A small teaching collection of fragments of medieval manuscripts, in Latin, French, German and Spanish, on parchment [tenth or eleventh to sixteenth century]To view a video of this lot, click here.56 fragments, most small cuttings recovered from reuse on spine-compartments or as board-supports in later bindings, with examples of European script from the Romanesque through to the Renaissance, with medieval music and simple and decorated initials, and a single large cutting from the corner of a fifteenth-century choirbook leaf, mostly liturgical or Biblical in content, but with two cuttings from a twelfth-century German copy of Priscian's De arte grammatica (parts of IV:2-3), in a tiny and precise hand, capitals infilled with red and simple red initials, both approximately 200 by 105mm.;all recovered from bindings and hence with stains, scuffing and small areas of loss, overall in fair condition
A small teaching collection of fragments of medieval manuscripts, in Latin, French, German and Spanish, on parchment [tenth or eleventh to sixteenth century]To view a video of this lot, click here.56 fragments, most small cuttings recovered from reuse on spine-compartments or as board-supports in later bindings, with examples of European script from the Romanesque through to the Renaissance, with medieval music and simple and decorated initials, and a single large cutting from the corner of a fifteenth-century choirbook leaf, mostly liturgical or Biblical in content, but with two cuttings from a twelfth-century German copy of Priscian's De arte grammatica (parts of IV:2-3), in a tiny and precise hand, capitals infilled with red and simple red initials, both approximately 200 by 105mm.;all recovered from bindings and hence with stains, scuffing and small areas of loss, overall in fair condition
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