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[EARLY CHOIRBOOK]

Two cuttings from a choirbook, one with a fine white-vine initial, in Latin, manuscript on vellum
[Italy (probably Tuscany)
first half of the 12th century]
€800 - €1.200

Two rectangular cuttings, with remains of single column of 7 and 6 lines of an accomplished Romanesque bookhand, accompanied by music in neumes arranged around a red clef-line, rubrics in bright red capitals, simple red initials, one large initial 'H' (opening ""Hodie dilectissimi omnium ..."", a responsory for All Saints') in pale yellow wash, enclosing a scroll of white-vine on yellow, green, blue and red grounds, reused as the endleaves in a later binding and with scrawls in margins from that reuse, tears to edges, one leaf with text mostly removed when detached from later bookboard, slight darkening at edges of cutting, overall in good condition, each cutting: 134 by 195mm

Another cutting from the same parent manuscript was sold in our rooms, 8-9 March 2024, lot 867. The script and simple rendition of the acanthus leaf sprays, as well as their muted colouring, find their closest parallels in Tuscan books of the first half of the 12th century