2 - Bifolium from a Romanesque Sacramentary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [Germany, eleventh century], two conjoined leaves, each with text in single column of 24 lines of a rounded Romanesque bookhand, with et-ligature used integrally at end of a few words, a long and looped st-ligature and a distinctive ‘y’ with a short tail and a capital ‘Q’ with a bowl set high above the baseline, capitals with red dots in their bodies, red rubrics, one large red initial ‘I’, recovered from reuse on a later binding and hence with folds, holes (these affecting the ends of 6 and 5 lines of text on the two leaves), spots and stains, the side once on the outside of the later binding with more heavy staining than other, also with small scribbled inscriptions there, each leaf 320 by 200mm.; clumsily held in card mount with small paper mounts

Bifolium from a Romanesque Sacramentary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [Germany, eleventh century], two conjoined leaves, each with text in single column of 24 lines of a rounded Romanesque bookhand, with et-ligature used integrally at end of a few words, a long and looped st-ligature and a distinctive ‘y’ with a short tail and a capital ‘Q’ with a bowl set high above the baseline, capitals with red dots in their bodies, red rubrics, one large red initial ‘I’, recovered from reuse on a later binding and hence with folds, holes (these affecting the ends of 6 and 5 lines of text on the two leaves), spots and stains, the side once on the outside of the later binding with more heavy staining than other, also with small scribbled inscriptions there, each leaf 320 by 200mm.; clumsily held in card mount with small paper mounts *** From a once fine and handsome Romanesque liturgical volume.