Phillip J. Pirages Catalogue 70
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Phillip J. Pirages PHILLIP J. PIRAGES Catalogue 70 Catalogue 70 Items Pictured on the Front Cover 498 487 327 489 359 484 482 317 464 300 339 81 486 485 373 490 495 483 Items Pictured on the Back Cover 57 399 441 403 447 486 342 322 462 391 329 331 28 370 401 460 406 To identify items on the front and back covers, lift this flap up and to the right, then close the cover. Catalogue 70 Medieval Manuscript Material: Including Single Leaves and Complete MSs With a Small Selection of Early Documents, Fine Modern Facsimiles, And Modern Illuminated Manuscripts The manuscript leaves we offer for sale are acquired individually or as part of a fragment of a book only. WE Do noT takE aparT CoMPLETE BookS In orDEr To SELL InDIvIDuAL LEAvES. Please send orders and inquiries to the above physical or electronic addresses, and do not hesitate to telephone at any time. We would be happy to have you visit us, but please make an appointment so that we are sure to be here. In addition, our website is always open. Prices are in American dollars. Shipping costs are extra. Please note that our street address has changed. Our office is now located at 1709 NE 27th Street, Suite G, McMinnville, OR 97128. Our post office box and telephone numbers remain the same. We try to build trust by offering fine quality items and by striving for precision of description because we want you to feel that you can buy from us with confidence. As part of this effort, we want you to understand that your satisfaction is unconditionally guaranteed. If you buy an item from us and are not satisfied with it, you may return it within 30 days of receipt for a refund, so long as the item has not been damaged. Significant portions of the text of this catalogue were written by Cokie Anderson and Kaitlin Manning. Kait is also responsible for the photographs and layout. Essential supporting assistance has been provided by Tammy Opheim and Emily Gunness. In addition to the usual erudite contributions by Edwin Hall, we have received invaluable contributions from a number of scholars in the preparation of this catalogue. We are pleased and grateful when you pass on our catalogue to somebody else and when you let us know of other parties to whom we might send our publications. And we are, of course, always happy to discuss fine and interesting items that we might purchase. ________ page 1 Table of Contents Groups of sinGle leaves and fraGments from various manuscripts Catalogue Items PACKETS CONTAINING 10 LEAVES I. Groups of Single Leaves and Fragments from various Manuscripts 1 - 27 1 THAT DEMONSTRATE THE RANGE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIEVAL AND II. Individual Text Leaves, from the ninth to the 16th Centuries 28 - 309 RENAISSANCE PALEOGRAPHY. (13th-15th centuries) Level of decoration varies, but most III. Individual Leaves with Miniatures, Historiation, or Inhabitation 310 - 481 leaves with at least some rubrication and decorative penwork initials, the Book of Hours leaves more elaborate, and at least one containing a floral Iv. Full Medieval, renaissance, and Modern Illuminated Manuscripts 482 - 495 border and some gold work. uCondition varies, but generally quite clean and completely legible, though v. Early Documents 496 - 509 some with general toning, light staining, and/or the occasional smudge or other blemish; one leaf in each vI. Modern Facsimiles of Famous Illuminated Manuscripts 510 - 518 packet recovered from a binding, and therefore this leaf with more considerable damage illustrating its use as a recyclable. $1,600 for each packet Each packet contains 10 hand-picked manuscript leaves oreword f on vellum, chosen to represent a range of styles, time periods, purposes, and uses. Prepared with an academic This is an unusual catalogue in that, in addition to complete manuscripts (and some documents audience in mind, these packets are advantageously and facsimiles), it offers upwards of 500 items consisting of individual (or groups of individual) priced and present an excellent opportunity for libraries, Medieval and Renaissance manuscript leaves. As always, these were acquired in various places, but teachers, and students to develop or expand their teaching a large number of the leaves, especially those recovered from bindings, come from the collection of or personal collections. The following is a sample William Chmurny (1941-2013). inventory of what one may expect to find in each packet: 1) A choir book leaf; 2) A leaf or fragment of a leaf from a pre-15th century manuscript, recovered from a binding A client for 25 years, Bill bought widely and frequently, as much and as often as his salary as (for example, a commentary on canon law, Italy, late 13th a college administrator would allow. The results of his efforts are on display here. Coming out