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Paris: Imprimerie Clousier [vol. I] et Lamy [vol. II-V], 1780-86. FIRST EDITION. 540 x 360 mm. (21 1/4 x 14 3/16"). Five volumes.. Contemporary blue marbled paper boards. Allegorical frontispiece engraved by Née after Moreau the Younger in the first volume of plates, half titles and titles engraved, a large folding map of Switzerland, and 277 (of 278) PLATES CONTAINING 428 IMAGES (of 430) engraved by Née and Masquelier after designs by Perignon, Le Barbier, and others (missing plate no. 278, with two vignette portraits of the authors, intended to be the frontispiece to volume I). Brunet V, 1546; Cohen-de Ricci 1075-6. ◆Paper boards chipped at the edges and quite chafed, two spines with noticeable tears (though all paper still present), corners bumped, but the apparently original bindings remarkably solid and otherwise very well preserved, especially given their insubstantial materials. Occasional minor foxing or marginal smudges, isolated mild toning (a couple of plates a bit browned), otherwise…
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TABLEAUX TOPOGRAPHIQUES, PITTORESQUES, PHYSIQUES, HISTORIQUES, MORAUX, POLITIQUES, LITTERAIRES, DE LA SUISSE
by ZURLAUBEN, BÉAT FIDEL ANTOINE DOMINIQUE, and JEAN BENJAMIN DE LABORDE
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TABLEAUX DU CABINET DU ROY. PREMIERE PARTIE. [and] DESCRIPTION DE LA GROTTE DE VERSAILLES
by (COLOR PLATES - ROYAL OPULENCE). FÉLIBIEN, ANDRÉ
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Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royal, 1679, 1676. Second Edition of the first work (but the first for sale to the public); FIRST EDITION of the second work. 482 x 340 mm. (19 x 13 1/2"). 1 p.l., 14 pp; 1 p.l., 11, [1] pp. Two works in one volume. . 19th century half calf over marbled boards, raised bands, red morocco label (older repairs to joints, hinges reinforced with linen). Title page with royal arms, elaborate headpieces and initials, and 44 VERY LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE ENGRAVED PLATES WITH BEAUTIFUL (modern) HAND COLORING, six of these double-page or folding, captioned in French and Latin. Front pastedown with 19th century engraved armorial bookplate of Rycroft and a rather feminine cipher ex-libris incorporating the letter R; front free endpaper inscribed "Lady Rycroft" in pencil; title page of Part II with tipped-on handwritten note in English about the Grotto. For the second work: Millard I, 69. ◆Paper boards somewhat chafed, joints and extremities a bit rubbed, but the binding solid. A touch of…
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TALES OF MYSTERY & IMAGINATION
by (RACKHAM, ARTHUR, Illustrator). POE, EDGAR ALLEN
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London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1935. No. 36 OF 460 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, 450 of which were for sale. 272 x 197 mm. (10 5/8 x 7 3/4"). 317, [1] pp. Publisher's special binding of gilt-decorated vellum over boards, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed and about one-third UNOPENED. In the original (somewhat scuffed and worn) blue paperboard slipcase with paper title label to spine. Half title and title vignettes in gold, 11 illustrations in the text, and 29 plates (12 in color and mounted) by Arthur Rackham. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 72-73; Houfe, p. 424; Hudson, p. 172. ◆One corner rather bumped, otherwise A LOVELY COPY--clean, fresh, and bright internally, in a binding remarkably free of the soiling and splaying that usually affects vellum books like this one. While Rackham did illustrations for a great many books, Houfe observes that he concentrated "particularly [on] those of a mystical, magic, or legendary background," a fact that makes his work on Poe's "Tales of Mystery and…
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TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE
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Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. FIRST EDITION, from a printing of perhaps only 750 copies. With page 213 in the second volume numbered correctly, and page 219 with the "i" in "-ing" and the hyphen in "attributes" both misaligned. 200 x 117 mm. (8 x 4 1/2"). Two volumes.. Publisher's brown muslin, very expertly re-cased, preserving most of original backstrip and cloth covering, replica printed paper labels, new (well-chosen) endpapers. BAL 16133; Heartman & Canny, pp. 49-54; Day, "History of American Literature" I, p. 148. ◆Spines and heads of boards faintly sunned, extremities a little rubbed, with minor fraying in spots, but the expertly restored bindings very tight and generally pleasing. First volume with lower third of each leaf lightly dampstained (a bit darker at very front and back, otherwise faint), intermittent foxing and occasional minor stains elsewhere in both volumes. Not without significant internal condition issues, but still appealing when judged against competing copies of…
