[PRAYERBOOK.] Illuminated manuscript prayerbook in Latin and Italian. [Nineteenth-century manuscript title to flyleaf:] ‘Missa Beatae Virg. & aliae Orationes’.

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10,000 Years' Indulgence [PRAYERBOOK.] Illuminated manuscript prayerbook in Latin and Italian. [Nineteenth-century manuscript title to flyleaf:] ‘Missa Beatae Virg. aliae Orationes’. [ Bologna. c. 1490–1500.] Manuscript on vellum (95 x 70 mm). Nineteenth-century dark brown morocco, borders tooled in blind to a rope design, unidentified Italian arms blocked in blind to boards, blue silk endleaves, housed in a modern custom-made black cloth box; ff. ii, 144, ii; 1–28, 3–810 (f. 31 in 4, apparently in original condition on a stub and with outer edge made-up), 9~sup~8~sup~, 10–15~sup~10~sup~, complete; written in a round gothic bookhand in brown ink for 11 lines to a page, ruled in light brown, early manuscript foliation to upper corners (ff. 98 and 138 numbered twice), written space c . 60 x 45 mm; rubrics in red, 1-line initials alternately in red and blue, 2-line initials of liquid gold on blue, red, or green grounds with fine penwork, large illuminated 7-line initial ‘S’ (f. 31~sup~v~sup~) enclosing Virgin and Child against a black ground, initial entwined by elaborate foliage, painted in green and blue, heightened in gold, and set against a magenta ground, with accompanying panel border including jewels and pearls, and large 5-line historiated initial ‘D’ (f. 86~sup~r~sup~) painted magenta and green including jewels and pearls, against blue and gold grounds, with matching full-page partial border; extremities of binding very lightly rubbed; a little smudging to page with his

• Binding: Hardcover

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