Bifolium from a Missal, illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum, [France (Paris?), 14th century]

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Bifolium from a Missal

Illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum. [France (Paris?), 14th century (2nd? quarter)]

Bifolium, c.295×415 mm; written in fine textura script in 2 columns of 28 lines (c.195×120mm); the text including the start of the Common of Saints; decorated with fine flourished initials and a large illuminated puzzle initial in gold and blue, with gold and blue extensions and blue and red flourishing; the running headings added in the 16th century ‘In vigilia unius apostoli’ etc. Some marginal discolouration.

A fine, large, and striking bifolium from a de luxe manuscript.

PROVENANCE:

Otto Ege/Philip Duschnes?

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Gallery Purchase, 1940 (1940:355.22)