[MANUSCRIT]. Férial Psalter, preceded by a calendar for the - Lot 13

[MANUSCRIT]. Férial Psalter, preceded by a calendar for the use of Bologna In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment. Italy, Bologna (Emilia-Romagna) (?), circa 1300-1325. With 8 historiated initials and 6 ornate initials. 186 ff, preceded by 2 ff. of parchment endpapers and followed by a parchment endpaper (replacement), complete [collation : i6, ii12, iii12, iv12, v12, vi12, vii12, viii12, ix12, x12, xi12, xii12, xiii12, xiv12, xv12, xvi12], rounded Gothic script (littera bononiensis), text on one column, 18 lines per page, advertisements, old foliation in Roman numerals, rubrics in red, initials painted alternately in blue or red, initials painted in red or blue with watermarked decoration in blue or red ink, extending into the margins, watermarked decoration sometimes enhanced with green, six decorated initials (3 lines high) in pink on a blue background, with colored vegetal decoration (pink, green, orange palette) extending into the margins (ff. 153, 155v, 158v, 162, 165, 181), eight historiated initials (identical palette) with large initial B of "Beatus vir" (7 lines high) on a gold background, with extensions in the margins, the other smaller historiated initials (4 lines high), in pink on a blue background with white highlights, extensions in the margins sometimes with grotesque or anthropomorphic motifs. Some rubbing to historiated initials (notably the first, initial B of "Beatus vir", fol. 7 with stained leaf; rubbing also to initial D "Dixit dominus" (fol. 132v)). Stain and traces of ink on fol. 6v. Bound in basane, on wooden boards, boards cold-stamped with triple fillets forming a cross pattern, spine with 3 nerves, remnant of a clasp [incomplete] (binding damaged, leather missing from spine, boards rubbed, a few wormholes on boards, impacting the first few leaves). Size of leaves: 145 x 95 mm; size of binding: 147 x 100 mm Provenance: 1. Manuscript copied in Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region, on stylistic bases. The eight historiated initials and six ornamented initials are in a style close to that of the so-called "primo stile", adopted in the Bolognese workshops of the late 13th and early 14th centuries, between Romanesque art and the new Gothic aesthetic. On this Bolognese "primo stile", see T. Kennedy (ed.), Medieval Bologna : Art for a University City, London, 2021. From a liturgical point of view, the calendar of this Psalter includes a number of local saints honored in Bologna. Of particular note are: Procolus (01.06); Vital and Agricole of Bologna, Bologna's first two martyrs (04.11) [Chiesa dei Santi Vitale e Agricola in Arena; Church of St. Vitale-saint-Agricol in Bologna's Stefano complex]; Petronius of Bologna (04.10), patron saint of the city of Bologna, Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna; Stephen (01.01 and 26.12) [Basilica of Santo Stefano]; Stephen, pope (02.08); Venant, abbot (2 times: 11. 10; 23.10). In the 13th and 14th centuries, Bologna was an intellectual center, home to Europe's oldest university: the city became Italy's leading center for manuscript production, with a thriving community of scribes, artists, scholars and booksellers. 2. France, private collection. Text: ff. 1-6v, Calendar, in Latin, red and brown ink (see above for the list of saints suggesting a Bolognese origin). ff. 7-169, Festive Psalter (psalms 1 to 150), divided into eight parts according to the customary festive divisions (psalms 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 97, 109). It is common for festive psalters to include a cycle of eight miniatures or historiated initials. The "férial" psalter is divided into books corresponding to the recitation of the Divine Office. An ancient hand indicates in the upper margin the liturgical feasts concerned. An ancient numbering of the psalms in Arabic numerals has been added in the margins ("150" in the margin of fol. 169). ff. 169-186v, Prayers and hymns, including "Confitebor tibi domine..." (fol. 169); Benedictus (ff. 179-181); Canticum sancte marie virginis (ff. 181-181v), "Magnificat anima mea dominum..." (Luke 1, 46-55); Nunc dimittis (ff. 181v-182); Pater noster; Credo; last prayer: "Quicumque vult salvus est..." Note that the headings (systematically "Psalmus David") seem to be partly erroneous from fol. 169v onwards. Illustration: This manuscript contains 8 historiated initials. There are also 6 ornate initials on folios 153, 155v, 158v, 162, 165, 181. f. 7, historiated initial B, Psalm 1 "Beatus vir", King David (lower register) and nimbed Christ (upper register) [rubbed initial]. f. 32, historiated initial D, Psalm 26 "Dominus i