Bifolium from a copy of Peter Lombard, Magna Glossatura in Epistolas Pauli, with parts of St. Paul’s epistle to Timothy, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [northern France (doubtless Paris), thirteenth century]

Bifolium from a copy of Peter Lombard, Magna Glossatura in Epistolas Pauli, with parts of St. Pauls epistle to Timothy, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [northern France (doubtless Paris), thirteenth century]

2 conjoined leaves, with double column of 28 lines of main text, with gloss set in blocks of smaller script integrally within text columns, simple red and blue initials and running titles in alternate coloured capitals, the larger with scrolling and scalloping penwork, those adjacent to margins with ornate penwork there in both colours, original drypoint glossed leaf-signatures VI and IIII as well as modern pencil foliation 195 and 202, prickmarks visible and leaf untrimmed, small spots and natural flaws in margin, else excellent condition, each leaf: 352 by 253mm.

From a large and handsome copy of the text identified as from the medieval library of the Augustinian abbey of Rebdorf. The parent codex was sold by Sothebys, 17 June 2003, lot 82, and then dispersed. Other leaves have appeared in Quaritch, Bookhands of the Middle Ages VIII, 2007, no. 95; Sothebys, 10 July 2012, lot 1 and again 7 July 2015, lot 8; as well as in our rooms, 6 July 2017, lot 10.