Text From Homily Xxvi For The First Sunday After Easter

by A Very Large Early Vellum Manuscript Leaf From Saint Gregory The Greats Xl Homilarium In Evangelia

$2,750 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Italy, ca. 1150 . 406 x 273 mm. 16 x 10 3/4 . Double column, 42 lines in a fine rounded early proto-gothic hand. Recto with a pleasing three-line red initial. ◆Formerly used in a binding and consequently a bit soiled and trimmed at the head with loss of the first line, perhaps 100 or so small wormholes in the margin only a few causing trivial harm to the text , a faint grayish stain affecting a couple of words in the top 20 lines of one

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