Ɵ Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, fifteenth century]

Ɵ Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[Germany, fifteenth century] Bifolium, each leaf with double column of 32 lines in a large format late gothic liturgical bookhand (littera textualis formata), with pronounced angularity and lateral compression, red rubrics, capitals touched in red, small initials in red, initials in topline embellished with calligraphic penstrokes (some including human faces), in excellent condition with wide and clean margins, each leaf 460 by 320mm.; in cloth-covered card binding Provenance: Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 655, acquired from Quaritch cat. 1147, Bookhands of the Middle Ages V, 1991, no. 71, in June 1990.