From A Book Of Hours In Latin

by Especially Pretty Small Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Leaf

$425 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Paris: ca. 1440 . 121 x 89 mm. 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 . Single column, 15 lines of text in a very fine gothic book hand. Rubrics in red, with multiple one-line initials and line fillers, all in blue, maroon, and burnished gold, and with two-line initials in the same colors and gold but also enclosing charming flowers on scrolling stems, with marginal extension in the form of gilt ivy leaves on sinuous stems, and WITH A FINE SWIRLING PANEL BORDER ON EACH SIDE

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