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TAM O'SHANTER AND OTHER POEMS
by (MODERN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM). (BINDINGS - JEWELLED). SANGORSKI, ALBERTO, Designer, Calligrapher, and Illuminator. BURNS, ROBERT
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[London, 1931]. 307 x 215 mm. (12 x 8 1/2"). 40 pp., [1] leaf (colophon). DAZZLING CRIMSON CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, INLAID, AND BEJEWELLED, BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), covers with inlaid light blue morocco border, blue Celtic knot strapwork at middle of each side and at corners, those on upper cover with a ruby or sapphire at center, those on lower cover with a circle of red or blue morocco at center, cornerpieces connected by a graceful loop to the blue morocco strip framing the central oval panel, the spaces between the strapwork ornaments and the inner and outer frames filled with pointillé gilt compartments tooled with gilt vines bearing inlaid white morocco flowers (upper cover) or purple morocco thistles (lower cover), a recessed medallion of green morocco at center of upper cover set WITH BURNS' INITIALS IN METAL ENCRUSTED WITH 80 JEWELS (40 CABOCHON RUBIES AND 40 CABOCHON SAPPHIRES) of varying sizes, central oval panel on lower cover with gilt lyre at center…
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TAMBOURS ET TROMPETTES
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Paris: Devambez, 1918. No. 287 OF 475 COPIES, from a total issue of 500. 470 x 375 mm. (18 1/2 x 14 3/4"). 1 p.l. followed by plates. Loose as issued within original wrappers and housed in publisher's paper board folio (spine repaired with shipping tape), upper cover with hand-colored lithograph vignette, original (somewhat worn but intact) tri-color silk ribbon ties. With illustrated title page and 10 HAND-COLORED PLATES IN POCHOIR. Rear board with "can't dupl." in black marking pen. ◆Corners and edges somewhat worn, just a hint of soiling to boards, but a very desirable copy, the inelegantly repaired portfolio with obvious condition issues, but the richly colored plates--the important part of this item--especially clean, fresh, and well preserved in general. This is a copy of French caricaturist and illustrator Guy Arnoux's vivid homage to those musical instruments and musicians leading the French into battle from the Revolution through World War I. Arnoux (1886-1951) illustrated almost 80…
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TANNHÄUSER
by POGÁNY, WILLY, Illustrator and Designer. WAGNER, RICHARD
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London: G. G. Harrap & Co, 1911. No. 187 OF 525 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. 287 x 193 mm. (11 1/4 x 7 1/2"). [204] pp.Translated in Poetic Narrative Form by T. W. Rolleston. Publisher's full gray leather, upper cover with blind-stamped lyre/staff/rose ornament and title, smooth spine with title in blind, background leather stippled, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. IN THE ORIGINAL (slightly soiled) PICTORIAL BOX. LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED BY WILLY POGÁNY, with illustrated title and half title printed in colors, frames and decorations on every page of text, numerous vignettes in the text, 44 full-page illustrations( these predominantly printed in black and orange, but some also with gray-green and blue ink, all on toned paper), small mounted color insert to frontispiece, and 16 MOUNTED COLOR PLATES. Inside cover of box with bookplate of "P. W." ◆A hint of rubbing to extremities and head and tail of spine, free endpapers with minor offsetting from turn-ins, but AN ESPECIALLY…
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TAYLOR AND SKINNER'S MAPS OF THE ROADS OF IRELAND: SURVEYED IN 1777 AND CORRECTED DOWN TO 1783
by (IRELAND - MAPS). TAYLOR, GEORGE and ANDREW SKINNER
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London: Engraved by G. Terry and Sold by T. Longman, London and W. Wilson, Dublin, 1783. Second, Corrected Edition. 260 x 155 mm. (10 1/4 x 6"). XXVII, 289 pp., [4] leaves (index). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, flat spine divided into panels by gilt rules, red morocco label (very neat repair to head of front joint and top of spine). Engraved title page (with vignette) and dedication leaf, large folding map of Ireland, and 289 engraved maps. Title page with early ink signature of Jos. Sabine[?]. Moreland & Bannister, p. 190; Tooley, "Maps and Mapmakers," p. 94. ◆Small signs of age and wear to the binding (including slight crackling and nicks to the spine), folding map with faint dampstain to tail margin, two negligible ink spots to blank area on the map of the Irish Sea, but A VERY APPEALING COPY, quite clean and remarkably fresh internally, and in an entirely solid period binding. This is the second, corrected edition of the first comprehensive road atlas of Ireland, offered here in…
