A leaf from the Llangattock Breviary, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum a single leaf, 273mm. by 200mm., double column, 30 lines, written-space 166mm. by 127mm., small initials, 6 large illuminated initials in burnished gold on coloured grounds, three illuminated bar borders sprouting into elaborate sprays of coloured and burnished gold flowers and leaves in upper and lower margins, a full-length border in the outer margin of the recto, slight wear, in a Folio Fine Art mount (leaves were offered in their cat. 47, June 1967, no.206, “the quality of the leaves is extremely high”); with a single leaf from the Decretum of Gratian, with gloss, 464mm. by 292mm., up to 70 lines of text in two columns with surrounding gloss in 100 lines, 36 decorated initials in red for blue with very fine contrasting penwork, Italy (doubtless Bologna), mid-fourteenth century
A leaf from the Llangattock Breviary, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum a single leaf, 273mm. by 200mm., double column, 30 lines, written-space 166mm. by 127mm., small initials, 6 large illuminated initials in burnished gold on coloured grounds, three illuminated bar borders sprouting into elaborate sprays of coloured and burnished gold flowers and leaves in upper and lower margins, a full-length border in the outer margin of the recto, slight wear, in a Folio Fine Art mount (leaves were offered in their cat. 47, June 1967, no.206, “the quality of the leaves is extremely high”); with a single leaf from the Decretum of Gratian, with gloss, 464mm. by 292mm., up to 70 lines of text in two columns with surrounding gloss in 100 lines, 36 decorated initials in red for blue with very fine contrasting penwork, Italy (doubtless Bologna), mid-fourteenth century
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