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Spain or Southern France; Middle 12th Century. Latin Text; Revived Carolingian Script.

Many Missals, Bibles and Psalters of the 12th century were written in this fine, bold script. It was a revived form of the 9th century carolingian minuscule.…

Switzerland (?), Early 12th Century. Latin Text; Revived Carolingian Script.

The chief interest of this text is the interlinear glosses and commentaries from the writings of Bede, Jerome, Gregory, and other Church Fathers. These were inserted at…

From Northern France, circa 1480

Seven four-line staves in red.

Antiphonal from Sienna, Italy. Another leaf from this same source manuscript is owned by Hollins University in Roanoke VA.

Antiphonal leaf of vellum from the Monastery of San Bartolomeo, Anghiari, Italy. Other leaves from this same source manuscript are owned by the Cleveland Public Library, Lima Public Library, Toledo Museum of Art, and Baylor University.

"From a Koran manuscript in Cufic characters. This rare example, though undated, is attributed by experts to the Twelfth Century, or earlier. Its style suggests the calligraphy of Mashad (Persia), although it may possibly have come from Arabia or…

"From Los Virtuosos Varones, author unknown. A Portuguese manuscript on the nobility of the Portuguese aristocracy, circa 1450. An unusual work on fine paper with the distinctive barbed design of the initial letters that mark it with the Portuguese…

From a Latin manuscript dated 1434, containing the "sermones" of Simon de Cremona, prepared in the Scriptorium (as monastic writing-rooms were called) of the famous Carthusian monastery at Buxheim. Caspar Misnensis was the scribe, and he informs us…

"From an early legal manuscript, 1280-1320 A. D., an original handwritten folio leaf of a very early and rare Italian codex of civil and canon law combined. The work is executed in double columns of the finest gothic book hand of the period and is a…