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Decorated manuscript on thick paper
Southern Netherlands, Gent?, ca. 1500]. 195 x 145 mm, 92 leaves or 184 unnumbered pages: 6 pp. blank + 4 pp. blank staves + 159 pp. scores + 7 pp. blank staves + 8 pp. blank, leather over wooden boards, four raised bands, gilt floral motifs to spine, gilt embossed emblem and gilt border line to boards, two darkened but functioning brass clasps; binding rubbed, loss of leather to upper spine end, wear to corners
A very well preserved and charming processional most likely made around 1500 for or by a Cistercian nun of the abbey of Nonnenbossche or Niewenbossche in Heusden, near Ghent. Later 16th century binding with IHS emblem embossed on the boards. Pages have been trimmed to probably fit the later binding with some decorations falling off the pages. Seems to be lacking one leaf between folios 79 and 80. Different and less thick paper is used for the endpapers, the 3 blanks at the beginning and 4 at the end. Ex-libris in handwriting on front pastedown ?Dame Catherinne Kikens/ Religieusche de Nonnenbossche/ 1632?, written ex-libris on first blank page ?... zuster Eleonore van Hoorebeke/1714?, two written ex-libris on p. 9 ?Dame Catharina Kiekens / Amour de dieu me conforte/ Anno Dei 1632? and ?F. De Boeck?. Musical notation on six black four-line staves. Text in Gothic letter with decorated initials and marginal extensions of foliage and flowers. We counted 151 large initials of which 16 with larger extensions. Rubrication of titles, text and letters throughout. The last 10 pages of the scores are in three different and later hands, possibly 17th and 18th century. Six lines of instructions for liturgical service in Dutch written in a slightly later hand (1600?) on the first blank page at the end starting with ?d?ouderlinghe wast d?abdesse op witten donderd, men moet in H misse in collecten uit de stoelen buyghen, en d?handen laeten hanghende als men de antiphonen sinckt??. The manuscript covers the entire liturgical year and contains the chants in keeping with Cistercian liturgy: for example ?Lumen ad revelationem? in the beginning, ?Beatus Bernardus quasi vas? and chants for the feast of the Nativity of Mary and the Visitation. The presence of feminine forms (sorores, abbatissa, peccatrice) suggests the processional was intended for a female convent. Also included are chants for the procession for Our Lady of Cambron which took place each year on the third Sunday of Easter at the Cistercien Cambron Abbey. This wealthy monastery founded several other abbeys, including Nieuwenbossche or Nonnenbossche in 1215. Although an abbey with the same name, run by Benedictine nuns, existed in Zonnebeke (West-Flanders), the evidence in the manuscript points to the Nonnenbossche Abbey near Gent as its home. This female Cistercian convent originated from Oudenbossche Abbey in Lokeren and moved in 1246 to Heusden, hence the name Nieuwenbossche. The destruction of the abbey in 1579 by the iconoclasts led to the nuns settling in Ghent from 1598 onwards until the dissolving of the convent in 1796. Although historical documents related to the management of the abbey exist, we haven?t come across another manuscript linked to the liturgical practice of the convent.
A very well preserved and charming processional most likely made around 1500 for or by a Cistercian nun of the abbey of Nonnenbossche or Niewenbossche in Heusden, near Ghent. Later 16th century binding with IHS emblem embossed on the boards. Pages have been trimmed to probably fit the later binding with some decorations falling off the pages. Seems to be lacking one leaf between folios 79 and 80. Different and less thick paper is used for the endpapers, the 3 blanks at the beginning and 4 at the end. Ex-libris in handwriting on front pastedown ?Dame Catherinne Kikens/ Religieusche de Nonnenbossche/ 1632?, written ex-libris on first blank page ?... zuster Eleonore van Hoorebeke/1714?, two written ex-libris on p. 9 ?Dame Catharina Kiekens / Amour de dieu me conforte/ Anno Dei 1632? and ?F. De Boeck?. Musical notation on six black four-line staves. Text in Gothic letter with decorated initials and marginal extensions of foliage and flowers. We counted 151 large initials of which 16 with larger extensions. Rubrication of titles, text and letters throughout. The last 10 pages of the scores are in three different and later hands, possibly 17th and 18th century. Six lines of instructions for liturgical service in Dutch written in a slightly later hand (1600?) on the first blank page at the end starting with ?d?ouderlinghe wast d?abdesse op witten donderd, men moet in H misse in collecten uit de stoelen buyghen, en d?handen laeten hanghende als men de antiphonen sinckt??. The manuscript covers the entire liturgical year and contains the chants in keeping with Cistercian liturgy: for example ?Lumen ad revelationem? in the beginning, ?Beatus Bernardus quasi vas? and chants for the feast of the Nativity of Mary and the Visitation. The presence of feminine forms (sorores, abbatissa, peccatrice) suggests the processional was intended for a female convent. Also included are chants for the procession for Our Lady of Cambron which took place each year on the third Sunday of Easter at the Cistercien Cambron Abbey. This wealthy monastery founded several other abbeys, including Nieuwenbossche or Nonnenbossche in 1215. Although an abbey with the same name, run by Benedictine nuns, existed in Zonnebeke (West-Flanders), the evidence in the manuscript points to the Nonnenbossche Abbey near Gent as its home. This female Cistercian convent originated from Oudenbossche Abbey in Lokeren and moved in 1246 to Heusden, hence the name Nieuwenbossche. The destruction of the abbey in 1579 by the iconoclasts led to the nuns settling in Ghent from 1598 onwards until the dissolving of the convent in 1796. Although historical documents related to the management of the abbey exist, we haven?t come across another manuscript linked to the liturgical practice of the convent.
€ 11.000
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