Homiliary, sermons from Bede and Peter Damian, in Latin, cutting from a decorated manuscript on vellum a cutting, 195mm. by 150mm., 21 lines here, column width 107mm., ruled in blind, written in a fine rounded romanesque display script, opening words of texts in uncials, headings in red in uncials, a 2-line initial ‘I’ in red, large initial ‘Q’ (“Quia propitia divinitate …”), 6-line, 53mm. by 48mm. plus long extension, the initial drawn in red enclosing elaborate white vinestem design infilled with colours and on a coloured panel with the tail of the ‘Q’ formed of a long-tailed bird perched beside the initial, some damp staining and unevenness of the surface (not affecting the initial), the lower edge of the cutting stained and defective, now masked with another cutting of 5 lines from the same manuscript laid on top, in a blue cloth folder, morocco title label gilt
Homiliary, sermons from Bede and Peter Damian, in Latin, cutting from a decorated manuscript on vellum a cutting, 195mm. by 150mm., 21 lines here, column width 107mm., ruled in blind, written in a fine rounded romanesque display script, opening words of texts in uncials, headings in red in uncials, a 2-line initial ‘I’ in red, large initial ‘Q’ (“Quia propitia divinitate …”), 6-line, 53mm. by 48mm. plus long extension, the initial drawn in red enclosing elaborate white vinestem design infilled with colours and on a coloured panel with the tail of the ‘Q’ formed of a long-tailed bird perched beside the initial, some damp staining and unevenness of the surface (not affecting the initial), the lower edge of the cutting stained and defective, now masked with another cutting of 5 lines from the same manuscript laid on top, in a blue cloth folder, morocco title label gilt
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