![A PALAEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION, 13 leaves and fragments from liturgical and text manuscripts on vellum, in Latin and Dutch, including a leaf from the Chudleigh Bible and a leaf from a 13th-century noted English Missal [central and northern Europe, c.1200 to 16th century]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16019_0003_000(a_palaeographical_collection_13_leaves_and_fragments_from_liturgical_a070246).jpg?w=1)
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A PALAEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION, 13 leaves and fragments from liturgical and text manuscripts on vellum, in Latin and Dutch, including a leaf from the Chudleigh Bible and a leaf from a 13th-century noted English Missal [central and northern Europe, c.1200 to 16th century]
A selection of representative medieval texts that shows the evolution of European script throughout the Middle Ages, from the precision and symmetry of the 12th-century bookhand and its mutation into the smaller, more abbreviated and compressed writing of the 13th, to the more angular gothic forms of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Comprising: (1) A leaf from a noted Missal [England, c.1200]. 290 x 180mm. 26 lines of text and music. Provenance: ownership inscriptions of John Bullock, 1726, and John Fretter, 16 July 1819. (2) A leaf from a Breviary [Italy, c.1200]. 205 x 160mm. 24 lines in two columns. (3) Two leaves from a miniature Bible [England, 13th century]. c.140 x 100mm. 49 lines in two columns. One leaf with an 8-line illuminated initial. (4) A leaf from a Bible [England, 13th century]. 215 x 150mm. 49 lines in two columns. (5) A leaf from the Chudleigh Bible [north-eastern France, c.1220-30]. 285 x 190mm. 54 lines in two columns. Provenance: The parent manuscript was probably made in Arras c.1220-30 — Lord Clifford of Chudleigh: his sale, Sotheby's, 7 December 1953, lot 51, and again 8 July 1970. Broken up soon after, with leaves appearing in Quaritch, cat.1147, 1991, no 15; Maggs, cat.1167, 1993, no 2; and Sotheby’s, 6 December 2005, lot 16 and 8 July 2014, lots 13-14. (6) A fragment of a bifolium from a treatise on the law of war [Italy, late 13th century]. 130 x 256mm. (7) A leaf from an Antiphonal [Tuscany, first half 14th century]. 470 x 350mm. 7 lines of text and music. With an illuminated initial 'M'. (8) A leaf from a Book of Hours [France, c.1450]. 224 x 157mm. 22 lines. (9) A leaf from a Missal [France, 15th century] 340 x 233mm. 30 lines in two columns. (10) A leaf from a Book of Hours, in Dutch [northern Netherlands, c.1500]. 155 x 110 mm. 19 lines. (11) A leaf from an Antiphonal [Spain, 16th century]. 575 x 390mm. 5 lines of text and music. (12) A leaf from a Ferial Psalter [Spain, 16th century]. 495 x 345mm. 7 lines of text and music.
A selection of representative medieval texts that shows the evolution of European script throughout the Middle Ages, from the precision and symmetry of the 12th-century bookhand and its mutation into the smaller, more abbreviated and compressed writing of the 13th, to the more angular gothic forms of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Comprising: (1) A leaf from a noted Missal [England, c.1200]. 290 x 180mm. 26 lines of text and music. Provenance: ownership inscriptions of John Bullock, 1726, and John Fretter, 16 July 1819. (2) A leaf from a Breviary [Italy, c.1200]. 205 x 160mm. 24 lines in two columns. (3) Two leaves from a miniature Bible [England, 13th century]. c.140 x 100mm. 49 lines in two columns. One leaf with an 8-line illuminated initial. (4) A leaf from a Bible [England, 13th century]. 215 x 150mm. 49 lines in two columns. (5) A leaf from the Chudleigh Bible [north-eastern France, c.1220-30]. 285 x 190mm. 54 lines in two columns. Provenance: The parent manuscript was probably made in Arras c.1220-30 — Lord Clifford of Chudleigh: his sale, Sotheby's, 7 December 1953, lot 51, and again 8 July 1970. Broken up soon after, with leaves appearing in Quaritch, cat.1147, 1991, no 15; Maggs, cat.1167, 1993, no 2; and Sotheby’s, 6 December 2005, lot 16 and 8 July 2014, lots 13-14. (6) A fragment of a bifolium from a treatise on the law of war [Italy, late 13th century]. 130 x 256mm. (7) A leaf from an Antiphonal [Tuscany, first half 14th century]. 470 x 350mm. 7 lines of text and music. With an illuminated initial 'M'. (8) A leaf from a Book of Hours [France, c.1450]. 224 x 157mm. 22 lines. (9) A leaf from a Missal [France, 15th century] 340 x 233mm. 30 lines in two columns. (10) A leaf from a Book of Hours, in Dutch [northern Netherlands, c.1500]. 155 x 110 mm. 19 lines. (11) A leaf from an Antiphonal [Spain, 16th century]. 575 x 390mm. 5 lines of text and music. (12) A leaf from a Ferial Psalter [Spain, 16th century]. 495 x 345mm. 7 lines of text and music.
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