Text From The Opening Of Vespers

by From A Fine Book Of Hours In Latin And French An Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Leaf With A Gruesome

$5,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Paris, ca. 1450 . 159 x 108 mm. 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 . Single column, four lines of text on the verso, 15 on the recto, in a very pleasing gothic book hand. Attractively matted. Recto with a line filler in colors and gold, verso with a one-line initial in burnished gold on a maroon and blue background with white tracery and a three-line D in blue and white enclosing a spray of violets in the same colors, the capital on a burnished gold ground, the same

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