PERHAPS THAT OF PAUL THE DEACON

by Offered Individually Very Early Vellum Manuscript Leaves, From

$22,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Germany: second quarter of ninth century . Each leaf approximately 305 x 205 mm, 12 x 8 . Single column, 29-30 lines in a large and extremely legible Caroline minuscule. Rubrics in red, each leaf with one or more large initials in red. Text with a few contemporary corrections and erasures. Accompanied by a copy of a letter from Bernhard Bischoff dating the manuscript leaves. ◆Vellum a little toned and soiled, one leaf with an old repair to the

• Binding: Leather

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