Missal for Franciscan use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Italy, thirteenth century (probably not later than 1260)] 114 leaves, 180mm. by 125mm., complete, collation: i-xi10, xii4 (a gathering added in the fourteenth or fifteenth century) single column, 19-24 lines in dark brown ink in two early gothic bookhands, music on a 4-line stave, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, 2-line initials in red, first and last page of main codex somewhat rubbed, large smudge on fol.108v, some worming at beginning and end, slightly trimmed with folded-in corners of fols.30 and 58 revealing original dimensions, else good condition, nineteenth-century white vellum over pasteboards
Missal for Franciscan use, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Italy, thirteenth century (probably not later than 1260)] 114 leaves, 180mm. by 125mm., complete, collation: i-xi10, xii4 (a gathering added in the fourteenth or fifteenth century) single column, 19-24 lines in dark brown ink in two early gothic bookhands, music on a 4-line stave, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, 2-line initials in red, first and last page of main codex somewhat rubbed, large smudge on fol.108v, some worming at beginning and end, slightly trimmed with folded-in corners of fols.30 and 58 revealing original dimensions, else good condition, nineteenth-century white vellum over pasteboards
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