Title supplied by cataloger. Ms. leaf. Fourteenth century manuscript from the Bohun family bible. Text is from Ezekiel 13:22 - 14:16. This folio comes from the third volume (of four, orignially) of a lectern bible broken in 1927. Approximately 170 leaves now survive in libraries worldwide. This leaf possibily fol. 284. According to Christopher de Hamel, the manuscript was owned in Cheshire soon after the Reformation, probably to the Carmelite house there, because of an illumination of a Carmelite friar as well as liturgical readings from throughout Ezekiel (a Carmelite practice). Later owned by Sir Peter Leycester (d. 1678), mentioned in his book catalogue (Cheshire Record Office DLT / B88). Purchased by...
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