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TELEMACHUS ULYSSIS FILIUS
by (BINDINGS - ETRUSCAN CALF). [FÉNELON, FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE]
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Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg]: Conradum Henricum Stage, 1764. Second Edition in Latin. 208 x 160 mm. (8 1/8 x 6 1/4"). 9 p.l., 262 pp.Translated from French into Latin by Joseph Claude Destouches. VERY ATTRACTIVE LATE 18TH CENTURY ETRUSCAN CALF IN THE STYLE OF EDWARDS OF HALIFAX, covers with gilt border, central panel framed by stencilled palmettes within double gilt rules, an Etruscan-style vase at center within a stencilled sunburst, raised bands, spine panels with blind-stamped Etruscan vase, black morocco label, gilt-rolled turn-ins, all edges gilt. With printer's elaborate engraved device on title page, engraved portrait of Elector Maximilian-Joseph of Bavaria at the head of the dedication to him, engraved allegorical headpiece at the opening of Book I, wood-engraved tailpieces at end of each section. ◆Small wormhole near head of front joint, two corners a bit bumped, minor foxing to title and final page, other trivial imperfections, but QUITE A FINE, WIDE-MARGINED COPY, clean, fresh, and…
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TERTIUS LIBER ROSARII THEOLOGIE AUREI
by (POST-INCUNABLE). PELBARTUS DE TEMESWAR
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Hagenau: Heinrich Gran for Johann Rynmann of Augsburg, 1507. FIRST EDITION. 300 x 205 mm. (11 3/4 x 8 1/8"). [165] leaves (lacking final blank). Double column, 57 lines, gothic type. Contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, front cover with frame and central diapered area with round floral and banner stamps, rear boards diapered with stag and acorn stamps, evidence of corner and central bosses, since removed, raised bands, ink titling on spine. Capitals struck with red, paragraph marks and three- to seven-line initials hand painted in red. Front pastedown with bookplate of the Abbey of Andechs; early ink ownership inscription of the Abbey on title page. VD16 P1160; USTC 696152. ◆Pigskin on front cover a uniform milky brown (corners and center of boards much lighter due to removed bosses), first and last leaves with minor marginal soiling, final quire with a couple of short cuts to head margin of leaves (well away from text), otherwise quite a fine copy--clean, fresh,…
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TEXT BEGINNING WITH 2 CHRONICLES 36:14
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Abbey of St. Oyan at St.-Claude du Jura, France, ca. 1175. 245 x 158 mm. (9 3/4 x 6 1/4"). Single column of text with two columns of gloss, text column with 26 lines in a fine proto-gothic book hand. Verso with scant remnants of mounting tape in a couple of places along one edge. See Gwara, Handlist no. 77. ◆Upper margin of fore edge unevenly trimmed away (but no text lost), a dozen-and-a-half small, round wormholes (touching just a couple letters), light soiling to edges and other minor imperfections, but still IN FINE CONDITION, the vellum very clean, and the ink dark and legible. The most important innovation in biblical scholarship during the 12th century was the development of the "Glossa Ordinaria" to the Bible. Drawing on the whole earlier tradition of biblical exegesis, but especially that of Latin patristic writers like Augustine and Jerome, scholars working in the French cathedral schools of Laon and Paris systematized this material in an apparatus of marginal and interlinear glosses…
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TEXT CONCERNING PAYMENTS BETWEEN A CHAPEL AND CONVENT
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Italy, 1429. 323 x 173 mm. (12 3/4 x 6 3/4"). Single column, 60 lines in a neat cursive script. Notarial signature at lower left; verso with a date and notations in contemporary hands. ◆Vellum trimmed a little close, four horizontal and three vertical fold creases, slight darkening to verso, five very small holes (no text obscured) and one larger (naturally-occurring) hole in the text, otherwise in excellent condition with a very clear hand. This is a notarized document recording an agreement made between the chapel and convent (i.e. the whole community) of the house of St. John, a group of female religious located in the parish of St. Peter, and the brothers of Bonsignioribus, another religious house in the parish of St. Laurence Major. The women of St. John agree to pay to the brothers of Bonsignioribus a sum of 11 libras, 8 soldas, and 9 denarios. The reason for this payment is unclear, pending further investigation into some of the more abbreviated portions of the text. The document is of…
