco-backed box. A LAMBACH ABBEY MANUSCRIPT WITH INITIALS BY GOTTSCHALK IN ITS ORIGINAL BINDING PROVENANCE: 1. Lambach Abbey, the Benedictine abbey of Sts Mary and Kylian to the north-east of Salzburg, founded about 1056 by St Adalbero of Würzburg. The press-mark label on the upper cover is characteristic of Lambach books: A.C. de la Mare, Catalogue of the collection of medieval manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford by James P.R. Lyell (1971), pl.XXXa, and E. Hainische Die Kunstdenkmäler des Gerichtsbezirkes Lambach, Österreichische Kunsttopographie, XXXIV (1959). In fact this manuscript can be identified as the second volume of the six-volume set of Augustine's commentary on the Psalms, rebound in five volumes in the 15th century, that was listed in the inventory of the Lambach library compiled at the end of the 12th or early in the 13th century: K. Holter, 'Zwei Lambacher Bibliothekverzeichnisse des 13 Jahrhunderts', Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung , LXIV (1956), p.273. The present manuscript, given the shelfmark xviii in the 18th century, was still in Lambach in 1924 when it was seen by Hans Gerstinger who described it in his unpublished notes now deposited in the ÖNB in Vienna (Ms ser.n.9713). 2. Sotheby's 11 November 1929, lot 389: although Lambach is still a functioning Benedictine abbey, manuscripts from its library have been sold on various occasions from the 1920s, and the present manuscript, with three other volumes from Lambach, was sold in 1929. It was not identified as from Lambach. Three of the other four volumes of the set of Augustine's commentary to which this volume belongs are now Leutkirch, Waldburg-Zeilisches Gesamtarchiv Zms 5 (1st volume, Pss 1-50), Frankfurt Stadt- und Universitätbibliothek Ms Lat.qu.64 (4th volume, originally vols 4 and 5, Pss 118-133), Yale, Beinecke Library Ms 699 (final volume, Pss 134-150): see K. Holter, 'Mittelalterliche Buchkunst in Lambach', in 900 Jahre Klosterkirche Lambach , ex. cat. 1989, pp.56-57 & pp.205-208. 3. Katalog von Graupe, Berlin 1935, no 144 4. Sotheby's 3

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 3
Auktion:
Datum:
11.07.2000 - 13.07.2000
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
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