John the Baptist, on a cutting from an illuminated manuscript antiphoner, in Latin, on vellum [Germany, late fifteenth or early sixteenth century] a cutting, 160mm. by 145mm., with a large initial ‘F’ (opening “Fuit homo missus a deo …”, the responsory for the Feast of John the Baptist) in leafy green fronds, enclosing the saint holding a blue book with two gold leaf-shaped clasps and an Agnes Dei with a banderole, remnants of thin scrolling coloured acanthus leaves in lower part, verso with remains of 3 lines in Latin with music on a 4-line red stave, small initial ‘R’ in red, large initial ‘E’ in blue touched with red penwork, traces of paper in margin from earlier framing, some small areas of damage at right-hand edge, dark marks in middle of initial from ink-burn, else good condition
John the Baptist, on a cutting from an illuminated manuscript antiphoner, in Latin, on vellum [Germany, late fifteenth or early sixteenth century] a cutting, 160mm. by 145mm., with a large initial ‘F’ (opening “Fuit homo missus a deo …”, the responsory for the Feast of John the Baptist) in leafy green fronds, enclosing the saint holding a blue book with two gold leaf-shaped clasps and an Agnes Dei with a banderole, remnants of thin scrolling coloured acanthus leaves in lower part, verso with remains of 3 lines in Latin with music on a 4-line red stave, small initial ‘R’ in red, large initial ‘E’ in blue touched with red penwork, traces of paper in margin from earlier framing, some small areas of damage at right-hand edge, dark marks in middle of initial from ink-burn, else good condition
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