FROM A COLLECTARIUM IN LATIN MADE FOR A FEMALE RELIGIOUS

by Offered Individually Charming Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Leaves

$600 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages · No longer available

France ? : ca. 1450 . 97 x 61 mm. 3 3/4 x 2 5/8 . Single column, 20 lines in an attractive gothic book hand. Each leaf with two or more one- to two-line initials painted in blue or maroon with delicate white tracery and charming enclosed flowers, all on a field of burnished gold, the left or right margin on one or both sides with a bar border of blue and white, terminating in gold ivy leaves in the upper and lower margins. ◆The bar borders just

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