[LEAF FROM AN EARLY SACRAMENTARY]

Single leaf with text in single column of 24 lines of a rounded Romanesque minuscule, with a prominent st-ligature and an undulating final horizontal stroke on final 'r', one line of ornamental capitals on reverse, red rubrics, simple red initials (oxidised in places), a few wormholes, recovered from reuse as a pastedown in a later binding and then mounted in an album or frame (with scuffs and losses to reverse where once pasted to a book-board, but legible there, and marks from old mounting tape at head of reverse), small spots, stains, else in good condition on heavy vellum, 300 by 200mm