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[COLLECTION OF LEAVES from MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS]

10 leaves and cuttings, all in Latin, manuscripts on vellum
[13th to 15th century]
€800 - €1.200

10 leaves and cuttings, comprising: (i) long and tall rectangular cutting from a Bible (parts of Galatians 4) with single column of 26 lines, red rubrics and versal initials, pale green initial, 275 by 140mm, France, c. 1200; (ii) small rectangular cutting from a copy of William Peraldus, Summae virtutem ac vitiorum, remains of double column of 15 lines, reverse originally blank (with added document of Richard, bishop of Saint-Denis dated 26 August 1646 in scrawled hand), 80 by 112mm, France, thirteenth century; (iii) large rectangular cutting from a Missal, with double column of 16 lines, two initials in red and blue with coloured penwork, 143 by 208mm, France, thirteenth century; (iii) partial bifolium from a noted Missal, double column of 28 lines, red rubrics, initials in orange-red or blue with contrasting penwork, recovered from reuse as an account book cover for Farciennes dated 1657 (scrawls on one leaf detailing this), each leaf approximately 219 by 200mm, Belgium, late thirteenth century; plus another Bible cutting from a fourteenth century manuscript, two leaves from a fifteenth-century Missal and two text leaves from Flemish Books of Hours