WITH TEXT FROM AVE MARIS STELLA.

by With A. Large Historiated Initial A Medieval Illuminated

$5,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Italy: 15th century . 364 x 260 mm. 14 3/8 x 10 1/4 . Single column, 22 lines, in a rounded gothic book hand. Rubrics in red, versal initials alternating red and blue with purple penwork, one three-line initial in blue with purple penwork, A SIX-LINE A DEPICTING THE ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN, the initial painted pink with red, green, and blue nodes and acanthus on a burnished gold ground, with extensions running the length of the text column,

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