Leaf from a large and fine manuscript Breviary, with lengthy reading from Paulinus of Milan, Life of St. Ambrose, in Latin on parchment [England, early thirteenth century] Single leaf, double column, 30 lines (above top line) in a strikingly elegant and orderly bookhand, showing the emerging angularity and lateral compression of the high gothic but while retaining much of the beauty of the Romanesque, with the tail of capital ‘Q’ ornamented with a widening created by the turning of the nib, the bowl of the capital ‘B’ formed of two mirrored loops with tiny hairline curls at their tips, red rubrics, three large initials in blue or red with contrasting penwork and enclosing delicate floral shapes, cockled, stained in places and discoloured on reverse, small hole in middle of one column, sections cut from corners of blank borders, overall fair and presentable, 350 by 250mm. From Ampleforth Abbey, and identified for them by Robert Weaver of Dulwich in June 1975 (note thirteenth-century man of same name in lot 69, no relation). Deaccessioned in 2010. This leaf is probably all that remains of a notably large and handsome English service book, produced in the first few decades of the thirteenth century.
Leaf from a large and fine manuscript Breviary, with lengthy reading from Paulinus of Milan, Life of St. Ambrose, in Latin on parchment [England, early thirteenth century] Single leaf, double column, 30 lines (above top line) in a strikingly elegant and orderly bookhand, showing the emerging angularity and lateral compression of the high gothic but while retaining much of the beauty of the Romanesque, with the tail of capital ‘Q’ ornamented with a widening created by the turning of the nib, the bowl of the capital ‘B’ formed of two mirrored loops with tiny hairline curls at their tips, red rubrics, three large initials in blue or red with contrasting penwork and enclosing delicate floral shapes, cockled, stained in places and discoloured on reverse, small hole in middle of one column, sections cut from corners of blank borders, overall fair and presentable, 350 by 250mm. From Ampleforth Abbey, and identified for them by Robert Weaver of Dulwich in June 1975 (note thirteenth-century man of same name in lot 69, no relation). Deaccessioned in 2010. This leaf is probably all that remains of a notably large and handsome English service book, produced in the first few decades of the thirteenth century.
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