12269 Rar [Extra Quality]
189 ff. on paper, watermarks, Briquet nos. 12268-12269 (a bear with a dart-like tongue, recorded in Berne and Solothurn in 1508-1513) and nos. 13015-13020 (grapes, recorded from 1497-1541 in Berne, Constance, Neuchatel and Fribourg, but also in Munich and Salzburg) and Piccard Online,129384, produced in Zurich in 1514(Online Resources); the two watermarks share a unique flaw in the recorded corpus, in which a string of three grapes on the right hand side of the watermark drifts away from the main stem leaving a small triangular interstitial space, modern pencil foliation every ten folios in upper outer corner, complete as in sixteenth century,( collation, i16 [original first leaf wanting, present f. 1 is a later tipped-in leaf], ii15 [first leaf a singleton, but with no apparent loss to text], iii-xi16, xii12 [+1 leaf, f. 182, added after 6, and + 1 blank leaf added at the end), ruled in red ink (justification 132 x 100 mm.), written in late gothic bookhands by two or three scribes with six lines of text and music on 4-line red staves, additions of further music at end of text on ff. 182r-183v at the time of the replacement of the original first leaf, rubrics and simple initials in red, a few larger initials with penwork, that on f. 39r picking out a simple clean-shaven human face, ink-burn in places with significant damage and small holes only in first few leaves, some small spots and tears to edges of leaves in places, else in good condition. Bound in contemporary sixteenth-century limp parchment strengthened with thin pasteboards, on three double thongs, spine rebacked with more modern parchment, and that covering the boards cut away at one time and spine folded and pasted underneath them. Dimensions 202 x 155 mm.
12269 rar
A date at the beginning of the sixteenth century is suggested by the script and the watermark evidence (liturgical evidence allows us only to date it after 1457, since it includes the Transfiguration). The two watermarks are members of close-knit groups which cluster in northern Switzerland: Briquet nos. 12268-12269 (a bear with a dart-like tongue, recorded in Berne and Solothurn in 1508-1513) and nos. 13015-13020 (grapes, recorded from 1497-1541 in Berne, Constance, Neuchatel and Fribourg, but also in Munich and Salzburg). In addition, this last watermark is extremely close to that recorded by Piccard in the Landesregierungsarchiv Innsbruck (his no. 129384, produced in Zurich in 1514), and the paper here almost certainly was produced there. The two watermarks share a unique flaw in the recorded corpus, in which a string of three grapes on the right hand side of the watermark drifts away from the main stem leaving a small triangular interstitial space. 041b061a72