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)
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.
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