GOSPEL LECTIONARY. Single leaf from a LARGE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LECTIONARY ON VELLUM [Southern Germany, Augsburg? ca. 1450] 385 x 250 mm., justification 262 x 175 mm., ruled in red, double column, 32 lines, written in brown ink in an upright gothic textura, rubrics in red. Two large illuminated initials 'I' with bar extensions in burnished gold and blue terminating in dense foliage in upper and lower margin. On verso, for the reading of 'Dominica vii secundum Johannem' . Recto has text without decoration. A MOST SUMPTUOUS DECORATIVE LEAF.
GOSPEL LECTIONARY. Single leaf from a LARGE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LECTIONARY ON VELLUM [Southern Germany, Augsburg? ca. 1450] 385 x 250 mm., justification 262 x 175 mm., ruled in red, double column, 32 lines, written in brown ink in an upright gothic textura, rubrics in red. Two large illuminated initials 'I' with bar extensions in burnished gold and blue terminating in dense foliage in upper and lower margin. On verso, for the reading of 'Dominica vii secundum Johannem' . Recto has text without decoration. A MOST SUMPTUOUS DECORATIVE LEAF.
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