Handwritten antiphonary leaflets. France, Auvergne... Lot 1

Handwritten antiphonary leaflets. France, Auvergne (Cantal), 11th century]. 4 double-page folios on vellum (495 x 380 mm), calligraphy in red and black with square music notated. Text in gothic bookish script in black and red ink, set in red, on fourteen lines below square music notation. Initials of one line calligraphed in black or red ink, rubrics in red. The first leaf begins with the Gregorian chant Responsorium - Cum alleluia ("Angelus Domini bonus comitetur tecum [...]"). PROVENANCE Cantal (Auvergne). Subsequent handwritten mentions in ink and pencil, two of them on the third page: "Quezac Renhac parsse de Jussac / Roussi Et La Boygue parsse de St Sernin"; "Pierre de Cros notre a Aurillac". Mention of Jussac (Cantal) also on the 2nd sheet. Fragment of a beautiful antiphonary. (Traces of folds, marginal holes in the first leaf without alteration of the text).