A Study Group
A study group of leaves and fragments, in Latin and Greek, manuscripts on vellum [11th to 15th centuries]
A selection of liturgical and scholastic manuscripts from Europe.

Comprising:
(i) A bifolium from a Calendar [Germany, 11th century].
c.165 × 170mm. Blind-ruled for 26 lines, in Caroline minuscule with a display script of rustic capitals; with leaves for February, March, and December, and a table listing the favourable and unfavourable moons. Two obits added (Attala, Confessor of Bobbio; Gumpert, of Ansbach) (19th-century notes, in German, in red ink; some staining and small tears and holes).
Provenance: Colker MS 505; acquired in 2002 from Quaritch.

(ii) A fragment from a Missal, with neums on one side [Germany?, 12th century].
c.222 × 97mm. A vertical strip preserving 20 lines of a column, in a large dark brown protogothic hand (face with neums is very darkened, small holes and creases from use in binding).
Provenance: Colker MS 55; acquired in 1964 from Maggs.

(iii) Two leaves of scholastic Quaestiones [England, c. 1300].
c.220 × 170mm. Folios 10 and 12 from a scholastic book, with 2 columns of 40 lines, ruled in plummet, written in a cursive gothic hand with features of Anglicana; this is an unidentified text consisting of a series of answers to theological questions relating to Genesis and Creation (cues and spaces left for initials and paragraph marks that were not subsequently added).
Provenance: (1) James Stevens Cox (1910–97); (2) Colker MS 527, probably acquired from Maggs.

(iv) A document detailing the settlement of a land dispute, Bari, Italy, 1306.
c.405 × 165mm. 47 lines.
Provenance: Colker MS 61; acquired in 1964 from Maggs.

(v) A leaf from a Lectionary, in Greek [14th century].
c.227 × 150mm. 2 columns of 35 lines.
Provenance: Colker MS O33; acquired in 1990 from Quaritch.

(vi) A leaf from a large Bible [Bohemia, 15th century].
c.445 × 297mm. 2 columns of 45 lines, ruled in plummet with pricking on the fore-edge, written in a gothic bookhand with the heading 'DANI' 'EL' in red and blue ink on either side of the leaf; with text comprising Daniel 3:26–97 (text pigment rubbed but still very legible, vellum cockled).
Provenance: (1) Otto F. Ege (S. Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts, 2013, HL150); (2) Colker MS 21; acquired in 1947 from P. Duschnes.

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