Beschreibung:

Collection of leaves from various German liturgical manuscripts, in Latin, from decorated manuscripts on vellum 8 leaves (4 bifolia) including (a) a bifolium (263mm. by 160-179mm.) from an annotated Calendar for the end of March and the beginning of April, listing the saints of regions such as Africa, Thessalonica, Sicily, Antioch and Rome with some brief discussions of their cults, arranged chronologically day-by-day presumably for public reading, written space 196mm. by 95mm., single column, 30 lines in dark brown ink in a good early Gothic bookhand, titles, rubrics and small initials in red, one large 6-line white-vine initial 'K' incorporating a cross into the ascender and with scrolling foliage terminating in complex trefoil leaves, on pale blue and green grounds, slightly trimmed but with no loss to text, slight discolouration to leaf, else in very good condition, Germany, first half of the twelfth century; (b) a bifolium (396mm. by 230-306mm.) from a monumental Vulgate Bible, Jeremiah 48-50, written space 315mm. by 220mm., double column, 33 lines in black ink in an accomplished early Gothic bookhand, two small 1-line initials in red, four 2-line simple initials in red, some trimming to edges with small loss of text from outer columns on second folio, glossed in a fourteenth-century German hand, in good condition with wide and clean margins, probably Germany, first half of twelfth century; (c) a bifolium (340mm. by 265-288mm.) of a Lection-book with readings from Isaiah 9:8 to the beginning of 11:1 and readings for the 1st Sunday of Advent, with neumes over the responds "Obsecro Domine ...", "A solis ortu ...", "Letentur celi ...", "Ecce dominator dominus", and "Ecce dies veniunt ..." and "In diebus illis salvabitur Juda ...", rubrics and reading numbers in red, some initials touched in red, written space 305mm. by 207mm., double column, 30 lines of dark brown ink in an accomplished early Gothic bookhand, three 1-line initials in elaborate letters decorated with red dots, four 1-line initials in red, two 2-line initials in red with dots at mid-point of bowls of letters, discoloured and trimmed but with no effect to text, probably Germany, mid-twelfth century; (d) bifolium (282mm. by 138-195mm.) with antiphons and readings for Good Friday ("Christus factus est pro nobis obediens ...") and Easter day (beginning with a reading from Apocalypse: John 1:5), written space 205mm. by 120mm., single column, 19 lines in black ink in a rounded early Gothic bookhand, rubrics and titles in red, fifteen 1-line initials in red, one 3-line white vine initial 'G' on pale green and blue ground, trimming to second leaf with loss of outer strip of text, wear to other leaf obscuring same amount of text on verso, somewhat discoloured, else in good condition, probably German, mid-twelfth; all recovered from bindings and somewhat defective