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Antiphonary Leaf
Leaf from an antiphoner, in latin, manuscript on vellum, BesanÇon, ca. 1360. 291 x 215 mm, two columns of 13 lines of text between 13 lines of music on a four-line red stave, written in a dark brown ink, elaborate decorated initials in red, blue or brown with contrasting penwork, some initials including heads or grotesques. Large initial with Christ on the Cross for the Good Friday Office.
Item number: 16972
Price: €500 ($635 / £395)
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Antiphonary Leaf
Leaf from an antiphoner, in latin, manuscript on vellum, BesanÇon, ca. 1360. 291 x 215 mm, two columns of 13 lines of text between 13 lines of music on a four-line red stave, written in a dark brown ink, with four large elaborate decorated initials in red, blue or brown with contrasting penwork, one including a bearded head, some smaller initials including faces or grotesques, in the verso upper margin a scene with a lion cropped. Stained.
Item number: 16978
Price: €700 ($889 / £553)
Antiphonary Leaf
Leaf from an antiphonary, in latin, manuscript on vellum, BesanÇon, ca. 1360. 291 x 215 mm, two columns of 13 lines of text between 13 lines of music on a four-line red stave, written in a dark brown ink, with elaborate decorated initials in red, blue or brown with contrasting penwork, some of them including faces or grotesques, in the recto upper margin a larger initial with two heads (slightly cropped), a large initial on verso with a bearded head and a face inside. A catch word in the verso lower margin.
Item number: 16985
Price: €500 ($635 / £395)
Antiphonary Leaf
Leaf from an antiphoner, in latin, manuscript on vellum, BesanÇon, ca. 1360. 291 x 215 mm, two columns of 13 lines of text between 13 lines of music on a four-line red stave, written in a dark brown ink, elaborate decorated initials in red, blue or brown with contrasting penwork, some initials including heads or grotesques, with a very large flourished initial with full-length pen- and brush-work borders featuring half fleur de lys in red and blue, another large initial with a bearded head and inside tha face of Christ.
Item number: 16986
Price: €950 ($1206.5 / £750.5)
Dives and Lazarus
Leaf from an antiphonary, in latin, manuscript on vellum, BesanÇon, ca. 1360. 291 x 215 mm, two columns of 13 lines of text between 13 lines of music on a four-line red stave, written in a dark brown ink, with elaborate decorated initials in red, blue or brown with contrasting penwork, some of them including faces or grotesques. In the upper margin a scene with Dives and Lazarus, recounted in the tex below; Dives feasts with two companions in the initial; a servant looses two dogs on Lazarus, who is spotted red with leprosy and holding the clapper of the unclean; another dog licks his foot (slightly cropped).
Item number: 14974
Price: €1500 ($1905 / £1185)
Soldier with bow and arrow
Leaf from an antiphonary, in latin, manuscript on vellum, BesanÇon, ca. 1360. 291 x 215 mm, two columns of 13 lines of text between 13 lines of music on a four-line red stave, written in a dark brown ink, with decorated initials in red, blue or brown with contrasting penwork, some of them including faces or grotesques. On verso a drawing of a soldier with a bow and arrow and an initial with the archangel Michael with a pair of scales, and a large flourished initial with full-length pen- and brush-work borders featuring half fleur de lys in red and blue. An old stiched tear in the lower margin, without the old sewing thread.
Item number: 16977
Price: €2600 ($3302 / £2054)