A Nearly Complete Vellum Manuscript Leaf With Text From The Life Of St Taurin

$4,000 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

France: mid-to-late 12th century . 180 x 142 mm. 7 1/8 x 5 5/8 . Single column, 32 lines in a late Caroline minuscule. With one slightly larger than one-line initial in red. See: Herrick, Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy. ◆Removed from a binding and thus with some moderate browning and soiling, a series of small holes near inner margin affecting a couple of letters, no more than a line or two of text cut away at

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