Pontifical, service book for use by a bishop, in Latin [France, mid- to third quarter of the twelfth century]

A leaf, 18 lines, red initials, vellum, 262 x 180 mm., perfect condition.

Text for the consecration of an exorcist and of an acolyte.  From the collection of  Roger Martin (1939-2020).  Another leaf from the same manuscript was Sotheby’s, 22 June 1982, lot 3, afterwards Quaritch, Bookhands, II (cat. 1056), 1983, no. 60, then believed to be English.