Lot 2
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FRAGMENTS IN LATIN AND HEBREW [GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, 10TH(?) TO 15TH CENTURIES]

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400 - 600 GBP
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  • About thirty fragments, in Latin and Hebrew [Germany, France, Italy, 10th(?) to 15th centuries]
various sizes, fragments mostly recovered from bindings, all on vellum: (a) 2 horizontal strips from a single leaf, each c.120x300mm, each with at least 11 lines of text in 2 columns written in a very fine Romanesque bookhand, containing parts of Revelation 3:18–5:11 [(southern?) Germany, 12th century (first half)]; (b) 2 vertical strips from capitula lists of Peter Lombard, Sentences, for the end of book III and beginning of Book IV, each with a column of 42 lines written above top line [France (or England?), 13th century (first half)]; (c) 2 horizontal strips from the lower part of 2 leaves from a glossed legal text, each c.95x285mm, with the lowest 3 or 4 lines of text in 2 columns [France, 14th century]; (d) about 23 other fragments, some very small, the earliest a very narrow vertical strip (c.103x5mm) with about 16 letters on 14 lines [Germany, 10th(?) century], one in Hebrew, c.160x45mm, one with Hufnagel musical notation, etc.; mostly recovered from spine-linings, worn and dirty