A Study Group
A study group of leaves and fragments, in Latin, manuscripts on vellum [12th to 15th centuries]
A group of manuscripts from across Western Europe, with liturgical, theological, and classical matter.

Comprising:
(i) A leaf of Confessional formulae [France?, 12th century].
c.280 × 195mm. 2 columns of 22 lines in a late Caroline minuscule, with some of the angularity and lateral compression characteristic of gothic scripts (text lacking at upper edge from cropping, moderate staining and small holes in vellum, some text on verso faded).
Provenance: (1) served as pastedown in a book printed by Crantz, Gering, and Friburger, 1476; (2) Colker MS 321; acquired in 1984 from Maggs.

(ii) A fragment from a Psalter [Germany, 12th century].
c.143 × 115mm. Preserving 15 lines, blind-ruled, written in a late Caroline minuscule; text comprising part of Psalms 4-5 (large dark blue stain across 6 lines of text).
Provenance: Colker MS 479; acquired in 1998 from Maggs.

(iii) A fragment from St Augustine, Selected Writings [England, 12th century].
c.105 × 150mm. Preserving 15 lines one a column, and the edge of a second column, in a protogothic bookhand; with text discussing the baptism of Jesus, and the naming of Peter, from Augustine’s Sermones, no. 76 and In Joannis Evangelium tractis, ch. 124 (vellum cockled, remains of adhesive).
Provenance: Colker MS 231; acquired in 1973 from Maggs.

(iv) Two leaves from Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum and Somnium Scipionis [Italy, 15th century].
c.257 × 178mm. 28 lines, ruled in plummet, in a humanistic bookhand, with text comprising De finibus 4.19–21, and the last several lines of Somnium Scipionis (later pencil foliation: ff. 74, 111).
Provenance: (1) Angelo Niccolini (c. 1500); (2) Sir Thomas Phillipps (d. 1872), his MS 4548; (3) Preston A. Perry, his sale in New York, 21 April 1908, lot 269; (4) C.L. Ricketts (1859-1941); (5) Otto Ege (Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts, HL 143); (6) Colker MS 365; acquired in 1986 from Quaritch.
For a more detailed provenance of the parent volume, see Christie's, The History of Western Script, 10 July 2019, lot 455.

(v) A leaf from a Calendar [Italy, probably Venice, 15th century].
c.109 × 78mm. Leaf for the month of October, ruled in plummet for 17 lines, written in red and black ink in a gothic bookhand, with a fine illuminated initial 'KL', and foliate ornament extending into the margins; feasts include the Dedication of San Marco, Venice (8 October).
Provenance: Colker MS 447; acquired in 1993 from Maggs.

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