TEXT FROM A HOMILIARY IN LATIN

by With A. Fine Initial Depicting St. Peter And

$12,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Southern Germany ? : early 12th century . 240 x 310 mm. 9 1/2 x 12 1/4 . Double column, 16 intact lines in a large Romanesque script. Rubrics and two small initials in red, one three-line initial in red, and A STRIKING SIX-LINE 65 x 55 mm. ROMANESQUE INITIAL U DEPICTING CHRIST WITH A BOOK AND ST. PETER WITH THE KEYS TO HEAVEN, the full-length figures and their garments drawn with simple black and red pen lines, Christ's robes and halo touched with a

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