Bifolium from a gospel lectionary

Item date: 11th century
Grant Value: 4,500
Item cost: 7,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2005
Item institution: Canterbury Cathedral Archives & Library
Town/City: Canterbury
County: Kent

The bifolium, which contains readings for Holy Week, comes from a magnificant gospel lectionary which is likely to have been owned by the Cathedral in the Middle Ages and dismembered in the Reformation. Canterbury Cathedral Archives already had a bifolium from this lectionary.

Item Provenance
Private collection, Germany; Maggs Bros., London