Lot 61
  • 61

Leaves from Gregory the Great, Homiliae in Evangelia, in Latin [France or Germany, late 11th or early 12th century]

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • ink on pigment
two leaves, each c.265x200mm, vellum, 31 lines (c.230x145mm), large initials infilled in quarters in red, 14th(?)-century numbers 'x-xi' and xiii-xiiii', corrections made over erasures in a Humanistic hand, fold along inner vertical margin of each leaf, vellum darkened in lower corner

Catalogue Note

St Gregory the Great, Homilies on the Gospels, parts of nos.V, IX, and VII (edited by R. Etaix, 1999).

These leaves were recovered from a copy of Johann Reuchlin, De Rudimentis Hebraicis, Pforzheim: Thomas Anselm, 1506.