Beschreibung:

Collection of leaves from manuscripts, including Aesop’s Fable of the burgher and the knight, in Latin, on vellum [fourteenth to fifteenth century] nineteen leaves (including a bifolium): (a) leaf from Aesop, De Cive et Milite, 175mm. by 115mm., single column, 32 lines of Latin verse in black ink in a fine Italian bookhand, capitals for each line touched in red, small worming at base and slightly trimmed, Italy, late fourteenth century; (b) bifolium from a biblical commentary, each leaf 232mm. by 215mm., remains of double column, 44 lines in black ink in a fine early gothic bookhand, paragraph marks and running titles in red, probably France, thirteenth century; (c) leaf from a canon law manuscipt: Corpus iuris canonici, ch.XVI-XX, double column, 425mm. by 260mm., 36 lines in brown ink, with extensive gloss filling margins, initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork, Italy (perhaps Bologna), fourteenth century; plus six leaves from fifteenth-century liturgical books, a fragment of a leaf from a French fifteenth-century missal, 135mm. by 80mm., with 4 illuminated initials, and 8 leaves from fifteenth-century Books of Hours (4 with small illuminated initials containing fruit or foliage, and another with a border panel of acanthus-leaves on dull-gold or plain vellum grounds); many leaves recovered from bindings and with small holes, scuffs and stains