Beschreibung:

Fragment from a humanist manuscript of Cicero, De Divinatione, and a large collection of other leaves from medieval manuscripts, in Latin, on vellum [twelfth to fifteenth century] 32 leaves (including parts of 3 bifolia), comprising: (a) Cicero, De Divinatione I:11-12, part of the top of a leaf, 172mm. by 75mm., remains of 8 lines in black ink in a humanist cursive, with several contemporary corrections of clumsy scribal mistakes, somewhat wormed at base, Italy, c.1450; (b) fragment from the opening leaf of a monumental Atlantic Bible, 276mm. by 162mm., with remains of 36 lines in brown ink in a fine rounded early gothic hand, small initials in red, remains of first lines "[In princi]pio [creavi]t Deus [caelum et terra]m", in large ornamental capitals (12mm. high), Italy, twelfth century; (c) leaf from a noted Breviary, 176mm. by 153mm., with 9 lines of music on a 4-line red stave (a notably early example of the use of the Guidonian stave in England), rubrics, simple red initials, England, c.1200; (d) fragment of a Bible (I Chronicles, 20:3-5), 320mm. by 200mm., Italy, thirteenth century; (e) leaf from Justinian, Institutes, II, 20:32, 345mm. by 209mm., with one blue initial with trailing red penwork, Italy, thirteenth century, and another fragment from a Glossed Canon Law text, 219mm. by 315mm., Italy, fourteenth century; (f) a leaf from Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologia, 299mm. by 200mm., 60 lines in rounded script, Italy, c.1300, and two halves of leaves from a near-contemporary Summa contra gentiles by the same author, each 195mm. by 150mm.; (g) fragment of a bifolium from the Golden Legend, 340mm. by 168mm., Italy, thirteenth century; (h) a small fragment of a Parisian Bible (opening Tobit), 225mm. by 77mm., France, thirteenth century; (i) bifolium perhaps from a private devotional book, with calculation tables in red and blue, southern Netherlands, fifteenth century; (j) 14 pieces of seven liturgical volumes, predominantly Italian, twelfth- to fifteenth-century; and leaves from three medieval Hebrew manuscripts containing Rashi's commentary on Daniel and readings for Yom Kippur, Ashkenaz, fourteenth to fifteenth century; all recovered from bindings and somewhat defective