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Missal, in Latin, manuscript on vellum
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
79 leaves, 318mm. by 204mm., lacking leaves at each end, at least one gathering after fol.48, and a leaf after fol.72, else complete, collation: i-vi8, vii8+1 [fol.49a is an unrelated inserted leaf], viii-ix8, x6 [of 8, lacking i and viii], with horizontal catchwords, double column, 26 lines, ruled in plummet, text beginning above top ruled line (a feature of manuscripts earlier than about 1220), written-space 233mm. by 145mm., written in dark brown ink in two sizes of a compressed early gothic liturgical hand, rubrics in red, capitals touched in red, large decorated initials throughout (usually several on every page) in red or green, often with flourishes or other ornament or simple brush- or penwork in the contrasting colour, fol.49a from an unrelated thirteenth-century scholastic manuscript (235mm. by 163mm.., double column, 60 lines, quaestiones on virtues and vices), a few early marginal additions and corrections to text, some leaves worn and rubbed with considerable loss of ink, some leaves stained and smudged, a few holes where the ink has eaten through the pages, some margins frayed and defective or cut away (lower margins of fols.73-76), many leaves clean and sound with wide margins, modern quarter leather over wooden boards in late medieval style, clasps and catches
Catalogue Note
A late romanesque liturgical manuscript, perhaps of Cistercian Use. The text is from the Temporal of a Missal from Ash Wednesday to the 17th Sunday after Pentecost. There are erased names in Italian on fol.1r and a medieval name “fratri simonis perri” on fol.35r.