Live veiling - Lot 937
[Devotion - Prayerbook]
Latin Psalter and Latin-French prayerbook.
[Liège, 15th c.]
€ 300 / 400
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Beschrijving lot
16mo, 15,3 x 11 cm: 157-[1 bl.] ff., on vellum, quires old lettered A-V, mod. foliation (minor soiling, a few flaws in vellum partly repaired, tear in blank bottom margin f. 48).
Old sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands and morocco label, red edges, (later) decorative endpapers, red silk marker marker (heavily rubbed but firm). In good condition.
Contents: ff. 1r-12v calendar in red and, blue, brown with local saints listed (e.g. Servatius, Willibrordus) or in red (Laurentius, Hubertus, Lambertus); ff. 13r-42r Psalms (Latin); 42v-51v French prayers to the Holy Virgin; 51v-57r Latin litany of Virgin; 57v-65v French litany; 65v-68r Latin prayers; 68v-77v French prayers; 77v-78v Latin-French prayers; 78v-105v French prayers; 105v-110r Latin-French prayers to saints; 110r-113v "Oraison a saint mikiel" (different hand); 114r-119r Latin litany of saints; 119r-120r Latin Collecta; 120r-138v French instructions for the Mass and prayers; 138v-149r St Jerome on Psalms (Latin); 149v blank; 150r-156v French text; 157r Latin prayer to "beata Dorothea"; 157v-158v blank.
Decoration: rubricated in red; numerous 2-line initials in red or blue; a few larger initials in red or blue; on ff. 138v and 150r larger initial with red penwork extending into the margin.
Prov. Thibault (old ms. entry on f. 1r).