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447
The Schuster Gallery
London
Sept. '96 $90.00
Book Fair

breviary - MSS on vellum
Carthusian - end of 15th C. (ca. 1480)
? Carthusian monastery of St. Alban at Trier.

20x13.5cm. Hybrid script. 24 lines. Capitals
in red = blue. 4 line Dembellished by use of white x shaped void,
Peculiar from of the teronian et (a thin vertical
to the right of the usual character). See MS 32 -
a Carthusian Missal - Library of Congress (Stanford,
Z 6621 U58 M64 - 1989 v.1) for a very similar
leaf. i.e. same scribe.

-Carthusians - austere + contemplative - order of monks
founded by St. Bruno in 1086 at La Grande
Chartreuse in France. The order, never very
numerous, spread to England (1180) where the
monastery was called the Chacterhouse.
-Werner Rolewinck (1427-1502) was a Carthusian friar
at Cologne.

Dominica ad II Vesperas. (Psalter)
110 PS 109 Dixit Dominius Domino meo: Sede a dextris meis
111 Ps 110 Celebrabo Dominum toto corde Coafitebor tibi
112 PS 111 Beatus vir quri timet Dominum
113 PS 112 Laudate sesvi Domini Laudate, pueri

Ant. 1 Dixit Domin Domino meo: Sede a doxtris meis
Ant. 2 Magna opera Domini: exquisita in ornnes
voluntates eius
Ant. 3 Qui timet Dominum: in Mandatis eius cupit
nimis.
Ant. 4 Sit nomen Domini benedictum in secula.