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by Offered Individually Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Leaves, From A.

$4,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages · No longer available

Northern England: ca. 1260-70 . 235 x 165 mm. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 . Single column, 21 lines in an elegant gothic book hand. Each leaf with versal initials in blue or gold one leaf with decorative red and blue penwork , many decorative line-enders in red, blue, or gold, EACH LEAF WITH ONE OR TWO HANDSOME THREE-LINE INITIALS IN ONE OF TWO STYLES: in burnished gold on a blue and pink ground with white tracery or in burnished gold with blue penwork and red dots.

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