Leaf from a Sacramentary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [probably Italy, last decades of eleventh century] Single leaf, trimmed at top with loss of a few lines there, remnants of double column of 29 lines in a good and regular Romanesque hand, red rubrics followed by opening text in handsome ornamental capitals, and simple and elegant red or black initials, recovered from a binding and so with small holes, splashes and cockling down one side, a few later scrawls (these apparently Italian in origin), overall fair condition, 300 by 217mm. Acquired from a private European collector in 2007. From a stately and handsome Romanesque manuscript, with large and round script and fine rubrics in ornamental capitals that might just suggest a very early exemplar (see also the Gospel Lectionary made in Italy in the mid-twelfth century: catalogued as J.J.G. Alexander and A.C. de la Mare, The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J.R. Abbey, 1969, no. 2, J.A.3210, and pls. III-IV, with the same mix of monumental script and rubrics in elegant capitals). The Sacramentary was the principal mass-book of the early Middle Ages, but was all but replaced by the advent of the twelfth century, making this among the last to be produced.
Leaf from a Sacramentary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [probably Italy, last decades of eleventh century] Single leaf, trimmed at top with loss of a few lines there, remnants of double column of 29 lines in a good and regular Romanesque hand, red rubrics followed by opening text in handsome ornamental capitals, and simple and elegant red or black initials, recovered from a binding and so with small holes, splashes and cockling down one side, a few later scrawls (these apparently Italian in origin), overall fair condition, 300 by 217mm. Acquired from a private European collector in 2007. From a stately and handsome Romanesque manuscript, with large and round script and fine rubrics in ornamental capitals that might just suggest a very early exemplar (see also the Gospel Lectionary made in Italy in the mid-twelfth century: catalogued as J.J.G. Alexander and A.C. de la Mare, The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J.R. Abbey, 1969, no. 2, J.A.3210, and pls. III-IV, with the same mix of monumental script and rubrics in elegant capitals). The Sacramentary was the principal mass-book of the early Middle Ages, but was all but replaced by the advent of the twelfth century, making this among the last to be produced.
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