Pentecost, large historiated initial on a leaf from an illuminated manuscript gradual, in Latin, on vellum a single leaf, 526mm by 388mm, with large historiated initial 'S' (opening 'Spiritus Domini replevit orbem terrarium ...' the introit for Pentecost Sunday), in blue with red and orange bands, with elaborate penwork, enclosing the Holy Spirit descending in the form of a dove in the upper compartment, and half-length portraits of twelve apostles in the lower compartment, all on thick burnished gold with pounced four-pointed stars and small scallop-like shells, all within a blue frame heightened with white penwork and bezants and extending into vertical border in acanthus-leaf sprays with bezants on similar coloured frame, two facing crow-like birds and a cow's head within the border, perhaps because St. Luke is the authority for Pentecost in Acts 2:1-4, and a stork and two fighting rams in the bas-de-page, seven 4-line red staves with text in a late Gothic hand, one large initial in red with purple penwork and folio number 'CCLXVIII' on verso, a little trimmed with some rubbing to gold and minor loss of ink to text, else in good condition, in gilt frame
Pentecost, large historiated initial on a leaf from an illuminated manuscript gradual, in Latin, on vellum a single leaf, 526mm by 388mm, with large historiated initial 'S' (opening 'Spiritus Domini replevit orbem terrarium ...' the introit for Pentecost Sunday), in blue with red and orange bands, with elaborate penwork, enclosing the Holy Spirit descending in the form of a dove in the upper compartment, and half-length portraits of twelve apostles in the lower compartment, all on thick burnished gold with pounced four-pointed stars and small scallop-like shells, all within a blue frame heightened with white penwork and bezants and extending into vertical border in acanthus-leaf sprays with bezants on similar coloured frame, two facing crow-like birds and a cow's head within the border, perhaps because St. Luke is the authority for Pentecost in Acts 2:1-4, and a stork and two fighting rams in the bas-de-page, seven 4-line red staves with text in a late Gothic hand, one large initial in red with purple penwork and folio number 'CCLXVIII' on verso, a little trimmed with some rubbing to gold and minor loss of ink to text, else in good condition, in gilt frame
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