Leaf from the 'Interpretations of Hebrew Names' from the St Albans Abbey Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern France (Paris), c. 1330]Single leaf, with triple column of 46 lines in a fine Gothic bookhand (entries for 'e', from 'Elcham' to 'Elud'), single catchword at base of verso, red rubrics, one-line initials in alternate blue and liquid gold with contrasting penwork, line-fillers in zigzagging foliate designs in same colours, apparent price "15/" in pencil at foot of recto, tiny dealer's mark "15K1079" in pencil at lower inner corner of verso, a few spots, slight cockling at edges, folds to corners, else good condition, 276 by 188mm.From an incomplete Bible sold at Sotheby's, 6 July 1964, lot 239, to the dealer and book-breaker Philip Duschnes, who dispersed it. Then identified in 1981 as from the medieval library of St Albans Abbey, Herts., and perhaps to be identified as one of "duas bonas biblias" acquired by Abbot Michael de Mentmore (C. de Hamel in Fine Books and Book Collecting, 1981, pp. 10-12). However, a number of leaves, including whatever remained of the Interpretations of Hebrew Names, from which the present leaf comes, appear to have been separated from the volume before its appearance at Sotheby's in 1964, with two leaves acquired by E.H. Dring (1864-1928, one reappearing in Quaritch, cat. 1036, 1984, no. 76).
Leaf from the 'Interpretations of Hebrew Names' from the St Albans Abbey Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern France (Paris), c. 1330]Single leaf, with triple column of 46 lines in a fine Gothic bookhand (entries for 'e', from 'Elcham' to 'Elud'), single catchword at base of verso, red rubrics, one-line initials in alternate blue and liquid gold with contrasting penwork, line-fillers in zigzagging foliate designs in same colours, apparent price "15/" in pencil at foot of recto, tiny dealer's mark "15K1079" in pencil at lower inner corner of verso, a few spots, slight cockling at edges, folds to corners, else good condition, 276 by 188mm.From an incomplete Bible sold at Sotheby's, 6 July 1964, lot 239, to the dealer and book-breaker Philip Duschnes, who dispersed it. Then identified in 1981 as from the medieval library of St Albans Abbey, Herts., and perhaps to be identified as one of "duas bonas biblias" acquired by Abbot Michael de Mentmore (C. de Hamel in Fine Books and Book Collecting, 1981, pp. 10-12). However, a number of leaves, including whatever remained of the Interpretations of Hebrew Names, from which the present leaf comes, appear to have been separated from the volume before its appearance at Sotheby's in 1964, with two leaves acquired by E.H. Dring (1864-1928, one reappearing in Quaritch, cat. 1036, 1984, no. 76).
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