Beschreibung:

Leaves from a Calendar and a Psalter, in Latin, illuminated manuscripts on vellum 3 separate pieces from two manuscripts, (a) the opening leaf of a Calendar, 178mm. by 131mm., verso with January written in black and red within an architectural frame in gold with black and red ink formed of two decorated vertical pillars supporting two arches which meet in a knot at the top, large roundel of Aquarius, 50mm. in diameter, showing a three-quarter length boy in gold emptying a vase into a green river, recto (the original fol.1r) with added prayers and hymn titles in a thirteenth-century hand, trimmed to edges, very rubbed, creased and bisected, Rhineland (perhaps Mainz), early thirteenth century; and (b) 2 bifolia (4 leaves) from a Psalter, a full leaf 162mm. by 116mm., 21 lines, written-space 130mm. by 80mm., written in brown ink in a small late romanesque bookhand, part of Psalms 115-18, versal initials in red, two large 4-line initials in red, one including a face, and parts of four very large painted initials infilled with orange, green, red and yellow with white heightening, including foliage with several dragons, human and animal faces, etc., an elongated kneeling figure in a green robe with a red belt (head cut away), worn, recovered from a binding, edges cut away with loss of text and decoration, western Germany (perhaps Black Forest region), early thirteenth century, in a salmon-red paper folder, morocco title label gilt