Rule of St. Benedict and the Constitutions of the Canons Regular of Arrouaise, in Latin, decorated manuscripts on vellum [England, second half of the twelfth century] two volumes (a) 48 leaves, 147mm. by 105mm., complete, collation: i-iv10, v8, single column, 26 lines in brown ink in an elegant early gothic script, rubrics in brown or red, 2- to 5-line initials in metallic red or green, many with contrasting penwork and decorative dots, the larger ones containing scrolling patterns within their ascenders, one large initial (fol.11r; 8-line) in same, early medieval dry-point sketches of a man and a dog chasing a hare on fol.31v, remnants of a document in dry-point gloss on last endleaf; (b) a gathering of 8 leaves from the end of the previous volume, complete, with the original endleaves of the volume (fols.6-8) with sketches for initials, pen trial alphabets and phrases, and a fifteenth-century inscription in red ink (perhaps "Ociiborn"), small area cut from upper border of fol.1 (with no affect to text), some small stains in both volumes, else excellent condition, both modern red leather over pasteboards
Rule of St. Benedict and the Constitutions of the Canons Regular of Arrouaise, in Latin, decorated manuscripts on vellum [England, second half of the twelfth century] two volumes (a) 48 leaves, 147mm. by 105mm., complete, collation: i-iv10, v8, single column, 26 lines in brown ink in an elegant early gothic script, rubrics in brown or red, 2- to 5-line initials in metallic red or green, many with contrasting penwork and decorative dots, the larger ones containing scrolling patterns within their ascenders, one large initial (fol.11r; 8-line) in same, early medieval dry-point sketches of a man and a dog chasing a hare on fol.31v, remnants of a document in dry-point gloss on last endleaf; (b) a gathering of 8 leaves from the end of the previous volume, complete, with the original endleaves of the volume (fols.6-8) with sketches for initials, pen trial alphabets and phrases, and a fifteenth-century inscription in red ink (perhaps "Ociiborn"), small area cut from upper border of fol.1 (with no affect to text), some small stains in both volumes, else excellent condition, both modern red leather over pasteboards
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