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TEXT FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY
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Northern France [probably Paris], ca. 1460s. 130 x 98 mm. (5 1/8 x 3 7/8"). Single column, recto with 18 lines of text in a very fine gothic book hand. Text in red, blue, and gold, "KL" in blue with white tracery and on a burnished gold ground and infilled with ivy leaves in blue, orange, and white, BOTH SIDES WITH A PANEL BORDER, EACH WITH A ROUNDEL DEPICTING THE ZODIAC SIGN AND LABOR OF THE MONTH, placed amidst a tangle of acanthus leaves in blue, red, and brushed gold. ◆Recto with a little general soiling, the roundel lightly abraided, and a noticeable smudge to the top of the panel border, but the verso quite clean with just a little discoloration to margins and the "KL" offset from facing page, the roundel on this side in excellent condition with just one or two very small scratches. This leaf comes from a large fragment of a beautifully executed little Book of Hours done by very sophisticated artists whose illumination in general--and zoomorphic inhabitation in particular--is extremely…
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TEXT FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER
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Paris, ca. 1460. 195 x 143 mm. (7 3/4 x 5 1/2"). Single column, 16 lines in a gothic book hand. Minor feast days in red and blue, major feasts in gold, numerous gold and painted line fillers, the five "A" initials and the "KL" highly decorative and painted pink and blue against a gold background, gold and pink bar surrounding the text on three sides, BOTH SIDES OF THE LEAF WITH EXTRAVAGANTLY DECORATIVE BOTANICAL FULL BORDERS with two small birds hidden within, and INCORPORATING TWO MEDALLION MINIATURES DEPICTING THE LABOR OF THE MONTH (SOWING) AND THE SIGN OF THE ZODIAC (SCORPIO) FOR OCTOBER. ◆IN VERY FINE, FRESH CONDITION, with gold and paint extraordinarily bright. The extraordinarily lavish and animated full borders, coupled here with extensive use of brushed and burnished gold--for major feast days, for decorative border elements, and even for the hundreds of seeds being sown(!)--suggests that this calendar folio comes from a Book of Hours that was commissioned for a person or persons of high…
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TEXT FROM THE SUFFRAGES OF THE SAINTS
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Northern France [probably Paris], ca. 1460s. 130 x 98 mm. (5 1/8 x 3 7/8"). Single column, 14 lines in a fine gothic book hand. Attractively matted. The text similarly decorated as in the previous entry, but with the panel border on the verso inhabited by a leaping dog, the same side WITH A GOLD-FRAMED MINIATURE (measuring 35 x 33 mm.) OF SAINT CLAUDE OF BESANÇON attired in his bishop's regalia, standing in a hallway between two arch-topped doors, reading a book. ◆A fine, fresh leaf, with only the vaguest sense of soiling. Born in 603 and living well into his 90s, Saint Claude (or Claudius) became Archbishop of Besançon in 685 and after his death was so popular that his shrine became one of the major destinations for pilgrims in France, the town where he was buried actually changing its name from Condate to Saint Claude. Lore surrounding this saint strains credulity, and the historian Henry Wace has said that "on this saint the inventors of legends have compiled a vast farrago of…
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TEXT FROM PSALMS
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Northern England, ca. 1260-70. 235 x 165 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/2"). Single column, 21 lines in an elegant gothic book hand. Each leaf with versal initials in blue or gold (one leaf with decorative red and blue penwork), many decorative line-enders in red, blue, or gold, EACH LEAF WITH ONE OR TWO HANDSOME THREE-LINE INITIALS IN ONE OF TWO STYLES: in burnished gold on a blue and pink ground with white tracery or in burnished gold with blue penwork and red dots. ◆Trivial imperfections, but IN VERY FINE CONDITION, the paint and ink very well preserved on smooth, clean vellum. These beautifully decorated leaves feature a confident hand in a pleasing gothic script, impressive initials in three different styles, and the liberal use of a variety of line fillers, including those with complex patterns of burnished gold. The parent manuscript, which contained four very large initials and 41 smaller initials (including 15 with an animal) was offered by Les Enluminures in conjunction with Bruce Ferrini in their…
