Antiphonary, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 4to, clxxxix,174pp, 2 plates, owner's bookplate and two other names on endpaper, presentation label from the publisher facing, edges and guards browned, text clean and sound, blue cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce. Hardcover. Decorative cream boards; no dust jacket (as issued). Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1984. 272 pp. index. NO ownership markings; small price sticker residue on fep; page edges slightly age-toned. Ships fast with tracking.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xv, 316 p. : 1 plan, facsims ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and indexes. Subjects; Gottschalk active 1170?-1204. Catholic Church Liturgy Manuscripts. Catholic Church Liturgy ; Texts ; Manuscripts. Gottschalk Antiphonary. Liturgies Catholic church. Antiphonaries ; Texts. Antiphonaries Austria History and criticism. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xv, 316 p. : 1 plan, facsims ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and indexes. Subjects; Gottschalk active 1170?-1204. Catholic Church Liturgy Manuscripts. Catholic Church Liturgy ; Texts ; Manuscripts. Gottschalk Antiphonary. Liturgies Catholic church. Antiphonaries ; Texts. Antiphonaries Austria History and criticism. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Davis, Lisa Fagin. The Gottschalk Antiphonary: music and liturgy in twelfth-century Lambach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Hardback, new, still in protective polythene wrap. 334pp. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology; 8. Lisa Fagin Davis offers the first photographic reconstruction of the extant leaves of the Gottschalk Antiphonary, an important twelfth-century manuscript from the Austrian monastery in Lambach. The Gottschalk Antiphonary, which was dismantled for binding scrap in the fifteenth century, is examined from various angles - art historical, liturgical, and musical - and its contributions to the study of medieval drama and the long-term ramifications of the investiture controversy are explored. The manuscript is studied within the historical and political context within which it was created, in order to better understand the decisions which went into its production. In addition to a black-and-white facsimile of the recovered portion of the manuscript, the book includes a survey of the twelfth-century Lambach scriptorium and a detailed codicological reconstruction of the codex. Appendices of charts and tables demonstrate how the Gottschalk Antiphonary compares to other liturgical manuscripts from the same period.RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A single parchment leaf, 485 × 360 mm, with seven lines of text in rounded gothic script and music in square notation on four-line red staves, the text comprising: the end of the Judith antiphon Domine deus rex omnipotens libera , the beginning of the Esther response Domine rex omnipotens indictione tua , followed by the verse Exaudi orationem nostram and the response Conforta me rex sanctorum , with A LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL D depicting King Ahasuerus, enthroned and with his feet on a green cushion, extending his rod to touch the head of Esther, who kneels before him; the upper margin with a post-medieval folio number XXX in red, the two responses marked in the adjacent margins 1 and 2 (and II ); with insignificant creases in the lower margin, overall in fine condition. Text In the Divine Office, there were daily biblical readings according to the liturgical season (Advent to Epiphany, Epiphany to Lent, and so on). After Corpus Christi (about two months after Easter) there were a variable number of summer weeks until the next Advent (because the dates of both Easter and Advent vary), and the daily readings were taken from the Old Testament books of Kings, Wisdom, Job, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Maccabees, and Ezekiel. The readings from Judith were used from the first Sunday after 20 September, and if this occurred early enough in the month, the Judith readings would be followed by those from Esther, as represented by the present leaf. Illumination The origin of this leaf is hard to determine. The predominantly blue and orange palette looks Bolognese at first sight, but this does not fit with the figure style, so it may be from elsewhere in Emilia-Romagna. The form of the white ornament on the blue background is typical of Umbria, however, so an origin further south is another possibility. The figures give a sense of three-dimensional volume (see, for example, the way in which the roundness of Ahasuerus s thigh and buttock is suggested by the way in which he sits on his own cloak, and the sweeping darker green lines that give volume to his foot-cushion). The subject of the initial is found in Esther, chapter 5 verse 2. Chapters 1 4 relate that the Persian king Ahasuerus banished his wife Vashti for disobedience, and selected Esther (who kept her Jewishness secret) as her replacement. Mordechai, Esther's cousin, learned of a plot by Haman, one of Ahasuerus s men, to kill all the Jews in the empire. Mordecai therefore asks Esther to use her position to intercede with the king. She reveals to him that she is Jewish, and successfully petitions him to save the Jews. The crucial moment is when she presents herself to him, And when he saw Esther the queen standing, and she pleased his eyes, and he held out toward her the golden sceptre, which he held in his hand, and she drew near .

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Parchment, single leaf, c.460×345mm, each side with 7 lines of text and music on a 5-line red stave, the recto with a large illuminated initial from which extend foliate borders into the outer and upper margins, incorporating a fine Wild Man (a border of the ex-Sotheby s and Christie s sister leaf also has a heavily cropped Wild Man), and large initials in red or blue incorporating human profiles in the penwork ornament; the upper border somewhat cropped (as are the sister leaves) Provenance Apparently from the same manuscript as a leaf with an initial A depicting the Resurrection that was in the collection of Carl Richartz, Amsterdam, by 1966, and a leaf with an initial A depicting the Last Judgement, sold at Sotheby's, 7 December 2010, lot 10 (attributed to a followed of the panel painter known as the Master of the Munich St John on Patmos), resold at Christie s, 11 December 2019, lot 213 for £8,750. Illumination A significant oeuvre has now been attributed to the Swiss artist Nikolaus Bertschi (see Ulrich Merkl, Buchmalerei in Bayern (1999), pp. 41 48 and 273 314). He was born in Rorschach am Bodensee, but moved to Augsburg, where he worked from c.1510 until his death c.1541. Two comparable choirbooks illuminated by him, from early and late in his career at Augsburg, are dateable to 1511/12 (Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Inventar-Nr. Cod. mus. fol. I 65) and 1531 (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.lat. 28 150). Absolutely typical of Augsburg illumination is the frame around the initial, in alternating sections of red and green, and typical of Bertschi are the faces, in which the eyes are painted as straight black lines terminating in a dot. The gold background is not tooled, but instead is patterned with a pale wash in scrolling designs. Immediately adjacent is a finely painted Wild Man, as often found in Bertschi s borders.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. An antiphonary, probably early 16th century. Covers are wooden boards covered in leather, with hand-wrought iron clasp affixed to top cover but lacking the clasp, iron edges, and iron nails. There are 45 parchment leaves. Each staff of five lines is ruled in red, with musical notation in black. Text in Latin, with occasional marginal notes in Spanish. Many decorated initials. There are several pages with clumsy restorations. See photos. An antiphon is a short chant in Christian ritual. Antiphonals were a simplification of a music type called motet. An antiphonary is a choral book used to provide religious orders with the musical portions of their daily observances, which are organized around the canonical hours of the day and the yearly cycle of feasts. A very large antiphonary such as this one would have been placed before members of the religious group, so all could see the notes of the music and the text of the chant. CONDITION: Good SIZE: 27.5" high, 19.5" wide, 3" deep (atlas folio) WEIGHT: about 15 pounds.