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Altar Missal (for the use of Verdun [collegiate... - Lot 103 - Drouot Estimations
Altar Missal (for the use of Verdun [collegiate church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Verdun?])
In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment and paper.
Eastern France and Paris (?), ca. 1500.
With a historiated initial and a laminated print.
[II] + 50 ff, followed by 3 paper endpapers, certainly missing between ff. 31-32 [collation: i2 (two sheets of paper), ii8, iii8, iv8, v4, vi3 (of 4, lacking iv), vii8, viii4 (on paper), ix7 (of 8, lacking viii, one blank sheet)], at least three hands are distinguished: Roman script in brown ink, bookish cursive script in brown ink, and liturgical Gothic script in black ink, a few red-framed advertisements, rubrics in red, a few yellow-painted capitals, red-painted initials, music notated squarely on 4-line staves drawn in red ink, blue-painted initial on burnished gold ground with floral design (fol. 1), some initials in burnished gold (2 lines high) on a pink and blue background with white highlights, large historiated initial (fol. 13v) and folio with three-quarter illuminated borders (reserved background, acanthus leaves in blue and gold, flowers and blue escutcheon with white highlights and cross in burnished gold)
Bound in full leather, spine with four raised bands, inscriptions in ink on spine, supra-libris on boards in gilt letters in red ink cartouches (a very faded date on lower board), central cold fleurons in centre of boards, traces of gilt edges. Some spotting and staining to boards, large moisture stains to last few leaves, some staining to parchment. Dimensions: 185 x 245 mm.
Interesting manuscript that belonged to two canons, one Guillaume Joly of the collegiate church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine of
Verdun, the other Nicolas François Pulchronius Sauvage of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Verdun. The painted decoration has certain stylistic features in common with manuscripts from Lorraine and the Vosges, such as the Gradual of the collegiate church of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (Saint-Dié, Médiathèque, MS. 74), painted by two artists from Lorraine and by the Master of the Parisian Entrances, active in Paris between 1500 and 1520.
Provenance: 1. Supra-libris inscribed on both boards, in gold letters: "Guillelmus Ioly/Chanonicus eclesie beate Marie" (upper board); "Magdalenes Virdunensis/an erased date [XXX?]. This is Guillaume Joly, canon of the collegiate church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in
Verdun (Meuse). We also find his name "G. Joly" and in red ink: "G. Joly me possidet".
Guillaume Joly also inscribed his name on the upper counterguard (late 16th or early 17th century?).
Under this inscription, inscriptions from the 17th century, including one dated 1647, relating to cattle, wheat and cords of wood.
The collegiate church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine is found in Verdun, a parish church attested as early as the 11th century, with a nave rebuilt in the 14th century: it was founded in the 11th century by Ermenfroy, archdeacon of Verdun cathedral. It is also known locally as the Collegiate Church of the Canons of the Madeleine. Between 1451 and 1504, there were 24 canons. A collection is kept in the Archives départementales de la Meuse, Série G (clergé séculier), 15 G: " Collégiale Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Verdun (1147-1790). Under the reference Verdun, BM, MS 143, a Ritual of the Deceased is preserved, which would be for the use of the Collegiate Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine of Verdun (see thesis M. George, "Le chapitre cathédral de Verdun à la fin du Moyen Age: étude d'une communauté ecclésiastique séculière" (Université de Lorraine, 2016)).
2. Bookplate inscription in the upper margin of folio 1: "Ex lib[ris Nic[olai] Franc[isci] Pulch[roni] Sauvage," followed by a parafe and a "1423" (or date?) notation. We are leaning towards a figure linked to a number. It is about Nicolas François Pulchronius Sauvage, canon of Verdun in the 18th century. He was a bibliophile or at least had a certain number of manuscripts of which for example Paris,
Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS. 17; or Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS 1303 which contains the following ex-libris: "Ex libris Nicolai
Francisci Pulchronii Silvagii, praesbiteri, in utroque jure licenciati, ecclesiae Virdunensis canoci prioris Nae Dae, theologiensis ac camerae episcopatus Virdunensis secretarii et sigilliferi, anno domini MDCCXXVI die XVII Xbris (octobreris)".
3. France, private collection.
TEXT ff. I-IIv, two sheets of paper, prayer before communion (Roman writing), heading, "Oratio ante communionem", incipit, "Veni domine
Iesu Christe veni... "ff. 1-39, section on parchment, Missal, first rubric, "Q[u]ando sacerdos missam celebraturus est dicat"; ff. 10v-13, notated music; ff. 13v-15v, Te igitur, followed by Memento domine famulorum famularum...; ff. 15v-30, notated music and missal; ff. 30v-31, blank leaves; ff. 31v, prayers for the Holy
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