Extent: 1 leaf; Vellum; 406 x 280 mm (419 x 285 mm)
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Layout: Single leaf, front and back. Double column, 39 lines. Borders on the left side of each column. Some phrases in red. 11 multiline initials and 33 single line initials. Ruling done in diluted black ink. Some soiling, stains and one small hole. Catchword on verso. Unfoliated. Decoration: Eleven multi-line initials in blue with ornate red penwork of english style. Interiors of the letter forms are infilled with foliate designs, some with oak leaves and acorns, One-line initials alternating red and blue have contrasting penwork. The manuscript is rubricated and identifies SARUM in the phrase, "secundum usum Sarum ecclesie." Binding: plastic sleeve Provenance: This missal this leaf is from has never been carefully studied, though it is impressively large and has a curious provenance. It belonged around 1932 to Otto F. Ege, the Cleveland manuscript dealer and "Bibilioclast" (De Ricci, Census I.1940, no. 20). It seems that Ege sold "half" of the Missal to his colleague Alfred Mewett, also a collector of manuscripts (ibid., 1954, no 9). Provenance: While Ege obtained the missal from Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, a nearly identical one said to be from Valencia Cathedral appeared for sale in 1942. This one was said to have 240 folios.Ege's and Mewett's each had about 80 folios. Provenance: It seems possible that they shared one volume of a two-volume set that originated at Valencia--a curious provenance for a grand English liturgical book. Ege retained one decorated folio for his personal collection, now at the Reading Public Museum in Reading, PA . On the manuscript see S. Gwara, Otte Ege's Manuscripts (Cayce, SC: De Brailes, 2013), pp, 24-25 and illustration, p. 229.
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