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[BIFOLIUM FROM A CISTERCIAN BREVIARY]

Two leaves from a Cistercian Breviary, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[France (Picardy, perhaps Amiens)
c. 1290]
€700 - €900

Two conjoined leaves, text in double columns of 25 lines of two sizes of a good gothic bookhand, capitals in ornamental penstrokes and touched in red, red rubrics, initials in blue or pink enclosing coloured foliage on gold grounds, two initials with tiny fat-bodied lacertine animals, another with a crowned king's head, a few spots and stains, else excellent condition, each leaf: 160 by 104mm

From the same parent manuscript as the previous lot

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