Bifolium from a large and handsome Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, in situ on the binding of a manuscript record of a legal dispute in Chalon, Burgundy [central-eastern France (probably Chalon-sur-Saône or vicinity), fifteenth century]

Large bifolium, reused as a later limp parchment binding and hence trimmed at top with a probable loss of the upper margin and a line or so there, text in double column of 32 lines of a good and angular late Gothic bookhand, capitals touched in pale yellow, red rubrics, 2-line initials in red or blue, some seventeenth-century scrawls in bas-de-page upside down (so in alignment with manuscript codex within this bifolium), paper pastedowns covering inner sides of parchment leaves, cockling and small holes, else good condition, 280 by 200mm.; enclosing a booklet of 58 leaves of parchment recording the details of a legal dispute in approximately 23 lines of italic hand, occasional armorial inkstamps with motto Dix sols de Roole Bourgogne et Bresse, this dated September 1689