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[LEAVES from a CISTERCIAN BREVIARY with a hairy DEMON POKING ITS TONGUE OUT AT THE VIEWER]

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

Three leaves, a bifolium with a singleton pasted to it (the first two leaves with continuous text, and the modern pagination: 67/68 and 69/70; the last with pagination 79/80), 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, 12 initials in blue or pink enclosing coloured foliage on gold grounds, two initials with tiny lacertine animals, a bird, a long-legged animal-headed drollery and a hairy bird-legged demon looking at the viewer with its tongue out all standing atop initials, a few spots and stains, else excellent condition, each leaf: 160 by 104mm

Other leaves from this wonderful and glittering little book have appeared in Maggs, Bulletin, 20, nos. 42-43, cat. 1262 (1998), no. 13; Sotheby's, 19 June 2001, lot 10, 6 December in the same year, lot 2, 5 July 2005, lot 90 (the substantial remnant of 128 leaves), 6 December 2005, lot 10, 29 June 2007, lot 4, among numerous others. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century inscriptions in the parent volume suggest that it was once in Vouray, east of Tours in the Loire valley