Illuminated Manuscript.- Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, single leaf, with double column of mixed text and music in 21/19 lines and (recto) 20/11 lines (verso) of two sizes of a high grade of early gothic book hand, those with music accompanied by a 4-line red stave, capitals enclosing quatrefoil penwork tiles (some of these touched in yellow wash or red), pale red rubrics, five 2-line initials in blue or dark pink with white penwork, on coloured grounds with circles of gold at the edges, these leading to foliate extensions in the margin terminating in ivy-leaves, recto with an orange fish within a box five lines tall immediately below initial 'L', verso with a large (40 x 40mm.) and elaborate initial 'G', the center filled with swirling vines bearing leaves and the whole highlighted with gold in 15 places, a grey heron with a red head swallowing an eel perched on the upper left corner of the initial, and a tiny orange dog at the initial's lower left, all of which topping an extension descending the length of the leaf between the columns, minutely trimmed at top, touching edge of decorations, otherwise remarkably clean and bright, 286 x 197mm., [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (probably c.1310)]. *** The text here is the end of a Mass for Saint Margaret (July 20), the complete Mass for Saint Praxedes (an early martyr of Rome; July 21), and the beginning of a Mass for Saint Mary Magdalene (July 22). For the sale history of the Missal prior to its break-up in the 20th century, see previous lot.