Live auction - Lot 1218
[Liturgy]
Very large Antiphonary.
17th c
Hammer price: €
3.600
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
Atlas folio (63 x 50 cm; 21 kg): 144 ff., on vellum, in Latin, written in red and black Gothic, 5 ll. with musical notations (soiling and spotting, stronger on some ff., occ. sm. tears, some ff. reinforced, a few ff. with fore-edge cut).
18th-c. blind-st. and roll-st. calf, covers with mod. iron bosses, clasps and catches, spine with raised bands (covers with sm. wormholes and scratches, repaired, corners and spine repaired). Head cut short.
Impressive choirbook decorated with a 21 cm red and purple flourished initial, large black or red flourished initials, capitals touched in yellow, and red running titles.