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[BIFOLIUM from PETER LOMBARD on the PAULINE EPISTLES]

Two leaves from a copy of Peter Lombard, Magna Glossatura in Epistolas Pauli, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum

[Northern France (probably Paris)
c. 1210]

€800 - €1.200

Two conjoined leaves, each with double column of approximately 27 lines in a handsome professional early gothic bookhand, the gloss arranged around these columns in smaller script, running titles in main hand, marginal notes in red, one-line initials in red or blue (those in main text with contrasting penwork), prickings for lines visible indicating leaf has not been trimmed, small spots and stains, slight darkening at edges, else in excellent condition, each leaf: 350 by 250mm

From a large and handsome manuscript identified as from the medieval library of the Augustinian abbey of Rebdorf (founded c. 1165; suppressed in 1806). The parent codex was sold by Sotheby's, 17 June 2003, lot 82, and then dispersed. Other leaves have appeared in Quaritch, 'Bookhands of the Middle Ages VIII' (2007), no. 95; Sotheby's, 10 July 2012, lot 1 and again 7 July 2015, lot 8; as well as in Bloomsbury Auctions, London, 6 July 2017, lot 10, 2 July 2019, lot 13 and 6 July 2021, lot 41, among many others. A bifolium with two large gold initial 'P's from the volume is in the Scheetz collection (S. Gwara, Bibliotheca Scheetziana, 2014, no. 17, pp. 109-18)

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