of an 5A typical packet century); 3) A leaf with a Medieval text (for example, a academic background, Bill would no doubt be pleased if some of his collection ended up in institutional leaf from a manuscript of Albertus Magnus done ca. 1250-1300); 4) A 13th century Bible leaf; 5) A Breviary leaf; 6) A libraries as teaching tools to be used in the history of writing. It is with that in mind that the first item Psalter leaf; 7) A Book of Hours leaf with floral border decoration; 8) A Book of Hours calendar leaf; 9) A vernacular Book here is a packet (actually we have several such packets) containing various leaves designed to be used of Hours leaf; 10) A miniature-size leaf. A limited number of these packets are available. (ST12778-0743) in the teaching of Medieval and Renaissance paleography. If desired, other such groups could be put together from single offerings elsewhere in the catalogue. THREE VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES FROM 2 DIFFERENT BIBLES IN LATIN, ALL IN VERY FINE Keeping in mind that Bill Chmurny never spent a substantial amount of money on any one SCRIBAL HANDS, OFFERED AS A GROUP. (13th century purchase, as well as our desire to place as much of the catalogue material as possible with institutional [probably before 1240]) Sizes vary from 148 x 100 mm. to 277 and private buyers whose budgets are limited, we have attempted to price things as moderately as we x 202 mm. All double column. One leaf attractively matted. can. This includes items outside the Chmurny collection as well: for example, almost without exception, Running titles and chapter numbers in red and blue, one leaf things we have advertised before are offered here at a reduced amount. There is, of course, more costly with a profile of a man in the margin (probably done later and now quite faded), one leaf with one two-line initial and three material in the catalogue, but it, too, is intended to be priced very reasonably, compared to similar multi-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork. offerings in the marketplace. One leaf with a few marginal notations in a contemporary hand. uSmallest leaf with a two-inch tear in the upper It was a challenge to describe and picture so much material in a portable catalogue. Some of the column (expertly repaired and with no loss of text), the larger images are necessarily smaller than we’d like, so, even though in many cases we have suggested scale leaves with a touch of general soiling and a few light spots (with a hand or a ruler), please pay close attention to the dimensions given. Additional, larger images or stains, otherwise excellent condition. $650 for the group are available on our website, www.pirages.com. These are all beautifully written out in notable hands, the smallest -- Phil Pirages of the leaves featuring a script that is the tiniest we have ever seen in the main text of a manuscript. These three leaves have chapter ________ ________ page 2 page 3 numbers in the margins, not in spaces allowed for them within the text, a paleographical detail that indicates a date before containing at least one multi-line initial in red and/or about 1240. (ST12778-0726) blue with contrasting penwork. One leaf with a few contemporary glosses. uOne leaf with a half-inch dark SIX VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES FROM VARIOUS POCKET BIBLES IN LATIN, OFFERED AS A spot in the gutter, a few leaves with a touch of general 3 GROUP. (France [and possibly England], 13th century) Sizes range from 170 x 123 mm. to 243 x 156 mm. soiling and wrinkling, text a little faded in a few spots, One triple column, the others double column, all in early gothic pearl scripts. The level of decoration varies, with the otherwise a very nice set of leaves with a range of scribal simplest containing numerous plain one-line hands represented. $650 for the group (ST12778-0724) red initials and the most elaborate containing 6 4 several two-line initials in red or blue with 6 5 contrasting penwork. A few leaves with some marginal notations in contemporary hands. uA few leaves with a bit of wrinkling, an occasional negligible smudge or stain, one with a small tear in the margin and another with a small marginal repair, additional very small problems, but an excellent set of leaves, FIVE VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES generally very clean and with good margins. 6 FROM VARIOUS POCKET BIBLES IN $750 for the group LATIN, OFFERED AS A GROUP. (France, possibly Italy, 13th century) Sizes range from 148 x 95 mm. to 214 x 150 mm. All double column. Running titles and These leaves are from what are popularly chapter numbers in red and blue, each leaf with at called pocket Bibles, a 13th century innovation least two two-line initials (and a few multi-line initials) created by scribes using letters tiny enough and in red or blue with contrasting penwork.