DPL Reed MMF15

Breviary, Latin. France (perhaps eastern France), ca. 1400

Single leaf. 160 by 111mm. Double column, 31 lines, ruled in red ink, written space 105 by 69mm; gothic bookhand.

Text: From the Sanctoral, comprising part of First Vespers and Matins for the feast of St Theodulus (31 March).
Decoration: Small initials in blue or burnished gold with penwork in red or black; rubrics in red.
Provenance: From a fragmentary Breviary of 113 leaves sold at Sotheby’s, 11 April 1961, lot 148, to A. G. Thomas. Purchased from Folio Fine Art, catalogue number and date unrecorded.
References: Manion, Vines, de Hamel no. 78; Reed Early Bibles no. 40.
Shelfmark: RMM Fragment 15.

Description reproduced from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections (London, 1989) by permission of the authors (Christopher de Hamel, Margaret Manion, and the family of Vera F. Vines).