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This manuscript is an early-sixteenth-century French processional made for the Dominican house of Poissy, north-west of Paris. It contains nine small square miniatures enclosed by gold frames.
Support: Parchment; Extent: 141; 183 x 125 mm bound to 189 x 132 mm; Foliation: Foliated in modern pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (4, +1 +2 +3 +4), 2-18 (8), 19 (3, +1 +2 +3)
One column of twenty-one lines, ruled in red ink; square musical notation on four-line staves in red ink; written area: 102 x 62 mm
Gothic--textualis quadrata
Nine small square miniatures (eight-nine lines) within text block enclosed by full foliate border inhabited by insects or birds, three-sided spray borders inhabited by birds, insects, and frogs throughout, small decorated initials (one-to-four lines) throughout, and decorated line endings throughout, capitals highlighted in yellow ink; gold leaf or paint used in miniatures, borders, initials and line-endings
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
A related manuscript is the Poissy Antiphonal in Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, MS 096.1 R66A; see also Christie's, London, Valuable Printed Books & Manuscripts, incl. Natural History, 19 November 2003, lot 27 (Processional for the Use of the Dominican Sisters of St Louis, Poissy); and Christie's, London, Yates, Thompson and Bright: A Family of Bibliophiles, 16 July 2014, lot 25 (Processional for the Use of the Dominican Sisters of St Louis, Poissy)
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Paris, France
Liturgical Use of the Dominican house at Poissy; between 1505 and 1515
Seventeenth-century, French, olive morocco with gilt-wreaths on covers, gilt rosettes on spine, gilt edges
Latin
Dominican house at Poissy, France, sixteenth century; old inventory mark: "N. 67"; William Bragge collection (identified as such in 1874 Burlington Fine Arts Club exhibition); T. Shadford Walker Collection (identified as such in 1876 Liverpool Art Club exhibition); Bragge sale, Sotheby's, London, June 7 1876, lot 9; Quaritch (booksellers), London (Catalogue 31, June 30, 1876, cat. 30); Kemp sale, Sotheby's, London, May 6, 1909, lot 28; Maggs Bros. (booksellers), London; Charles Sessler (bookseller), Philadelphia; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, purchased 1910; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; on lower pastedown, in Lewis' hand is note "Bought 1910/Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, $400; see also Stoneman, 2016
Paris, France
Liturgical Use of the Dominican house at Poissy; between 1505 and 1515
Latin
Dominican house at Poissy, France, sixteenth century; old inventory mark: "N. 67"; William Bragge collection
This manuscript is an early-sixteenth-century French processional made for the Dominican house of Poissy, north-west of Paris. It contains nine small square miniatures enclosed by gold frames.
A related manuscript is the Poissy Antiphonal in Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, MS 096.1 R66A; see also Christie's, London, Valuable Printed Books & Manuscripts, incl. Natural History, 19 November 2003, lot 27 (Processional for the Use of the Dominican Sisters of St Louis, Poissy); and Christie's, London, Yates, Thompson and Bright: A Family of Bibliophiles, 16 July 2014, lot 25 (Processional for the Use of the Dominican Sisters of St Louis, Poissy)
Gothic--textualis quadrata
Nine small square miniatures (eight-nine lines) within text block enclosed by full foliate border inhabited by insects or birds, three-sided spray borders inhabited by birds, insects, and frogs throughout, small decorated initials (one-to-four lines) throughout, and decorated line endings throughout, capitals highlighted in yellow ink; gold leaf or paint used in miniatures, borders, initials and line-endings
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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