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Tuesday, 18 August 2015

A 12th-century Cistercian Missal Formerly Owned by Otto Ege

Leaves from one of the manuscripts dispersed by Otto Ege which are most easily recognised are from a Cistercian Missal, long thought to be French or Spanish. A group of four including this leaf, for example:
was attributed in Sotheby's, 25 April 1983, lot 16, to "probably France (possibly Spain)":