[COLLECTION OF LEAVES and CUTTINGS from MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS]

[COLLECTION OF LEAVES and CUTTINGS from MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS]
Eleven leaves and cuttings (including four bifolia), all in Latin, on paper and vellum
[13th to 15th century]
A small collection of leaves, comprising: (a) large Bible leaf on vellum, in double columns of 41 lines of a good university hand, capitals touched in red, small initials in red or blue with foliate penwork strokes reaching height of column, running titles in alternate red or blue capitals, one modern foliation number '117' in pencil, one large section of blank margin cut from innermost lower foot of leaf, else in good condition, 300 by 210mm, France, thirteenth century; (b) two leaves on paper apparently from a Church Council, with entries on the excommunication of a Pope, the punishment of Cardinals who continue to commit grave sins and similar, these agreeing with the text of a record of a Council of Trent in the 1550s as recorded by J. Mendham, Memoirs of the Council of Trent, 1834, p. 327, in single column of 34 lines of a late gothic bookhand, capitals touched in red, paraphs in red, small spots and stains, else good condition, each 203 by 135mm, Germany, fifteenth century; plus two strips from a French Canon Law manuscript of c. 1300, two near-complete bifolia from a fourteenth-century German Missal, another complete leaf from a contemporary Missal from France or the adjacent Low Countries, and a bifolium from a German fifteenth-century Missal, these last leaves all recovered from reuse in later bindings and hence with concomitant damage