Beschreibung:

Three leaves from a grand lectern Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Flanders, or possibly France, early fourteenth century] Three large leaves, each with double column of 50 lines of a good gothic bookhand (with I Kings 26:7-end 28, III Kings 29:11-13:15 and Isaiah 43:7-46:5), with pronounced lateral compression, capitals touched in yellow, versal numbers in alternate red and blue capitals, running titles in same, seven 3-line initials in blue or dark pink, enclosing curls of coloured foliage on blue or dark pink grounds, foliate sprays in margin terminating in coloured and gold leaves, all accompanied by decorative text borders of thin coloured panels with splashes of gold mounted in their bodies, all of these panels terminating with similar foliage and four in animal masks or elongated bird's heads, small amount of marginalia, small spots and stains, else in excellent condition, each approximately 405 by 275mm. Provenance: 1. The parent manuscript (of 503 leaves) was bequeathed to a Dominican convent in 1450 by Mirmellus Arnandi, lawyer and judge: several erased inscriptions on leaves as reported in Sotheby's, 11 December 1984, lot 39 (that part now Schøyen collection, MS. 223). 2. The parent manuscript then Sotheby's, 6 July 1931, lot 389. 3. Parke-Bernet, New York, 29 November 1948, lot 336. 4. Otto Ege, purchased in Parke-Bernet, and widely dispersed by him and Philip C. Duschnes (see S. Gwara, Otto Ege's Manuscripts, 2013, pp. 121-22, his HL 14); the remains of the volume then emerging in the Sotheby's sale in 1984. 5. The present leaves acquired in PBA Galleries, San Francisco, 29 November 2007, lot 369, and from a private Australian collector and the North American trade in 2019.