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Ɵ Leaf from a very large Romanesque English Bible, with parts of 1 Maccabees 1:1-39

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Ɵ Leaf from a very large Romanesque English Bible, with parts of 1 Maccabees 1:1-39, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[England, mid-twelfth century] Single large leaf, with double columns of 36 lines of an angular and compact Anglo-Caroline Romanesque bookhand, which slants to the left, without significant use of biting curves despite some lateral compression, and with noted fishtailing to ascenders, few abbreviations, explicit in red, one-line initials opening each line of capitula offset in margin and in alternate red and green, versal number in red in margin, one very large initial 'E' (opening "Et factum est postquam percussit alexander...", 1 Maccabees 1) in red enclosing blank parchment foliage tendrils, recovered from a binding and hence with some discolouration, small holes and spots, folds and cockling at edges, tears to edges (including tear through edge of large initial) section missing from lower outer blank margin, upper blank margin trimmed, overall fair and presentable condition, 372 by 276mm.; in cloth-covered card binding Provenance: 1. The parent volume most probably written and decorated for use in an English Cisterican monastery, and with characteristic punctus flexus punctuation.2. Solomon Pottesman (1904-1978) of London, incunabulist, self-taught bibliographer and obsessive book collector, whose obituary by his close friend Alan Thomas in the Book Collector, 1979, pp. 545-553, should be in the arsenal of any serious collector seeking to justify his or her mania to a disapproving family member or friend as an example of a collector much further in the grip of bibliophilia. His sale, Sotheby's 11 December 1979, lot 10(part, main item).3. Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017), of San Francisco, California, his 'I/265', and with his notes and cataloguing. 4. Quaritch of London, their cat. 1088, Bookhands of the Middle Ages, III (1988), no. 61.5. Schøyen Collection of London and Oslo, their MS. 106, acquired June 1988. Script:From a large and stately English Biblical manuscript, produced as a contemporary of the grand Bury Bible and Winchester Bible. Unlike those manuscripts, the ornament here is simple, perhaps reflecting Cistercian influence, while the hand is a magnificent example of the twelfth-century English scribal arts. Published: H.R. Woudhuysen, 'Manuscripts at Auction: January 1988 to December 1988', in English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, II, 1990, pp. 311 and 315-17.J. Griffiths, 'Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection Copied or Owned in the British Isles before 1700', in English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, V, 1995, pp. 36-42.

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Ɵ Leaf from a very large Romanesque English Bible, with parts of 1 Maccabees 1:1-39, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[England, mid-twelfth century] Single large leaf, with double columns of 36 lines of an angular and compact Anglo-Caroline Romanesque bookhand, which slants to the left, without significant use of biting curves despite some lateral compression, and with noted fishtailing to ascenders, few abbreviations, explicit in red, one-line initials opening each line of capitula offset in margin and in alternate red and green, versal number in red in margin, one very large initial 'E' (opening "Et factum est postquam percussit alexander...", 1 Maccabees 1) in red enclosing blank parchment foliage tendrils, recovered from a binding and hence with some discolouration, small holes and spots, folds and cockling at edges, tears to edges (including tear through edge of large initial) section missing from lower outer blank margin, upper blank margin trimmed, overall fair and presentable condition, 372 by 276mm.; in cloth-covered card binding Provenance: 1. The parent volume most probably written and decorated for use in an English Cisterican monastery, and with characteristic punctus flexus punctuation.2. Solomon Pottesman (1904-1978) of London, incunabulist, self-taught bibliographer and obsessive book collector, whose obituary by his close friend Alan Thomas in the Book Collector, 1979, pp. 545-553, should be in the arsenal of any serious collector seeking to justify his or her mania to a disapproving family member or friend as an example of a collector much further in the grip of bibliophilia. His sale, Sotheby's 11 December 1979, lot 10(part, main item).3. Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017), of San Francisco, California, his 'I/265', and with his notes and cataloguing. 4. Quaritch of London, their cat. 1088, Bookhands of the Middle Ages, III (1988), no. 61.5. Schøyen Collection of London and Oslo, their MS. 106, acquired June 1988. Script:From a large and stately English Biblical manuscript, produced as a contemporary of the grand Bury Bible and Winchester Bible. Unlike those manuscripts, the ornament here is simple, perhaps reflecting Cistercian influence, while the hand is a magnificent example of the twelfth-century English scribal arts. Published: H.R. Woudhuysen, 'Manuscripts at Auction: January 1988 to December 1988', in English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, II, 1990, pp. 311 and 315-17.J. Griffiths, 'Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection Copied or Owned in the British Isles before 1700', in English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, V, 1995, pp. 36-42.

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