Saint Luke’s Gospel, glossed, in Latin, leaves from a manuscript on vellum

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Description

12 leaves, 361mm. by 247mm., biblical text in 25 lines on every second ruled line, inset with the marginal Gloss ruled for up to 49 lines, written-space 226mm. by 130mm., written in two sizes of an early gothic script, text consecutive from Luke 5:21 to 8:14, foliated in pencil 23-34, small red and blue initials with contrasting penwork, large paragraph marks for each gloss throughout alternately red and blue, two pages with sixteenth-century sidenotes, stitched, formerly in the Phillipps collection, probably part of his MS. 13805