Propium sanctorum ad Uesps. Infesto Sanct. Andrer Apostoli ...
Spain
Category
Books
Date
1709
Materials
Measurements
618 x 446 x 134 mm
Place of origin
Spain
Collection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 3171475
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: Sheep parchment, hairside with yellow-grey tone, fleshside white; stitched flayholes; mixed makeup - some whole bifolia, some tipped bifolia. Ink/Pigment: text elegantly written in a carbon ink with rubrics in red with coloured initials (some with foliate and floral decoration, none historiated) Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: 1703 (dated colophon) Binder's Name: Spanish End Leaves: sewn single hook endleaf of first-use parchment with a parchment guard. The parchment guard was pasted to the board before covering, the full leaf after covering. The right hook endleaf is mostly missing, the guard remains in place. Structure: British Edges: plain cut, coloured red Spine Lining: moderate round, deep quadrant joints, transverse linings of parchment under a coarse woven texile (linen?) End Bands: worked without a front bead in plain thread over double cord cores sewn as one, infrequent tie-downs, with a secondary sewing in silk(?) with a front bead. Slips laced into the boards through 2 holes at 45°. Bookmark: None Boards: 21mm thick constructed wooden board (planks with a rail at head and tail, the mortices go right through the rails). All slips laced perpendicularly through 2 holes with internal channels. Covering: full red-brown russia calf, fore-edge turn-ins lapped over the head and tail and secured with iron nails. Tooling Spine: blind-tooled roll at head and tail of each panel. Tooling Sides: tooled pattern (see drawing) arranged around the metal-work Furniture: Copper alloy. Large filigree corners, overlapping the edges except on the spine edge, large central boss with filigree surround and four smaller bosses, above and below and on each side of the central boss Enclosure: None Binding Notes: Signed colophon “Roque Bernado Loayssa del Arco Escriptor de Libros lo escrivio este An[n]o. de 1703”. Although relatively late in date, this is an attractively written and decorated volume.
Bibliographic description
1 v. : music ; 61 cm. Loosely inserted manuscript note: Spanish / 1709 / Antiphonal Sanct[-?]. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; blind tooled with wreath pattern; four brass bosses with acorn motif on upper and lower boards (two missing from upper board); four cornerpiece bosses on each board.
Makers and roles
Spain