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Lot 25

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
[Composite volume of devotional texts], [France, fourteenth-fifteenth centuries]

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT

[Composite volume of devotional texts], manuscript, ink on vellum, approximately 176 leaves, 13-15 lines, in 2 book hands, rubricated in red, several initials in red or blue, one side-margin decoration, disbound in 18 sections, some water and fire damage (resulting in partial adhesion of approximately 20 leaves), remnants of nineteenth century morocco binding, 12mo (73 x 52mm.), [France, fourteenth-fifteenth centuries]

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Contents: ff.1-60: A catena of instructions for the devout communicant, arranged in an introduction and a series of rubricated topics (f1v: Cum quanta reverencia Christi sit suscipienda, f10r: Quod magna bonitas dei et caritas in sacramenta exhibienda, f14r: Quod utile sit sepe communicare); ff. 61-175: A complete treatise, Capitula cuiusdam tractatus devotorum exercitiorum de internorum renovsione; f. 176, Instructions for prayer at the moment of communion.

Provenance: Vicomtesse de Vuernewcyk, given in 1827 to Henry Bedingfield; Shaw's Bookshop, Manchester.

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