ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
[Lectionary], illuminated manuscript on vellum, 52 leaves, early foliation: ff. [1], xxvi, [2], xxvii-xlvii, [2] (the last 2 pasted together), in gatherings of 8 save first leaf (a singleton), and last gathering of four, evidence of 2 removed leaves (probably singletons, probably illuminated) before present f. [1] and after f. xxvi, text in a large gothic textura, 27 lines per page, plus headings, opening 4-line illuminated initial in red and blue with border, rubrics and 2-line initials in red, f. 1v. (table of contents) with 2 simple blue borders, traces of a double-page painted image (probably contemporary) to verso and recto respectively of final two leaves, the lower portion of final leaf cut away, two later coloured miniatures cut from a printed book of hours pasted to f. 1v and xxvir, trace of another cutting removed from verso of the latter, several contemporary vellum repairs (before writing), numerous contemporary and later annotations to preliminaries and margins, contemporary blind-tooled calf, 5 contemporary pink stained tawed leather page tabs, spine defective (largely absent) and stitching loose, 300 x 210mm., justification 215 x 150mm., Germany (probably Nuremberg), 1478
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