A group of 15 manuscript and printed text leaves and cuttings, 13th-16th century

A collection of 15 medieval text leaves and cuttings, and early printed leaves

in Latin, on vellum and paper. [England, Netherlands, Italy, France, 13th-16th century]

Comprising:

(1) Three small vellum fragments of Peter Lombard’s Sentences. [England or France, early 13th century], various shapes and sizes, c.60×15 – 10×80mm, written in very fine early gothic script, formerly used as binders’ waste, with resultant cuts and creases, but remarkably clean and legible

(2) Printed leaf from a Gospel commentary. [c. 1500], small folio, double column, gothic type, two historiated woodcut initials, two other smaller woodcut initials, fol. lxxvii

(3) Printed leaf from a Carmelite missal. [Venice: Giunta, 1509], 8vo, leaf containing the end of the table and a full-page woodcut of the Annunciation

(4) Printed leaf from a Book of Hours in Dutch. [Paris: Thielman Kerver, 12 February 1500/01], 8vo, leaf c6, text in red and black within a metalcut border, [ISTC ih004328000], cropped at edges

(5) Leaf from a Book of Hours. [France, 15th century, second half], c.107×80, 13 lines, in bâtarde script, comprising the end of the gospel extract from Luke, and rubric for that of Matthew, Provenance: Reported to be from a Hours of the Use of Amiens

(6) Printed leaf from a Bible. [Venice: Giunta, 1519], 8vo, fol. 507, containing part of the text of Hebrews

(7) Leaf from a Book of Hours. [Southern Netherlands, 15th century], c.125×95mm, 16 lines in gothic textura, the text comprising Matthew 2:2–11, part of the usual gospel extract found in Books of Hours

(8) Calendar leaf from a miniature Book of Hours. [England, 15th century], c.95×63mm, 17 lines, gothic script, major feasts (in red) include Hugh (17 Nov.) and King Edmund (20 Nov.), ordinary feasts include Edmund the Confessor (16 Nov.), illuminated KL monogram

(9) Leaf from a Psalter. [Southern Netherlands (Flanders), 13th century, 1st half], c.120×80mm, 20 lines, above top line, the text comprising Ps. 75:8–76:12, 75:12 omitted and added later in the lower margin; 1- and 3-line illuminated initials

(10) Three fragments of binders’ waste from an unidentified scholarly text. [France or Germany?, 14th century], c.25×95–290mm, 2 columns, each strip preserving about 7 lines of heavily abbreviated gothic script, formerly used as swing-guards, with resultant holes, creases, etc.

(11) Leaf from an unusual Prayerbook. [France, 15th century, second half], c.155×105 mm, foliated ‘12’, 31 lines in a fine bâtarde script with calligraphic flourishes, 1- and 2-line ILLUMINATED INITIALS alternately gold or blue, flourished in blue or red respectively

(12) Two leaves from a Bible [France (Paris), 13th century], each c.160×100mm, 2 columns of 43 lines, DECORATED WITH PENWORK-FLOURISHED INITIALS in red and blue, Provenance: Probably from a Bible in the collections of Lord Saltoun, sold at Sotheby’s, 19 May 1958, lot 75, and William Foyle, sold at Christie’s, 11 July 2000, lot 16

(13) Leaf from a Book of Hours. [Italy, 15th century], c.123×88mm, 12 lines in a fine gothic script, the text comprising part of the Office of the Dead, including the start of the 4th lection, marked by an initial in blue with red flourishing extending most of the height of the page

(14) Leaf from a Book of Hours. [France, 15th century, second half], c.82×65mm, 16 lines, gothic script, the text comprising the end of the canticle ‘Ego dixi ‘ and the start of Psalm 148, probably from Lauds in the Office of the Dead, with 1- and 2-line illuminated initials

(15) Leaf from a Gradual. [Spain, 16th/17th century], 9 lines of text and music in square notation on five-lines staves, initials in blue and red, the text for Christmas day and the following Sunday, foliated ‘xxii’