Text For The Month Of October

by Depicting Labor Of The Month And Zodiac Sign An Illuminated Vellum Calendar Leaf From A Book Of

$6,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Paris, ca. 1460 . 195 x 143 mm. 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 . Single column, 16 lines in a gothic book hand. Minor feast days in red and blue, major feasts in gold, numerous gold and painted line fillers, the five A initials and the KL highly decorative and painted pink and blue against a gold background, gold and pink bar surrounding the text on three sides, BOTH SIDES OF THE LEAF WITH EXTRAVAGANTLY DECORATIVE BOTANICAL FULL BORDERS with two small birds hidden

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