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A leaf from the Benedictine Rule, and ten other leaves and fragments, all in Latin, from manuscripts on vellum [twelfth to fifteenth century]
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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10 leaves (including a bifolium) and a fragment: (a) leaf from the Rule of St. Benedict (with the whole of ch.lxv, on the prior of the monastery, and the opening of lxvi, on the doorkeeper of the monastery, 270mm. by 200mm., single column, 34 lines in a small and precise hand, capitals struck through with double penstrokes, rubrics, a line-filler and three simple initials in red, some tears at edges and slight discolouration, northern France or Low Countries, fourteenth century; (b) bifolium from Geoffrey of Auxerre (c.1120-after 1188), Collectio Sermonum, chs.40-1, on the birth of John the Baptist, each leaf 195mm. by 132mm., single column, 35 lines in a formal angular hand, rubrics in red, 2-line red initials, splits to outer edges of leaves (repaired with tape) with some affect to a few letters, France, c.1200; (c) leaf from a Lectionary, 313mm. by 232mm., two columns, 31 lines in two sizes of a fine early gothic bookhand, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, 2-line initials in blue or red with contrasting penwork, reused to bind accounts and with inscriptions of the name “M Vauldrey” and the date 1539, small holes and stains, Low Countries or northern France, second half of the thirteenth century; (d) two leaves from the anonymous tract, Quaestiones de sacramento eucharistiae, each approximately 330mm. by 220mm., double column, 46 lines, capitals touched in red, rubrics and chapter numbers in red, paragraph marks in red or blue, nineteen initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork, France, late thirteenth or early fourteenth century; (e) two leaves from glossed Canon Law manuscripts, 265mm. by 252mm. and 284mm. by 220mm., both France, thirteenth century; and (f) three large leaves from Missals and other service books, 426mm. by 310mm., 410mm. by 287mm. and 455mm. by 325mm., one with an illuminated initial on a blue and red ground with white penwork, all reused as account bindings and with inscriptions with dates in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, France, fifteenth century