BINDING FRAGMENTS, IN LATIN [ENGLAND, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS AND ITALY, 13TH-15TH CENTURIES]

a leaf and 7 fragments, vellum, all but the first recovered from use in book bindings, with consequent wear and damage: (a) a leaf from a pocket Breviary, c.135x93mm, 22 lines, with readings from Monday to Wednesday [Netherlands]; (b) a leaf from a Decretals of Gregory IX, Book 2, tit. 5-6 cap. 4, c.150x110mm, 2 columns of 39 lines written below top line, initials in blue with red flourishing [England, 13th century]; (c) a cropped bifolium from a noted Breviary, c.175x285mm, preserving 26 lines on each page, one with interlinear staveless neumes; (d, e) two partial leaves from a legal text, each c.150x210mm, one with a four-line painted foliate initial (at ‘De restitutione …’) and rubrics unusually written in a combination of blue and red letters; (f-h) three fragments from other legal manuscripts, from c.120x170mm to c.250x355mm