Leaf from a Breviary, manuscript in Latin on vellum, [France (Paris?), 14th century]

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Leaf from a Breviary

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

Single leaf, c.180×115mm; written in a fine gothic textura script in 2 columns of 32 lines (c.140×80mm), comprising part of Thursday to Saturday in the 4th week of Lent; DENSELY ILLUMINATED WITH FINE PENWORK INITIALS; the upper margins annotated ‘quadragesimé’ and ‘Hebdomada 4^a’; Slight tape stains in the corners

LITERATURE:

Scott Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts (Cayce, SC, 2013), Handlist no. 23; citing leaves at four American institutions.

PROVENANCE:

Obtained in Paris in 1928 by:

Otto Ege (de Ricci, Census, II (1937), p. 1492 no. 35)

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Gallery Purchase, 1942 (1942:468.23)