TEXT FROM THE HOURS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

by With A. Miniature Of Pentecost A Medieval Illuminated

$6,000 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

France: ca. 1490 . 144 x 99 mm. 5 5/8 x 3 3/4 . Single column, recto with 14 lines in a gothic book hand. Attractively matted and framed. Rubrics in red, two two-line initials, one painted pink on blue ground with flowers, the other painted blue and inhabited by a rampant lion on pink and gold ground, recto with a panel border featuring long-stemmed flowers and owls on a pink ground, verso WITH A HALF-PAGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURE DEPICTING PENTECOST, WITH

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