| Description | Two pairs of leaves from a small breviary:
Leaves numbered 184-185: contains consecutive text from a last lection of ?Nativity of the BVM through to Lection 5 of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Leaves numbered 217-218: lections of an unidentified Saint (not scriptural); and lections from 'Sermo Rabani Presbyteri (St Rabanus Maurus); lection iii suggests a feast of the BVM (?Presentation in the Temple)
Each pair, flattened: 150 x 220 mm; written area of each 'page' 105 x 70 mm, with column gap of 5 mm; decorated initials in red and blue; some text in red
Provenance: each leaf inscribed 'With best wishes for Christmas from C. H. St J. Hornby, 1930 |