Leaf from a treatise on the Calendar, in Latin, finely decorated manuscript on parchment [France, c. 1100 or early twelfth century] Single leaf, bisected laterally, with single column of 22 lines in an excellent and elegant Romanesque bookhand (text apparently unrecorded elsewhere, and not even in the vast In Principio database), written above top line, capitals set off in margins, opening words of sections in alternate blue and red capitals, rope-like line-fillers in red and blue penwork, three large initials in green, red and blue with flourishing in same, the two initial 'e's partly infilled with yellow wash, prickings for lines visible, slight darkening to edges of leaves (showing this leaf has not been cut down at outer edges), small holes and folds from reuse (see below), small amount of cockling, overall good condition on strong and supple parchment, 270 by 180mm. Reused on an account book and dated 'L'an mil six cent dix' in scrawled hand on reverse. Purchased from a private European collector in 2005. The quality of the script here, the coloured capitals and delightfully complex three-coloured initials with compartments partly touched in yellow wash, all show that the parent manuscript of this leaf was a magnificently handsome codex.
Leaf from a treatise on the Calendar, in Latin, finely decorated manuscript on parchment [France, c. 1100 or early twelfth century] Single leaf, bisected laterally, with single column of 22 lines in an excellent and elegant Romanesque bookhand (text apparently unrecorded elsewhere, and not even in the vast In Principio database), written above top line, capitals set off in margins, opening words of sections in alternate blue and red capitals, rope-like line-fillers in red and blue penwork, three large initials in green, red and blue with flourishing in same, the two initial 'e's partly infilled with yellow wash, prickings for lines visible, slight darkening to edges of leaves (showing this leaf has not been cut down at outer edges), small holes and folds from reuse (see below), small amount of cockling, overall good condition on strong and supple parchment, 270 by 180mm. Reused on an account book and dated 'L'an mil six cent dix' in scrawled hand on reverse. Purchased from a private European collector in 2005. The quality of the script here, the coloured capitals and delightfully complex three-coloured initials with compartments partly touched in yellow wash, all show that the parent manuscript of this leaf was a magnificently handsome codex.
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