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TEXT FROM THE SUFFRAGES
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Northeastern France, probably Arras, late 15th century. 146 x 95 mm. (5 3/4 x 3 3/4"). Single column, 15 lines in a pleasing bâtarde hand. Rubrics in red, one- and two-line initials in brushed gold on a red or blue ground, EACH SIDE OF EACH LEAF WITH A BRUSHED GOLD PANEL BORDER WITH VERY PRETTY ILLUSIONISTIC FLOWERS; EACH LEAF WITH ONE SMALL MINIATURE (measuring approximately 40 x 25 mm.). Headlines written in French in a later (18th century?) calligraphic hand. ◆Light soiling, a couple small stains in margins, Trinity leaf with one initial a bit rubbed and a few very tiny chips of paint to miniature, otherwise excellent specimens, generally clean and smooth, with ample margins and attractive decoration. From a charmingly decorated 15th century prayer book, these lovely leaves offer the opportunity to acquire a miniature with considerable gold ornamentation at an attainable price. One leaf depicts an image of the Trinity in which God the Father holds the body of a crucified Christ in his arms;…
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TEXT FROM THE SUFFRAGES OF THE SAINTS
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Northern France [probably Paris], ca. 1460s. 130 x 98 mm. (5 1/8 x 3 7/8"). Single column, 14 lines in a fine gothic book hand. Attractively matted. The text similarly decorated as in the previous entry, but with the panel border on the verso inhabited by a long-tailed pheasant, the same side WITH A DRAMATIC MINIATURE (measuring 35 x 33 mm.) OF SAINT GREGORY CELEBRATING MASS, the saint holding aloft the communion wafer WHILE THE FIGURE OF CHRIST RISES FROM THE ALTAR, BLOOD FROM THE WOUND TO HIS HAND CASCADING INTO THE CHALICE on the altar surface, the wall behind displaying the "Arma Christi," Gregory's doubting deacon kneeling behind him, and beside the deacon, a noblewoman recognizable as the owner of the Book of Hours. ◆A little faint soiling near edges, otherwise in fresh, bright, and altogether pleasing condition. Representing the most heightened of religious moments in general as well as a key point in the life of Saint Gregory specifically, this leaf features compelling actions being…
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TEXT FROM THE MONTH OF MARCH
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France (possibly Rouen), mid-15th century. 173 x 130 mm. (6 3/4 x 5 1/8"). Single column, 16 ruled lines, text in a gothic book hand. Text in gold, blue, and dark pink, "KL" in blue with white tracery on a gold ground decorated with dark pink baubles and leaves and with a floral spray extension, both sides with panel border composed of densely packed acanthus, flowers, and hairline vines with gold bezants, WITH A SMALL ROUNDEL MINIATURE at the bottom depicting the labor of the month (Pruning) set on a panel of flowers, hairline vines, and gold bezants. With numbering to the left of the golden numbers and a few calendar entries in a later hand. ◆Light soiling to vellum, a few small smudges in the borders, a little paint transfer affecting a couple lines of text and margins of the verso, but these issues all very minor, and on the whole in fine condition with a particularly well-preserved miniature with rich, uneroded paint. With lovely panel borders and a particularly charming roundel miniature…
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TEXT FROM HOMILY XXXII ON LUKE 9:25-27 & HOMILY XXXV ON LUKE 21:9-19
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Germany, ca. 1100. 130 x 204 mm. (5 1/8 x 8"). Single column, 13 extant lines in a late Caroline hand. Rubrics in red. ◆Recovered from a binding and thus noticeably browned, stained, and vaguely wavy, one side somewhat faded, several small holes (just two touching any letters), other imperfections, but still a very presentable specimen, the ink especially dark on one side, and legible on both. This is an early fragment in a distinctive hand, lacking the heaviness of other scripts of the period, and with a feeling of the elongated grace of the humanistic. Despite having previously been used as a binding scrap, the fragment remains definitely readable, partly because of the clarity of the scribal hand. Elected pope in 590, Gregory I (ca. 540-604), also known as Gregory the Great, was one of the most influential pontiffs in the history of the Church. In addition to revising liturgical worship, he wrote extensively on theology, offering homespun wisdom rather than esoteric debates. His "Homilies on…
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