Beschreibung:

Leaf from a Sacramentary, with a large decorated initial, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Germany, mid- to late twelfth century] Single leaf, with single column of 21 lines of a large and elegant Romanesque bookhand, additional text for one line marked off with red penwork foliage, capitals used for opening words of lines following initials, red rubrics, one-line red initials, larger initials in red, with lines and dots of blank parchment left in their bodies (two with baubles mounted in their bodies), embellished with red foliate penwork, one very large initial 'F' (opening 'Famulorum tuorum quaesumus Domine ...', the collect for the Feast of the Assumption), in red split penwork bands, entwined with foliage, highlighted on inner side in pale yellow and green wash, both lower margins with late medieval marginalia, one natural flaw in parchment, small spots and stains, else in excellent condition and on fine and heavy Romanesque parchment, 290 by 220mm. Other leaves from this large and appealing manuscript have appeared in Sam Fogg, cat. 16, Text Manuscripts and Documents 2200BC to 1600AD (1995), nos. 30 and 31; Maggs Bros., European Bulletin 20 (1995), no. 37; Quaritch, cat. 1270, Bookhands of the Middle Ages VI (2000), nos. 69 and 70; Sotheby's, 6 December 2001, lot 8; Marc Antoine du Ry, cat. 2 (2002), no. 2; and in our rooms, 6 December 2017, lot 16. This leaf acquired from a European private collector in 2019.