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by Two Separately Offered Very Fine Medieval Illuminated Vellum

$3,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Northern Italy: last quarter of 15th century . Each leaf measuring 250 x 164 mm. 9 7/8 x 6 3/8 . Single column, 24 lines in a handsome humanist hand. Each leaf with three to four large initials one measuring two lines, all others three lines in burnished gold, in-filled with pink and green paint with white embellishment, on blue ground with white embellishments. See: Baldwin, Medieval Rhetoric and Poetic, pp. 216-23. ◆Insignificant wrinkling

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