‡ Two leaves from a Glossed Psalter, one with elegant coloured initials, in Latin, manuscript on parchment, with a contemporary bifolium from a manuscript of Hugh of St. Cher, In universum Vetus et Novi Testamentum [France, thirteenth century]

Two leaves (with eighteenth-century pagination '39/39', second in error, and '60/61'), each with single column of 16 lines of main text in a formal early gothic hand, glosses in smaller version of same in blocks set in both outer margins, with further glosses added interlineally, one-line initials in red, red rubrics, rubric in gloss in ornamental blue and pale gold, two large initials in blue and red, with scalloping penwork in contrasting colour, some flaking from ink on each leaf, some darkening at edges, small spots and stains, else excellent condition, each leaf 302 by 197mm.; with a bifolium from Hugh of St. Cher, In universum Vetus et Novi Testamentum, these on Ecclesiastes, double column of 57 lines in a good university hand, running titles in red, trimmed at top and outer vertical edge of one leaf, recovered from a binding and with concomitant damage, each leaf approximately 255 by 183mm.

From the collection of Dr Otto Oren Fischer (1881-1961) of Detroit.

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