A Leaf from a C15th Homiliary quoting Bede

Leaf from a copy of a Homiliary with a text ascribed to Bede in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment. [probably England, mid-fifteenth century]. 

Two wide strips, each with approximately a column of text from the full height of a single leaf (and thus reuniting to reform that leaf) each column with 28 lines in a late gothic bookhand made with a wide nibbed pen and using ‘w’ in spelling evangelist and similar, these containing parts of Bede’s Homily I.2, red rubrics, (one rubric “Bed” suggesting his works were not the only ones in the parent manuscript) initials in red leafy fronds enclosed within soft green or turquoise-blue outlines, recovered from a binding and hence with scuffs, holes and concomitant damage, overall fair and presentable, together 206mm x 164mm.