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[GREGORY THE GREAT'S HOMILIES]

Remains of a bifolium from a large and grand manuscript of Gregory the Great, Homilarum in Evangelia, in Latin, on vellum
[Italy
mid-12th century]
€800 - €1.200

Substantial remnant of a bifolium, with almost all of a single column trimmed away at one edge, with text in double columns of 29 lines of a rounded Romanesque bookhand, written above topline and without biting curves, capitals touched in red, versal initials in red in margin, recovered from reuse on a later binding, and with reverse mostly illegible, and large cuts, holes and discoloured areas where the leaf was once pasted around a spine (with holes cut out for the thongs), overall fair condition, in total: 400 by 450mm (original leaf size: 400 by 280mm.)

From a once large and imposing early manuscript of this seminal medieval text