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Collection of leaves from medieval manuscripts, in Latin, on vellum [France, twelfth century]
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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7 leaves (including 2 bifolia): (a) two bifolia from a Sacramentary, the tops of two leaves torn away, but each leaf originally 310mm. by 200mm., single column, 26 lines in an excellent early bookhand, with a late ct-ligature in which the ‘t’ loops back but does not meet the ‘c’, music on a single red-line stave with neumes, capitals touched in red, rubrics and initials in red (partly oxidised to silver), two initials also in black with tiny red circles mounted within their bodies, France, early twelfth century; (b) leaf from a Homiliary, with readings from Gregory the Great, Homilies on the Gospels, with the end of Homily II and the opening of III, 232mm. by 181mm., single column, 25 lines in black ink in an elegant Romanesque hand, two fifteenth-century additions in margins and two further initials added at same time, upper corner of leaf torn away with losses to ends of 6 lines, France, mid-twelfth century; (c) bifolium from a large theological compendium, citing Augustine, Jerome and the Church Councils of Braga, Trebur and Chalon-sur-Saône, 315mm. by 470mm., 42 lines in a small and precise bookhand, rubrics in red, tall and thin initials in red or pale blue with penwork to contrast, reused to bind accounts and with a note in French dated 1592 recording the purchase of the estate whose records this once contained, France, first half (probably second quarter) of the twelfth century; all evidently recovered from bindings with some stains and tears