A compilation of devotional and other texts in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment

by Saint-Jacques Anthology

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Southern Netherlands Liège? : perhaps the middle of the 14th century. A remarkable anthology of texts from the library of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Jacques, Liège, illuminated with one large miniature depicting the Wound in Christ's Side notable for its early date, bound in the substantial remains of a medieval binding.Parchment, c.130 × 95 mm, vi + 141 leaves, apparently complete except for excised blanks. Bound in the

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