TEXT FROM THE FEAST OF STS. PETER AND PAUL

by From The Llangattock Breviary A Very Fine Medieval

$10,000 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Italy Ferrara : 1441-48 . Visible leaf: 245 x 187 mm. 9 5/8 x 7 3/8 ; Frame: 380 x 315 mm. 15 x 12 1/4 . Double column, 30 lines in a very fine rounded gothic hand a few lines of text in the same hand, but smaller . Mounted and in a simple but pleasing gold frame. Visible side with rubrics in red, one-line initials in burnished gold or painted blue, one two-line initial in burnished gold on a pale pink ground with white tracery, a lovely illuminated

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