Sales catalogue 512: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/69
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 512: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LEGEND OF THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT BLAISE——continued. The manuscript begins as follows :— Incipit Passio sti blasii. Eo tem in Sebastia cappadocie tradidit quidam ad corectionem eos. The manuscript ends: Quibus proficientibus memoriam beatissimi et glorissimi Christi martyris blasii cum laudibus et ymnis et gloria indefinita. Passus est enim beatissimus Christi martyr Blasius. In Sebastia civitate imprimte Agricolao. Regnante innobis ora nostro Jhu Christo an est honor et glorio in secula seculorum. Amen. (This beginning and end is quite different from any of those recorded in the Bollandist—Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina). 1350 A.D. (Circa) [2] Macniricenr Manuscript ANTIPHONAL OR Cuorr Book oF THE BENEDICTINE OrDER on vellum, written in black and red on 182 leaves. > With musical notation on four lines throughout and 3 magnificent illuminations in gold and colours, one occupying a quarter of the page. Folio. Original binding of wooden boards covered with leather, the corners brass bound, and with bosses in centre of each side. The pages measure 22 by 14 inches. (Italy, XIVth Century). (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE NO. 1). £350 The miniatures are as follows :— 1. Jesus sitting in glory, on a throne, below his disciples look up to him. In the corners of the minature are Benedictine nuns and monks. The whole represents an historiated initial ‘‘ A’’ measuring 94 by 6} inches. At tha bottom of the page are some heads of monks and nuns of the Bene- dictine Order. 2. The birth in the manger. The whole represents an historiated initial ‘“‘ L’’ measuring 8 by 5 inches. At bottom of the page are seven figures of Benedictine monks and nuns and three miniatures in circles. 3. The baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan by St. John the Baptist. The whole represents an historiated initial ‘‘H’’ measuring 8 by 5 inches. At the bottom of the page are half-length representations of a Benedictine monk and two nuns, each in a circle, on a red or blue background.
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