TEXT FROM HYMNS TO THE PASSION OF CHRIST

by With Unusual Historiated Initials Featuring The Wounds Of

$7,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Bruges: ca. 1465 . 193 x 145 mm. 7 5/8 x 5 3/4 . Single column, 21 lines in a gothic book hand. Rubrics in red, WITH THREE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS: ONE WITH A PORTRAIT OF CHRIST WEARING THE CROWN OF THORNS, AND TWO WITH DISEMBODIED HANDS SHOWING THE STIGMATA, each initial in pink or blue with white tracery, filled with dark pink or blue with thin gilt lines and dots, hands with wavy blue rays radiating from behind the appendage, all within a thin gilt

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