Two cuttings from an illuminated Passional or Breviary, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [England, early fifteenth century (perhaps c. 1400-1410] Two small fragments, one with remnants of a large initial in blue with scrolling penwork, enclosing coloured acanthus leaves on a burnished gold ground, the other with part of a bar border in gold and red with coloured foliage on hairline stems sprouting into the border, each with remains of 5 lines of late gothic English bookhand, probably from the life of St. Bertin,opening “Egregius vir dei b” and noting the death of his associate and relative, St. Omer (Audomerus), scuffs to gold and edges, slight discolourations, else fair condition, 93 by 35mm. and 108 by 35mm; the decoration here shows affinities in its thick bar borders and fleshy acanthus leaves with British Library, HarleyMS. 2946 (reproduced and discussed in K.L. Scott, Dated and Dateable English Manuscript Borders, 2002, pp. 34-5) From the library of Ampleforth Abbey, deaccessioned in 2010.
Two cuttings from an illuminated Passional or Breviary, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [England, early fifteenth century (perhaps c. 1400-1410] Two small fragments, one with remnants of a large initial in blue with scrolling penwork, enclosing coloured acanthus leaves on a burnished gold ground, the other with part of a bar border in gold and red with coloured foliage on hairline stems sprouting into the border, each with remains of 5 lines of late gothic English bookhand, probably from the life of St. Bertin,opening “Egregius vir dei b” and noting the death of his associate and relative, St. Omer (Audomerus), scuffs to gold and edges, slight discolourations, else fair condition, 93 by 35mm. and 108 by 35mm; the decoration here shows affinities in its thick bar borders and fleshy acanthus leaves with British Library, HarleyMS. 2946 (reproduced and discussed in K.L. Scott, Dated and Dateable English Manuscript Borders, 2002, pp. 34-5) From the library of Ampleforth Abbey, deaccessioned in 2010.
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