Bifolium from a Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum

Bifolium from a Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [France, mid- to late thirteenth century], two conjoined leaves, each with text in single column of 22 lines of a professional early gothic bookhand, capitals in calligraphic penstrokes and touched in red, red rubrics, 2-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork, recovered from reuse in a later binding, and hence with numerous scrawled additions of the seventeenth or eighteenth century (including a simple drawing of a human head, a house-like structure, and inscriptions including music and the family name “de Guyde”), stains, folds, small holes and tears at edges, overall in good and presentable condition, each leaf 280 by 185mm.

Estimate:$401.23

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