TEXT FROM THE HOURS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

by With A. Large Historiated Initial Depicting Pentecost A.

$10,000 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Netherlands: ca. 1470-80 . 164 x 123 mm. 6 1/2 x 4 7/8 . Single column, 17 lines, in a gothic hand. Capitals touched with red, rubrics in red, one-line initials in red or blue, one two-line initial in blue, A VERY LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL approximately 60 mm. square DEPICTING PENTECOST, the initial painted blue with white tracery on a burnished gold ground, surrounded by A FULL BORDER decorated with colorful acanthus, large flowers, strawberries,

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