[MANUSCRIT]. - Lot 24

[MANUSCRIT]. Psalter-Lectionary of the Office (Winter Part (Pars hiemalis)) (Use of the friar preachers [Dominicans]). In Latin, ornate manuscript on parchment. Germany (Rhineland), or Alsace?, ca. 1425-1450. 314 ff, missing at beginning and end of manuscript, text copied on a single column, ruled in brown ink (justification: 63 x 103 mm), liturgical Gothic script in dark brown ink, a few advertisements (e.g. ff. 121v, 133v, 145v, 205v, 255v), headings in red, numerous small initials painted in red and blue, larger two-line-high initials in red or blue with watermarked decoration in red, green or blue, most often with ascending and descending "bands of I", very large initials 3 to 7 lines high marking major divisions in the text (ff. 4v, 15, 25, 34v, 46v, 57v, 70, 117v, 138, 144v, 262, 263v) with puzzle decoration in red and blue, with grotesque motifs, vegetal motifs highlighted in green and yellow, filigree decoration in mauve and red ink, sometimes with grotesques. Contemporary binding, wooden boards covered with rose-tinted sow skin, spine with 3 exposed nerves, leather fastener and brass clasp, leather discoloration on spine and joins (a few wormholes on boards, a few stains on boards, joins a little split but boards well attached, some leather missing from tail of spine). Ink discharges on upper flyleaf (no counter-guards). Binding dimensions: 142 x 100 mm; leaf dimensions: 135 x 95 mm Provenance: Manuscript copied for monastic use (office lectionary) and more specifically for Dominican use. Stylistically, the ornate initials are reminiscent of manuscripts produced in the Rhineland and Alsace. - 2 Inscribed on the verso of fol. 313: "Caspardus Schümachen. 1643" This manuscript is an office lectionary. It contains the readings from biblical, patristic and homiletical texts to be given at the office during the liturgical year, from Christmas (rubric: In natali dei, fol. 116), Epiphany, Septuagesima [the period of around 70 days preceding Easter] (fol. 184), to the Lenten fast [Quadragésime] (In capite ieiunii, fol. 207v). It is preceded by a liturgical Psalter (ff. 1-104v): we are thus in the presence of a composite liturgical manuscript of the Psalter-Lectionary of the Office type. A Dominican origin can be deduced from the presence of an office for St. Dominic (see fol. 307v), as well as from work carried out on the Sanctoral of the Dominican Office Lectionary. The present manuscript, without including all the saints, follows the Sanctoral of the Lectionary of the Dominican Office finalized in 1254-1256 by Humbert de Romans, in broad outline: Stephanus, Johannes, Sylvester, Innocentes, Felix, Maurus, Marcellus, Fabianus, Agnes, Vincentius, Conversio sancti Pauli, Scholastica, Valentinus, Dominicus. See Ecole des chartes, Urfels-Capot, A.-E. "Le sanctoral du lectionnaire de l'office dominicain, 1254-1256", Proprium de sanctis, pars hiemalis (winter section). This thesis proposes an edition of the sanctoral, based on the 13th-century manuscript copied in Paris at the Couvent de la rue Saint-Jacques, which includes the lectionary of the Office of the Friars Preachers, "prototype of the liturgy of the Friars Preachers (Rome, Couvent de Sainte-Sabine, XIV L1: Iste est liber lectionarius ordinis fratrum predicatorum, diligenter compilatus et correctus et punctatus et versiculatus...). The present manuscript is part of this Dominican liturgical tradition. The present manuscript includes an Office for Saint Thomas Aquinas (rubric fol. 81: "In festo sancto Thome de Aquino", Dominican saint canonized in 1323), an Office for Saint Emérentienne or Emérance (fol. 255v), milk sister of Saint Agnes (fol. 246v) [here the Roman saint, but remember that Saint Agnes of Montepulciano was particularly honored by the Dominicans]. Finally, the readings for the Office of the Virgin (ff. 104v-116) follow Dominican usage. Text : ff. 1-104v, liturgical Psalter, with Psalm 20, followed by Psalm 21 ff. up to Psalm 147 [missing the beginning, certainly with the "Beatus vir..." and the first 20 psalms], followed by prayers. ff. 104v-116, Office of the Virgin (Dominican usage), rubric, Cursus de sancta maria; with lauds, antiphona, Post partum, capitulum, Ego quasi vitis, hymnus, O gloriosa dei genitrix (fol. 109v); prime, hymnus, Memento salutis; antiphona, Dignare me; capitulum, Ab initio et ante (fol. 111); none, antiphona, Beata mater, capitulum, Quasi cedrus (fol. 112); Antiphona super Magnificat, Sancta Maria succurre (fol. 113). ff. 116-211v, Lectionary of the Office, Part Hi