TEXT FROM HYMNS TO THE PASSION OF CHRIST

by With Unusual Historiated Initials Featuring The Wounds Of

$6,500 · 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, one two-line initial in gold filled with blue on pink ground, WITH THREE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS: ONE FEATURING AN OVAL-SHAPED PIECE OF FLESH WITH A GASH IN THE CENTER, AND TWO WITH CHRIST'S DISEMBODIED FOOT, SHOWING THE PUNCTURE WOUND FROM THE CRUCIFIXION, each initial in pink or blue with white tracery, filled with dark pink and thin gilt

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