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‡ Leaf from a vast Lectern Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment

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‡ Leaf from a vast Lectern Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment

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‡ Leaf from a vast Lectern Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Bohemia, c. 1450]

Single leaf, with double column of 45 lines in a squat and square hand with great angularity (written space: 290 by 191mm.), running titles in blue or red capitals, pricking for lines remaining, early folio no. '105' in upper outer corner of recto, small split in outer edge, some cockling and dampstaining (but text still legible), 433 by 305mm.

From a large and fine manuscript dispersed by Otto Ege (1888-1951), his handlist no. 150, acquired by him from the William B. Gourley collection in 1936 (see Gwara, Otto Ege's Manuscripts, 2013, p. 167 and figs. 54-55). Other leaves are recorded in Berea College in Kentucky, Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA., Oberlin College in Ohio, and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. This leaf last appearing in our rooms, 6 December 2017, lot 58.

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‡ Leaf from a vast Lectern Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment

Name: ‡ Leaf from a vast Lectern Bible, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
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