Italy.- Bifolium from a grand Romanesque Bible of gargantuan proportions, with Deuteronomy 20:5-23:24 and Joshua 4:23-7:26, Latin manuscript on vellum, Italy, [late eleventh or early twelfth century] 

Italy.- Bifolium from a grand Romanesque Bible of gargantuan proportions, with Deuteronomy 20:5-23:24 and Joshua 4:23-7:26, manuscript on vellum, text in Latin,  two large conjoined leaves, each with double column of 53 lines of a rounded Romanesque bookhand, with a strong st-ligature, running titles in upper margin in red capitals (“Liber” and “Iosue”), capitals set off in margin (in common medieval fashion), red versal initials in margin, simple red 2-line initials, recovered from later reuse in a binding and hence with scuffs, stains, small repaired holes and numerous folds (and with additional inscriptions from that use, dated 1557 and 1560, and noting that was volume “no. 181”), overall in fair and legible condition, each leaf: 480 by 320mm.; bound in modern cloth-covered pasteboards, Italy, [late eleventh or early twelfth century] 

*** Provenance: Reused in the later Middle Ages as the binding of an account book, perhaps for a monastic foundation in the vicinity of Ravenna.
Christie’s 20 June 1990, lot 1, acquired there by the Schøyen Collection (their MS. 681) and kept in London since then.